2026
Nov 13
/Analytics
Why contacts created via the HubSpot CRM API default to Offline Sources, and how to pass the hubspotutk browser cookie so paid ad clicks, UTM parameters, and page views stay attached to new users.
Nov 10
/AI
ChatGPT uses Bing search to provide citations, making Bing webmaster tools a significantly more valuable tool today.
Nov 8
/AI
Make changes to your WordPress website in minutes instead of waiting weeks on an agency.
Nov 7
/AI
Understand how an MCP discovery server can be used to drive more sales for Home Depot.
Nov 2
/WordPress
The Laravel stack and setup I use to build applications quickly with AI coding agents like Claude Code.
Nov 2
/SEO
The impression counts you see in Search Console are NOT the total number of searches for a term, they are the subset of searches where your site was shown.
Oct 31
/AI
How MCP discovery servers give AI agents live, accurate data from your business, and the general setup involved.
Oct 29
/Marketing
Reasons why Webflow typically costs substantially more than WordPress.
Oct 29
/Marketing
Step-by-step setup of a Webflow site on your own domain: plan costs, DNS records, basic SEO settings and publishing.
Oct 27
/Privacy & Compliance
How I set up, deploy and maintain WordPress websites for banks, credit unions and other financial organizations.
Oct 21
/AI
How I built an AI support system that can answer questions beyond what's covered in help articles.
Oct 20
/Tech Leadership
Why choosing stable, proven technology is not the same as falling behind, with three common pitfalls and better alternatives.
Oct 19
/Development
How a professional Laravel SaaS app runs in production on Forge and Google Cloud, from zero-downtime deploys to queues, backups and security.
Oct 16
/Privacy & Compliance
The US, EU and UK standards that define anonymized data, and how to actually anonymize a user across a real SaaS stack.
Oct 10
/Development
All the ingredients of a professional, rock solid WordPress website.
Oct 8
/Development
A comparison of address autocomplete APIs, including pricing, free tiers and building your own.
Oct 5
/Analytics
What UTM parameters are, where they came from, and the naming conventions that keep years of attribution data clean.
Oct 5
/AI
How to track and attribute website traffic from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude and other AI assistants in GA4.
Oct 1
/Web Development
Reasons why most custom WordPress themes can be improved without a complete rebuild.
Oct 1
/Privacy & Compliance
The most common types of legal claims and demand letters sent to website owners in the US.
Sep 29
/AI
Factors that affect whether ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews cite your website.
Sep 29
/Business
When Shopify, WooCommerce or a fully custom build is the right eCommerce platform, based on real client work across all three.
Sep 25
/Analytics
How to connect web ad clicks to native app conversions with first-party identity, across browsers, apps and devices.
Sep 24
/AI
A summary of recent research on what makes AI tools recommend one brand over another.
Sep 22
/Development
How to set up and monitor your email sending so messages reach the inbox instead of spam.
Sep 18
/Development
Ways to book and schedule appointments and calendar events within your WordPress website.
Sep 15
/AI
What Google's August 2026 spam update targeted and how to recover if your traffic dropped.
Sep 10
/Development
Options for adding two-factor authentication and SSO to the WordPress login.
Sep 8
/AI
AI optimization (AIO) practices that have worked for me and my clients.
Sep 2
/Development
What causes the WordPress critical error screen, and how to find and fix the exact problem.
Aug 31
/Development
Differences between Advanced Custom Fields and Gutenberg blocks, and why I use ACF for custom WordPress builds.
Aug 25
/AI
Why replacing rented SaaS tools with custom software you own is now realistic for many businesses.
Aug 20
/Development
How to send a website's transactional email through a Google Workspace account with SMTP.
Aug 11
/AI
Rules I give Claude and ChatGPT so they write clean, maintainable website code instead of their defaults.
Aug 6
/AI
Properly scaling n8n in queue mode, auto-adjusting hardware to support workers based on queue size in Redis.
Aug 6
/Web Development
Why WordPress sites get hacked, and why WordPress itself is rarely the cause.
Aug 2
/Analytics
Everything you need to measure conversions from ChatGPT ads, from a basic pixel install to a fully synced server-side setup.
Jul 28
/AI
How to serve your website's pages as Markdown to AI bots instead of HTML.
Jul 24
/AI
What actually earns AI visibility on Reddit.
