Are you at your desk? If not, imagine it. Look left. Look right. If you’re anything like me, there’s probably a very specific kind of mess staring back at you. Piles. Big stuff on the bottom, little stuff on top,…
WordPress’s built-in transient system gets the job done, but it has a few drawbacks. Depending on how long it takes to refresh your transient and the volume of traffic you get, it may or may not be a problem. Here’s…
Hey! This article is for advanced users managing their own server. If you have shared hosting or another managed service, talk to your provider to fix this. That’s what you pay them for! I recently had an issue where a…
There are many ways to add images to your website, and some ways are better than others. Images on your website have both SEO and accessibility considerations. Can a screen reader read your image and communicate any important information it…
For as long as consumers have been able to make purchases online, there’s been concern over how to keep payment information safe. Buyers are concerned about things like credit card numbers being skimmed across the web. Fortunately, much of that responsibility falls…
This blog post is actually from my wicked-awesome WordPress for Small Business Owners course. If you dig it, you should sign up for the whole thing. It’s totally free! Take the Free Course! It’s pretty hard to break a WordPress…
When you install Automattic’s Jetpack plugin, it comes with a ton of features enabled by default. While it has a lot of great features, you probably don’t need all of them. I recently installed it for a client in order…
One of the biggest reasons I moved into the apartment I live in now is that it accommodated large dogs (doggos or puppers, if you prefer) like mine. Many places here in Eugene may claim to be dog-friendly, but only…
This is part 3 in my series on fixing slow websites. Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2! First off, if you’re following this series as a non-WordPress developer, you might skip out on this particular entry, as…
Just Get the Plugin Gravity Forms is my go-to plugin for any form-related tasks on WordPress. It does everything. Well, almost everything. Recently, I leveraged it to create an online signup form for Camas Swale Farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. If you…
This is part 2 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them. Read part 1 here. Big images are all the rage in web right now. Seems like you can’t turn around without finding high-res…
This is part 1 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them If you ever review a job board for web developers, you’ll see many variations on “my WordPress site is slow, what do…