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Gutenberg Small Business Web Design

Food Blog layout using the block editor

This food blog home page layout is a simple layout that works well for the home page of a food blog. This has been put together using the TwentyTwenty theme and the block editor. TwentyTwenty is the default WordPress theme and has awesome support for the block editor. The layout has multiple blocks that include […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

MailChimp lists using Ajax

I recently built a Mailchimp addon plugin for the Chamber Dashboard plugins. The plugin uses the Mailchimp api key to connect to Mailchimp and display the lists in the plugin options page. The admin can select a Mailchimp list to which new member emails can be automatically added. Without Ajax, the user would have to […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

Adding a category filter to custom post type shortcode

The Chamber Dashboard plugins make it very easy to create member listings and display the businesses on the site. The shortcode used to display businesses has a few parameters that can be specified like pagination options, business details that need to be displayed like email, phone number, business category, membership level etc. The business_category option […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

Adding login/logout links to selected WordPress Menu

Adding a login/logout link to any WP menu is very easy using the wp_nav_menu_items hook. In the Chamber Dashboard Member Manager plugin, we wanted to give our users an option to add the login/logout link to the selected menu of their choice.  There was an option to enable the login/logout link which would add the […]

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WordPress Caching with member login

The Chamber Dashboard Member Manager plugin was recently updated to show a member account page which displays the membership details for the logged in users. We have had the member login feature for a while in the Chamber Dashboard plugins, but adding a member account page gave users an easy way to look at their […]

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CSS Gutenberg

Fun Scrapbook Layout with Gutenberg

Scrap-booking has been my hobby since 2005. It is relaxing and I get to re-live all the fun while putting the pictures together. I tried a few digital scrapbooks and I loved the ease with which we can put together a page. Adding those digital layouts as part of our blog is easy, but if […]

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Freelancing

2019 – A quick review

As we enter a new year, I am unable to decide if it was a good year. Work wise, it was not a good year. I didn’t hit most of the targets I had set for myself, but in terms of family and personal issues, it was one of the better years. I have been […]

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Plugins Small Business WordPress

Choosing the best membership plugin for your WordPress site

WordPress is a powerful platform to build and maintain membership sites. As with anything related to WordPress, there are many different plugins available to build a membership site. There are free and paid options. I am going to compare some of the free plugins to help you decide which one works best for your site. […]

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Gutenberg Small Business WordPress

Gutenberg (Block Editor) for Small Businesses

The block editor also called as Gutenberg was merged into WP core in Dec 2018. It was made the default editor as part of WP 5.0. I have been testing the editor even before it was released and I love it. In the past few months, there have been a few improvements and updates to […]