Google Customer Reviews are available for selected countries now, including The Netherlands and Belgium. At the moment i’m not sure if this service should replace or extend other review services like Trustpilot and The Feedback Company. To use the Google Customer Review service a is Google Merchant account is required. To use this service you’ll
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Category Archives: Wordpress
Bootstrap 4 and WordPress
As already mentioned in my previous post about Bootstrap 4; i have built a WordPress Starter Theme with Bootstrap 4. If you like both Bootstrap and WordPress you should really try it! People claim that Bootstrap and WordPress don’t always match, some opinions about that can be found at When to Use Bootstrap for Your
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Bootstrap 4 meets WordPress
Bootstrap 4 is coming soon! I build a WordPress theme for Bootstrap 4 (alpha release) inspired on the JOINTSWP starters theme. Bootstrap 4 comes with many improvements and new features. Bootstrap 4 is compiled with Sass instead of Less now. You can download the JBST 4 theme at: https://github.com/bassjobsen/jbst-4-sass/archive/master.zip. Now you can use Gulp and
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WordPress: How to reverse the comment order with paged comments
In the settings panel of the WordPress Dashboard you will find the Discussion Settings. These settings enable you to create paged comments. You can set the top level comments per page, if you want to show the first or last page by default and if the oldest or newest comments should be shown on the
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A11Y Buttons
The JBST WordPress Theme meets WordPress.org’s Accessibility Guidelines. I think accessibility support is important. Recently i got a e-mail from Nick, Co-founder of HKC radio. Nick told me JBST default navbar buttons don’t have a label or title. The login button has a title when logged in, but when not logged in the button only
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Brand Your New WordPress Website in 10 Minutes
If you need a WordPress Website quick (or you are lazy) and you already have a house style or at least a logo, than this tutorial is all you need to brand your WordPress website. If you don’t have a logo yet, you can order one at Jamedo Logo or simply use a picture that
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Send an invoice automatically with WooCommerce 2.x
The Question: “WooCommerce only sends invoice when triggered in the Dashboard. How to send these invoice automatically?”. Stackexchange.com WordPress Development does not allow WooCommerce questions any more. That is why i post the answer for this question here. Add an action to your woocommerce_order_status_completed_notification or woocommerce_order_status_pending_to_processing_notification in functions.php: function sendinvoice($orderid) { $email = new WC_Email_Customer_Invoice();
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WordPress theming, the comment_form() call, and the power of Less
When preparing the upload of the next version of JBST to wordpress.org I found the usage of comment_form(). The documentation of comment_form() can be found at Function Reference/comment form. The documentation of comment_form() doesn’t explain why you should have to use this comment_form() call instead of code your comment form’s HTML directly into your comments.php
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Adding a background gradient to Bootstrap’s navbar with Less
When writing a book about Less and have to answer a question about adding a background gradient to JBST’s navbar the answer was found easy. Bootstrap’s navbar is styled with two CSS classes the .navbar class sets it’s structure while the .navbar-default or .navbar-inverse classes add colors and other styling. Bootstrap’s mixins contain also mixin
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WordPress and PageSpeed Insights
Today i tested my WordPress Theme on Google’s PageSpeed Insights. The result was a little disapointing. The Desktop version scored above 90 out of 100, but the mobile version scored around 80. Based on Google’s suggestions i searched for some solutions. Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content Due to my own plugin Wp
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