Jul 16
/Privacy & Compliance
How to use an open-source cookie banner with GTM's Consent Mode v2.
Jul 14
/AI
Evidence on whether ChatGPT, Google, Claude and other AI systems actually read llms.
Jul 14
/AI
Rules, phonetic algorithms and a small amount of AI for cleaning up messy company names in large databases.
Jun 30
/AI
How I use Google Search Console data to improve both SEO and AI visibility.
Jun 16
/AI
Know whether your SEO/AEO optimizations are helping or hurting your website, and whether an expensive SEO/AEO firm is worth the cost, by evaluating real data in Google Search Console.
Jun 2
/Analytics
Attribution issues caused by HubSpot tracking when it runs alongside Google Consent Mode v2.
May 19
/WordPress
How WooCommerce cart session cookies disable page caching and slow down sites, and how to fix it.
May 6
/Development
Two ways to manage Schema.
Apr 21
/Business
A comparison of Kinsta and WP Engine managed WordPress hosting on speed, price, features and support.
Apr 14
/AI
How we optimized for AI and achieved #1 for ideal prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini & Copilot.
Apr 8
/AI
Most WordPress sites are built in a way that makes AI coding tools nearly useless.
Mar 24
/Development
How I structure custom WordPress sites so every part is deliberate, version controlled and reproducible.
Mar 15
/Privacy & Compliance
The proper way to handle consent in Google Tag Manager without overpaying for tools or losing the data your business depends on.
Mar 10
/WordPress
How I build custom WordPress themes for clients, starting from a small starter theme I maintain called Basic WP.
Feb 24
/Analytics
How to identify the company/organization of your website visitors with custom code and no third-party tools.
Feb 24
/AI
How to reduce Gemini CLI costs by controlling what it sends as context.
Feb 11
/AI
What Google's Gemini CLI is, how to set it up, and where it fits as a low cost AI coding agent for the terminal.
Jan 27
/AI
What Anthropic's Claude Code is, how to set it up, and how I use it day to day for real engineering work.
Jan 15
/WordPress
Inspirational list of professionally designed custom WordPress themes for bank and finance organizations.
Jan 14
/Web Development
How to resize, convert and optimize any public image on the fly with a free proxy and CDN, no account or API key needed.
2025
Dec 14
/Marketing
Everything you need to know about Google's December 11, 2025 algorithm update.
Dec 10
/Analytics
Complete end-to-end walk-through of the best possible Facebook Pixel & Facebook Conversion API implementation for maximum match rate.
Dec 10
/Development
How to find and fix redirect issues at the source.
Dec 2
/WordPress
What separates a well-built WordPress site from the other 95%, and the shortcuts that create debt.
Nov 27
/Marketing
Not interested in paying $$$$$ for a CRM? Consider an open-source alternative, that may actually be better for your needs.
Nov 9
/Analytics
Read only a percentage of rows to reduce cost and latency while producing approximate statistical query results.
Oct 31
/WordPress
When and where WordPress will automatically add a redirect for a URL behind the scenes.
Oct 28
/AI
Understanding how Google's ranking system works can tell us how to best approach AI SEO.
Sep 27
/WordPress
Step-by-step guide for moving a website from HubSpot CMS to WordPress without losing data or design integrity.
Sep 27
/WordPress
Foundations of building and maintaining a good custom WordPress theme.
Sep 26
/Analytics
Understand how a server-side analytics system works, and why it leads to more accurate analytics data and better advertising optimization.
Sep 18
/AI
Training a custom LLMs on a Macbook Pro M3+ using WordPress posts as fine-tuning data.
Aug 10
/AI
Tips to create the best, most accurate, AI-generated SQL for BigQuery data exploration.
Aug 10
/Analytics
Are your Looker Studio reports running much slower in the browser than they should be?.
Aug 8
/AI
GPT-5 isnt revolutionary, it's largest benefit is reduced token cost, and we're now seeing a curve forming with each release cycle.
Aug 5
/WordPress
A response to recent bogus vulnerability reports targeting WordPress wp-cron.
Aug 4
/Marketing
SEO is often overlooked during a redesign process, which can have a very negative impact on search rankings.
Jul 31
/Marketing
Martech patterns, approaches and systems for high-converting websites.
