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How to fix “The Theme you’re looking for couldn’t be found. Check the web address and try again, or try navigating to the Theme Editor from Theme”

Here are the steps we take to protect an external hard drive: Open Disk Utilities Select the drive to protect Select Erase Rename the drive Provide a secure password and a useful hint Erase and recreate the password protected drive Enjoy protect external assets 1. Open Disk Utilities > 2. Select the drive to protect […]

So what is the easiest way to remove the background from an image? If I have a penny for each time I’ve needed to remove the background from an image a client has supplied I’d have a few. In fact, this is actually a viable business model, as there are myriad online services applying this […]

Also, how to fix “nfsd service does not appear to be running” This solution is for Mac users only – thanks CW. Short answer: Open “System Settings” Unlock padlock Select “Full Disk Access” Add “Terminal” (or whatever you use) Close padlock Restart Terminal (if open)

Recently, a newly acquired client needed the styling from the Customizer’s custom CSS to show in the classic editor (TinyMCE). In all my years of working with WordPress, this was the first time I’d had this request, so, knowing that you can inject styling into the TinyMCE editor, I set about finding a solution. There […]

Once upon a time, a challenge like this, where you want to reveal a footer when the end of the content is reached, would have needed position: fixed|absolute and a bit of JavaScript to calculate the dynamic height of the footer, for responsiveness. Thankfully, we now have a much simpler solution, using sticky positioning. With […]

On a couple of occasions, I’ve encountered a very annoying issue where PhpStorm will not open. Instead of opening it throws up the error message, “the IDE cannot create the directory.”, in a modal window. I’m using JetBrains’ Toolbox to manage their IDEs and on the whole it’s a great little app to navigate their […]

Like everything with WordPress, there’s usually a plugin to help, but we don’t need one to import users as WP CLI can do this. Here’s the simple process, starting with exporting the user from an existing WP database. We’ll refer to the source database as source-db and the target database as target-db and I’ll assume […]

To make position sticky work in Safari make the sticky element a block and make a parent relative.

So, ACF, one of the best developer plugins of the last century, is now part of the Delicious Brains family. What does this mean for ACF, ACF Pro and the vast ACF client base? What are ACF and ACF Pro? Elliot Condon, the sole developer behind ACF to date, has made one of the most […]