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At LUBUS we have been fortunate enough to work on different kind of projects which has helped us learn & explore WordPress. We try our best to avoid using plugins for every other requirement which can be simply implemented with few lines of code. But there are scenarios when plugins come in handy. For us, these plugins are tools & utilities which help us perform tasks during development. These plugins have been helping us a lot on our various projects. We are sharing them in series of articles covering 5 plugins in each post along with scenarios when we used them. [well] Note: These…

Sublime & Atom Snippets For WordPress Custom Meta Boxes

February 20, 2017lubusWordPress

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We at LUBUS love crafting custom WordPress solutions and try to use plugins only when it’s genuinely needed. Every other WordPress project we work on somehow requires “custom meta fields”. Though we have many plugins available we love to use non-plugin solution & “Custom Meta Boxes (CMB)” by Human Made is the perfect solution which always works for us and lately, we have been contributing to it as well. It’s so much part of our work nowadays that we find ourselves spending a lot of time on its wiki for various code & info. As “Sublime Text” is our choice of editor, we…

Display Upcoming WordCamp’s On WordPress Post Or Page

February 17, 2017Ajit BohraWordPress

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A couple of months back we released WordPress plugin to display upcoming WordCamp’s on the wp-admin dashboard, you can read about it here for more details. Post that we have been receiving the request from many users & developers to add in support for the shortcode. We have been planning to add the support for shortcode & Visual Composer so that details can be easily displayed at different places, not just wp-admin dashboard. Finally, with the release of v0.6, you can use the shortcode to display WordCamps anywhere or Visual Composer widget if you use Visual Composer page builder. Currently, shortcode doesn’t have any…

WordPress Website Optimization With Google

February 10, 2017Ajit BohraServers, WordPress

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It’s no denying fact that with every passing day more and more people are using WordPress which is quite visible from the rising market share. At LUBUS we have been providing WordPress powered websites & solutions to our clients. We try to provide our clients with a handcrafted solution for more control over various aspects. These days more and more users are accessing the web via mobile devices and it’s much recommended to optimize the website for better rendering & speed. When using readymade themes & plugins it often leads to slow down of the website due to various reasons. We often get…

DataTables JS – How To Change Pagination Button Class

February 6, 2017Ajit BohraWordPress

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DataTables.js is a popular jQuery plugin for HTML table which lets you add pagination, instant search, and multi-column ordering. Recently we have been working on WordPress plugin which required usage of Datatables to adding the jazz to the table output. It helped us quickly add pagination, search & sorting functionality. We used it for one of our plugin “WordCamp Dashboard Widget“. Default UI provided by DataTables is good but we wanted it to be inline with WordPress. We tweaked few elements with CSS override. But pagination button would need classes to be modified in order to change the UI, so we went…

WordPress Media Upload HTTP Error On Godaddy Shared Hosting

November 11, 2016Ajit BohraServers, WordPress

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WordPress media uploads recently troubled us a lot as majority of our clients projects are powered by wordpress. We see to it that all the wordpress installs we manage are up to date. From past few days we faced issues with the wordpress websites hosted on godaddy servers. We were unable to upload images to media library and it would end with “HTTP Error”. We decided to get in touch with godaddy support and get some help. They tried their best to help us with the solution and said all things are good at the server end. We landed on one wordpress…

WordPress Plugin To Display Upcoming WordCamps On wp-admin Dashboard

October 1, 2016Ajit BohraWordPress

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It’s been quite few years for us designing & developing websites & apps powered by WordPress. Lately we have been planning to use our experience on various projects and share them in the form of useful plugins. wordpress.org repository already has many great plugins created by awesome developers around the world. So we were looking at building something which can add value and be useful both at the same time like everyone hopes for at the start. As these days we are looking forward to various WordCamps happening around, we try to keep our self updated. We saw this idea posted by Ratnesh Sonar on the forum regarding…

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How To Sell WooCommerce Products With Two Different Prices

June 5, 2015Ajit BohraWordPress

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From the past couple of months we have been working on several e-Commerce projects and as we have been already using WordPress for websites & blogs, it was an obvious choice for us to go with something which was as simple & flexible as WordPress for building an online store too. Majority of our clients being from India came up to us asking for a solution to sell WooCommerce products in two separate prices Indian rupee & US dollar. The catch here is, it won’t be based on exchange rates rather store will have fixed separate price for both the…

WordPress Using Google Plus Photos In Your Post

June 4, 2015Ajit BohraWordPress

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Problem Recently we have build few wordpress website for photographers. Major part of such website is having various images/albums displayed in pages/post. WordPress natively provides with option to add images or create galleries in post/pages. But some photographers prefer to have lots of images 100-200 images per post related to the event. This drastically increases load time & and also eats up server space. CDN might look good in such case but client didn’t wanted to go the CDN route. Solution We discovered that most of them already had all the photos uploaded & organized to their google plus account. So now it…

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mPDF PHP Library To Convert HTML/CSS To PDF

June 3, 2015Ajit BohraWordPress

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The Problem While working on several client & internal projects we often landed up in a scenario where we need to implement functionality to export HTML/CSS as PDF or send the PDF as an email exporting simple HTML table to complex layout like invoices & reports. So we needed something simple & flexible to fit in these types of generic requirements. The Challenge Data can be dynamic & would be generated at client end which left us with less control at the server end. So technically whatever HTML will be generated on client end needs to be sent to the server…