Bringing Slick to Beaver Builder
Beaver Builder is a great WordPres page builder, but the default carousels aren’t that amazing. That’s why I decided to build out a Slick slider...
Category: Web Design & Development
How to mass remove URLs from Google quickly.
Google indexes everything it finds and sometimes it finds things that it shouldn’t. Google has a nice removal tool that temporarily removes URLs from Google and...
It’s time to clean up your WordPress database.
When’s the last time you cleaned up your WordPress blog’s database? Over time, things build up that you don’t see, but can cause performance issues....
Accelerated Mobile Pages are simple to setup in WordPress.
Accelerated Mobile Pages (or AMP) are the latest way in which Google and others are trying to make the web faster. Turns out, the more...
Adding SSL to your WordPress site can be free and easy.
I’ve been meaning to add SSL to my site for a while and now it’s done! All the glory and wonder of SSL without much...
Ad-blocking is good, but we’re doing it wrong.
There are good reasons for ad-blocking and there are bad reasons. However, most people are going about it all wrong. If you were to visit one of the...
Why I left DigitalOcean’s cheap hosting.
When I first heard about DigitalOcean I was excited as the price point was so low and the servers so nice. I knew I’d...
Safari isn’t the new Internet Explorer, Google Chrome is.
There have been discussions recently that badmouth Safari for being a bit behind on web technologies. I agree that Safari needs a bit more focus,...
Why is web hosting so complicated?
When it comes to hosting a website, you have so many choices that it can be overwhelming. Different prices, different features, lots of headaches. Do...
Fixed: JetPack and Varnish 502/503 Error on Nginx
tl;tr: Disable Varnish, connect JetPack, re-enable Varnish. I’m not a server guy, but I do run my own server and it’s not bad most of...
WP Sync DB makes moving or deploying WordPress sites simple.
Moving a WordPress site isn’t hard for some, but the less technically minded you are, the harder it is. To make it easy, check out...
PHP fixes security bug then takes down websites (502 error) when they upgrade.
I have manage my own Ubuntu server (12.04.4 LTS with Nginx) over at DigitalOcean and when I ran the upgrade command tonight (sudo apt-get upgrade) everything went...