Posts by Bryan Hoffman
Custom Credit Card Icons for WooCommerce
WooCommerce comes with a default set of credit card icons that look like this: If you like ‘good enough’ then these will do you just fine. But if look close, these are probably a bit blurry, especially on a high-resolution screen. They also feel a bit dated to me – curved buttons shapes with faux…
Read MoreIntroducing: Cinch Security and Maintenance
We’ve been running Cinch Hosting for nearly a decade now. We’ve also been quietly running a web maintenance and security service through Spigot. Well, now they are joined into Cinch Web Services. We’re offering security and maintenance for WordPress based websites at a reasonable cost. Here’s a rundown of the services: Daily Backups Real-time backups 24/7…
Read MoreThe Double Opt In Email Introduction
Since I’ve been somewhat opinionated in the past regarding email etiquette, a recent post by Anand Sanwal at Quartz got me nodding my head. You’re probably doing email introductions wrong Anand describes the situation where one person is introducing two others by way of email – and the right and wrong way to do it.…
Read MoreWordPress Admin Bar Break Points
If you’re building a responsive site with a fixed header, you may have run into troubles with content below the header fitting correctly, depending on what screen size your viewing at here’s a quick rundown of the breakpoints that WordPress currently (4.1.2) uses: 1. 0 – 600px Position: Absolute, 46px height. This bar scrolls up…
Read MoreHide xScope floating toolbar
I’ve had this floating xScope toolbar on my desktop for a few weeks, getting in the way. I use the xScope from the OS X menu bar so it’s been pretty annoying having to move it. To remove it I checked the preferences, but there’s nothing there. Turns out it’s pretty easy once you find…
Read MoreSave notes to Evernote from Sublime Text
For a few years now I’ve used Snippets for keeping track of code snippets. It’s been a fine app, but recently has become slow, looks funny on Yosemite, and I get the feeling it’s become vaporware. Since I use Evernote for keeping track of lots of things, both business and personal, I thought I’d look…
Read MoreAdmitted WOT Fanantic
I don’t play as many games as I used to, for all the same reasons you don’t anymore either. But World of Tanks has caught my son and I and it’s been a blast. We started out with the iOS version (WOT Blitz), and have recently discovered that there’s a World of Tanks port to…
Read MoreUsing ‘admin’ as a username is not awesome
WordPress stopped auto filling in the ‘admin’ username on install a while ago in version 3.7, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t fill it in that way themselves. Here’s a screenshot that shows why this is a bad idea: I get these bruteforce notifications multiple times a day. Here’s a few other usernames they…
Read MoreUpdating SEO Yoast through MainWP breaks permalinks
April 10 Update: MainWP Support found the issue. Apparently there was conflict between the way MainWP handles updates and the way WordPress SEO by Yoast updates when custom post types were involved. The latest version of both the MainWP Dashboard (2.0.10) and MainWP Child (2.0.10) adds additional checks for these types of updates. April 1…
Read MoreGoodbye This is a Generic Brand Video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M] Up until about a week ago the home page of Spigot contained the video above as a background to our main marquee window. I’d gotten permission from Dissolve to put it there when we pushed Spigot v 11.2 live in January of last year. We’d originally thought of producing our own video, complete…
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