WordPress Database Cleanup

Maintaining spigotdesign.com is a passion of mine. It’s my site after all. So when I realized that the database was massive, even after deleting all those sweet tweets, it was time to go extreme. I wrote about the tasks in detail over at our Cinch blog, but you can stay here and be amazed that…

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Quick and Easy Dark Mode with Sass

I haven’t spent a ton of time thinking about dark mode updates to websites. I haven’t used it much on any of my devices, until recently. And now that I am starting to use it – I’ve chosen to let the OS automatically switch – I’m also thinking a little on how to implement it…

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Goodbye Sweet Tweets

I’ve been using Twitter since 2008, and for reasons I’ll explain, I’ve been pulling each and every one of those tweets into this site as an individual post (as a Custom Post Type of course). Over the years, I’ve tweeted less and less, and find the value of keeping all the tweets less important than…

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Gutenberg: Getting a little higher on the bandwagon?

I recently published an article on our dev process, which relies heavily on standard WordPress templates, a bit on Beaver Builder, and a smattering of Gutenberg. Then of course the very next week WordPress announces that Gutenberg full-site editing will be coming later this year in WordPress 5.6. I don’t know how robust it will…

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Embracing WordPress Page Builders

I’ve been building websites for quite a long time now. I wasn’t there at the very beginning, but I’ve witnessed many changes to the industry since 2004. My very first site used regular old HTML, but I built it by slicing up a Photoshop document and the markup was hideous. A lot has changed since…

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When to Choose Squarespace Over WordPress

If our recent post detailing the reasons businesses should choose WordPress over Squarespace is any indication, we’re pretty biased towards the former. For most businesses, we firmly believe that WordPress is a more flexible, robust, and scalable platform. Not to mention our the thing we hold most dear: Full ownership and independence. But… I did…

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Smooth Scroll Offset Anchor Links with CSS

Don’t you hate it when you create an anchor link and it gets covered up by a fixed header? And isn’t it a bummer when the browser jumps to that link instantaneously all abrupt-like? Well here’s a quick CSS snippet to create a lightweight, CSS based way to offset anchor links, and have them scroll…

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