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.
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.
If you have questions about the Query Loop Block in WordPress's Gutenberg Block Editor, this post is for you, especially, if you're struggling to access the settings,
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.
This article talks about my experience setting up my first few Shopify stores and documents the initial resources I referenced and the techniques I used to accomplish the desired features; I also discuss my favorite features!
To speed up and simplify my Arts and Bricks WordPress blog, I'm working to remove unneeded plugins and tools. One tool that I'm removing is Beaver Builder; here's how I did it.