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Odds & Sods

Twenty years of everything else — experiments, detours, and posts that refused to fit a category. Every shop has a junk drawer. This one’s ours.
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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…
Feb 2
2015

Show the year only if it’s not the current year in WordPress

A recent project required that the post date show the year only if it wasn't written in the current year. Here's how it's done…
Jan 29
2015

Fight for Space

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.…
Jan 7
2015

Get the URL of an image using Get The Image plugin

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…
Jan 7
2015

Asana & Instagantt Fluid icons

I love Asana and Instagantt. Love them. I also love using them as standalone apps using Fluid. Here's the application icons I use for…
Dec 4
2014

WordPress log in redirect loop

I recently ran into an issue with redirect loop when logging into a new WordPress site. Enter username & password, click login - get…
Nov 25
2014

Asana: Our Project Management System & CRM

Over the years I've used many project management systems to keep Spigot on track. From Basecamp to ActiveCollab to a long stint with Project Pier…
Nov 18
2014

Our WordPress development process

After a recent launch a twitter follower asked how we manage development and I replied: He then asked for a writeup. So let's talk…