Make your Divi Page Builder go large.
I tend to prefer to use the full extent of whatever screen I am on to it’s fullest effect. Typically I have two screens, my 23inch widescreen monitor and my 17inch laptop screen. The monitor is for...
View ArticleOpening your Divi Header and Footer icons in a new window.
A few weeks ago I released the Atlantic Wave Social Media plugin for Divi. The plugin extends the built in Divi header and footer social media icon set by adding up to 13 additional social media icons....
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A quick guide to some everyday Git commands
When I first started developing code the idea of version control was pretty much unknown, especially in the world of web development. As I progressed through my career and worked at different software...
View ArticleSome days I hate PHP myself
Some days I get why some developers hate on PHP Checking if a string exists in another string $string_found = stristr($text, $original_text); if( $string_found !== FALSE ) { // do stuff } instead of...
View ArticleRemembering ‘Why?’
It is said you should start with ‘Why?’ Over the past few weeks I’ve gone through some drastic changes in my life. These events have forced me to stop and evaluate why I do what I do and if it all...
View ArticleUsing anchor links to open accordions and tabs in Divi
Once of the more useful things about web design is the ability to use anchor tags (those things that create links to other pages or websites) to link to sections within the same page. Once clicked the...
View ArticleWhen Last Login review
I’m a huge fan of simple plugins. My first plugin was a simple one. The Divi Image Overlay plugin was meant to do one thing, overlay an image onto another image with a nifty animation. Since it’s...
View ArticleChild themes – what are they and why you should use them
Since joining the Divi community late last year I think the one topic I’ve seen asked about or discussed the most is the concept of child themes, mostly when it comes to editing the footer credits in a...
View ArticleRemove the sidebar in your Divi category view.
So, I’m in the process of putting the final touches on part two of my child themes series when I get a request from another Divi developer, Patricia. She is building a site for a client and she wants...
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A peek inside the Atlantic Wave workshop
It’s not every day that I get really excited about a plugin I am working on. Don’t get me wrong, every plugin I develop is exciting, but more so from a ‘solving a puzzle’ or ‘fulfilling someone else’s...
View ArticleThe Basics of a WordPress Theme
In the first part of my article on child themes I explained a little about the history of WordPress themes and child themes, what they are and why you should use them. After sharing the post in a...
View ArticleThe definitive guilde to calculating your billable rate
Recently on the WordPress Cape Town Slack channel, a member asked the following question: “Can we talk pricing? How do you figure out how much to charge for WordPress Development? What factors...
View ArticlePlease, copy my ideas!
An open letter to all Divi plugin developers: Please, copy my ideas! I am, first and foremost, an open source developer. That means I believe that if you have a piece of software, either purchased or...
View ArticleMaking child themes part of your business development best practice.
In part one of this series on child themes, I discussed the hows and whys of child themes. Hopefully you understand what they are and why you should use them. In part two I want to discuss the various...
View ArticleAdding the cart button to your Divi shop pages.
As is always the case with these code snippets, this one comes from a question by a user in the Divi Theme Users group on Facebook. Leif Ottosson asked about the ‘Add to Cart’ button on the...
View ArticleExtending WordPress – a guide to building your first plugin
Slides and plugin GitHub repo for my WordCamp Cape Town Workshop Extending WordPress from Jonathan Bossenger Download the plugin from GitHub
View ArticleWordCamp Cape Town – Day 1
So day one of Word Camp Cape Town is over. It was quite a whirlwind of a day, but I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. My WordCamp experience actually started on Wednesday night, at the VIP dinner....
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UPDATE: Just for fun I’ve uploaded a preparation recording of my talk, recorded in my car during the drive to day 2 of WordCamp. There are some minor errors in the recording as well as some background...
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A friendly challenge to all WordCamp Cape Town 2016 Workshop Speakers
It’s Sunday morning 11 September and I am still coming off of the high that is WordCamp. However, one thing makes me sad. Due to constraints the day 1 workshops were not filmed. While I do understand...
View ArticlePlease, copy my ideas!
An open letter to all Divi plugin developers: Please, copy my ideas! I am, first and foremost, an open source developer. That means I believe that if you have a piece of software, either purchased or...
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