It should be no surprise that the WordPress landscape has gone through (and continues to go through) a seismic shift over the past couple of years. With the introduction WordPress 5 last December, the new block editor (aka Gutenberg) is the new norm. All changes to WordPress moving forward will…
In my last post, I touched on how to lazy load images in order to improve your website speed (as measured by PageSpeed Insights). As I promised in that post, it’s now time to go over some of the other things you can implement on your WordPress site to further…
Images that lazy load are nothing new. The reasons behind doing so are varied, but if you are someone who cares about site speed, lazy loading recently became a lot more important. If you use PageSpeed Insights at all to check on the speed of your website, then you probably…
Say what you will about Gutenberg, it’s not going anywhere. We are about six months into this now, and I will admit that I have been installing the Classic Editor plugin on the sites that I work on. Not because I have some deep-seeded hatred of Gutenberg. Sure, I find…
I was working on a website not too long ago and I was putting together an image gallery. If you have read some of my other posts, you know I am a fan of Advanced Custom Fields and Slick, and I wanted to use those to build out the gallery….
Reviews are a great way to show potential customers that your business is awesome and that people love what you’re doing. Let’s say you have a bunch of them on Google and you want to show those on your website. Well, using the Google Maps API and Google Places, you…
If you enjoy reading blogs, then you’ve probably noticed that many will have a “Related Posts” section at the end of a post. Displaying related posts is a great way not only to promote more of your website content, but also to create internal linking on site which helps with…
If you are looking for a fun way to have visitors engage with your site, a quiz may be a great way. Thankfully, this doesn’t have to be too complicated if you use the correct tools. For this example, I’ll show you how to build a quiz using Advanced Custom…
I recently received a request to do something interesting with WordPress users. In addition to editing some of the capabilities of the different roles (which can be done with one of a handful of plugins), this is what needed to be done: The ability to assign users (contributors/editors/administrators) to a…
Ever since my post about using Advanced Custom Fields with Slick to create a slideshow, I’ve had people ask me for more examples of how ACF can be used. What’s great about ACF is there are a ton of ways you can use it to make building your site not…
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