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?
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 put on your website could be picked up by …
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 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 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 …
What Is “the Obvious”? “The obvious” is subjective. It’s what you expect, which may be different from what the next person expects. But, it’s generally based on previous experience and the way that something has worked in the past. Very few of my WordPress clients have true blogs. But, when …
WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha! A normal part of a WordPress project is to have the website owner choose their basic site structure by choosing a theme from WordPress.org. There are thousands of themes to choose from. The themes on WordPress.org are free, although many of them have a …
Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site? There are a whole set of website tasks and technologies that are not tied to your website technology specifically. But, your website technology cannot run without them. One of them is a web server, which is owned by a web hosting …
When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site … so can the bad guys! And, some of the bad guys will try to load your site with Comment Spam.
Answer: A lot of work. Here is an example When I was first building this site, I threw up a Recent Posts widget in the right sidebar. It has bugged me ever since. As noted in the screenshot, the article topic is a social media topic, but the first article …
