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I recently published an article on our dev process, which relies heavily on standard WordPress templates, a bit on Beaver Builder, and a smattering of Gutenberg. Then of course the very next week WordPress announces…
Having built WordPress powered websites for as long as I have, there’s one thing that I can bet on: WordPress will change. Most of the changes over the years have been incremental and additive. Adopting…
At Spigot Design, we take pride in our work with local nonprofits. From website design and development to ongoing content management services and digital marketing, our Park City, Utah-based team goes above and beyond to…
I’ve been building websites for quite a long time now. I wasn’t there at the very beginning, but I’ve witnessed many changes to the industry since 2004. My very first site used regular old HTML,…
If our recent post detailing the reasons businesses should choose WordPress over Squarespace is any indication, we’re pretty biased towards the former. For most businesses, we firmly believe that WordPress is a more flexible, robust,…
This post is to help persuade you to choose WordPress as the web platform to build your business on, but know that we’re very biased about that. I’ve been designing and developing on WordPress since…
Between Spigot and Cinch (our WordPress Support company), we’ve built and support quite a few e-commerce websites. Some are more successful than others – and while not every site is successful for the same reasons, there…
I’ve had a long history of wrestling with local development environments. While I haven’t written much (none) about it, for the last year plus I’ve relied on Local by Flywheel to develop WordPress websites. The…
There was a time in the early days of social media that I signed up for every service that came out. The username @spigot is mine across most services you can find. By the time…
A post from John Gruber came across my RSS feed today about an online publisher shutting down because of Facebook’s new algorithm. Gruber links to an article from Business Insider that details the shuttering of…