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Latest Posts


  • Extending WordPress – a guide to building your first plugin

    Slides and plugin GitHub repo for my WordCamp Cape Town Workshop   Extending WordPress from Jonathan Bossenger   Download the plugin from GitHub  

  • Adding the cart button to your Divi shop pages.

    As is always the case with these code snippets, this one comes from a question by a user in the Divi Theme Users group on Facebook. Leif Ottosson asked about the ‘Add to Cart’ button on the Divi/WooCommerce shop page. When adding the Divi Shop Module to a page via the Page Builder, the list…

  • Making child themes part of your business development best practice.

    In part one of this series on child themes, I discussed the hows and whys of child themes. Hopefully you understand what they are and why you should use them. In part two I want to discuss the various ways you can access or create child themes as well as show you some cool things you…

  • Please, copy my ideas!

    An open letter to all Divi plugin developers: Please, copy my ideas! I am, first and foremost, an open source developer. That means I believe that if you have a piece of software, either purchased or obtained freely via open source repositories, you should be allowed to ‘study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and…

  • The definitive guide to calculating your billable rate

    Recently on the WordPress South Africa Slack channel, a member asked the following question: “Can we talk pricing? How do you figure out how much to charge for WordPress Development? What factors influence your pricing?” A bunch of other freelancers (including myself) piped in and gave our opinions, but it was Nathan Jeffery’s post that really…

  • The Basics of a WordPress Theme

    In the first part of my article on child themes I explained a little about the history of WordPress themes and child themes, what they are and why you should use them. After sharing the post in a couple of online groups I am a part of, I received a fairly good positive response to the topic…

  • A peek inside the Atlantic Wave workshop

    It’s not every day that I get really excited about a plugin I am working on. Don’t get me wrong, every plugin I develop is exciting, but more so from a ‘solving a puzzle’ or ‘fulfilling someone else’s requirement’ point of view. Granted, this is the reason I got into plugin development and it is a…

  • Remove the sidebar in your Divi category view.

    So, I’m in the process of putting the final touches on part two of my child themes series when I get a request from another Divi developer, Patricia. She is building a site for a client and she wants the post category list view to not show the sidebar. What a perfect way to showcase…

  • Child themes – what are they and why you should use them

    Since joining the Divi community late last year I think the one topic I’ve seen asked about or discussed the most is the concept of child themes, mostly when it comes to editing the footer credits in a Divi built website. In this article I hope to give you a thorough understand of what a…