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The acf_form() functionality is a pretty amazing tool. It allows you to quickly and easily create front end forms for users to do a wide variety of things from submitting posts and custom post types to editing current posts. In this tutorial we’ll go over how to modify the lables for the post_content and post_title […]

In a recent project I was tasked with populating a custom post type with user submitted forms for active members. This handy plugin takes care of allowing CPT creation directly via Gravity Form submissions, so that part was simple. One of the fields in the form was a department dropdown. While creating the select field […]

2018 was a milestone year for me, personally and professionally. I figured I would take a few minutes to recap my year and take a look at the future of Whiteley Designs. Oh, hey Callum! The first, and most significant change of 2018 was in May when my wife and I welcomed our second child […]

The description of a “website designer” has drastically changed over the years. When I first started building websites a designer didn’t touch code or really have any knowledge of it. Designers worked in their preferred design program and when their design was complete, they passed the design files on to the developer and their part […]

Businesses need to be willing to invest in their website if they want to achieve their online goals — and this doesn’t just mean investing money. After building and launching over 100 websites over the past decade I’ve come to find that there are a wide variety of clients. Some clients are willing to invest […]

As much as I LOVE Modern Tribe’s “The Events Calendar” plugin, theming with it can be a bit tricky. It is such an advanced plugin with so much functionality that sometimes relatively basic tasks can become difficult. The normal route of creating page templates or archive templates in your child theme simply doesn’t work all […]

For the past few months I’ve been on a bit of a journey to decide on a more targeted vision for Whiteley Designs. Over that time I’ve realized I need to niche down a bit and simplify my offerings. I find myself catering to an wide range of requests, offering too many combinations of hosting/maintenance […]

First and foremost, this post is simply my vision for what ACF could be with Gutenberg. None of this is actually in production, development or anything of the sort, nor does the team at ACF have anything to do with this post. It would simply be REALLY COOL if this is how it turned out. […]

This tutorial will show you how to have an automated email sent to a site administrator upon the cancellation of an Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Recurring Payments Subscription. Note that this assumes you are using Easy Digital Downloads with the Recurring Payments extension. This need came about when I was working on a project that […]