Problem: Since several days I have been suffering from spam comments below blogs on my website. It often involves 10-20 posts a day, all of which also become visible to my visitors. The comments consist only of a name + email address and the same email address is also left as a comment. At first it was at the same blog each time. After 1
Question: With Elementor and Elementor Pro it is possible to create forms for pages. They can consist of different types of fields, for example: radio button, checkbox, input and off course the select list with options. In the editor of Elementor Pro it is very easy to add one or more options. But the problem is that this are static options. In the current version
Problem: This weekend I was expanding an existing WordPress website with WooCommerce web store to include support for subscriptions. To do this, I was using WooCommerce Subscriptions. Installing and setting up the plugin, an extension for WooCommerce, was easy and done within a few hours. However, I spent a long time dealing with the problem that the WooCommerce product page was displayed without styling or
Problem: With the free version of Elementor, it is possible to add a button widget to a page. For example, I use this button on my homepage at the bottom so that people can click through to more blogs. Elementor always had the option that you could change the size of the button to: Extra small Small Medium Large Extra large These are standard sizes
Problem: My WordPress websites uses the Jetpack plugin that makes it possible for visitors to subscribe themself so that they get an e-mail when I publish a new blog. This week a subscriber sent me a mail to tell me that the links in those e-mails doesn’t work anymore. I directly tested it and the subscriber was right. When you click on the link you
Today I updated a WordPress site with a custom theme to make it work correctly with PHP 8.1 and WordPress 6.4.2. One of the steps I took was to upgrade from Font Awesome 5 to 6. Although some of the code still looked like Font Awesome 4. Problem: All icons still worked after the upgrade. One exception was the search glass icons in the input
Problem: In mid-September, Apple released the new version iOS 17 of their operating system for iPhones. Personally, I always wait a few weeks before installing it so I can be sure there are no more major problems anymore. This week, iOS 17.0.3 was released and I downloaded and installed it through the “Settings” screen of my 2020 iPhone SE. This all went fine. While installing,
Question: I was asked if I could modify a WordPress website so that logged in users would stay logged in for 1 day. This regardless of whether they close the browser or restart their device. For security, they do have to log in again after a day. To do this, I added the PHP code below to functions.php: function custom_login_session($expiration) { $expiration = 86400 //
Problem: You have a keyboard or laptop keyboard with numeric section where the right number keys no longer work. The cursor does move around on the screen. The light associated with the Num Lock key does work. This goes off or on. If you turn it on then the number keys still do not work. Solution a: You can turn the Num Lock key on
Question: I have a WordPress website with pages that require people to log in. To make this possible I have installed the free Ultimate Member plugin. The disadvantage is that users then have to log in with a username / email address and password which is experienced as annoying. Therefore, I also installed the Magic Login plugin. Users enter their email address and they will
