EDIT: I Finished! i did the half Marathon in 2 Hours and 50 Minutes. About 2 months ago, my wife came home and informed me that she had signed both of us up for a half marathon. So my wife decided actually. She also got my sister and cousin to join us for the half, … Continued
A month ago, I switched my theme development to Sage (version 9). I’ve been using an ancient build slowly upgraded over the years, and wasn’t the epitome of proper development. It even had a LESS compiler in php. Since switching, I’ve been documenting a few things I learned in my upgrade process. Home Template will … Continued
I recently had a good friend who is in a group chat forget to tell us something. So to remind him. I created a groupme bot that sends him the same message every hour, on the hour. Here’s a breakdown of what I did. For this tutorial, I’m going to assume you know how … Continued
Google Analytics is a great tool for understanding how people use and utilize your site. We’ve built this guide to provide a simple overview of the key terms Google Analytics uses to describe the behavior of users on your site. Users How many people viewed or interacted with your site. A single person (user) can … Continued
Its been almost a year since I published a tutorial, aka “This was a problem I overcame and want to remember how i fixed it so i don’t have to google it”. So far I’ve only ever published these tutorials. But if you were to look at the backend of my site, you’d see almost half … Continued
SmoothState.js is a javascript library that adds transitions between pages on your site using AJAX. I use it on this site to help create a more seamless experience when going through pages. Aside from transitions, it can also be used to increase the speed of your site slightly. Requirements jQuery is required for SmoothState. If you … Continued
Out of the box, bootstraps Carousel slides from one frame item to the next. This is great for traditional images or slides, but sometimes you want the same functionality, just different presentation. With this snippet, you can turn that carousel into a fade. Fade Carousels are great for things such as showing multiple testimonials.
When working on a site, sometimes an a rogue plugin or caching problem can take your whole site offline with little to no indicator as to what caused it. Here are a few places to check if your site breaks. Reset Permalinks If you come to your site and only the homepage works, you may … Continued
Recently I was asked to help finish up a website that had a list of events on it. Using Ajax, you could explore events from months past, and if the event required a ticket, there was a button right there to take you to the page to purchase it. The problem i was brought on … Continued
I’ve been developing Wordpress websites now for four years. During that time I’ve created my own plugin, worked on some theme frameworks and been apart of teams that built simple blogs and universities. Heres a list the top 10 plugins that I regularly use/recommend on a majority of my sites. I don’t recommend you blindly install … Continued