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The Advantages of Custom Website Design

May 7, 2024

Building your website using custom website design is a cost-effective way to reach customers while differentiating yourself from competitors. From ecommerce businesses to B2B brands, bespoke web design is a way for companies of all…

From Click to Customer: The ROI of Website Design in Utah

April 3, 2024

Today, many customers looking to make a big purchase or try a new service will visit a company’s website first. Websites are efficient and effective tools for conveying how your organization solves customers’ needs. They…

WordPress Database Cleanup

November 9, 2021

Maintaining spigotdesign.com is a passion of mine. It’s my site after all. So when I realized that the database was massive, even after deleting all those sweet tweets, it was time to go extreme. I…

ACF: Get Post Object data within a Repeater

October 6, 2014

I absolutely love Advanced Custom Fields. It’s part of the reason I love using WordPress so much. It makes things very easy for clients, and is a breeze to develop. Every now and again I…

Change Woocommerce New Order reply-to address to customer

August 29, 2014

A client wanted to be able to easily contact customers through the New Order admin notification in Woocommerce by simply replying to that notification. The default reply-to is the store owner’s email, so we needed…

Create custom search forms in WordPress

October 29, 2013

Are you looking to add a separate, custom search form in WordPress and limit it to say, a specific Custom Post Type? Here’s how I did it: 1. Create a search form template While you…

Infusion + Twenty Twelve theme

September 20, 2013

Update: I’ve taken these themes down from Github. We’ve changed how we use Infusion, moving from a parent/child setup to strictly parent. It’s for the best. We are a web design shop that builds custom…

Tribe Events Conditionals

August 13, 2013

I’ve used the Event Calendar Pro plugin on quite a few sites. They just released a totally re-written version of the code, which is mostly a good thing. But new code is still new code.…

Meta box vs WordPress widget sidebars

August 9, 2013

Looking for opinions on using the standard WP sidebar vs meta boxes for ‘aside’ type info… I’ve got a current project in development that has a TON of pages, each with its own unique sidebar…

WP Migrate DB Pro

June 20, 2013

The one thing that makes developing in a local environment hard is keeping databases synced. This (paid) plugin for WordPress can do it right from one admin screen to another, and can migrate the entire…