State of the Word 2021

December 17, 2021
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State of the Word 2021

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 is released and ready for testing, on track for January 2022 official release. Since Beta 2, 14 bugs have been fixed. If you want to help test the new features, here are some guidelines […]

December 10, 2021
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WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 Release

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 is released and ready for testing, on track for January 2022 official release. Since Beta 1, 24 bugs have been fixed. If you’re interested in trying out the new features, check out this detailed […]

December 9, 2021
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Top 7 Tips To Make Your WordPress Site Fast & Secure

Ready to build your first website? Are you shopping for affordable WordPress web hosting? There are multiple types of web hosting solutions to choose from: shared hosting, dedicated hosting, cloud hosting, and VPS hosting, to name a few. If you own a small- or medium-sized business, shared hosting is likely going to be your best […]

Change favicon color for dark mode

When you upload a favicon image in the WordPress customizer, it provides a helpful preview to see how your favicon will appear in browsers using light or dark mode. When the favicon color doesn’t work well with dark mode, a common fix is to replace the transparent PNG with a JPG that has a white […]

September 8, 2020
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InnerBlocks with ACF blocks – Bill Erickson

My favorite new feature in Advanced Custom Fields 5.9 is support for InnerBlocks. This allows you to insert any block (core or custom) inside your ACF block. Rather than having to create your own fields for Title, Content, and Button in your custom block, you can simply insert <InnerBlocks /> and use the block editor to […]

Debug code with “pretty printing”

How often do you write print_r( $something ) to see what’s in the variable? This works great, except it appears inline right where your code is executing. My ea_pp() function works the same way, but outputs it in a console-like box attached to the right side of the screen. This pretty printing function was originally built by […]

Gutenberg Theme Development – Tips for Success

The new NexRep website is built completely with the Gutenberg block editor. We’ve built dozens of WordPress sites just like NexRep that rely on the block editor for rich, engaging landing pages that are easily maintained by non-technical editors with a consistent style guide. These are my tips for success with Gutenberg theme development. Start […]

Category specific email optin with WPForms

Almost all of our food blogger and publisher clients use email optins to encourage readers to join their email newsletter. We often customize the title and description of the form based on the current post’s category. For instance, the newsletter signup form in the Beauty category might look like: While we could build a separate […]

February 21, 2020
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Git based code deployment on Big Scoots

Many of our food blogger clients are hosted with Big Scoots, a popular managed WordPress host. Their portal includes one-click push between your production and staging environments, which is great for testing code changes before deploying on your production site. With a bit of work you can create a git-based deployment workflow similar to WPEngine. […]