Very excited to be a speaker at WordCamp Minneapolis this year and they gave all of us skateboards! Just need me some wheels.
Category: WordPress
Web design is not as easy you think. #wcmpls
Design is a lot more than you think. It’s complex and each step is important. Plus your users are on multiple devices and have many different ways of interacting.
WordCamp Minneapolis #wcmpls
Every time you hack WordPress core, God kills a kitten.
Never touch WordPress core. If you’re not building WordPress, then stick to your /wp-content/ directory. That’ll make everyone’s life easier and save some kittens. Please think of the kittens!
Make the categories box taller in the WordPress admin.
If you’ve been running WordPress for a long time, or if you have a complex site, you probably have lots of categories. However, lots of categories causes a usability annoyance when the categories box in the admin screen stays pretty small. The solution? Make it bigger! The following code can be added to the functions […]
What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? MAMP, VirtualHostX, AMPPS?
What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? Mamp, VirtualHostX, AMPPS? Something else? I asked around and everyone does it a bit differently. I’m looking for quick and easy and mainly for WordPress development. Nothing complicated. So far, Mamp is winning both the Twitter vote and other channels. What do you use for […]
How to reduce the size of your WordPress database.
What’s in your WordPress database that you don’t need? Have you ever ran through it and cleaned it up? Probably not. I recently did and it found 8.338 MB of unused stuff. It’s easy to do too. I use the Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions plugin. Most of my cleanup came from removing post revisions. By […]