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WordPress Tutorial: How to Install & Manage Widgets

October 28, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to install, configure, remove, and manage WordPress widgets. Widgets are extra modules that are either included with WordPress core or are added by installed plugins. Plugins add functionality to a basic, stock WordPress website, often by providing configurable modules […]

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WordPress Tutorial: Create New Blog Post [Basics]

October 19, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to create and publish a simple blog post. In the video I show you a few places that you can create a new blog post from in the WordPress dashboard. I demonstrate inserting images and graphics, formatting text as

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WordPress Tutorial: How To Download and Install WordPress [Basics]

October 14, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to download and install WordPress core on a remote server or web host. In this tutorial I cover how to download and install WordPress core to a remote server (your webhost or ISP). Steps to download and install a

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Project: Exporting your Google Plus page followers to CSV with JavaScript ES6

October 12, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Computing, Eric's Code, Programming & Coding, Project Management, Side Projects

This is a side project I did based on a a question I was asked to answer on Quora. In this project, we look at possible ways to export, extract, or grab information about users from our Google+ followers page. We ultimately use JavaScript in a browser console to scape user information using ECMAScript 6

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JavaScript Tutorial: Mapping ES6 arrays with HTML5 Local Storage

October 10, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Eric's Code, Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This is an HTML5/JavaScript tutorial and is intended to teach users what HTML5 local storage is, why it is useful, and how to use it. Many developer and coder workflow tips are covered as well.

Demo code gist on GitHub: https://goo.gl/UGuDqq

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WordPress Tutorial: How to login to the admin Dashboard

October 5, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to login to the administration dashboard, where you can manage your site, add content, create and publish posts, monitor your SEO and statistics, add plugins, change themes, reply to comments, and much more. This is where all the action

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Developer Journal: Redesigning my MailChimp Blog Updater Email Campaign

September 30, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Design, Eric's Code, Eric's Web Designs, Graphic Design, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding

Earlier this month I spent quite a bit of time researching, redesigining, and tweaking my MailChimp email autoresponder campaign. This campaign updates users automatically in their email whenever I post something on my blog. I wanted to learn how to design a better MailChimp campaign email. I went from something that looked like the Before

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Gimp Tutorial: 125 pixel WordPress Ad Widget banner

September 21, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Design, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding, Tutorial, Video

This tutorial is for Gimp version 2.8 and is intended to teach users how to design a 125px x 125px advertising banner for use in website sidebars and elsewhere. These advertisement banners are perfect to use on your WordPress site with the WordPress Ad Widget plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-widget/), though 125×125 pixels is a common and popular

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Design Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios and Case Studies

September 16, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Design, Eric's Code, Eric's Graphic Designs, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding, Tutorial

Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,

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Developer Journal: Making ShopIsle Theme Search Page Display Excerpts Instead of Full Content [without plugin] – Pt. 01

September 9, 2018 / Eric Hepperle / Design, Eric's Code, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding, Tutorial

This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are

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