WordPress solutions for agencies and small businesses
Hi, my name is Alex Mansfield. I partner with agencies and small businesses to design, develop, and maintain high quality WordPress websites.
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External Slide Navigation in Bricks Builder
Bricks Builder has a flexible slider module called “Slides (Nestable)” which allows each slide to be built from scratch within the builder. In some cases, it may be necessary to create external tab-like navigation. In order for the following code to work properly, we need 3 things: The second half of the slider ID. By […]
Parallels Desktop (Solved): The password you use to log into your account no longer matches your login keyring
When using a Linux guest OS on Parallels, I was occasionally getting the following error, along with a password input: The password you use to log into your account no longer matches your login keyring However, when entering the login password into the prompt, it fails. After going down this rabbit hole for a day […]
Dealing with form spam
Let’s start by looking at the timeline of a form submission, and then we can look at what can be done to combat spam at each section of the timeline. A user (or a bot) visits a page on our site. The user (or bot) fills out and submits the form. Our system processes the […]
Remove formatting when pasting text by default
When pasting text into the WordPress classic editor, the default behavior is to keep the formatting of the pasted content. The keeps things like links working, but it also keeps font colors, sizes, and other formatting that may be undesirable. To change the default behavior so that by default all formatting is removed, we can […]
Adding a menu item to the Beaver Builder admin menu
Beaver Builder has a top level menu item in the WordPress admin menu. However, it doesn’t allow new menu items to be added using the standard WordPress methods. After reading a bunch of the Beaver Builder code base, I was able to find the filter that handles the submenu items in the /extensions/fl-builder-user-templates/classes/class-fl-builder-user-templates-admin-menu.php file. The […]
Improving Beaver Builder’s Video Lightbox
For some reason, Beaver Builder’s video lightbox opens quite small, even on large screens. I wanted the lightbox to take up most of the screen, so I used the following CSS to make that happen: .mfp-iframe-holder .mfp-content { max-width: 95%; aspect-ratio: 16/9; height: auto; } @media (min-aspect-ratio: 16/9) { .mfp-iframe-holder .mfp-content { height: 95%; aspect-ratio: […]