Posts for designers, developers, and bloggers about the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress.
As a web developer, I’ve worked in WordPress in many capacities. I’ve developed themes from scratch, inherited themes, bought themes, built and managed shops on WooCommerce, and worked in Gutenberg and third-party builders, including Avada Builder, Beaver Builder, and WPBakery. This space is a collection of learnings during this process.
Staring down hundreds of missing alt tags and messy filenames on an aging WordPress site? Instead of clicking through them one by one or running a blind database script, here is how directed AI prompt reviews solved an entire media library's accessibility debt in 30 minutes.
Stop chasing clients and team members for missing alt text. Use this lightweight 20-line PHP snippet to automatically sanitize file names and generate clean, accessible image alt tags on upload in WordPress—no extra plugins required.
You set up a password-protected page, test it, send the link to a client, and move on. Then 24 hours later, the feedback lands: "There’s a break in the matrix… users type the password and nothing happens, while others get in without one." If your site runs on Managed Hosting (like GoDaddy with GD cORe or Sucuri), it’s not a WordPress core bug—it’s an edge caching issue. Here is a full-stack...
Is your Gravity Forms text too small? Learn how to change font sizes, label weights, and input heights using modern CSS variables with the Orbital theme—without messy !important rules.
Did you know that massive enterprise sites like Disney, Microsoft, and the White House rely on WordPress? In this visual guide, we pull back the curtain and show you two foolproof ways to uncover the hidden tech stack of any website.
Standard WordPress roles are often too broad, but heavy permission plugins are overkill. In this guide, we’re going the "Full Stack" route—using a PHP "Gatekeeper" script to lock your Editors into specific "safe zones." Whether you need to allow access to a single Specials page or an entire directory of Gallery children, this set-it-and-forget-it solution keeps your dashboard clean and your site...
Is your mobile menu missing pages that show up on desktop? Learn how to sync your WordPress menus, fix page hierarchy issues, and troubleshoot hidden Beaver Builder templates.
Is your GoDaddy-designed WordPress site asking for a Beaver Builder license key? Learn how to use the 'GD Core' secret menu to update premium plugins and fix issues where live site edits aren't saving.
I recently helped a local business polish their WordPress site built with Elementor. From homepage setup to search functionality and restricting page editing for specific roles, here are a few practical fixes that made the site cleaner, more functional, and easier to manage.
Convert Elementor gallery captions into semantic H2 tags using a safe, update-proof Code Snippets method. Improve on-page SEO and accessibility in minutes.
