As you’ll know we love the Jigoshop WordPress E-Commerce plugin, but when recently using it for a client we couldn’t find a way to remove the Product Description Tab completely. This dispite the Jigoshop function here: – http://forum.jigoshop.com/kb/faq/remove-product-description-header-text-in-tabs Our response uses pure CSS and will work in modern browsers. Simply add the following to your style sheet:- Let us [...]

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When updating a site recently we came accross the following error:- After searching we found the error is caused by the Jetpack plugin and the fix is as follows:- Place this at line 268 of wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/stats.php No BuddyPress Menu Coincidentally we also had found that the same site  was not showing the BuddyPress Login Menu [...]

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We’re WordPress experts here, but we recently came accross the following error when migrating a client site to our hosting for them:- joomla Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:The MySQL adapter “mysqli” is not available Actually the fix turned out to be pretty simple. Open up the Joomla ‘configuration.php file and then:- Change [...]

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We’ve used various versions of jQuery and HTML5 to get Back and White images with hover. Here’s our preferred solution {here we are adding greyscale to ‘.item img’ so replace with your own element} … the problem with many of these approaches is that they break your preferred code structure. CSS would be a more [...]

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We’re all for responsive design techniques and also how sites display accross diefrent mobile devices and standard devices. Rather than adding scripts we’ve found the best way to target Devices is directly through CSS. Target Mobile Devices and Other Standard Devices with CSS This list is the most comprehensive and will cover most mobile devices. [...]

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You’ve probably found that when using CSS hover your iPhone / iPad will not translate these into a click event. In our recent experience with a client site when clicking the CSS3 hover we experienced a forced copy of the content of the div by our trusty iPad. To resolve CSS Hover issues on iPad [...]

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Have you ever wanted to make your Google Map look somewhat different to a ‘Google Map’? Well now you can with the Google Styled Maps Wizard. With the wizard you can control the colour, weight, saturation, lightness and gamma of constituent elements to make your Google Maps feel much more integrated with your site and [...]

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Matt Cutts Google’s head of Webspam Team, has released a video explaining how a webmaster can locate which links pointing to their website is “unnatural. Google has been sending unnatural link warnings to Webmasters for about a year now and Webmasters should act swiftly when they receive this email. Here’s an example:- Dear site owner [...]

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A quick snippet for you to limit the number of characters in a span / div etc by a particular value. This function also includes a slightly neater … at the cutoff point:- Make sure you enter the character value in twice (currently 80). Limit Number of Characters with CSS Actually this can also be [...]

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