Due to security reasons I’m blocking external HTTP requests on many of my sites through a setting in wp-config.php. See this article for further exploration on working security through wp-config.php. Here’s the setting: This measure prevents a couple of plugins – mainly premium plugins that are not available through the offical WordPress plugin repository –…
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Removing Emoji & Emoticon Support from WordPress 😉
Apparently, since its 4.2 update WordPress automatically converts text based smilies like “;-)” into emoji images like 😉 Besides being problematic regarding loading times (the script is loaded wether you use emojis or not) – the images might not fit the overall asthetics and design of the site while a text-only smiley might be preferred.…
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Salient Theme: Conflict in Safari with Bootstrap 3 styles in Caldera Forms
I recently detected a CSS conflict in Safari when using the popular Caldera Forms plugin. While other Browsers work fine – in Safari (and Cliqz) the input that a frontend user enters into form fields is cut off so you only see the very bottom of the letters. The problem is probably the same as…
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Contact Form 7 & Lay Theme: Show Radio Buttons in Chrome & Safari
Apparantly, some WordPress theme authors (accidentally?) override the display of radio buttons and checkboxes of the popular Contact Form 7 plugin in Chrome and Safari browsers. I recently encountered this problem with the rather extra-ordinary Lay Theme. Thanks to these sources (1, 2) I found a solution that seems to be working across browsers.
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WPML: Translating a User Bio
Many themes display the biographical info about authors that can be entered through the User Management section in the WordPress Dashboard. Whenever you run a multi-lingual site you obviously want the author info to be translated as well. The poplular multi-language plugin WPML (affiliate link) does support this – but you don’t only have to…
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WPML: Language Switcher Not Showing All Languages
I encountered the following problem: I was building a multi-lingual website with three languages, powered by the popular WPML plugin (affiliate link). I had the regular language switcher set up in a menu. Now, when I was looking at pages in the main language – in this case English – the two other languages, Romanian…