Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Sep 24
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…