The Path to Becoming a Top WordPress Developer Recently I’ve been seeing more and more crap from sites that clients bring to me because they are unhappy with them. I am also really tired of the garbage that GoDaddy, Fatcow, Bluehost and others load into WordPress when someone choses their “WordPress Hosting”…
PHP and/or CSS Code
Best In Class WordPress Developer
The one thing that using Elementor has done for me is expose me to interesting comments, posts, questions and answers from the different kinds of WordPress Developers. There is no generally accepted differentiation but the five different types of WordPress Developers outlined in this article or the 7 different types outlined in that…
Twas brillig and the slithy toves – Crazy WordPress Designers
Recently I’ve been amused by the difficulty many WordPress users, often people who make money creating sites, have with “fixing” stuff that isn’t quite right with Elementor. The beauty, to me, of Elementor is that it is heavily CSS dependent. The vast majority of the “CSS” is created in the background for…
Just Not Creative Enough
Yes. We are talking about Cool Stuff I’ve just added Elementor to my serious toolkit together with Shaped Pixels. It is wowzer incredible. ? Right now, you are looking at an Elementor created page. While I prefer it to other PageBuilders – so far – it is still a lot to…
Stunning WordPress Sites – It is the little things 😉
Sometimes Little Things Make a Big Difference I love Shaped Pixels and try to persuade clients to use them if they haven’t already chosen a theme. But the reason that Andre provides a child theme is because out of the zip file the themes are not perfect for every site. Let’s use this…
Add Cool Animation CSS to Your WordPress Child Theme
My favorite theme author is Andre @ https://www.shapedpixels.com/. There is something clean, effective and completely transparent about the way he creates both free and premium WordPress themes. In his most recent theme, Emotions, he uses a really cool animation to the banner on the home page. Right away I knew I wanted…
WordPress Child Themes and The Chrome DevTools Console
One of the most common questions I get – often – from clients after I’ve helped setup a child theme is something like “Can you do something with something on this page? And can you tell me how that is hidden?” Most of the time it ends up being a) not being…
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…