Is it a Hack, or is it a Bug?
When something goes wrong on your website, it’s difficult to tell whether the problem is whether something is broken due to a technical error or due to a malicious action.
Category: Web Development Technologies
The WordPress functions.php File
The WordPress functions.php File Introduction When WordPres doesn’t work the way you want it to … the WordPress core also provides multiple ways for you to customize. All customizations should be done with plugins or in a parent/child theme, but not all customizations are the same. Most of my theme …
Installing a Script
Installing a Script When you use a content management system like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, or, if you use a web service like Wix, Weebly or Shopify, they offer a large library of additional software you can add to your site for functions like forms, galleries and sliders. But what …
When Technologies Collide: Finding the Right Pieces for the Puzzle
When Technologies Collide: finding the right pieces for the puzzle It’s a wise thing to understand your website’s technology. Then when the technology behaves unexpectedly, it’s easier to both understand why and find a solution. An example is the header images in the Kahuna Theme. What if you want to …
How Do I Get Google Analytics and Google Search Console?
How Do I See the Google Analytics Stats? Previous Post on this topic: How to tell whether your site has Google Analytics. A problem that frequently comes up is when the code for Google Analytics already exists on a site, but no one knows which Google Account it’s tied to. …
When Technologies Collide: Category Collision
The seemingly simple task of working with and deciding on categories for your content is a series of struggles for most websites. This post addresses one of those issues. If a Post can be attached to many categories, and if being attached to a category triggers another function, which function of the many categories will be triggered?
Managing the Look and Feel of your Image Captions
Managing the Look and Feel of your Image Captions Why Bother with Image Captions Images on your website are business assets because they are communication tools that take some time and $$$ investment. Often business owners don’t realize how far an image can go on the web. That image you …
When Technologies Collide, part 2
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc Are Not Equal Even within a specific category, such as a shopping cart, there are things a particular web technology does, and there are things it doesn’t do. Another way to say it would be that there is the way that particular technology does things, …
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes Do you know how many themes are installed on your WordPress site? This is not a trivial question. I have seen at least one site that was hacked through an insecure theme. The owner of the site had taken a WordPress class and learned …