…Now With More Blocks! Just swapped out old them…um…can’t remember…Agency Pro?…for Essence Pro, and I like it pretty well so far for a simple site that needs to just let the content shine. I don’t prefer to have much in the way of images on my site, as it distracts/detracts from what this site is […]
Philly WordCamp…with Lock Picking Kits!
Had a great time with a really nice group of people at Philly WordCamp two weekends ago. I even worked the Happiness Bar for the first time…actually, it was a lounge, which sounds far more glamorous that it actually was. But I was really glad to help people figure out their WordPress issues. And Wordfence […]
Comptia Cybersecurity
Really enjoyed earning a CEU from Comptia by watching (actually re-watching, cause first time I saw it we had a thunderstorm and power went out 3 minutes before end of presentation and I didn’t get credit) the Comptia ChannelCon State of Cybersecurity talk. Some of the points that caught my ear were One speaker posited […]
Working through a neat plugin tutorial
I am trying to take myself from plugin-jockey/implementor to someone who really groks WordPress. To that end, I’m casting about for more projects (If you’re fire science/government/law enforcement, lmk – looking for more work in those areas). And I’m trying to do a tutorial a week. This week is Plugin Development by Rob Starr on […]
A Brief – and Fun! – Comparison of Pagebuilders for WordPress
WordPress is meant to be accessible to all, and that means users of all different levels of expertise. Page Builders (plugins and themes) are a wonderful tool when you don’t have the time or knowledge to code your site to look exactly as you want. This reviewer probably says it best: Divi is the KING […]
One Approach to Updating Your Site’s Version of WordPress
Some people are very reluctant to update their sites – they fear, perhaps not wrongly, that their stuff will break. So they stand on the deck of their slowly sinking ship (read – outdated website), afraid to step off into potentially shark-infested water. Well, that is maybe not the best analogy – the newest version […]