I have a client who has over 100+ domains. Some previous tech person had signed him up for DNS hosting by DNSMadeEasy, which is an unnecessary service if you use Cloudflare. Additionally, all those domains could be transferred out of the original registrar to Cloudflare, saving my client at least 50% costs on renewal since…
I create bespoke WordPress websites to solve problems. These websites hopefully solve a client’s customer’s problem through the purchase of a product or service. That’s the obvious part of the job. Often neglected though is that the website backend must also be designed to solve content management issues for my clients. One of the ways…
Have you ever noticed how some websites have URLs that end with a forward slash, while others don’t? For example, “sampledomain.com/page” and “sampledomain.com/page/” might look pretty much the same to us, but search engines see them as two different pages. That’s where the trouble starts! One of those has a trailing slash, and the other…
Pantheon.io is a very robust hosting system specifically geared towards enterprise WordPress (and Drupal) sites. Naturally, they’re a little more restrictive about giving the type of SSH access you’d have on a standard VPS or dedicated hosting server. So they don’t have the normal type of SSH interaction, where you’d generate an ssh key and…
Google Analytics 4 is a powerful tool that provides valuable insights into a user’s desires for their usage of your website. An often-looked feature is an ability to track search terms, which can provide valuable information about what users are searching for and how they’re finding your site. However, many users find that setting up…
I have a client that is using WooCommerce subscriptions as a way to create custom payment plans for individual customers of theirs. This is because the payment plans are often personalized to the customer’s personal financial situation. While WooCommerce may not be an obvious choice of software for this, it can be easily leveraged for…
I’ve been spending a ton of time with the AI art generation tool Midjourney. The documentation from the company may get you started with the settings, but there’s very little instruction on how to achieve one’s own stylistic direction. It just takes a ton of experimentation. I’ve always been interested in art that can be…
Midjourney is a powerful tool for creating stunning landscape illustrations, but when it comes to adding people to the composition, it can be a source of great frustration. It seems as if the default framing for Midjourney is to produce a close-up portrait, most frequently of a white girl in her 20s. Whether you’re struggling…
Sometimes I spend an hour trying to figure out what is wrong with my code, only to finally figure out that this is a “browser feature“, not a bug with my CSS. According to https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#hyphenation Correct automatic hyphenation requires a hyphenation resource appropriate to the language of the text being broken. The UA must therefore…
I’ve been developing custom WordPress themes for almost 15 years now. Most of the time, this routinely involves the creation of custom post types and custom taxonomies in order to create customized display of clients data, generally organized around content types that are more specialized than just the “pages” and “blog posts” that WordPress comes…
