Using Beaver Builder to replace theme headers & footers

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This post is really an update. Previously I posted about a free plugin for the Beaver Builder theme.  This plugin made it easy to replace headers and footers with Beaver Builder saved templates.  Things have since moved on: there are additions, options for other themes and I thought we should also look at the considerations too.…

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The WordPress “no-update required” loop

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You try to login to your WordPress site and get redirected to a page that says “No Update Required. Your WordPress database is already up-to-date”. You can’t get in. Annoying, but the chances are it’s your Memcache. Now common with the popularity of Siteground who offer it on their shared hosting.

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Beaver Builder – Mobile Responsive Layout Options

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This 5.36 minute video explores the advance mobile responsive setting in the Beaver Builder plugin. I have to confess I was some time with Beaver Builder before I explored the Mobile advance setting. With the ability to reverse the stacking order in version 1.8 we have a lot of powerful options without having to get…

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Beaver Builder theme – adding text to a mobile menu icon

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The Beaver Builder theme offers two default menu buttons for  Mobile devices. A text version and an icon version, but it’s an easy job even for new learners to have both. In this short video I’ll show you how I  added text that the “hamburger”  icon. The one that looks like this  ≡. Here’s the…

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How To Disable Emojis In WordPress

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With WordPress 4.2 came native support for Emojis. Emojis originated from Japan and like smilies add emotional context to written communication. If you don’t have WordPress comments activated you may wish to disable them. Here’s how. Why Disable Emojis? To stop your visitors having to load this Javascript file: and remove this additional Javascript and…

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