Master the MD dev tools to add advanced features to your website.
Marketers Delight registers its own custom image sizes to help better format images in specific layout areas using the native add_image_size WordPress function. Each time you upload an image, WordPress creates a separate cropped version of each image and saves it to your uploads folder. Not every version of these images may be used in[...]
Popups are a useful element for capturing attention and displaying information in a “break out of the box” kind of way. From converting more leads to displaying supplementary content, popups are an element that should be in your toolbox no matter what kind of site you run. From a development standpoint, popups are not always[...]
From MD > Site Design > Content you can control the different items that show in your post and page bylines with simple checkbox controls. Marketers Delight supports many byline items already, such as the latest post date, post author, comments count, post category, and others. To add your own custom byline items to byline[...]
The hidden power of Marketers Delight comes with its rich development tools, and there’s no better way to dive in than with template functions. Here’s the best you need to know: 1. Get admin settings data The custom options MD stores from the admin screen can be found in the md_setting() function. To access option[...]
With the Accordion Category Widget installed you can easily generate a link tree of posts listed by blog categories or from custom taxonomies. The widget comes as is, but you can recreate custom accordions with raw HTML using the following options on this page. The first option is raw HTML which you can simply paste[...]
Even when viewing single blog posts it is still nice to have the “Blog” nav menu link show the active status to give a feel for site hierarchy. With this snippet you can match the nav link text with a conditional tag to add the <code>current-menu-item</code> class to a specific text string. This code example[...]
With the MD API you can quickly and in a more manageable way extend the WordPress admin panel and create new settings pages and meta boxes. In this example we are creating a basic admin page that will appear under the “Settings” tab in the WordPress admin panel. Simply copy the starter example to your[...]
Use this code snippet to add an integrated topbar menu to every page of your site. The template area is open for all kinds of customization and the menu easily hooks into the existing WordPress Menus editor for easy access once installed and configured properly.
Most comments plugins take over the default comments section, but sometimes you want to offer multiple comments sections for your forums, Disqus, and other kinds of discussion features. With a few simple actions in MD you can bypass this limitation and embed conversation platforms from others sites without losing your hard earned blog comments.
Marketers Delight offers a very low-tech way to integrate Google Analytics with your MD-powered site. here are the steps: You should have a Google Analytics account and Google Analytics API key ready to go before proceeding. 1. Locate and click ‘Marketers Delight’ on the left panel of your Dashboard settings. 2. Click ‘Integrations’. 3. Locate[...]
Use this simple child theme modification to add a sticky scrolling effect to your site’s header. This is a simple solution that requires no jQuery and uses MD’s extremely lightweight JavaScript API to make this simple effect possible on your website. The Sticky Header feature is slated to make it into a future MD release,[...]
In this guide I will show you how to fully translate the text strings MD adds around your site from English to any language you prefer to use on your own website.