One of the things that most of our clients want are WordPress custom page layouts – home page, as well as posts. I was reading this excellent post by Chris Lema about drag and drop themes, and thought I’d make one of my comments into a post because I think the Visual Composer plugin isn’t […]
Add fancybox to ElegantThemes themes
At SunriseWeb.ca we use mostly use responsive themes from ElegantThemes.com – like Chameleon, Evolution, Nimble, Origin, and Nova – and often we want to apply a “lightbox” display for viewing image galleries. In the past we have used a variety of plugins to do this – like Easy FancyBox by Rolf Allard van Hagen – but […]
WordPress Password Strength Meter
If you want to set up front end registration on your site to use something like the WordPress Password Strength Meter, here ‘s one way to do it. This post was initiated over a year ago in the thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-password-strength-meter?replies=15 . I decided to put it into a plugin after a request from Mark Krasnov to add […]
Reservation System
Our new reservation system is now in use by Marco Polo Land staff and customers. Campers can search by date, type, and features and the campground map displays site availability. Booking is done on-line by paying a deposit using PayPal. In addition there are several reports that can be produced including Check-ins, Check-outs, Reservation Activity, Cancellations […]
WordPress Plugins
Here is a list of WordPress plugins that we use a lot when building websites for our clients. All in One SEO Pack by Michael Torbert BackupBuddy by iThemes (premium) Calendar by Kieran O’Shea Frontpage-Slideshow by Jean-Francois VIAL Google Calendar Events by Ross Haney Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold Gravity Forms by rocketgenius (premium) […]
Facebook Page Tab and App
Adding a custom tab to your Facebook page is a great way to showcase special information. For example I just added a donation button “tab” to the Easter Seals Society of PEI facebook page. I had already set up a Facebook App since this is required for using the Simple Facebook Connect WordPress plugin I […]
WP YouTube Channel Gallery
At SunriseWeb.ca we have switched almost exclusively to building websites powered by the WordPress CMS. With the release of WordPress version 3.0 in early summer 2010 this open source CMS (Content Management System) has the potential to corner the website market – watch out Drupal and Joomla! One of the big reasons for this is […]
