Now, How Did That Happen? Debugging your Website
Every home page “Feature Box” where I used the WordPress logo has a faint icon behind it (see screenshot 1). It’s not from the WordPress logo; it’s from the Kahuna theme. Time for some debugging!
Category: Web Development Technologies
Web Development Tools: Firefox Inspector
Back in the old days of static websites, it was pretty easy to see which elements were inside which layers. But, with Content Management Systems (CMS), there are layers created on the fly by the CMS, as well as, layers a developer creates in the customizations. What this means is …
When Changing One Web Page Element Requires Rethinking the Others
A website is a cluster of many elements that work together. Changing one element affects the others, sometimes in unexpected ways.
When Technologies Collide, part 1
On my first WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, I created a child theme and added a MetaSlider to the home page banner in the child theme code. I didn’t even bother with the Customizer tools because they are not intuitive On my second WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, …
The Side Effects of Changing Plugins
When the Need for a Plugin Arises In a previous post, I reviewed some issues I was having with trying to decide the best way to communicate what I do with a banner image. You want your website to immediately communicate what you do when the page first loads, but …
A Dreamweaver Surprise
What is Dreamweaver? I began my technical career in an environment where every website task was done in code. If you wanted to switch out a paragraph of text, or correct a misspelling, you had to open the code, read the code, find where the text was in the code …
Those “Default” WordPress Plugins
Why Are There Unexpected Plugins in my WordPress Install? One of the steps of setting up a new WordPress site is to check the default plugins that come with a WordPress install.Some of the plugins, such as Akismet, will be from WordPress. Others will be from the install tool that …
How the Kahuna Theme Does and Doesn’t Fit my Goals
One of the problems with an off-the-shelf theme, is that there is no way that it is going to meet any particular set of needs perfectly until you install it.