Category: Solutions
WordPress – Add a Non Clickable Image to a Sidebar Widget?
You can use the text widget and add the html with an image url like
To get the url of an image you can go to Media and edit an image, there is a box with the url at the right.
WordPress – GoDaddy Hosted File Editing FTP Settings
Go to GoDaddy , My Products, Domains. Find Domain Name and click on Domain Settings. Click on Manage Hosting and click on Settings. Clicking the SSH & SFTP tab will display the FTP User Name, Password and Port Number. Use FileZilla to edit files.
Microsoft Outlook 2016 – Gmail Not Working
There is a security issue with Gmail itself. Go to Gmail, click on your profile icon and “My Account”. In the center of the screen, click on “Your personal info”. Near the bottom, in light gray color, click on “Check your security settings”. Scroll down to “Allow less secure apps” and change the setting to “ON”.
WordPress – Gallery Template for Gallery Plugin Shows Extended Search Area Beneath Gallery
Use GoDaddy Control Panel, File Manager and Search (Control-F) the Gallery Templates (gallery-single-template.php) & (gallery-template.php) and remove the line: <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Look in public_html, find wp-contents folder\themes\tempera
If the files don’t exist in the tempera folder, copy them from the public_html/wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/templates folder.
Microsoft Outlook – Deleting Outbound Ghost Messages
Seeing messages being send without something in the Outbox? This could be a stuck read receipt.
Use this web site:
WordPress – Counterize Web Stats Date Is Incorrect
Counterize II stats for “Today” in the WordPress admin dashboard were reseting back to zero in the middle of the day!
This is because the php script is querying the database for those stats based on the web server’s timezone, which was UTC, in my case. I needed the script to query based on my timezone. It was a very easy fix:
Somewhere in the beginning of the counterize.php script, add the line:
date_default_timezone_set(‘America/Chicago’);
Of course, change the America/Chicago to your timezone.
WordPress – Events Manager – Changing Font Color in Event Submission Screen
Bands Performing:
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WordPress – Events Manager – Change Text on Event Submission Screen
Open File Manage in the cPanel on GoDaddy’s host.
Go to public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/forms\event-editor.php.
Make a copy of the file and edit the area you wish to change.
Web Sites Not Accessible
Try flushing the DNS:
(1) Open the command prompt. The command to flush DNS needs to be entered in the command prompt. Accessing the command prompt is slightly different depending on which version of Windows you are running: •Windows 8 – Press the Windows key + X and select “Command Prompt (Administrator)”.
•Windows 7/Vista – Click the Start menu and enter “cmd” into the Search field. Right click on Command Prompt and select “Run As Administrator”.
•Windows XP – Click on the Start menu and then click Run. Enter “cmd” into the Run field and press Enter.
(2) Use the DNS flush command. Type ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter. A message will appear stating “Windows IP configuration successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache”.
(3) Exit the command prompt. Type exit and press Enter. This will close the command prompt.