Adding Google Number w/ Adwords tracking to OptimizePress WordPress Theme

Recently I was tasked with adding number tracking w/ Adwords to a client’s website. They are using OptimizePress which isn’t very friendly for any user editing (no child themes, very confusing theme layout for modifications etc). Anyway, I figured it out and thought others might need to know this, if nothing else, at least on how to edit the body tag to include an onload(); function 🙂 So, here’s what you do;...

August 7, 2016 · 2 min · 307 words · Matt G

Woocommerce and W3 Total Cache and APC

If you’re like me and have Apache (or, possibly Nginx) running with PHP5-FPM and Woocommerce you might want to go a step beyond and setup W3 Cache as well. This is great, but up until now there’s been some issues with it which seem to have all been fixed, but I’m putting it in here so I can refer to it later and who knows it may help someone else since these were buried in various forums 🙂...

June 17, 2013 · 1 min · 183 words · Matt G

WordPress 3.5 ‘Add Media’ button not working? Here’s a fix

For some reason WordPress 3.5 stopped allowing the ‘add media’ button to work. Even after using multiple browsers, deactivating all plugins, re-uploading the core wordpress files and reverting themes we still couldn’t get it to work. Buried in the forums, we found a solution. In your wp-config.php , add the line ‘define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );’ In other words, it used to look like; /* Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !...

January 15, 2013 · 1 min · 141 words · Matt G

Mass Deleting Posts By Date On WordPress

Today I duplicated a site I have running in a certain niche. I needed to delete all the old posts from certain years, and couldn’t find a plugin to do this easily. So. I went into trusty old PHPMyAdmin and did it manually. Here’s what you need to do. Login to phpmyadmin Find your wordpress database. Go to the wp_posts table in the database. Hit the sql tab in phpmyadmin, and use a variety of the following commands....

May 26, 2011 · 1 min · 170 words · Matt G

Free Plugin To Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs From One Blog

Found this tool the other day called Kish Multi-WP. What it does is let you manage multiple blogs through one main site. So, lets say you have a network of say 20 wordpress installations, and one master blog, you can install this plugin on the master blog and then just add all your other 20 URL’s, usernames and passwords and then manage them all from the master blog admin panel....

September 18, 2009 · 2 min · 258 words · Matt G