Finding a Quiz Plugin for WordPress
A client would like me to find a plugin for his WordPress install that will allow him to set up quick cooking quizes. What is available – and secure – now?
Category: Web Development Technologies
Case Study: Themes and a Mobile UX Problem
Mobile Friendly is more than just squishing the theme down to the size of a mobile device.
Cookin’ and a’Codin: Frameworks, Libraries, and Platforms
Frameworks, Libraries, and Platforms These three terms are common when describing a technology for web programmers. They are only helpful, if you know what they are. Frameworks When you Google technical terminology, like “framework”, the results are generally as unfamiliar as the original term. According to Wikipedia, “In computer programming, …
Google AMP: The Need for Speed
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It is a Google/Twitter project.
Should You Combine Those Two Sites?
Many of my clients have had multiple sites, and have had to decide whether or not to combine the two sites into one. There is no one answer.
Text and Images are the Ingredients for your Website
Website structures are similar to putting together a salad, and how ingredients work in a salad.
What Does It Take to Have Unique Header Images for WordPress Categories?
What Does It Take to Have Unique Header images for WordPress Categories? Background Out of the box, WordPress had programming to attach a unique image to each post. WordPress uses that image on the Category (archive) pages that are lists of posts, along with the excerpt. See example to the …
Why I Don’t Recommend WordPress Themes Not Listed in WordPress.org
Most of the sites I have worked on use themes from the WordPress respository (WordPress.org). But, I have had a few scattered experiences with themes from other sources, specifically Avada from ThemeForest (2), Thesis from DIYthemes, and Headway themes, which seems to be its own thing. Each of these systems …
When Plugin Installation Doesn’t Follow the Normal Patterns
When Plugin Installation Doesn’t Follow the Normal Patterns It’s not like I’m new at this. I’ve installed plugins, modules, extensions and libraries in WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other systems. But, yesterday evening, I ran into the craziest rig-a-ma-roll of instructions for an install I’ve ever run into with WordPress WooCommerce …
The Very Flexible WordPress Sidebar
History of Sidebars WordPress has had sidebar functionality, almost from the beginning. This may be because “WordPress started out because the development of an existing blogging software b2/cafelog was discontinued by their main developers.” So, a structure for a basic blog had already been tried, tested, and improved. In 2005, …