Category: Tips

Using More Dynamic Components

Making your templates, layouts, and sections more dynamic is a very useful step in making smarter websites. It’s easier to change things, it’s less work overall, and it’s easier to make it simple for the clients to edit. Most page builders have dynamic features and templating methods, so that’s great news for all of us. […]

Making a client-safe WP website

We all know many clients ruin websites (by mistake) due to content changes. When that happens we’re all very sad. Not only are they losing the look and feel they paid for, they’re also most likely ending up with worse UI/UX and design. I’m going to walk you through some simple tips on how to […]

The quickest and best way to migrate your WordPress site

No, seriously, after almost two decades of making and migrating WordPress websites, and trying every method published in tutorials or offered by hosting companies, this is my go-to method that is most foolproof, has the least number of problems, and has never failed. Yet. So here’s the quickest and best (in my opinion) method of […]

WP – Add a year + copyright shortcode

Here’s quick tutorial on how to add an automatically updating “year + copyright” text in your footer.. or anywhere on your site.

WP – Migrating from WIX to WordPress

Here’s how to fix WIX.   You migrate the site over to a self-hosted WordPress installation and start building fresh. Yeah, well, that’s the only way to fix it. The main problem is how, right?   So, a bit of technical stuff. (A bit simplified just so it’s enough to understand (hopefully) and you can […]

WP – Opinion (sort of) – Do you need a child theme?

The “debate” that should have ended, but for some reason just won’t end.

WP – SVG problems with WP 5

Oh man, WordPress 5.0 is becoming more of a problem than I thought. So, something that I’ve noticed is that SVG files are not uploading. UGH. I use a lot of SVG files. Yeah, there’s a security risk, which happens because some punks hide bad code in their SVG files and give them out. But […]

WP 5 + Divi 3.18

Hi! I’m writing this in Gutenberg. Woah.  Is it good? We’ll see.  I’m not on Divi 3.18 though, this is Extra 2.17 (which is the equivalent, since Extra is a version number behind) It feels surreal though. Normally I write blog posts in the text editor mode, not the visual editor, nor the Divi builder. […]