Footer Putter concerns itself mainly with the content of the footer, not with its appearance in terms of background colors, fonts family, colors and size. Instead it is the job of the WordPress theme to style the footer so it is in keeping with the rest of the page. What Footer Putter does allow you…More
How To Add A Different Footer On Landing Pages
Often you will want to have a footer on landing pages. And if you have a video or image background on that page you will probably want the footer to be less obtrusive. You also may want less information or different information in that footer. Pre-Requisite – A Footer Plugin For this tutorial you will…More
How To Hide The Footer On Landing Pages
With earlier versions of the Footer Putter plugin you needed to use the Widget Logic plugin to hide the footer widgets on landing pages. This involved typing in specific PHP which evaluated to true if the page is not a landing page: [php] !is_page(‘landing_page.php’) [/php] Footer Widget Visibility Now, it is a lot easier, you…More
How To Add A Mobile Responsive Background Image To A Landing Page
The demo squeeze page shown below uses the backstretch jQuery script to make the background image of the page mobile responsive. The image is not in fact a background image in CSS terms but is a foreground image that it placed in the background. And by virtue of being a foreground image it will resize…More
Optimize Your Facebook Posts
When posting to Facebook to promote your blog post you want to make your entries stand out from the crowd and an obvious way to do this is with an attractive image. An optimized Facebook post will attract more likes and the desired effect of more click-throughs to your blog post. The facebook post below…More
Images Not Resizing In Firefox Browser
I had some issues today with images that were not re-sizing when the page I was working on was narrowed. In other words the images were not behaving responsively. This only happened in Firefox though. The fix turned out to be a lot simpler than the articles I read online suggested. I just had to…More
Background-Size Cover Does Not Work
I was having some trouble getting a background image to stretch to cover the entire page of a site that I was building. I was using background-size:cover but it wasn’t covering. It would stretch but only in the x direction and not the y direction. Here is the solution that I found. In the CSS…More
Add A Mobile Responsive Clickable Logo To Your Site
This is an easy way to replace the text title of your site with a logo. So instead of having a site title and tagline, you place a mobile responsive clickable logo in the the “title area” of your site. Create And Upload Your Logo Firstly, create your logo. This will typically be a PNG…More
Whooshing A New Site To A HostGator Reseller Account
This tutorial is for users who own a Hostgator Reseller Account. This procedure is specifically for new sites where you do not have to worry about preserving content or transitioning from the old site to the new site with minimum down time. There are 4 steps when whooshing a new site for a client: Change…More
How To Set Up PHP 5.3 On Shared HostGator Account
Good News! Setting up your Hostgator sites to run PHP 5.3 is really really easy. Just add this one line to your .htaccess file and your site will run PHP 5.3 instead of PHP 5.2 [raw] AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php [/raw] It’s nice when life is this simple. Take the rest of the day off and…More
