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How to restore an archived (student) portfolio website

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In this tutorial we will go through the steps of reviving an archived (student) portfolio website from the old portfolio server. Focus is on a site that was made using WordPress. We will install a local webserver using XAMPP, a bundle that contains Apache (the webserver), PHP and a MySQL database. So the webserver can … Continue reading How to restore an archived (student) portfolio website →

Create a gallery with a custom lightbox

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Since the addition of the blocks editor in WordPress, you can add a Lightbox to a gallery. However, the information in this article is still relevant if you would like to add you own Lightbox. Learn to create a gallery with a lightbox which allows you to click the image and view it in an … Continue reading Create a gallery with a custom lightbox →

Learn technical info from a site/page

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Some things you could say about the technics of a page: Choose View > Source in your browser (or press CTRL+U) and try to figure out what tool is used to create the page (eg. WordPress, Dreamweaver, Muse) eg. this will tell it is made with WordPress: <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 5.2.3″ /> If WordPress is … Continue reading Learn technical info from a site/page →

Famous paintings of dutch landscapes

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Just because it is beautiful. Based on a standard WordPress gallery inside a regular Blog-post, in which we inserted the Isotope gallery together with the Strip-lightbox. Checkout this page if you want to learn how to do this. The complete piece of code included in this post is: <!– load isotope: –> <script src=”https://unpkg.com/isotope-layout@3.0/dist/isotope.pkgd.min.js”></script> <!– … Continue reading Famous paintings of dutch landscapes →

Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery

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Update: 30/09/2019 Isotope is a nice jQuery plugin to build galleries with. With just a little coding you can turn a standard WordPress gallery into a nice responsive isotope-gallery. No WordPress-plugins needed. Start by adding a Gallery: when editing a Page (or Post), add a Gallery block, pick your images, press the button ‘Create a … Continue reading Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery →

Solution for failed FTP connection in WordPress

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This page has a solution: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/update-wordpress-without-ftp/ You have to edit the wp-config.php file, and add this line to it: define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’); Also, do not forget to make the folders for themes and plugins writable with FileZilla (as you can learn also from the WorPress install guide). It is still possible that you get the FTP-login problem … Continue reading Solution for failed FTP connection in WordPress →

WordPress: Photo-Gallery plugin work-around to customize theme

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This Photo-Gallery is a nice basic starting point to build a gallery. But just like a lot of plugins these days, the ‘lite’ or ‘free’ version you can use without payment has some limitations. For me, the mayor limitation was the lack of options to customize its looks: the theme. Luckily, after studying the plugin in more … Continue reading WordPress: Photo-Gallery plugin work-around to customize theme →

Customizing the WordPress Search Results Page

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If you ever encountered the limits of the build-in search of WordPress, you might consider to customize the output of the search results. If a search produces no results, you could suggest the visitor to go to Google to do a search on your site with the same query. To implement this, add (or modify) the content-none.php … Continue reading Customizing the WordPress Search Results Page →