WordPress’s Gutenberg editor is here. It’s big, shiny, and a little scary. But it’s the future of WordPress! Features are going to be built around it, and while using the Classic Editor plugin means you don’t have to adopt the new editor right away, you’re only punting the football down the field. In my world, …
There are times you may want your WordPress page templates to behave differently depending on whether or not a page builder has been enabled on it. For example, I built out a custom page template for a client that had content that was populated via custom fields, but also space for whatever was in the …
InfiniteWP (IWP) is a centralized management solution for WordPress sites. For someone who manages a large number of WordPress sites, it’s a great way to manage backups, roll out emergency updates, and more, all from one place. All my ongoing clients are hosted on their own VPS at Digital Ocean. This allows me to scale …
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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! If your website is already hacked… You’re welcome to follow this guide and go through the steps to secure your website, but …
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, stacked “neatly” for you to go through at some unspecified later time, which you recurringly …
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 a quick overview of where WordPress falls short, and how you can fix it. How …
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 Digital Ocean droplet hosting a WordPress site was experiencing cURL error 28. This error is …
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 contains? Does a search engine know what this is an image of, and if 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 onto web developers, and consumers only need to be aware of a few tips to …
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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 site. But just in case, one of the first things you should do with a …
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