I don’t normally publicly slam sites but this site (IMHO) begs for an exception: https://backlinko.com/. I found an article that I considered really good and relevant for SEO in 2016 on his site, https://backlinko.com/search-engine-ranking. And I’ve share it with a number of my clients. Somewhere I made some kind of mistake –…
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Freelance Funnies ?
[Update-HTML Emoji Code Makes for Bad Permalinks (link to the page) – edited the Permalink] I was talking to my wife this morning about a couple of recent requests for quotes for WordPress sites. I told her I could easily tell which one would turn out well and which would…
Garbage: Bluehost & The Mojo Marketplace IMHO, of Course. ?
Client Frustration Makes Me Tired I had another tutorial with a new client who had installed her theme through the Bluehost Mojo Marketplace install. Ouch ? – there was advertising garbage everywhere. The theme had even installed 6 dummy posts and 5 dummy pages. On every page in the dashboard, there was a big…
Elementor is Going to Be Big
Since I’m writing about the New WordPress Page Builder, it is practically obligatory that I write the post using it. Right? So that is exactly what I’m doing. ? I’ll throw in a lot of the cool features like the animation you saw for this text block. Similarly this two column…
Child Themes vs Back Then ? Renaming & Editing an Existing WP Theme
Starting the “Right” Way with WP but LOL Today I’d been using WordPress for years before I started MikeGriffin dot Me but not as a stand alone website. I added it to handwritten sites for my start-ups as the blogging platform for the site. So I got into template, menu and damn-near-everything editing…
Even using poor practices like query_posts() some theme developers make big $ ?
Lately I’ve started branching into using stuff I have liked from themes that I’ve used for child theme implementations in order to improve my ability to provide the content my clients ask me to provide. And I’m finding out that there are a lot of successful commercial theme developers with…
Ouch – There Is No Easy SEO, people ?
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…
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…
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…