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Remove the Edit Page button from front end: #wp-admin-bar-edit { display: none !important; }

Updating & Backing Up WordPress

Users > Remove Anna Setting > Site Admin Google Sitekit One Click Accessibility Update PHP is possible (PHP 7 has 2-3 times the performance). If you do this before screenshots, you can see if any pages are negatively affected Check site health through WP dashboard and address any errors Add ADA compliance GA 4 (insert […]

Setting up WordPress 2023

Steps: Choose hosting: Kinsta, WP Engine, Siteground, GoDaddy Dashboard > Screen Options > Unclick All Remove All Posts and Pages and Media Remove additional Themes, Install Elementor, Child theme if desired Remove unnecessary plugins Make sure site address is https Settings > Media Sizes Set all to zero Set Permalinks to Post Name Install Elementor, […]

Elementor SetUp to Optimize Page Speed

Check Elementor Settings for accuracy Install Converter for Media plugin to convert to WebP, Smush or use BulkResize.com Install Google Fonts that you plan to use Go to Settings > Media > Thumbnail, Medium, Large set to 0 Add WP Code Snippets… use the following: https://websquadron.co.uk/page-speed-performance-wordpress-code-snippets/

Elementor Fixes

Ooohboi Steroids black border around certain buttons and form fields at times: :focus-visible { outline: none; } at the end of every text element there is always a 16px or so margin and it’s really annoying when I’m trying to do equal padding around containers etc. to fix it use this sitewide CSS: p:last-of-type { […]

Sort Posts by Custom Field

Found solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementor/comments/im5599/tip_heres_how_to_sort_posts_based_on_a_custom/ As done on Anthony Road Events: add_action( ‘elementor/query/eventsorder’, function( $query ) { $query->set( ‘meta_key’, ‘event_date’ );$query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘meta_value_num’ );$query->set( ‘order’, ‘ASC’ ); });

GoDaddy Email Issues

GoDaddy Popular US hosting provider GoDaddy imposes very strict (to the point of becoming almost useless) constraints on sending an email. They block outbound SMTP to ports 25, 465 and 587 to all servers except their own. This problem is the subject of many frustrating questions on Stack Overflow. If you find your script works on […]