Design & Development Blog
Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Sep 24
2015
2015
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…
Sep 23
2015
2015
Introducing: 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,…
Jul 23
2015
2015
The 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.…
Apr 21
2015
2015
WordPress 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…
Apr 16
2015
2015
Hide 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…
Apr 15
2015
2015
Save 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,…
Mar 31
2015
2015
Admitted 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…
Mar 31
2015
2015
Using ‘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…
Mar 30
2015
2015
Updating 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…
Mar 24
2015
2015
Goodbye 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…