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Removing the Website field from the Genesis Framework’s Comment Form

March 21, 2014 by Eric Wagner Leave a Comment

Here’s a snippet of code to add to your Genesis Framework child theme in order to remove the Website field on your comment form. Add this to the functions.php file in your child theme’s folder.


//* Remove the website field from the comment form
add_filter( 'genesis_comment_form_args', 'url_filtered' ); 
add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered' ); 
function url_filtered( $fields ) { 
    if ( isset( $fields['url'] ) ) unset( $fields['url'] ); 
    if ( isset( $fields['fields']['url'] ) ) unset( $fields['fields']['url'] ); 
    return $fields; 
}

//* Remove the website field from the comment form

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_form_args', 'url_filtered' );

add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered' );

function url_filtered( $fields ) {

if ( isset( $fields['url'] ) ) unset( $fields['url'] );

if ( isset( $fields['fields']['url'] ) ) unset( $fields['fields']['url'] );

return $fields;

}

Earth to the Moon

March 3, 2014 by Eric Wagner Leave a Comment

The distance between the Earth and the Moon was something I never really thought about. I see it floating up there, and because I can even see the features on the Moon with the naked eye I expect it to be similar to the videos I’ve seen with the moons around Saturn. Most people, I believe, share this idea and probably think reality is close to the image below.

Not Earth to Moon

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Minimum Advertised Price

February 18, 2014 by Eric Wagner Leave a Comment

Ever wonder why some e-commerce sites make you add an item to the shopping cart before showing you the price? I’ve seen this a lot on the Best Buy site, but I learned about this while reading a book about Amazon.com.

One way for a manufacturer to force a reseller like Best Buy or Amazon.com to sell their products no lower than a certain price, to maintain their margins or their prestige of being a high priced brand, is to force the reseller to advertise their price no lower than the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP).

E-commerce retailers have found a way around this by not displaying the price until you show them you’re looking to buy the product, i.e. placing the item in your cart.

While annoying to the consumer (I’ve even left websites that have done it) it’s in fact good for the consumer. You’re getting the product for below even what the manufacturer wants the retailer to sell it for. Someone’s profit is being eaten into when you to buy the product.

The games manufacturers and retailers play for consumers to get the best price. It’s also the games retailers play against each other to offer the best price to get your purchase. Fascinating.

Contact Form 7 and Bluehost

February 1, 2014 by Eric Wagner 2 Comments

I’m finally writing this down after having to google for it for two clients in the past two months.

When the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress won’t send emails from a website hosted with Bluehost, try the following:

Log in to the Bluehost cPanel
Under the Mail heading click on MX Entry
Select the domain you are trying to send email to
Press the More button under MX (Mail Exchanger)
Select Remote Mail Exchanger

Digital Ocean A Couple Of Months Later

January 18, 2014 by Eric Wagner Leave a Comment

A few months have passed since I created this site on a DigitalOcean hosted VPS. I haven’t blogged much, but I’ve been making tweaks behind the scenes to see what affects performance and what doesn’t. Some of that takes time as I’ll make a tweak and wait a few days to see what impact it had, and then I’ll make another tweak.

Faster, faster

January 12, 2014 by Eric Wagner Leave a Comment

Faster, faster, till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

– Hunter S. Thompson