WordPress Development

As I build WordPress websites for my clients, I share what I learn here as tutorials.

June 11, 2019

How to Create an eBook Optin Form in WordPress

Giving away eBooks, white papers, and other valuable content is great way to grow your email list. Here’s how to build your own eBook optin form.

June 6, 2019

Default image for article in Yoast SEO Schema

I’m a big fan of the new schema functionality in Yoast SEO. It includes all the information search engines want to see, and it’s incredibly extensible through filters and extending…

June 5, 2019

Building a Native AMP WordPress site

I’ll walk you through building a Native AMP WordPress site, discuss common issues, and provide tools to make development easier.

May 30, 2019

Access block data with PHP using parse_blocks() and render_block()

Gutenberg organizes your content into blocks. Use PHP to access and display individual blocks in a post.

May 15, 2019

Limit Modified Date, WordPress Plugin

Make minor content changes without changing the post modified date.

May 14, 2019

Shared Counts 1.3: Twitter counts, Google Analytics integration, and more

We just released version 1.3 of Shared Counts, which includes some great new features and improvements.

May 8, 2019

Manually promote featured content in search results

Here’s how to feature specific articles in your site search results using SearchWP.

May 7, 2019

Change Gutenberg content width to match Genesis layout

This tutorial shows you how to change the Gutenberg block editor width based on a page template or layout defined in post-meta.

May 2, 2019

Landing Pages with ACF Flexible Content

A guide to easy-to-edit landing pages with Advanced Custom Fields. Create your own custom page builder for clients in WordPress.

April 25, 2019

Block-based Widget Areas

Here’s a simple solution for using the block editor outside of the main content area, as a replacement for widget areas.

April 16, 2019

Using Yoast SEO Structured Data with Genesis

If you’re using Yoast SEO with the Genesis theme framework, follow this guide to ensure you have no SEO issues.

March 21, 2019

CSS Grid – Center Last Item

CSS Grid is wonderful for building multi-column layouts, but if you have one less item in your grid than you expected, it will look off balance. I’ll show you how to center the last row.