Search engine optimization (SEO) and paid Google ads (PPC) are two of the most popular methods used for online marketing. Both are designed to increase a website’s visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) and drive more traffic to a site.… Read More...
Creating a Glossary for a WordPress Site with ChatGPT AI
We created a custom glossary for a WordPress music arranging and production site using ChatGPT, the Glossary WordPress plugin, a text editor, and the WP All-Import Plugin.
Lately, there’s a lot in the press about AI generally, and ChatGPT in particular.… Read More...
Converting WordPress Widgets for use in the Block Editor
Before the advent of the WordPress Block Editor, designers were forced to use page layout plugins or themes, or in the case of Genesis users, Widgetized Archive pages, adding widget areas to these pages to create layouts, or environments such as Elementor, Content Views, Toolset and others to add powerful layout functionality.… Read More...
How to Change the Styling of a Column in the WordPress Block Editor
Targeting the correct CSS object on a WordPress Page can be tricky, particularly given the increased depth of the Document Object Model (DOM). The Block Editor uses html Comments to create ever more complex hierarchies of nested objects, and successful styling depends on targeting the right one.… Read More...
Connecting Calendly to Zoom
Zoom Video is a powerful app offering “Cloud Conferencing” technology with a lot of cool and useful features. As someone developing an online course of study, their Webinar and Meeting functionality are especially attractive. Meetings are the right fit for the course website I built.… Read More...
Upgrading an old HTML site with a WordPress blog to WordPress
Like many web designer/developer guys, I had an old personal site I hadn’t touched in years.
The site was an old html site with a WordPress blog in a subdirectory. I put it off as long as I could (it’s my own site from my touring musician days).… Read More...
WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg – What it Means for Genesis Themes
WordPress 5.0 (“Bebo”) was released December 6th (2018).
This is a major update. It doesn’t install automatically.
In a nutshell, this marks the beginning WordPress.org’s effort to move WordPress into a more user-friendly interface in order to compete with the likes of Wix and Weebly’s WYSIWYG drag-and-drop type editing experience.… Read More...
Migrating a WordPress Site if Wordfence is Installed, Using Duplicator and MAMP
Wordfence causes major problems in migration
even if it’s inactive when creating the export package.
Note: When doing a migration, all security, caching, Captcha, and login-renaming plugins should be deactivated. You can do this in the Duplicator installer, in the installer’s Advanced Options section – select “none”
It might be a good idea to completely exclude the plugins folder during export – they can be added back into the site during Step 4 of the Duplicator installation, with caution.
Keeping up with Google’s New Features – SSL, AMP, and Google Posts
Secure Encrypted Browsing with SSL
For awhile Google has been pushing site owners and developers in the direction of secure browsing.
The enabling technology is known as “SSL,” uses the secure protocol “https://”, and has become an increasingly significant ranking feature for Google search engine results pages (SERP).… Read More...
Adding a full-width responsive header in a Genesis theme (January 2018)
I’ve run into this more than once, and every time I’ve forgotten how I did it last time and have to find out again how to do it. This article is a reference for my own use – and if you’re reading it, hopefully it’ll be of some use to you as well.… Read More...
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