Custom Credit Card Icons for WooCommerce

September 24, 2015

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…

Introducing: Cinch Security and Maintenance

September 23, 2015

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…

The Double Opt In Email Introduction

July 23, 2015

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…

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…