How Shopify POS and QR Codes Transformed Inventory Management
At Maximus Agency, we recently partnered with a plant nursery to completely transform the way they manage their stock and engage with customers, using the powerful combination of Shopify’s eCommerce POS system and QR codes. Over 700 products were created, with each plant tagged by a unique QR code. These codes were printed as barcodes on physical stock, linking directly to detailed product pages. The
Continue ReadingSecuring Your WordPress: A Step-by-Step Guide to Recovery and Hardening After a Hack
Do you offer reseller hosting or just host WordPress websites in general? WordPress can be one of the trickiest things to host if you choose to do it the cost effective way by hosting it yourself and handling the security pitfalls yourself. I have spoken in the past about the benefits of utilising Cloudflare for security purposes. Cloudflare is an easy way for you to
Continue ReadingLinkedIn Open Graph Image Challenges: Navigating Cloudflare
As a developer, integrating social media features into websites often involves ensuring that content is displayed correctly across various platforms. If recurring Stack Overflow threads are anything to go by; a common hurdle that many developers face is getting LinkedIn in particular to correctly pick up Open Graph (OG) featured images. As Open Graph is a widely utilised standard across various platforms, it can be
Continue ReadingUpgrade Ionic 4 to Ionic 5 (Angular)
So you’re just recovering from PTS following the Ionic 3 to Ionic 4 update and now you’re too careful to saunter into Ionic 5 with boldness and confidence. Well fear not, this time ‘round it’s a breeze as promised by the faithful team at Ionic. That is — if you don’t overcomplicate things. Let me elaborate, in my initial pursuit to update, I jumped a
Continue ReadingGetting Rid of the Admin Bar in WordPress for Front End
For over a decade now WordPress has had plugins that assist you in removing the admin bar from the top of your website, when logged in. As a developer you may want to take a step back and thumb-view your site to ensure everything is built correctly, and then here’s this overlapping black bar stopping you from seeing the fixed navigation. So you download a
Continue ReadingCreating a Routing App Coverage File
So you’re an app developer and you’ve just made an app that provides your users with some point to point driving instructions, you submit the app to the store and you hit a stumbling block. No routing app coverage file provided. You must upload a routing app coverage file in App Store Connect if you register as a routing app. Basically, Apple needs to know
Continue ReadingAnimate Ionic Splash Screen
(This article was written for Ionic 3, not 4) So admittedly the title is a tiny bit of clickbait; however, the reason why people often search this exact phrase is because of the overly subtle gray loader/spinner icon and the fact that it is centered horizontally and vertically on your given splash screen, in Ionic. This can often lead to it being lost amongst your artwork
Continue ReadingUsing Ionic 3+ Pipes / Filters (inc. async)
Due to the fact that Ionic is a framework built atop AngularJS, like me, there may be some of you that are familiar with filters in VueJS. So to assist someone who is familiar with filters and would like to use some good old pipe-induced handlebars on-the-fly adjustments, here’s how you do it in Ionic. First, you need to generate a Pipe. Filters are called Pipes
Continue ReadingGetting started with Shopify Slate & Localhost SSL
I’m quite new to the local development scene when it comes to Shopify templates, I’m aware that there was something in the past called Theme Kit and that currently Slate is the new kid on the block. Kudos to Shopify for thinking of us developers. Two things that I bumped my head on, that may assist others: 1) Localhost SSL, no mixed content issues and
Continue ReadingEasy Auto Deployment for Laravel Forge (WordPress App) & BitBucket
Laravel Forge is a DevOps solution provided by Taylor Otwell and the wider team to make server management a joy, rather than a terminal grind but then you knew that, that’s why you’re here! We’re going to skip right ahead and make the assumption you’ve set up a new server and a new app within it and all is well with your WordPress ecosystem, the
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