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.
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.
As a designer, I work extensively within the licensed Adobe program universe, but in recent years, Adobe has rolled out free services that anyone can use. Adobe Express's QR Code generator is one of those free resources that I highly recommend.
Here's the workaround for wanting to add the Image Description directly to the Media Library rather than just the post, which leaves the description in the media gallery blank. There's three simple steps. Follow along pictures and video.
How I solved the Wordpress Error: "Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response."
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.
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.