At a recent WordPress Wednesday Meetup, Don Brown had a great question that forced me to realize I was wrong in something I’d blithely assumed about the Customizer. Or, more accurately, never really stopped to think about. As you doubtless know (since you, my dear readers, generally know everything and I am perpetually just trying […]
A Song About Regenerating Thumbnails
Sometimes your seeds don’t sprout. Sometimes your dog wants out. Sometimes the bus is late. And sometimes your thumbnails won’t regenerate. But rather than solve this by yourself. Download this plugin off the shelf. It will do all the work for you – you can have fun! That’s why Regenerate Thumbnails is rated #1!
Home / Landing / Front – Which?
I have been guilty of using these terms interchangeably, as I think have many of us. As a public service (and a public mea culpa), here is the difference for these types of pages, in the WordPress world: Landing Page – this is mostly seen if your site’s goal is conversions (sales) or leads. You […]
Disabling a plugin that crashed your site…when your site is still crashed!
I’m…ah…only familiar with this because a “friend” may have installed a plugin on a client’s site and that site may have gone down like a ton of bricks. Who would have thought that Modern Tribe’s free version of Events Calendar (downloaded more than 400,000 times) would crash their theme? Not me…er, my friend! Anyway, the […]
Another Great Idea Stolen, or Let’s Give This a Try!
I was idly wondering what theme to go with for this site. And now you’re curious, right? But remember when your dad wouldn’t tell you the answer when you were little and made you look it up? Well if you’re now wondering what theme you’re reading this one, leap over to “What WordPress Theme is […]
Specializing, Force Multipliers and Thoreau
Thoreau said, simplify, simplify. Realized I have been carrying around a bag full of tools, when a Swiss Army knife would have sufficed. Background: I was chatting with a very kind and interesting man at last week’s WordCamp US in Philly (so much fun, so educational, and really excellent mid-afternoon snack). He was talking about […]