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One challenge we face time and time again is a client’s desire to feature everything on the home page. When a content manager has multiple departments feeding them content, the easiest solution is often to…
It’s well known that the search functionality built into WordPress isn’t awesome. The Swiftype Search plugin changes that, improving on the default search in every way. Better relevance ranking, real analytics, manual overrides, and it’s…
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.…
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…
It’s a bittersweet day as KPCW radio in Park City will be going live tomorrow with a new website. They’ll be implementing NPR’s ‘Core Publisher’ system to replace the WordPress site we built back in…
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…
Looking to replace a navigation item with an icon font in WordPress? This little snippet placed in functions.php will do just that: add_filter( ‘wp_nav_menu’, ‘my_page_menu_link_names’ ); function my_page_menu_link_names( $menu ) { $menu = str_replace( ‘Your…
While I have yet to get my hands on either an iPad or Macbook Pro with a retina display, it’s clear that high resolution screens will be the standard in coming years. As such it’s…
When developing a custom theme I often find myself needing to know exactly what template WordPress is currently using to display the page. I used to simply write some dummy text directly into the file…
A colleague of mine and I used say, there’s no F11 key for awesome design. This means good design takes work, and while your keyboard has a key for volume up, brightness, etc. – there’s…