When I was working on the new site for Equine Essential Wellness, we hit a little issue: the featured images in Authority Pro are a bit odd sized. Angie's existing featured images were too big, and the main part of the image or text copy was being cut off. But only on certain sizes. I dug into ... Read More
My Thoughts on Gutenberg
Yesterday, WordPres 5.0 "Bebo" was released. With it came a brand-new content editor called Gutenberg that completely changes how you edit posts and pages in WordPress. Now, this isn't a surprise - Gutenberg has been in development for years. Before it was merged into core, it was a plugin you could ... Read More
Off-Site Backups: What They Are & Why You Need Them
Let me tell you a little story. A story about how keeping off-site backups of my site (and my client sites!) saved my skin. Recently, my host experienced a... cataclysmic failure. It was a complete freak accident that I don't think anyone could have seen coming, but it resulted in almost every ... Read More
5 Quick Tips to Speed Up WordPress
You can literally never go wrong by making your website faster. It's helpful for your SEO - Google will rank slower websites lower than quick ones, especially on mobile. It's also crucial to making your website user-friendly (and help boost sales!). Now, there are all sorts of tactics you can use to ... Read More
Introducing Delight – a Girly Genesis Theme
Earlier this month, I quietly launched Delight, my first premium Genesis theme. When I say quietly, I mean quietly. I put up a post in Instagram and Facebook, pushed "publish" and walked away. My schedule has been crazy, but I really wanted to get it out in the open. So I had a quiet, little ... Read More
Better Responsive Video Embeds
Responsive videos are, at times, tricky. Especially when you're trying to embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo. You see, by default, YouTube videos "respond" by shrinking their width but keeping their height. Ultimately, this results in cropping the video down to a weird square. Try resizing your ... Read More