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Custom WordPress Homepage widget area with Bootstrap

Posted on July 23, 2017 by MWD

This tutorial we will show you how to implement a custom WordPress homepage and footer widget areas. These widget areas will auto conform using the boostrap grid system based on the number of widgets. Adding a new function to your … Continue reading →

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Adding a version number to WooCommerce Downloads Table using custom fields

Posted on July 16, 2017 by MWD

Recently we where challenged to find how to add a version number to WooCommerce Downloads table from with the my account section. After a quick search through Google, which yielded no favorable results we ended up creating our own solution. … Continue reading →

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Free LetsEncrypt SSL on a Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 14.04.5 using ServerPilot

Posted on November 16, 2016 by MWD

Today we will show you how to install a 100% free SSL certificate from a CA (certificate authority). Our clients server was setup using a Digital Ocean Droplet with Ubuntu 14.04.5 and used Server Pilot configuration. It’s been long since … Continue reading →

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Use Sequel Pro database management, with SSH, Serverpilot, and Digitalocean

Posted on December 20, 2015 by MWD

First things first, we just want to say that we absolutely love Digitalocean and Serverpilot services. It makes setting up new servers a snap. The problem we ran into a while back is that Sequel Pro couldn’t connect to our database, … Continue reading →

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Save hard drive space using dropbox

Posted on October 25, 2015 by MWD

Dropbox has become quite a got to for cloud storage. Even though there are other out there, this article pertains to Dropbox and Mac users, sorry PC fans there is a remedy for you as well using a similar process. … Continue reading →

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Using Font Awesome in Photoshop

Posted on April 8, 2015 by MWD

For those of us designers who love using Font Awesome icons, using Font Awesome in Photoshop is actually pretty simple. In fact its really only a 3 step process to get started. So lets not waste anymore time shall we. First … Continue reading →

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Magento returns a 404 while running cron file

Posted on March 17, 2015 by MWD

If you didn’t know already Magento uses a CRON job to send out new order, and order emails. Why is this? We have no idea, and honestly it’s the dumbest thing we have seen so far. It does however send … Continue reading →

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Custom Magento Contact Form

Posted on March 15, 2015 by MWD

In this how-to tutorial we will show you how to make a stunning custom Magento contact form using the default contact form. A live demo can be found Here First you will need to make sure you have the form.phtml in … Continue reading →

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Add a photo gallery to Magento using Photobox

Posted on March 15, 2015 by MWD

What is Photobox CSS3 JQuery plugin? Photobox is a lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses only CSS3 for silky-smooth animations and transitions, utilizes GPU rending, which can be completely controlled and themed directly from the CSS, and in … Continue reading →

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How to take a screen shot with a PC or Mac

Posted on January 15, 2014 by MWD

Today we will explain how to take a screen shot with a windows based pc and a Mac. Continue reading →

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