Comment Spam: When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site …
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.
Category: WordPress
How Much Work Does It Take to Make It Easy for your Viewers?
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 …
It Seemed Like a Good Idea …
It Seemed Like a Good Idea … until it was implemented. The Problem: part of the image disappears Can you see the subtle differences in the two screenshots? The WordPress Kahuna theme has “Feature Boxes” under the banner. The boxes pick up posts and the images are the Featured Image …
Images: Design Inconsistencies and Lack of Communication
Let’s look at all the little issues with the 8 boxes under the banner. These are what Kahuna calls “Feature Boxes.”
“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.
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 …