The issue comes along when you want your permalink structure to look something like:

www.example.com/category/sub-category/post/

To achieve the above, all you have to do is not tick your parent category when saving your post, but rather tick the sub category only. There you, just a simple tip, but it caught me off guard last week, and it might catch you too.

Now, I am my own boss and there are plenty or pros to such a title, such as starting my day a bit late if I wish, working odd hours at night, if the need takes me or relaxing while I work, with Facebook and Reddit open. If you spin what I just wrote around, these are also cons! If you asked me how many hours it took me to build my last client site, I wouldn’t have a clue what to tell you and I feel very uneasy saying that.

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure

I decided to nip this major problem in the bud and look for a solution to track what time I was spending on work. My idea was, at the end of each day, I would like to see what jobs I did and how long it took me to complete them. I would allocate 8 hours to each work day and when I reached this time, I would be done and would not start work again until the next work day.

My search for a time tracking solution was quite effortless and I found a tool called Toggl. Toggl is an extremely simple time tracker that makes you accountable for work you do (or don’t). The idea is simple. You input a task you are working on and hit the start button. Upon, starting your new task, a timer activates and runs, until you stop the task. When, you stop the task – it saves how long you were working on said task. Toggl also keeps track of the time you are working on each task.

With Toggl, You can organise tasks into projects, but to view these projects you have to upgrade to the pro plan. But no biggie, it’s only $5/mth per user if you really need this feature. Toggl’s reporting is a thing of beauty too. They allow you to view, at a quick glance in the sidebar how you are doing for the week and how many hours you have worked. If you want to view more detailed reports, it’s included in the free plan.

How, Did I Ever Get Work Done Efficiently Without Toggl?

Oh Yeah, I didn’t! I know I have only been using Toggl for a short while but honestly, it’s already up there with my daily tools such as Gmail and Photoshop. I am more productive than ever and when I click that little start button, I aim to finish each task in the fastest time I possibly can. (It doesn’t look good when It says I took an hour to add a dropdown menu to a website – Thanks Facebook!).

Thanks Guys, Awesome product!

They tell the world what they do very simply, but very beautifully too by using gorgeous illustrative work, coupled with clean sans serif fonts. Great work guys.

One thing I needed to do was bring the ordering menu from below the page to a more logical position, such as the top right in the content area. By default, the ordering menu is attached to the pagination hook. I understand why they chose this approach as pagination will only ever be used on archives, search results etc but we can make it a bit better by hooking on to another function.

First, we have to unhook the woocommerce_catalog_ordering function from pagination, then check if the page is not the product page (as the menu will still show here), then hook on to woocommerce_before_main_content.

So when my contract was up with Eircom and after paying the guts of 50 quid per month for a pretty unremarkable service I went looking for another provider and eventually looked into Meteor‘s Broadband offerings as I am already with them for my mobile phone but to be quite honest, I was not holding my breath.

I ended up purchasing the E3131 HiLink Stick which cost €30 and the comes loaded with €3 credit to test the service out which gives you a day’s worth of light browsing. I found the modem price reasonable and if I wasn’t happy with it, I was told I could return the device within 7 days for a full refund. I also got €20 PAYG credit which gave me a 7.5 gigabyte download allowance over 30 days to really test things out.

I went home, plugged it in and was set up and ready to go within about 2 minutes. I loaded up some websites and was impressed with the speeds I was getting, of about 4Mb, which were basically the same as what Eircom gave me before. The device supports up to 21Mb but you never really get the full speed and especially not with mobile broadband.

After I had my few weeks of testing with the service and used up my allowance, I found myself very happy and researched their bill pay options to see if they had any better value options. They did, and I found the 30 day sim contract option that gives you a whopping 20GB of download usage per month for the exact same price I paid with my original PAYG plan. Back of the net! I did, obviously have to sign a contract, but it’s only 30 days and I can cancel with only a month’s notice. I also had to pay a security deposit of €50, which I’m not too happy about but I’ll get it back I guess so not a big deal.

So, if you are shopping around for broadband, definitely have a look at Meteor’s offers, you’ll save yourself about 20-30 quid a month if you are not downloading massive amounts of crap and if you move around a bit, you can take your laptop and internet with you!

A simple way to hide these page views is to use use the is_user_logged_in() function in WordPress. This hides the tracking code to people who are logged in and you won’t see an extra 100 page views, simple.

<?php if(!is_user_logged_in()): ?>
 
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
    document.write("%3Cscript src='" + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'");
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-0000000-0");
    pageTracker._trackPageview();
    </script>
 
<?php endif; ?>

I don’t speak Croatian but I don’t have to, to appreciate this beauty. I love everything about this site, the grungy graphics to the illustrations are absolutely superb and really make them stand out from their competitors I’m sure. This is one site that does one page design well.

A bonus feature is the fact that this will also save you bandwidth because you won’t be using your server to serve the images, but WordPress’s!

There are quite a few of these CDNs available to play with but I want to talk about a free one called Photon. Photon is included in the popular Jetpack bundle and is extremely easy to use. It is worth noting that images Photon will only parse are images in posts/pages/custom post types and featured images.

Once, you have installed Jetpack on your site, you will need to link it to your WordPress.com account to activate the features. Once activated, Photon begins to work at once. That has to be the quickest CDN integration ever! Enjoy.