In Fall of 2019, Wordpress 5.3.0 was released. If you have an old theme built on Roots (Sage before it was redeveloped), then your site backend is a hot mess right now. Thankfully, the fix is easy enough if you can access the theme in an editor....
Read MoreA 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....
Read MoreSmoothState.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....
Read MoreWhen 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....
Read MoreI'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....
Read MoreWith a few of my clients, they wanted more than the standard excerpt. They wanted to display a paragraph or two of the post. without echoing out a whole post in an archive or landing page. Now Wordpress has great examples on how to do things similar to this with get_the_excerpt(); and the_excerpt(); .However i wanted to try a new method, using a mix of stand PHP functions and a few Wordpress functions I haven't used before....
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to add a submenu that didn't link to a page you created? A while back, a client requested a link to a particular view and arrangement of a table in admin area of Wordpress. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a standard function within wordpress used to pair a submenu item, that you could customize, to a parent top level menu....
Read MoreFont Awesome is a great icon resource and I encourage everybody to give it a try at least once. It's my go to icon set whenever I'm using social media links on a website. One problem people run in to is that from time to time a random icon won't load correctly in Firefox. Here are a few solutions if you notice one or all of your font's aren't working:...
Read MoreI use Wordpress a lot for the CMS of a site that I'm building or working on. This has come with it's ups and downs.Obviously the ups are way to much larger than the downs for the most part, or we wouldn't use it. However, one of the downfalls of letting someone else do the code is getting rusty, especially with coding websites....
Read MoreEvery few once in a while, I have end up working on a website page for a site that doesn't have enough content on it. The site looks great, the content and styles are really working together, but then theres that one page, maybe an archive page that doesn't have a lot of posts, or the 404 page, or a search results page that doesn't have enough content to push the footer down to the bottom....
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