I just found this draft post that I started 10.22.15. I’m not sure where I was going with it so I’m going to fill in the blanks from my 1.22.16 perspective and publish it I started off talking about the past where I ‘blindly’ used to agree with all the…
Posts by Mike Griffin
Writing Code for Users Who Don’t Code
I have many clients who hack at their code using the Dashboard > Appearances > Editor. It’s OK since I get the call and the $ to fix things if they hack it wrong. And after all, it is their website and it is kinda exciting, even addictive, to see…
Media Queries & Bootstrap Show / Hide Site Logo
I want my logo to appear as it normally does on the desktop but to disappear from the opened collapsed menu on mobile devices. However, I also want the logo to appear, centered above the opened menu on mobile devices. Here’s how I adapted the Bootstrap, LESS and CSS to accomplish…
“Miserable Cork-Soaker” ~Johnny Dangerously
I recently ran across Clients from Hell! and have to say that there truly are many of them. And they are, indeed, miserable cork-soakers. So far, the most consistent indication that I’m dealing with a miserable cork-soaker turns out to be an overwhelming concern with money, early on. There is no…
Semi-Transparent Blog Page on An Image
I’m getting clients who like the look of their blog page overlaying an image. You can do that with JavaScript of course. But it is just as easy to do with CSS and a page template. Let’s do this without Bootstrap too. Make the image responsive: Give the image…
Callback Functions – Go Do This and Bring Me The Result, Batman!
This is a l little digression caused by stumbling across questions and answers on a search this morning 🙂 When I search for answers to various questions I have about code, one of the things I always stumble across is some question about “callback functions” like What Is A Callback…
Wonderful WordPress Clients Like Olympia Fencing Center are vhtf! ☺
I posted early about a WordPress Scope Creep Creep. Now it is time to post about a wonderful client! Olympia Fencing Center is as delightful and wonderful to work with as Peleș Castle is to see in the owner’s birthplace. 🙂 Delightful to work with and always pay on time!
Boston Area WordPress Scope Creep – Creep ?
I knew that it would happen some time. It did. I picked up a job that looked pretty simple: take an existing website where “some things just aren’t working right” and fix it. I went a little overboard for the. I didn’t just fix the piece of crap theme they…
Calypso – “the more you give away, the more you get back” – Matt Mullenweg
“A lot of people thought we should keep this proprietary, but throughout my life I’ve learned that the more you give away, the more you get back,” Mullenweg said in his announcement. I like that 🙂 – maybe because the one thing I’ve done well in starting my WordPress Smithy…
WordPress Hello Dolly Plugin
I never thought much about the Hello Dolly plugin before this morning. It clearly didn’t do anything I needed in a WordPress site so I have just been ignoring it – for 6 years! But then today, for no particular reason, I was working on a new plugin and noticed…