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
So... After using the new editor for several months, my opinions have changed a bit. While I still stand by this post & it’s frustrations, there will be a new one coming soon that highlights some of my new favorite parts of the Gutenberg editor.Yesterday, WordPres 5.0 "Bebo" was released. ... 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 ... 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
How To: Add a Favicon to Your WordPress Website
Like Google Analytics, a favicon is something that every website should have configured. There are a lot of plugins that "help" you add a favicon to your WordPress website. But I'm a big fan of not adding plugins where you don't need to. And WordPress has custom favicon support built in! Want the ... Read More
