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A WordPress widget makes it easy for users to simply drag and drop elements into their site. There are many WordPress themes and plugins that use widgets to allow users to create their own layouts. In this article, we will show you how to create your own custom WordPress widget from scratch. What is a […]

Today we will show you how to change the city field to a dropdown in WooCommerce. This works great for those of you who need to set up city-based shipping rates. As you may already know, it is possible to achieve this using my Advanced Shipping plugin. However, the downside of this is that your […]

Are you wondering how you can upload a CSV file into a MySQL database using PHP? Well if you are, you are in the right place! In our example, we are going to be using Bootstrap and mysqli for the database connection. See below the full script needed in order to complete this action: <div […]

So if you are wanting to upgrade the PHP version of your website, you have come to the right place. This can usually be performed through your web hosting control panel (cPanel/Plesk), but for whatever reason, you don’t have access to this, you can actually update it via the .htaccess file. Before proceeding, back up […]

You can use a phpinfo() page to view the current PHP information for your server. This file outputs a large amount of information, such as: Information about PHP compilation options and extensions PHP version Server information and environment (if compiled as a module) PHP environment OS version information, paths, master and local values of configuration […]

Sometimes you need to know the full path to a file or directory, for example, if you want to setup .htaccess authentication you need to enter the full path to the .htpasswd file. If you dont know the full path and PHP is installed on the server, we will show you how you can find […]

WordPress widgets make it easy for users to simply drag and drop elements into their website. There are many WordPress themes and plugins that use widgets to allow users to create their own layouts. We are going to show you how to create your own custom WordPress widget. You may for example want to create […]

What are custom WordPress templates? WordPress custom page templates are theme files that provide an alternative to the default page.php file. These custom templates can contain whatever HTML and template tags you wish to build your desired layout or content, then the file can be attached to a specific page in order for WordPress to […]