Does deleting a WordPress Taxonomy also Delete the Associated Post?
When the time comes to clean your post taxonomy house, it’s good to get rid of old or non representative tags, categories, or custom …
WordPress
Here’s a bit of stuff about WordPress, good reading.
How to Fix ACF the_field Issues and Securely Use ACF
Advanced Custom Fields recently released an update to their supremely popular and well used plugin to fix serious security issues. These issues were so …
Create New User for an Existing User in WordPress
This is a quick tutorial on creating a new user for an existing user in WordPress. I needed to do this for my own …
WooCommerce Fatal Error: Call to a member function get_data_store()
I recently ran into a fatal error issue when trying to create a new post or page: The error traced to a WooCommerce Subscriptions …
WordPress & WooCommerce Email Deliverability
When you send an email it better get delivered, right? Ideally into the recipients inbox. As email hosts and ISP’s crank harder to fight …
Web CMS & Website File Management: The Basics
We explained the difference between domains and hosting in an earlier post, and how your website “lives” on your web host’s server. Next up: …
How to win the fight against contact form spam
Every few months we see waves of spam messages being sent through our customers contact forms. Fortunately there are steps that can be taken …
Extreme WordPress Housekeeping for Performance
Alt title: How I cut GIGABYTES off a WordPress database One of the things we care about here at Cinch is website performance. We …
Change Order of Posts in WordPress Dashboard
We recently had a customer request that the entries in a custom post type get automatically alphabetized. Clicking on the title certainly does the …
An automated WordPress update has failed to complete
If you’ve ever run across this message in WordPress: An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now …
Responsive Video Embeds in WordPress
For many years we’ve used Fitvids.js to keep YouTube and Vimeo video embeds responsive for all screens. It’s still a good option in that …
WordPress 5.5 Causing Issues on Your Site? Here’s a Possible Fix
WordPress 5.5 was release on August 11th, and while it’s mostly been a very smooth update, we’ve seen a few issues cropping up for …
WooCommerce Bookings – Abandoned Cart Items not Auto Deleting [SOLVED]
A customer recently reached out with an issue with WooCommerce Bookings. Abandoned cart booking items weren’t being cleared out for others to book. When …
WordPress Recovery Mode Without Access to Admin Email
An awesome feature was added to WordPress 5.2 that created a recovery mode when a fatal error on the site occurs. Prior to adding …
WordPress Updates Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2
In a continued effort to push WordPress sites to use newer, more secure versions of PHP, WordPress recently bumped the minimum recommended version of …
Remove WooCommerce Marketing Hub Menu Item
WooCommerce 4.1.0 was released yesterday and among the various updates, there’s now a new Marketing tab below the Analytics menu item. This is a …
Ensure Gmail and Gsuite Deliverability in WordPress
Are you having trouble sending WordPress emails and notifications to your Gmail or Gsuite email? This is a common issue with both Gmail and …
How to Easily Add a Website Support Service to Your Web Design Business
Building a freelance web design business or running a small web design studio can be a rewarding career, offering freedom of time and a …
What Happened to the Post Comments Panel in Gutenberg?
When WordPress 5.0 was released with the new default editor, Gutenberg, the editing experience has become much more streamlined. Pallets, tools, and metaboxes have …
Prevent WordPress from Scaling Large Images
WordPress version 5.3 made a change to the way it handles large images uploaded to the media library. This change was made to help …