WordPress Development

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

February 17, 2016

Adding Facebook Comments

Facebook Comments can be a great tool to increase the social sharing of posts. When people leave a comment, it will be shared on Facebook. Since most people are already…

February 2, 2016

Infinite Scroll in WordPress

A detailed tutorial on implementing infinite scroll in WordPress. Examples include scroll-based and click-based infinite scroll.

January 29, 2016

Building a Dynamic Secondary Menu

I describe how I set up a secondary navigation to automatically list the sub-menu items from the primary menu.

January 27, 2016

How to overlay a grid on your website

Most designers use a grid to organize content on the page. When I’m developing a website using their designs, it’s nice to be able to visually access that grid to…

October 13, 2015

h1’s on front page with Genesis

If you’re using a Genesis theme, make sure your homepage has an h1 on it. This article outlines how to find it, and how to add it if you don’t already have one.

August 26, 2015

Using Site Icons with Genesis

Make sure your Genesis theme doesn’t conflict with this great new WordPress feature.

August 24, 2015

Display menu items with equal widths

Normally if you use percentage-based widths and add new menu items, you need to go edit CSS. This approach automatically updates the CSS based on the number of menu items present.

August 11, 2015

Sorting Query Results by Multiple Meta Keys

I’m building a website that features reviews of hosting companies. I’m storing Price, Rating, and “Top Pick” as post meta. Users can sort the results by Price, Rating and Post Date. The client…

August 4, 2015

Create Shortcut Arguments for Display Posts Shortcode

I might be biased, but I really enjoy using my Display Posts Shortcode plugin. It makes it easy to query posts without any code. It provides clients the ability to…

July 29, 2015

Customize which menu item is marked active

Use this filter to customize the CSS classes on menu items. For instance, make “Blog” active if you’re on the blog homepage, category archive, or a single post.

September 5, 2014

Using Advanced Custom Fields without frontend dependency

How to use Advanced Custom Fields for your metaboxes in the backend, but standard WordPress functions to access those fields on the frontend.

August 21, 2014

Full Width Landing Pages in Genesis

Many of the websites in my portfolio use a full width approach for their homepages and landing pages. See my article on building landing pages with ACF for more information…