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Single Post as Home Page in WordPress
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a new premium theme for WordPress that would feature a single post on the home page. The one issue I needed to overcome was that I wanted that post to...
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Permanently Delete Default WordPress Themes
If you build a custom WordPress theme for a client’s site, I’m sure you spend some time deleting the themes (and plugins) that come pre-installed with WordPress. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with...
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Eliminate Thumbnails for Custom Post Types
For a recent project, a client required a front end uploader to allow their customers to submit a consent form. Once they completed the form they could upload it as a PDF or JPG. Each form would be...
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Add Word Count to Single Posts in WordPress
This is just a quick little snippet to display a word count on the single post page in WordPress. Since it requires being placed within the loop, you can actually add it to any template file that...
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Add More Details to the Previous Post Link
When you load up the latest post on a properly designed WordPress site, you should see a link for the previous post somewhere on the page. It usually appears right after the main content. On older...
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Increase JPEG Quality in WordPress
When you upload an image to WordPress it’s processed and compressed to 90% of its original JPEG quality. This is a default setting that’s in place to automatically optimize every image, which in turn...
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Creating a New Language File for a Theme Translation
Recently, I’ve had a lot of customers asking me about creating a theme translation file for some of my themes. What I always assumed was a straightforward process actually has a few little kinks that...
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Working with the WordPress admin_body_class function
For some reason, there are multiple functions in WordPress that do similar things but require different approaches. On the surface, you’d think the admin_body_class function would work the same as the...
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Displaying Different Logos with WPML
Living in Montreal, I often have to create multi-lingual websites for clients. That means finding the right plugin for the job. I don’t always use WPML, but it’s one of my go-to plugins when it comes...
View ArticleSimple Function Using wp_remote_get()
There isn’t a good amount of information on wp_remote_get() in the codex. Take a look to see what I mean: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_remote_get After you’ve used the function,...
View ArticleCSS3 Tips: Tooltips Using Only CSS3
I put together a stylesheet to easily create tooltips using nothing but CSS. I know there are a few of them already out there but I decided to make one as well. Who knows the reason why I decided the...
View ArticleSmall Update to Responsive Video Plugin
I received an email last night in regards to a strange bug that was happening with my Responsive Video jQuery Plugin when you had multiple videos on the same page. If you clicked through to a new...
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Matheson Pro for WordPress
Just released my latest premium theme for WordPress. Matheson Pro is my first collaboration with Sonia Gaballa from Nudge Design. Be sure to check out the demo to see it in action....
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Arcade Premium WordPress Theme
Once again I’m trying to ramp up my releases when it comes to Themes by bavotasan.com. My latest theme is called Arcade. It has a great big full-sized header image and uses some cool type effects on...
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A Little Refresh for Themes by bavotasan.com
Now that I’ve been using Bootstrap 3 in all of my latest WordPress themes, I thought I should try it out on one of my actual sites. I decided to refresh my theme site and it took about a week to...
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Introducing Margot
Not too sure how this happened again, but my wife gave birth to a little girl on February 25th. Her name is Margot Sloane Bavota and she was born at 4:49am. Her big sister Abby seemed a little weirded...
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National Premium WordPress Theme
National is the second theme I’ve developed in collaboration with Sonia Gaballa at Nudge Design. She came up with a sweet layout that will certainly help any business or personal blog shine. Check out...
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Tienda WordPress Theme for WooCommerce
I was inspired last week and decided to build a WordPress theme for WooCommerce. It’s the first time I’ve ever created an eCommerce theme and I decided to build it around WooCommerce after testing out...
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New Video Header Option in Arcade
When WordPress 4.7 was released, an option to use a header video instead of an image was added to the Customizer. Including the feature in a theme like Arcade seemed like a good idea but took me a...
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Themes By Bavotasan Is Becoming Bandicoot Pro
In November 2017, we here at Bandicoot Marketing acquired Themes By Bavotasan from Chris. It was great to meet Chris during the acquisition and hear about all of the hard work and dedication he put...
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