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12/11/2025

This small snippet allows you to override a default heading for a callout box using a data attribute and the CSS cascade.

A short snippet This small snippet allows you to override a default heading for a callout box using a data attribute and the CSS cascade.

12/11/2025

One of the reasons SiteGround is my go-to web host for shared hosting of WordPress websites is it’s staging sites feature. However, not every site I work on is hosted on SiteGround or another web host that offers staging. Therefore I was very happy to discover recently — way later than I would have liked — a WordPress staging site plugin that has a lot of promise.

A quick first-look review of the WP Staging WordPress plugin for creating staging sites on web hosts that don't offer the feature.

12/11/2025

When building access rules in MemberPress, one of the easiest ways to avoid chaos as your site grows is to rely on custom taxonomies. Another is to use custom user roles.

In this article, I’ll explain the benefits of each approach; how to implement them; and how, when used together, they can make your life immensely easier.

Custom taxonomies and custom user roles can dramatically simplify the process of creating and managing MemberPress rules.

08/13/2025

Thanks to CSS grid, overlapping elements on a web page is easy and reliable, unlike the earlier methods that were fraught with pitfalls. In this presentation (including an under-8-minute YouTube video), I show how you can easily and reliably overlap elements for stunning effect, using a very simple HTML structure and a few lines of CSS markup (just 21 declarations, to be exact). If stuff like this gets your juices flowing, I have just two things to say to you: (1) Welcome to the nerd club; and (2) consider subscribing to my YouTube channel and email newsletter.

The blog post: How to overlap elements with HTML and CSS (Grid) only
https://nsiteful.com/overlap-elements-with-html-css-grid/

The YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWy797b2bE8

08/05/2025

MemberPress has a pretty robust notification system. But it can't address every conceivable requirement. Here's an overview of how I solved a client's unique problem by extending the MemberPress notification system using Advanced Custom Fields (Pro) and a custom script that runs when a specific MemberPress action hook fires.

How to extend the MemberPress notification system by hooking onto the mepr-event-transaction-completed action hook

07/10/2025

https://nsiteful.com/css-pseudo-classes-has-not-hover/
Suppose you have a 3×3 grid of cards or images. Further suppose that when you hover over any one of the 9 elements, you want to make that element stand out by affecting how all the other elements behave. In the example in this article, the non-hovered elements (a) get smaller; (b) change background colors; and (c) get blurred. And all of these effects take place gradually, with CSS transitions.

Hover over one element in a grid and make it stand out by affecting all other NON-hovered elements. Involves Use CSS pseudo-classes.

07/10/2025

https://nsiteful.com/replicate-siteground-wordpress/
A friend sought my advice on migrating his business website from one service (one that retains control of the site) to a platform where he retains control. In this article, I’ll share my recommendations to him. If you find yourself in a similar situation, these recommendations could very well apply to you, too.

Advice to a friend on on migrating a website from one service (one that retains control of the site) to a platform where he retains control.

06/11/2025

You cannot alter the opacity of a background image without affecting foreground content. Like me, you may have learned this the hard way when you first tried to add some heading text over a background image in a page hero. Thanks to Jessica Chan (aka Coder Coder on YouTube and CodePen), we have two excellent solutions.

Background image opacity in CSS is tricky. Here are 2 ways to alter the opacity of a background image without affecting foreground content.

06/04/2025

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02/27/2025

Someone posting in the Facebook Advanced WordPress group was asking how to allow selected registered WordPress users to see a list of active plugins without giving them the capability of managing plugins in any way. He ultimately solved the problem by adding a custom user role and appropriately configuring capabilities for that role. Before I learned that he found his solution, I posted this article showing how to display a listing of active plugins in the WordPress dashboard.

How to display a list of active plugins in the WordPress dashboard. Two simple code snippets to copy and paste.