Adding a Child Theme without losing your Customizer styles

 customizer Export Import

Perhaps you’ve forgotten to add a child theme, inherited a site without one or thought you might not need one until now. Maybe you want to save complex customiser setting for another project. Either way there is a great plugin from the WordPress repository called Customizer Export/Import that could save you time. When you install and…

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The Breeze Cache plugin – How I set it up and why I use it.

Breeze Cache Plugin

UPDATE: March 2021.  I am presently using WP Rocket (again).  Breeze seems to be working fine, but there was small period in 2020 where my sites were experiencing long Time to First Byte.  WP Rocket introduced a few useful additions for me such as deferred loading videos scripts and optimized google fonts. I still think…

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Using the Custom Post Type UI plugin

Cpt Ui Plugin

A short video post on how to create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies with the Custom Post Type UI plugin. It is part of my new series on making a Product Site with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer .  Settings used for the CPT In red are the areas I will typically alter from the…

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Working Smarter with WordPress Images

Better WordPress Images

For over a decade I’ve been wasting time doing the same tedious tasks in WordPress. I decided I needed to get a grip.  Here’s 5 things I’ve started doing when working with images.  1. Automatically add Image Meta-data Habitually, I was good at adding meaningful (SEO friendly) names to my images files, but in…

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