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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 […]

In this tutorial I will show you how to modify the WordPress User Role when an Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) subscription is cancelled. Note that this assumes you are using Easy Digital Downloads with the Recurring Payments extension. Here is a little information about my specific case use for this: I created a custom WordPress […]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to tell people to empty their cache to see changes that were made on their site. This is a huge nuisance — not only for site owners, but more importantly, site visitors! It is vital to know your visitors are viewing the most current version of […]

A nice little finishing touch to each of my development projects is providing the client with some video tutorials. These videos show the end user how to edit different sections of the site; primarily custom areas that have some sort of special functionality. Users can use these as a quick reference guide when they want […]

Creating custom functionality that helps me work efficiently is vital to improving my overall productivity. Many of the functionality snippets I create are tedious to setup, but address long term productivity and automation. The tutorial below is an example of such functionality. The Goal – Automatically update the value of an ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) […]

In a recent project I was working with a Custom Post Type called Videos. In this specific layout, the single video page would show the embedded YouTube video with some other arbitrary information as well as a list of all other videos available. Instead of having an archive page showing all videos, and then duplicating […]