Hi. I’m glad you’ve got an interest in web design and development as a career path. If you follow my advice, it’s possible that within a few years you could be earning more than I do with my 13+ years of experience. Don’t get me wrong, I earn enough for my family to be comfortable,…
If you do a lot of WordPress development for many clients, eventually you’ll end up with those local sites eating up a good portion of your computer’s hard drive space. Some of my clients have uploads folders that are +1gb. I used to have to just delete these local sites data and then redownload during…
If you leave your my-account page with an option for new customers to create accounts without actually buying anything, or if you allow people along the purchase process to create accounts before they complete purchase, you’ll end up with a bloated wp_users table. Many of my customers have ended up in this situation, with tens…
The Moda health website was specifically developed to be a sales tool used by sales people in the field, when working with potential employer clients. Through a couple different pathways, the salesperson is able to present to the employer all of the different online digital solutions that Moda Health Insurance offers for Health benefit administrators…
One of the most important tenets of any kind of writing content for the web is: Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY).If you want some text like h3’s to be purple, bold, large, and italic, it’s best not to do this: This code is really bad because it violates DRY. Because so much is repeated in the…
I’ve started experimenting with WP CLI, which stands for WordPress Command Line Interface. Essentially, it allows an efficiency loving developer the option to do many of the routine maintenance and set up of a WP site completely through a command line, rather than the GUI backend interface. While on paternity leave, I finally had a…
I used to use and endorse the hosting services of BueHost frequently, but I’ve found that their support over the years has degraded in quality both in their written documentation and their customer support technicians. I’m writing this post as an on-going place to add additional notes to the documentation in their support system, since…
One of the most basic adages within web development (and computer usage in general) is D.R.Y., which stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. If there’s a way to make a series of manually taken steps into an automatic process by usage of software, it should be done. One of the first ways I apply this when…
This tutorial goes over the general process for troubleshooting when your permalink changes aren’t working, and the specific server changes that you can make on Google Cloud instances.
Here’s a javascript solution to modify the design of a constant contact form any other asynchronously-loaded external script, Constant Contact used to provide the full code, so that you could add in element attributes like placeholder. Unfortunately, as of October 2017, they’ve taken away the full embed codes in favor of a few lines in order…
