Category: WordPress
WordPress: Block Visibility Plugin Gives You the Power of a Web Developer
Block Visibility gives you the option to show and hide blocks conditionally. It’s a great tool to expand your collection of WordPress techniques.
WordPress: Align Cover Block Content with Page Content
The Cover block is often used to display an image and text at the top of a page. Settings don’t easily align the text with page content. Here’s how.
Easy, Responsive Four-Box Row In WordPress
Create a row of four boxes that becomes two rows of two boxes on small screens using the core WordPress Row block.
Get These Valuable Benefits of WordPress: Backups, Portability, Redesign
Many businesses miss important benefits of WordPress: sites can be backed up and moved. We regularly take over WordPress sites. Too often, the site owners don’t have a backup and…
Blog Categories and Tags are Editorial Decisions, Not Technical
In This Article Introduction In WordPress, categories and tags are mostly editorial decisions. Technical factors are relevant, but it’s mostly about how you want to organize your content. Here I…
Fixing Links in WordPress and Seriously Simple Podcasting
We recently published a WordPress website with a blog and podcast imported from Square. We used the plugin Seriously Simple Podcasting, which works really well. Once imported, all the podcast episodes worked…
WordPress and Yoast SEO Data Optimization: Fix for 403, Cookie Check Failed
We discovered this solution to a WordPress/Yoast SEO problem, but we didn’t find the solution online, so we’re publishing it here. Maybe we can help others. This is not necessarily…
The Block Editor Is a Better Way to Build WordPress Sites. Use It.
Starting in 2018, WordPress began a transition to improved tech for theme/site design and content editing. At the code level, it’s a much better way to manage development. That translates…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, Notes and Explanations
Here are my notes and explanations of my Principles of Implementing WordPress. (See the original blog post.) The result is useful and to the point, and a bit tech-oriented boring.…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, The Mind Map
WordPress is often implemented in a bad way, and site owners don’t know it. A bit of education can help resolve that, so I created a set of guidelines for…
Website SEO Checkup: Headlines
Here’s how to check headlines on your website. It’s something you can do during quarantine downtime Why is this important? Headlines are very important to accessibility, and they play a…
Test Your WordPress Contact Forms
You better check your website contact forms. A significant change in the popular WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 (CF7) could break your contact forms if you’re using reCaptcha. A recent…