How-to Guides for Everyone: Programming, Freelance, Business, Startups

In this article, we will explain the process that needs to be done when changing a WP theme on a multilingual website. The website is tourexotico.com. You can check it to see how it looks like when everything is done. Here are the steps you should follow to change WP theme smoothly: Make a backup Create a Child Theme Create the Main Page Header and Footer changes. Main menu setting. Setting widgets for sidebars Customization [...]

Git version control system is a way modern developers are tracking changes in the code and files for their applications. Git was invented by Linus Torvalds while he was working on the Linux operating system in the 2005 year and it is widely adopted by commercial and opensource software developers since then. There are 2 major and free online services where you may check existing open-source code projects:Github.com and Gitlab. Both of them allow their [...]

Debugging is an essential part of software development. Programmers are running their applications and checking if algorithms and workflows are working as expected. There are so-called "debuggers" which are special utilities designed to interrupt applications and provide information about states of variables, their values. Visual Studio by Microsoft is the ultimate debugger for .NET desktop and web applications. It provides a lot of features and functions helping programmers to debug and inspect their apps faster [...]

Sometime you may really need to increase audio volume in existing video. For example, you have a video recording of the meeting, or a video with a narration. You can actually increase the volume with simple and free tools! Video files actually contains two separate tracks: one for video and another for audio. The process of changing the volume of the audio involves taking this video track, separating audio track, decoding audio track, processing the [...]

Previously, we explained how to start freelancing on Upwork. In this article, we are going to explain the same concept for Freelancer.com. These sites, along with UpWork, are the most popular platforms that allow you to find some of the best independent freelance opportunities available. About Freelancer.com Create your account Create Your Profile Find projects How to bid? Advice when starting on freelancer website How to structure the account to get more clients How to [...]

Learning how to find a web developer on any platform can be daunting, but it shouldn’t have to be impossible. Finding a good web developer on UpWork can be straightforward if you know what to look for and what to ask. We shall discuss a variety of tips and tricks that will get you on the right track towards finding a freelance web developer on the popular and efficient Upwork platform. Consider learning the basics [...]

Creating a PDF with ByteScout is quite a simple task. It needs to add ByteScout PDF SDK in your project at first, and include its namespace in your .cs extension file where you are looking to create a PDF file. i.e. using Bytescout.PDF. Go through the short tutorial which will create a sample PDF and adding a password to it. The PDF file can be created by creating the object of the Document class and calling [...]

WooCommerce is the best WordPress plugin (and the most popular) for e-commerce. WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin and has wide functionality and a large set of settings. There are four types of products in WooCommerce. Simple Product Grouped Product External/Affiliate Product Variable Product In many cases, these types of products are enough when using the plug-in for the online store. But sometimes they are not enough. WooCommerce allows you to create custom types of [...]

Suppose we would like to add some information to our website at the top of the page or post, above the main content. This may be for example advertising, links, appeals, whatever you want, all that is enough fantasy. Functional blocks in Wordpress are called widgets. Widgets are placed on sidebars. Widgets and sidebars can be managed and configured in the WordPress administration panel. Administration panel - Appearance - Widgets Let's add a sidebar to [...]

One evening, after updating WordPress, I couldn’t find my usual text editor, but I saw a completely different modern editor. I tried to understand how to open the article in the classic editor. Found! I began to study and see how to work with this new editor, it turned out he was good enough! With the release of a new version of WordPress 5.0, the text editor has been completely updated, and in general the very [...]