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WordPress save post Gotchas

WordPress save_post Gotchas

We have taken on the task to do heavy refactoring on a client’s website that is used to handle volunteers, applicants, and relationships between them. This is incredibly challenging, but fun nonetheless. Today I was in the process of writing an action that would do something when a new relationship was created. The relationship is […]

Translating a Plugin/Theme using Loco Translate

Introduction When you create a WordPress theme or plugin, it is possible to include translations to other languages. This is particularly helpful for situations when someone uses your theme/plugin and the information is displayed in their language. Otherwise you would have a blog whose content is in Spanish and would have links in English such […]

Issues with ACF and Dates

We rely heavily on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for custom WordPress development. It is one of those plugins that simply saves lots of time by providing amazing functionality with an easy-to-use interface. During our latest project we ran into some issues trying to query the system to find custom post type (CPT) entries that had […]

Fixing Issue with WordPress Defaulting Pages to index.php

Whilst working with a customer WordPress page and getting ready to call it a day, I quickly visited the site’s section. Everything seemed fine, except two Pages that had their own custom templates were displaying index.php, which means WordPress was not finding pages.php and defaulting. However I *did* have a pages.php and everything was working […]

The password is incorrect. Make sure you're using the password for your microsoft account

Possible Fix for “The password is incorrect. Make sure you’re using the password for your microsoft account” Error in Windows 10

After updating Windows 10 with the latest security updates, I was greeted with the message “”The password is incorrect. Make sure you’re using the password for your Microsoft account”. I was sure the password was correct. I even went ahead and changed the password again, all with no luck.

Bing – Not Just Another Way to Google

It is definitely hard to compete against a company that has become the verb of  the service you are offering. Just ask Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, which has been a topic for Internet jokes when it comes to competing in the search engine realm. It has been months since I tried Bing. I just did (by […]

Apple Music Waiting iCloud Status : How to Fix

While listening to some playlists on my iPhone I noticed that some were greyed out. I would get the error “Item not Available: This item can’t be played”. This made no sense as I had listened to the song in iTunes and added to the playlist. It was from their library to begin with, surely the item could be played. […]

How to Securely Store and Share Files on Cloud Services

Services such as DropBox and OneDrive offer encryption when transferring information from your computer to their servers. This means that if the transferred data is compromised the thief would not be able to make anything out of it. However, if there is sensitive information stored in these cloud services and a hacker managed to steal […]

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