I mean, really, seriously YGTBFKM ? – you cannot, CANNOT, CAN NOT pay someone to make your site visible to the world. Google is working very way possible to defeat all human attempts to trick them into showing your site. I allways send out “tips” and articles about what to do to make…
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HTML Formatting Contact Form 7 with Images
Contact Form 7 is most WordPress Developer’s go-to form for clients because a) it is free, b) it works and c) if you can write html and css, you can make it do whatever your client wants for a form. This week I had a client send me a request for…
WordPress Theme / Developer Bad Copyright Practices – Hard Code ?
One of the first things I change in every client’s theme is hard coded copyright dates. And one of the things that irritates me when I see it on WordPress developer, theme author and plugin developer sites is a hard coded copyright like this one. I mean, really? really? The one…
PHP File Upload, Progress Bar, Restrict File Types
I recently decided to improve my file upload utility. So I googled for suggestions out there in the wild. Ouch, there is a lot of bad crap! So I decided to put together my own based upon several sites and publish it here. It is for the most part a…
Sneaky WordPress Plugin Developers Blocking CSS Edits with JavaScript ?
I just ran into a hair pulling experience working on a child theme for a customer. There is a small gallery section needed for the five partners on the site. The gallery has a picture of each partner in a block on the right, then a short bio on the right…
The Joy of Happy Customers ?
When I started this MikeGriffin.me WordPress Smithy business, I often had awful experiences. Strange as it may seem, they were all with people who had to meet me in person! 😈 Now that that is behind me, things have started to get better. Today I had 2 separate “help …. isn’t…
Subscriptions to WordPress Blog Crap
Some time ago, I started unsubscribing to every sell-me-something newsletter where I had not made a purchase in six months. Today I’ve started unsubscribing from every WordPress blog where I have not found a useful article in the past six months! OK it is a fact that we all have to blog…
“There comes a time”… to learn PHP Deeply – ?
As a “look-up” for some of the tasks I’m working on, I’ve been rereading some of the books I read to learn WordPress. I realize, now, that the authors may not be deeply competent PHP programmers although they sure know how to use all of the WP PHP wowzer well! I,…
Just another PHP shortcode complaint ?
It is 2016. Yet, over and over I’m finding supposedly competent PHP coders using <?= instead of <?php echo. I find that really unacceptable on so called expert teaching sites like PHP Ocean. Way back in 2013, you can find this on Stackoverflow: They’re not recommended because it’s a PITA if…
OK, Lately I GET why “real” developers don’t like PHP
In December I started work on a client site that was a “custom theme”. In fact, it was just a hacked premium theme where all of the identification had been obscured. Worse for me, my staging site copy of the site failed on my server. Why? Ugh, all of the custom PHP was coded…