“If You Have One Backup, You Have No Backups”
I had a hacked client website situation where we had to go through several months of backups to find a copy that didn’t have the compromised code.
Category: Web Development Technologies
How Well Does your Theme Work with the WordPress Core?
The reason developers write themes is because they want something different than WordPress out-of-the-box.
What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?
Google will give me credit for changing the content on my slider. But the words are not easy for a human to notice or read.
Theme Workarounds: How Do I Get Kahuna Feature Boxes to Represent Categories Instead of Posts?
See More about Working with Themes Basic Principles In all my years working with various CMS (content management systems) where themes written by someone else are available, I have never found a perfect theme. The purpose of using themes is to avoid the cost of custom design and the custom …
CSS: Where Did the Layers Go?
When you are first working on a responsive site, well, actually, when you are learning CSS in general, layers tend to disappear on you. At first it’s very frustrating, but maybe the layer is actually there, just not visible.
Plugin Writers Don’t Have Crystal Balls
… they can’t foretell every possible situation where people will want their plugin (or theme) to work. That means that just because a plugin is supposed to do a specific job, it doesn’t mean it will do what you want, in your specific case. Sometimes the reason a plugin is …
Web Development Tools: Taking a Database Dump with PHPMyAdmin
I have been adding quite a few posts and images to my new website. If I don’t have a backup plan, I could lose it all. If my site is hacked, I could lose it all. 4 options I have for backing up my database are: 1) pay my …
Part of Website Planning is Figuring out Categories and Names
If you have two files or folders or categories or whatever with the same name, you confuse the computer.
Should I have a Phone Number in the Banner?
The banner of https://montanawebmaster.com now has a Contact link and form. Is that enough? What are the benefits and drawbacks of having a phone number in the banner too … where it is easy to use?
Making Lousy Use of Website Navigation
The closer you can come to meeting the Viewer’s agenda, or at least promising to, the more likely they are to allow your agenda in their picture. Ideally, your agendas match, reciprocally. Your navigation should help your viewers find what they want, not what you want.