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Adding a Trailing Slash to Urls in Your Content

Google Search Console considers a url with a trailing slash as different from the same url without the trailing slash. Therefore, all links to your site (including internal links) should have the trailing slash or not according to your setting in Settings>Permalinks. This post will show you how to clean up an existing site by adding a trailing slash to urls in your content....

Problem Using Advanced Custom Fields with Envira

We had a client using the free version of Envira Gallery who wanted a custom gallery display. Our template would display galleries based upon a category and allow for a cover photo as well. To accomplish this, we had added some Advanced Custom Fields to display on the Envira Gallery add or edit post screen. It worked great. Then we upgraded to a paid version of Envira to get the Instagram addon. At that point our ACF metabox disappeared. It just stopped showing. It turns out the Envira Gallery has a function to ‘help you’ remove unwanted metaboxes. Unfortunately,...

Wordpress Plugins

WordPress 5.6 Begins New Policy of Automatic Updates

Developers beware! WordPress released version 5.6 on December 8, 2020. This version begins a new policy of automatic updates to major versions for all fresh installations of 5.6. This means that if you create a new WordPress site with WordPress version 5.6, it will automatically be updated to WP version 5.7 when it comes out in 2021. Existing sites that only update to 5.6, will not be subject to this policy. So if you are creating a new site but wish to maintain control over your updates, you have options. You may want to install an older version of...

Bulk Archive Remote Images

There is a plugin that will retrieve remote images in the post content and save it in the media library. It is ancient but I tested on 5.5.1 so it is hanging in there 🙂 Archive Remote Images Unfortunately, you have to open and save each post for it to work. So I created a little plugin that will add a field to the bulk edit interface and trigger the plugin to work on multiple posts. The one catch is you have to hack the ARI plugin in one teeny place so it will accept a $_REQUEST element rather...