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Remove Dashes from Save for Web in Photoshop

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I frequently use Adobe Photoshop to enhance and compress my web related images. When using the “Save for Web & Devices” feature it automagically replaces any spaces, within the filename, with a dash for Unix compatibility purposes. This is not always necessary, so in this article I will show you how to disable the automatic replacement of spaces with dashes when using Save for Web in Photoshop.

Another negative result of this automatic insertion of dashes in place of spaces is when uploading images to WordPress. WordPress pulls the filename and inserts it into the Title field for the uploaded image. For search engine optimization purposes this is okay, but the dashes make it look unsightly when you hover your mouse over the image on the frontend. I then have to manually remove those dashes from the image title and save the changes. Turning the insertion of dashes feature off when using the Save for Web & Devices feature in Photoshop would prevent these additional steps. So lets get into doing so.

 

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CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms Plugin

CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin

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CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin

 

[ See the officially released version of this plugin on WordPress.org ]

 

Gravity Forms comes with a few built-in CSS classes, called CSS Ready Classes, for you to choose from when building your forms. However, unless you have memorized them you will have to look them up.

We’ve updated Brad’s (6+ year old) Gravity Forms CSS Ready Class Selector WordPress plugin which works as a handy CSS Ready Class reference tool. When editing your forms, selecting the old ellipsis image from the Custom CSS Class label within the Appearance tab, this plugin would generate a convenient popup containing all the latest available CSS Ready Classes. But as we mentioned, its over 6 years old and needed to be updated. It was missing a few CSS Ready Classes and had an invalid link to the Gravity Forms CSS Ready documentation. Plus, wouldn’t it be handy to know which fields the intended class would work with? Then we discovered Mike’s forked version and enhancements which further streamlined the code and removed the unnecessary accordions. We didn’t know that we didn’t want the accordions until they were gone.

Our revision of this convenient plugin further refined and streamlined the popup display.

Updated CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms

This new plugin, as before, from within your forms’ fields, select the Appearance tab and click the new “CSS” link next to the Custom CSS Class field. This will open the handy reference popup. We replaced the old ellipsis image button with a simple link.

Browse through the various CSS Ready Classes and select the ones you want to have added to your field. Double click on your last selection to automatically close the popup or just hit esc. When you hover your cursor over any class, a description (via link title) will appear of the classes function and intended use. View this project on GitHub.

 

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WP Imsizer WordPress Plugin

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[ See the officially released version of this plugin on WordPress.org ]

 

WP Imsizer (short for Image Resizer) is a plugin for WordPress which will save you and your clients or fellow blog contributors from having to manually resize all of your images to a more visitor friendly size. You can even restrict the total file size of uploaded images and even disable the WordPress image 2560px threshold limit which was introduced in version 5.3.

When someone uploads an image that is larger than your set dimensions, WP Imsizer will automatically scale it down to your desired pre-configured size and replace the original image.

The WP Imsizer Plugin is ideal for WordPress web sites and blogs that do not require super high resolution images. This will save space on your server, speed up your page speed performance, and reduce bandwidth utilization for both you and your visitors. As a result of being able to quickly display your media on your web site, this will most likely improve your search engine ranking.

 

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WordPress Asking to Install Again

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If you already have WordPress installed but are being redirected to the WordPress installation page you may have an issue with your database or configuration file. In this article I will go over some potential solutions to help you restore access to your existing WordPress site.

 

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Remove Existing Trackbacks and Pingbacks on Pages and Posts

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In this article I will show you how to disable trackbacks and pingbacks on your old WordPress pages and posts quickly using a simply MySQL query.

Before doing so you will want to make sure that you have disabled link notifications (pingbacks and trackbacks) for any future posts or pages using the WordPress backend. Simply visit the “Settings > Discussion” admin page and uncheck the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new posts” option.

 

 

As stated, this particular setting only works going forward, on “new posts and pages“. Now to remove trackbacks and pingbacks on our old posts and pages.

 

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Create Read-only Field in Gravity Forms

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Need to prevent a visitor or user from changing a specific form field on one of your Gravity Forms? Using the provided code snippet within this article, you can convert any input field into a “read-only” field. This type of field is different from a hidden field as it will display the contained data but prevent the visitor from altering it.

Sometimes making a field read-only can be useful, allowing you to then utilize that field for dynamic display of various messages. If you want to change a field to be read-only, you currently need to use JavaScript to do so. The following code snippets will help you accomplish this.

 

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Publishing a WordPress Plugin to Plugin Directory

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This article is intended to serve simply as a personal reminder on how to use the Tortoise SVN, an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, to publish and maintain my officially listed WordPress Plugins: Carbon Copy, WP Imsizer, WPFrom Email, CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms.

 

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How to Fix ‘Another update is currently in progress’ WordPress Upgrade Error

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While attempting to update WordPress to the latest version recently I received the following notice “Another update is currently in progress“.

 

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Yet there was no core, theme or plugin update in progress. Any attempts to re-initiate the update process resulted in the same notice appearing without the update applying. Obviously there is some sort of WordPress update lock preventing the update from initializing.

In this article I cover how I was able to quickly unlock the WordPress updater and complete any remaining updates.

 

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Disable WordPress Admin Email Verification

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WordPress 5.3 introduced a feature to periodically prompt (interrupt) site administrators to verify their site’s administration email address. This “feature”, which is scheduled to appear once every six (6) months, displays a screen to administrators upon logging in that requires they verify the site’s admin email address. However, this time based event appears to reset more frequently thus prompting more verification screens than originally intended.

In my opinion, this is not needed as any qualified WordPress site administrator would have access to the hosting account and MySQL database. Simply manually updating the admin_email record withing the wp_options table would resolve such an issue of email administration. This “feature” appears to be more of a patch for a disorganized developer who projected their disorganization onto the rest of the WordPress community.

In this article I will show you how to easily disable the WordPress “Administration email verification” page from interrupting you from logging into your WordPress web site.

 

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