WordPress Admin Bar Break Points

April 21, 2015

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…

Hide xScope floating toolbar

April 16, 2015

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…

Save notes to Evernote from Sublime Text

April 15, 2015

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…

Admitted WOT Fanantic

March 31, 2015

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…

Using ‘admin’ as a username is not awesome

March 31, 2015

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…

Updating SEO Yoast through MainWP breaks permalinks

March 30, 2015

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…

Goodbye This is a Generic Brand Video

March 24, 2015

[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…

Fight for Space

January 29, 2015

I’m very glad to have chosen design as a career path. But if I had to do it all over, I’d be an astronaut. I’d be Chris Hadfield. I grew up watching Shuttle launches in…

Get the URL of an image using Get The Image plugin

January 7, 2015

If you use Hybrid Core or any of the themes on Theme Hybrid, or use Get the Image as a standalone plugin, you’re probably familiar with how the function works, and thankful that Justin built…