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By Jeff Cohan, June 17, 2020

How to Build Stunning WordPress Photo Galleries Quickly and Easily With FooGallery PRO

FooGallery PRO

Photo (image) galleries are common and popular elements for many Web sites; for some, they’re downright essential. In this article I focus on how FooGallery PRO allows you to create galleries quickly and easily using “Media Tags” as the datasource for a gallery.

I’ve been using and liking the free version of FooGallery for years. Working on several client Web sites with multiple image galleries, I looked for more efficient ways to create and maintain those galleries. The datasource feature of FooGallery PRO is a game-changer. Read on for an explanation of how this works, with detailed instructions and screen captures.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: FooGallery, Images, Photo Gallery, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, April 13, 2020

Strong Testimonials – Problem with v2.40.2

Strong Testimonials Plugin

Warning! Strong Testimonials is my go-to WordPress plugin for displaying testimonials. I use it on my own site and on many client sites. Today, after updating WordPress to version 5.4 — and updating Strong Testimonials from 2.40.1 to 2.40.2 — on one of those sites, the WordPress dashboard crashed. The error message: By downgrading back […]

Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, April 2, 2019

I Built a WordPress Plugin for Downloadable Files

If you’ve ever embedded a PDF file or other downloadable file in WordPress posts or pages using the standard “Add Media” button, you probably know what a pain it can be if and when — but most likely when — that file needs to be updated.

You can’t just upload the newly updated file to the Media Library and expect “voila” to happen.

Even if the updated file has the same filename as the original, WordPress will rename it on upload rather than replace the old one with the new one. (I’ve tried a plugin that offers this replacement functionality, but it wasn’t user-friendly and fell short in other ways.)

So I made my own plugin.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Case Studies · Tagged: Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, December 9, 2018

How to Reuse Content in WordPress with the amr shortcode any widget Plugin

Whenever you’ve entered identical content in more than one place in your WordPress Web site, have you wished there was a better way? Well, there is. In fact, there’s a plugin for that: the amr shortcode any widget WordPress plugin. This has become a standard plugin for all of the sites I build. Read this post to find out why and how it’s used.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: Plugins, Shortcodes, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, October 26, 2018

Help Your Blog Readers Find What They’re Looking For with the Search & Filter Plugin

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This article shows how to use a simple, lightweight plugin — one I installed long ago, deactivated because I hadn’t followed directections, and forgot about — to filter blog posts and make it easier for you Web visitors to find what they’re looking for in your blog. After all, making our visitors’ experiences better is what it’s all about.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: Blogging, Plugins, Taxonomies, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 26, 2016

Offer Live Chat for Enhanced Customer Engagement and Sales

Tawk.to plugin image

Live Chat is here to stay, and smart businesses everywhere and in every industry are using it to provide the immediate personal touch that their prospects and customers long for. In this blog post, I discuss the Live Chat software I’m currently using (Tawk.to) and offer some reasons you ought to consider going “Live Chat” as soon as possible.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Customer Service, Live Chat, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 23, 2016

Enhanced Media Library Pro Plugin for WordPress: First Look

While building a WordPress powered e-commerce website for a bridal shop that could have thousands of images to manage, I quickly realized we’d need a much better way to manage images than navigating through hundreds of Media Library screens — especially considering the very limited functionality of the native WordPress Media Library.

I considered several solutions before remembering that I had used the Enhanced Medial Library plugin (free version) on another client site. This is a first look at Enhanced Medial Library Pro (although I suppose it’s also a first look at the free version).

Spoiler alert: For a one-time payment of $25 for unlimited lifetime updates for unlimited sites, you might not have to read past this summary.

(But please do.)

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Reviews · Tagged: Media, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 23, 2016

Make Responsive Lightbox by dFactory Work with FooGallery

Make Responsive Lightbox by dFactory Work with FooGallery

This is a repurposing of an earlier blog article, First Look at Foo Gallery. I wanted to make it easy for people to find this solutions for making FooGallery and Responsive Lightbox by dFactory work together.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Snippets · Tagged: FooGallery, Media, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, May 9, 2016

Do I Need to Hire a WordPress Developer? – Part 1

Friends, family, acquaintances, and clients often ask the question, “Do I really need to hire a WordPress developer”? While WordPress is an extremely accessible tool for building Web sites, there are some reasons to consider bringing in a professional. In this admittedly thinly-veiled pitch, I offer some insights that focus on the potential problems associated with WordPress plugins – and how professional WordPress developers can avoid and address them.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, February 22, 2016

FooGallery Plugin for WordPress: First Look

The demise of the once unrivalled NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress has nudged me to look for a replacement for several clients’ WordPress Web sites. My criteria for replacement candidates are simple, and I think I may have found it: FooGallery. This article is a first look at this gallery plugin.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Reviews · Tagged: Media, Photo Gallery, Plugins, WordPress

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