Peter Surowski, the Curriculum Director for WP Code Camp, will be speaking at WordCamp Buffalo on Saturday, May 6, 2023. His talk, titled, “Fixing Stubborn Accessibility Problems With JavaScript,” will show how to use a little bit of code to fix some problems that most plugins built for WordPress won’t fix. If you’re reading this … Read More
In our coding bootcamp, we use PHP from the Command Line Interface. But first, you have to install it! This can be a fraught process, so this blog article will give you step-by-step instructions on how to get it done. Soon, you’ll be able to use PHP from the Command Line and enjoy all the … Read More
You asked for financial aid for our online coding bootcamp, and you got it! WP Code Camp now offers financial aid through its partnership with Meritize, a third-party lender that serves students in programs just like this one! They offer a variety of options and low interest rates, and unlike a lot of lenders, your … Read More
The holidays are here, so we at WP Code Camp scoured the web to find the 5 best Christmas gifts for coders under $20. #1 Coder Joke on a Mug Coders stay up late and drink a lot of coffee. That’s a fact of life. Might as well give them a gift that will make … Read More
If you’ve recently migrated your website from one server to another, or changed the domain, added SSL or some similar change, you might run into a common problem. Your home page is working fine (yay!) but your login page is giving you a 404 error. This is because you’ve missed an important step during the … Read More
Just when you thought you knew what tech employers were looking for in a job candidate, along came 2020. Now, a deadly virus is on the loose, protests—sometimes riots—have broken out and a reality TV star is president of the U.S. Now here you are, applying for jobs with this going on out your window. … Read More
Internet Exploder strikes again! Users have reported that Internet Explorer refuses to load some websites on the WordPress.com platform when they try to reach it by clicking a link (from social media or an email, for example). IE will give them a message that says: The website you were trying to reach doesn’t work with … Read More
I once had a student in a digital arts class, a bright young woman of color, polite, attentive and seemingly diligent, who was turning in very bad projects. This was baffling because she didn’t seem like the type of student who would turn in such bad work. I normally get this type of work from … Read More
Don’t ever, ever, evereverevereverever modify the PHP code on a live WordPress website. PHP code is a compiled language, which means that if there’s one syntax error—a missing semicolon, an extra curly bracket, a misspelled word—your site crashes and your visitors see nothing but the dreaded White Screen of Death. via Gfycat (Incidentally, here’s how … Read More
We’ve all been there. You’re working on your site—or worse, a client’s site—and you refresh the browser, and there it is: Nothing. A white screen where the site should be. Adrenaline rushes, you start to sweat. You can’t see the site, you can’t access the dashboard. How are you going to fix this?! This is … Read More
