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...
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.
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 demonstrates three ways to change the template of your WordPress blog post to display the last modified date instead of the original published date.
in 2024, when I went back to update older posts on ArtsandBricks.com to make updates, many posts would error and not save. When I clicked "Update," a red bar across the top of the page would appear that read, "Updating failed. Could not insert post into the database." Here's how.
Especially in January, you start thinking about copyrights on your websites. This is one of those maintenance tasks ripe for a programmatic solution. No reason to manually update the years on your website's copyright year after year. Here are a few good options for creating an automatically updating copyright year on your website.
Frustratingly, I find that I'm almost always locked out of my client's websites hosted on the Managed GoDaddy Wordpress plan, but there is a workaround. Here's what to do.
I'm building my 2nd Statamic V3 website using the Peak Starter Kit. This is where I capture tips I'm learning along the way. The developer of Peak and the Discord channel members are very responsive!
I started using Machform for my static HTML websites back in 2010. Then, as it is today, Machform is a simple, self-hosted form solution that JUST works and has an affordable one-time license fee. Here are some tricks I've learned and still use to help recover "lost" content quickly.
Both WordPress and Statamic content management systems are built on PHP. Just like many other programming languages, PHP's syntax for OR is two vertical lines; PHP's syntax for AND is two ampersands &&. Alternatively, the words "and" and "or" may be used, too. Here are some code examples.