If you’ve Google’d how to install or update premium plugins, like Advanced Custom Fields or Gravity Forms, with Composer, you’ve probably found solutions that want you to configure package data locally. Examples include this tutorial from Roots and this library on GitHub. The problem with these solutions is that they require defining the plugin version …
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Here’s how to use Shopify’s Buy Button app to promote products within Shopify blog posts as part of your content marketing strategy
reCAPTCHA’s default configuration hijacks pretty much everything about form submission. So anything you want to do with the form, such as validation, will need to be fired in the configured callback function, rather than on the traditional submit event. This is pretty simple for most scenarios because you can use the form’s HTML ID to …
Here at Sterner Stuff, we’re big fans of Bedrock. It allows us to manage our WordPress dependencies via Composer, and keep our Git repositories clean. One of the biggest Bedrock caveats is how to get your premium plugins into your WordPress site. You can always commit them into version control, but that’s awfully messy. Some …
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Brick and mortar businesses have been around for a long time, and this brand of retail isn’t going anywhere. While plenty of people are content to order peanut butter on subscription from Amazon, there will always be folks who want to shop in person. That’s doubly true for industries like clothing, furniture, and many others …
During a recent client site build, we realized we weren’t super happy with the base theme we were using. While we quite like Beaver Builder for a page builder, the theme we were wrapping it with just wasn’t quite as powerful as we wanted without additional add-ons. So we decided to try and recreate some …
Klaviyo is an email marketing platform with a strong Shopify integration. Of the many features it offers, including personalized recommended products in email campaigns and customer behavior tracking, it can be set up to allow customers to sign up to know when a product on your Shopify store is coming back in stock. Out of …
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In September’s WordPress plugin acquisition news, StellarWP acquired LearnDash, the de facto learning management system plugin for WordPress. We don’t do a lot of LMS work over here at Sterner Stuff, so, you know, whatever. But if you receive any kind of business-minded WordPress newsletter or are otherwise plugged into “the business of WordPress”, you …
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A great way to organically increase your Instagram followers is to run promotions specifically for followers. We recently organized a promotion for Porterhouse Clothing where followers were automatically entered in a gift card drawing, plus an extra entry for tagging friends in comments. Of course, this meant pulling a list of followers, which Instagram doesn’t …
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