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…
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…
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…
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…
Offer installment payments for event registrations to increase attendance, especially for high-ticket items like retreats. Using Stripe with Gravity Forms, you can set up recurring payments and customize pricing with plugins like GP Conditional Pricing from Gravitywiz. This approach avoids costly Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services like Afterpay while maintaining flexibility for customers. Learn how to manage Stripe subscriptions, debug webhook issues, and explore alternative gateways for installment payments.
While working on project recently, I discovered that one of my collaborators had accidentally committed to the repository a backup folder, which was around 400mb large. Though I could delete it, the record of that would still exist in the history, which was why the .git folder for the project was at 550mb large, which…
Almost all my clients who have websites want to also a professional email account so that their email address is shows up as a constant reminder to their contacts about what their company domain is. Because of the robustness of their spam filters, I almost always recommend going with Google Workspace, previously known as G…