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.
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.
Embedding YouTube videos on your WordPress site? You might be promoting competitors without realizing it. Here’s how to fix that using a quick Gutenberg-safe PHP snippet.
Sometimes, when I go to save a Snippets plugin code snippet I get an error that reads, "Could not update snippet. Request failed with status code 403." For me, the issue is that WAF blocked my snippet code from saving. Here's how I get my Code Snippet to save.
This post references a simple javascript snippet that loops through your site's links and makes external links open in a new tab.
This post includes my notes and questions as I started working with ACF in WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor. I've captured them here in the hopes that they will assist you in your knowledge growth and implementation.