Creative Web Design & Development • Crawfordsville, Indiana

MindPalette.com

Creative Web Design & Development
Crawfordsville, Indiana

Menu

  • Home
  • Services
  • Blog
  • Contact Us

Menu

Categories

  • Design (1)
  • Development (7)
  • Mock-Epic (2)
  • News/Updates (1)
  • Reviews (1)
  • Uncategorized (2)

Recent Posts

  • WordPress Excerpts Empty but Post Has Content March 8, 2019
  • Gravity Forms Pricing Options – Change Relative/Dynamic Price to Static Option Price January 16, 2019
  • Flat Flashlights from Mock-Epic LLC November 10, 2014

Tags

Gravity Forms (1) JavaScript (1) Joomla! (2) PHP (5) WordPress (3)

Archives

  • March 2019 (1)
  • January 2019 (1)
  • November 2014 (1)
  • March 2014 (1)
  • November 2013 (2)
  • December 2012 (2)
  • September 2012 (1)
  • June 2012 (1)
  1. HOME
  2. Development Blog

Development Blog


WordPress Excerpts Empty but Post Has Content

Mar 08, 2019

After running the WordPress export/import tool to move a blog, I noticed the excerpts were not showing up on the blog archive pages. Usually, WordPress will auto-generate an excerpt for posts if a custom excerpt does not exist. The problem was that the export/import tools were leaving whitespace characters (tabs, spaces, line breaks) in the […]

Read More

Tags: PHP, WordPress | Posted in Development


Gravity Forms Pricing Options – Change Relative/Dynamic Price to Static Option Price

Jan 16, 2019

In Gravity Forms (a popular WordPress forms plugin), the Pricing Fields > Option output shows the option price when the form loads. When a selection is made, the pricing for all the options in that group update to show the relative pricing for each option (how it affects total price, plus or minus). Instead, I needed […]

Read More

Tags: Gravity Forms, JavaScript, WordPress | Posted in Development




Flat Flashlights from Mock-Epic LLC

Nov 10, 2014

Last week we launched a new retail e-commerce website from our sister company, Mock-Epic LLC. I really like this product – magnetic flat flashlights with bright LED bulbs and full color artwork on a high-quality plastic label. They are from the SmashLight® family of products from Bentcil®, and we’re making them available retail, in small […]

Read More

Posted in Mock-Epic, News/Updates


New eCommerce Site: TwistedPens.com

Mar 04, 2014

We’re launching a new custom Joomla eCommerce site this week. I’m especially excited about this one, because it’s one of my own ventures, via Mock-Epic LLC. The first retail site is TwistedPens.com, which sells twisted pens (some of which we make here in-house). We hope to have a total of three retail sites online before […]

Read More

Posted in Mock-Epic, Uncategorized




Retrieving Custom Profile Data from Joomla User Account

Nov 07, 2013

I’ve been experimenting with modifying a copy of the Joomla “profile” plugin (/plugins/users/profile) and adding custom profile fields to use in other Components. Retrieving those stored profile values required some research, but it turns out it’s pretty straight-forward: $User = JFactory::getUser(); $Profile = JUserHelper::getProfile(User->id); From there, it may be easiest to just use the print_r() […]

Read More

Posted in Uncategorized


WordPress Custom Post Types and 404 Error

Nov 02, 2013

If you’re working on a custom post type in WordPress and make a change to the post type or category slug (or add a new one), and you’re getting 404 errors when visiting the pages at the new address, chances are you just need to refresh the WordPress rewrite rules for permalinks. You can do […]

Read More

Tags: PHP, WordPress | Posted in Development




PHP: Round Number to Minimum Precision

Dec 22, 2012

While working on an e-commerce system, I needed to use PHP to round a number to a minimum number of decimal places, but allow for more if needed. For instance, if the value was 1.2, I’d want it rendered as $1.20, but if it was 1.256, I’d want it to keep the precision and render […]

Read More

Tags: PHP | Posted in Development


Joomla 2.5 Component Categories Sub-Nav

Dec 21, 2012

I recently found Joomla’s feature to easily add custom component-specific nested Categories. It makes for a quick way to create categories similar to what is used in com_content and an interface to manage those categories without having to build it all manually. You can use JForm to easily add a select menu of your custom […]

Read More

Tags: Joomla!, PHP | Posted in Development




Joomla! 2.5 Toolbar Popup Link Icon

Sep 08, 2012

Today I needed to add a new toolbar button to a custom Joomla! component. In the past, I’ve used a more convoluted method of overriding the submitbutton() (or Joomla.submitbutton) JavaScript function and triggering the modal popup manually, but stumbled upon a better solution.

Read More

Tags: Joomla!, PHP | Posted in Development


Thoughts on Coda 2 (initial release)

Jun 01, 2012

I should start out by mentioning that I’ve been a big fan of Panic for years – I’ve used Transmit since Mac OS 9 days, and Coda since its initial release. Since then, Coda has been my primary web development application. I should also mention that I’m not someone who avoids change, particularly in the […]

Read More

Posted in Design, Development, Reviews


  • Home
  • Services
  • Blog
  • Contact Us

Recent Blog Posts

  • WordPress Excerpts Empty but Post Has Content March 8, 2019
  • Gravity Forms Pricing Options – Change Relative/Dynamic Price to Static Option Price January 16, 2019
  • Flat Flashlights from Mock-Epic LLC November 10, 2014
  • New eCommerce Site: TwistedPens.com March 4, 2014
  • Retrieving Custom Profile Data from Joomla User Account November 7, 2013
  • WordPress Custom Post Types and 404 Error November 2, 2013

Our Services

Website Design
Website Development
Database Applications
Website Management

Mailing Address

MindPalette LLC
P. O. Box 462
Crawfordsville, IN 47933

Keep in Touch

Facebook
Twitter
Contact Us
© 2023 MindPalette LLC :: Custom Theme & Development by MindPalette (of course)