July 17, 2018
A slow website is painful to use, less engaging to visitors, and hurts your search engine rankings. I’ll walk you through the tools I use to identify performance problems, and provide ten tips to improve your website’s performance
June 4, 2018
A quick walkthrough of how to use CSS Grid with standard CSS and SASS.
April 17, 2018
I walk you through how I set up a recipe site to dynamically illustrate which cut is used.
April 2, 2018
I recently joined Carrie Dils for an Office Hours discussion about workflows. Here’s a quick summary of what we discussed. Listen to the Podcast We discuss all things code, from…
March 26, 2018
I use SiteGround for most of my personal websites. I love it because I can create unlimited sites without any additional cost. I prefer to use git to deploy code rather…
March 22, 2018
Shared Counts lets you preserve your non-HTTPS share counts and provides backend tools for discovering your popular content. It’s built for performance using lean assets and smart caching.
March 5, 2018
If you have templates that depend upon custom metaboxes, you can use this tutorial to disable Gutenberg only on those templates.
February 28, 2018
When I’m working on a website, I’m often hopping between my local environment, development/staging, and production. I’ll use to a separate CodeKit URL for live updating when working on CSS.…
February 26, 2018
If you’re building custom themes for clients, you should be adding Gutenberg support right now! Make sure your client’s transition to the new editor is as seamless as possible.
February 1, 2018
I’m working on a project right now that includes a gallery of recent YouTube videos. I had assumed we could use an existing plugin for this. It seems like a…
January 22, 2018
After completing Zac Gordon’s wonderful Gutenberg Development Course, I wanted to try building my own block. It was more difficult than I expected, but a great learning experience. For comparison,…
January 18, 2018
Here’s a quick way to include accurate Treasury bond values in your spreadsheet based on the bond’s CUSIP.
December 11, 2017
As part of my recent site redesign, I wanted users to be able to “like” content without having to leave a comment, use social media, or have a user account.…
December 4, 2017
A few weeks ago I finished development on my new website, and it was time to finalize content. I had hoped to have most of it ready before development, but…
December 1, 2017
WPForms includes a visual layout builder, but sometimes you need your own markup to build a complex layout. I’ll show you the hooks you can use to add markup before and after individual fields.
