The Blog
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Add a UTM source to community events with The Events Calendar
Whether or not you’re using their Community Events add-on, there are lots of folks using The Events Calendar to showcase events from partners and in their community. For example, DowntownEugene.com is a robust source of events happening in Downtown Eugene. It’s important to demonstrate to the folks listing events with your organization that it was…
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Tracking UTM Parameters with Gravity Forms Submissions in WordPress
AI Note: We wrote two plugins that can be used in combination to handle this very common task. We then asked ChatGPT to learn about them and create a blog post summarizing how they work together! ChatGPT really loves emojis by default. If you’re running Google Ads or any other paid campaigns, tracking UTM parameters…
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Add Extra Columns to WooCommerce Reports
It’s possible you’ve followed this tutorial from Woo on how to add columns to admin reports, such as the Orders report. And it’s possible you’ve found that it just doesn’t really work as advertised and is incredibly convoluted. Specifically, the Javascript filter callback you register (addFilter) is just…never called. Me too. Here’s something that actually…
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Assistance for WP Engine Customers
A legal conflict is currently playing out between WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine that may continue to negatively impact WP Engine customers and the performance of their websites. More details here for those interested. Important for WP Engine users is that this has off-and-on impacted the availability of downloads and updates of WordPress…
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Disable Kadence Mega Menus on Mobile
If you aren’t familiar, Kadence is a suite including extra blocks and a powerful theme for WordPress. One nifty thing you can do with Kadence, if you so choose, is build out one of those trendy mega menus. Mega menus can be a fun desktop experience but are generally hot garbage on mobile. You know…
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Installing Premium WordPress Plugins with Composer
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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Add and Promote Products in a Shopify Blog Post
Here’s how to use Shopify’s Buy Button app to promote products within Shopify blog posts as part of your content marketing strategy
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Handle Multiple reCAPTCHA’s on the Same Page
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…
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Package Peak for Installing ThemeForest Themes and CodeCanyon Plugins with Composer
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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What does it cost to start using Shopify and Shopify POS for my brick-and-mortar businesss?
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…
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The Best WordPress Themes
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…
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Configure Klaviyo Back-in-Stock Notifications for Shopify Dawn
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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