Michael Carwile

Scalable .svg Bootstrap `navbar-brand`

Scalable .svg logo in Bootstrap navbar-brand, minimal representative markup: .svg References: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG https://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-art-direction-using-viewbox https://css-tricks.com/scale-svg http://soqr.fr/testsvg/embed-svg-liquid-layout-responsive-web-design.php https://css-tricks.com/using-svg https://css-tricks.com/mega-list-svg-information https://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts

WordPress Custom Post Type Posts Per Page Option

When working with a custom post type in WordPress, if you set either posts_per_page or posts_per_archive_page, by default this will affect the “Screen Options > Pagination (Number of items per page:)” setting as well. This can cause confusion/frustration, as when you set the option to, say, 200, and click Apply, nothing will happen. The fix […]

Fix WordPress Gravity Forms Attachment 500 Error

Gravity Forms has an option to allow for file uploads. By default, this feature, when utilized by an end-user, will upload the file to an obfuscated URL by Gravity Forms. When viewing the entry, either via an email notification, or the ‘Entries’ page of Gravity Forms, the link to this URL will return a 500 […]

Throttle Dropbox (and other app) CPU Usage

Dropbox (and other apps) has a tendency to use every bit of CPU it can, especially when starting up. On Mac (with Homebrew installed), Dropbox (and other apps) can be throttled via a tool called cpulimit. Install cpulimit: brew install cpulimit Get Dropbox’s Process ID: ps aux | grep Dropbox user 19628 104.7 2.3 xxxxxxxx […]

Display featured image caption

the_post_thumbnail(); echo ‘<div class=”featured-caption”>’ . get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt . ‘</div>’; More Info: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-wordpress-post-thumbnails-with-captions

Get WordPress post featured image src URL

// get the src url $featured_img_src = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID, ‘full’) ); // display it echo $featured_img_src; More info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11266444/3147332 https://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/get-featured-image-url/

Ultimate List of Stock Photo Websites

My never-complete, and always growing list of stock photo resources: Search a large portion of the sites below at once with http://librestock.com Completely Free ( Free and no attribution required) https://www.pexels.com http://unsplash.com http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com http://nos.twnsnd.co http://picjumbo.com http://thepatternlibrary.com http://www.gratisography.com http://getrefe.tumblr.com http://unsplash.com https://pixabay.com http://www.splitshire.com http://www.1millionfreepictures.com http://www.gratisography.com http://littlevisuals.co http://www.pdpics.com http://pickupimage.com http://publicdomainarchive.com https://picjumbo.com http://www.morguefile.com http://www.goodfreephotos.com http://skitterphoto.com https://plixs.com http://jaymantri.com https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat http://publicdomainarchive.com […]

Add line breaks to WordPress site description

Sometimes, for aesthetics, it is helpful to break up a WordPress site description with line breaks. Doing this with WordPress is problematic, though, as simply adding a <br> tag to the site description just outputs the same in the front-end description. To fix this, we have to manipulate the way the description is reading the […]

How To Make Small Changes For A Big Impact

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Chinese Proverb Science has demonstrated that all things in the universe most likely started as a speck smaller than we can even really conceive. Then, in an instant, commonly referred to as the Big Bang, everything rapidly expanded outward, creating what is the […]