Siteground has two basic control panels for managing their WordPress hosting platforms. Their bespoke new site tools system, and legacy accounts that are still using cPanel. For a couple of my clients sites hosted with the legacy cPanel hosting, I’ve recently lost the ability to push or pull via ssh to BitBucket, my git repository…
Within the business climate of the current pandemic, many businesses are attempting to shift more and more online. One of the favorite models of this for online sales is to get recurring income via online memberships that grant customers access to exclusive video content, whether that’s pre-recorded or on-demand. While a great business model, until…
NOTE: This is only available for Premium accounts. Wix has an article directly about this, but I found their help article to be less than helpful since the interface they describe is not the one https://help.wixanswers.com/kb/en/article/adding-custom-css-to-your-help-center. You can do this by embedding inline styles to every page, via creating a chunk of custom css code…
I have a client, Primal Vinyasa, which I’ve built an extensive membership site for. The top product worth promoting and we want to retain is the Monthly Subscription. To encourage retention, it’s worthwhile to figure out all the pain points customers have. For the monthly subscriber just wanting to access their member content, signing in…
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…
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…
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…
Modern web design must look good on, and have a content flow, relevant to a great many device widths, from my cinema sized thunderbolt desktop display, to the small mobile screens. A web designer’s constant challenge is to keep the DOM in mind when laying out the code, so that your structure looks good without…
