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
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
How to Add Google Analytics to Any Genesis Framework Website
The Genesis Framework is known for being one of the most easy-to-use frameworks out there. So when a client mentioned he couldn't find a tutorial anywhere on how to add Google Analytics to his Genesis site, I was a little shocked. So I made this super quick video, demonstrating where to add your ... Read More
Divi vs. Genesis Framework: Which is Right for You?
A quick look at my portfolio will show you that I primarily develop my clients' websites on two different platforms: Divi, or the Genesis Framework. I use these two themes as a base for my projects because they are tried-and-true platforms, that are always being updated, and have a massive support ... Read More
The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
When most people browse the web, I think they intuitively think that a ".com" website is going to be what they're looking for. If you need to look something up, for example, you're going to go to Google.com. Google.org will land you on the home page for their charitable foundation, and there's not a ... Read More