Jun 30
/Analytics
Find the most costly bottlenecks in your BigQuery data warehouse and speed up your Looker reports.
Jun 19
/AI
Considerations when leaning on AI for content marketing.
Jun 14
/Marketing
Google’s disavow tool allows you to identify bad/low quality links to your site, potentially improving quality scores.
Jun 1
/AI
Variations of AI generated images from various LLM prompt tools.
May 10
/AI
18 highly productive patterns for generating effective code with AI.
May 7
/AI
Straight forward instructions on how to start working with the OpenAI Codex CLI.
May 3
/AI
Smarter ways to stop WordPress form spam using OpenAI API's and Gravity Forms.
May 2
/WordPress
Behind the scenes look at the plugins, patterns and approaches used to build very high quality WordPress websites.
Apr 28
/WordPress
Achieving the most commonly sought after URL rewrite structure for a custom WordPress resources section built using a post type, taxonomy, and associated archives and single templates.
Apr 22
/Analytics
How to keep your Google Tag Manager containers clean and well organized with established patterns and conventions.
Apr 10
/WordPress
Sample content for the Gutenberg editor.
Feb 20
/AI
AI-generated code can be useful, but dropping it into WordPress without a plan is a bad idea.
Feb 19
/Analytics
GA4 assigns traffic sources based on a priority system—UTMs, referrers, auto-tagging, and more—so here’s how to decode it in BigQuery and get the cleanest attribution data possible.
2024
Dec 13
/Marketing
Seven overlooked ways to convert more of the traffic you're already paying for.
Dec 6
/Development
How to validate a phone number against the North American Numbering Plan with only JavaScript, no APIs required.
Nov 22
/Analytics
Simple overview of Google Analytics: what it is, why you might need it, and how to set it up.
Nov 14
/WordPress
Simple and effective ways to load CSS and JS modules in a custom WordPress theme from scratch (no frameworks).
Nov 5
/WordPress
Growing list of CMS alternatives to WordPress.
Oct 14
/WordPress
Automattic has hijacked the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin, and will be releasing it as "Secure Custom Fields" in the coming week(s).
Oct 11
/WordPress
How to create a custom WordPress theme that's very basic for easy learning.
Oct 3
/Analytics
Tips on cleaning and importing large CSVs into BigQuery.
Oct 2
/WordPress
Properly configuring CloudFlare caching rules for your WordPress website is the best way to make your website extremely fast.
Aug 23
/WordPress
Pros and cons of extending the built-in WordPress REST API with custom endpoints.
Jul 28
/Analytics
Ways to reduce query and storage job costs in BigQuery.
Jul 21
/Analytics
Guide to syncing Google Search Console data into BigQuery daily using Google's native data exports.
Jul 11
/Analytics
Automated daily syncs from Hubspot into BigQuery without expensive ETL costs, using an alternative to Google Integration Connector.
Jun 30
/Analytics
Host your own open-source CDP platform to replace expensive software like Segment or FiveTran.
Apr 23
/WordPress
Should you really use a WordPress plugin for that? See how 11 lines of code can replace 87,907, and why that's a major advantage.
Apr 20
/WordPress
How custom WordPress themes are built, with real world examples.
Apr 11
/WordPress
Complete list of all built-in email notifications sent by a WordPress, and how to disable them
.
Apr 11
/AI
How to send chat prompts and raw OpenAI API requests from the command line with the openai command in OpenAI's Python SDK.
Mar 29
/WordPress
The best way to delete thousands of WordPress posts, pages or post types.
Mar 10
/WordPress
Loading JS modules in WordPress with the new wp_enqueue_script_module function.
Mar 6
/WordPress
Content management systems used by large enterprise businesses, with live examples.
Feb 6
/WordPress
Drastically speed up the WordPress admin with 3 lines of code.
Jan 31
/WordPress
Simple, secure way to remotely connect to a WordPress database at WPEngine.
Jan 15
/WordPress
Stop PHP notices and warnings from polluting WP-CLI output and breaking scripted commands.
2023
Dec 28
/Marketing
How to submit HubSpot forms using the HubSpot Forms API.
Nov 30
/WordPress
Advanced details on finding slow WordPress queries, and fixing them.
Nov 8
/WordPress
Block access to the wp-login page based on the connecting user's IP address.
Nov 5
/Analytics
Limit access to show only specific data to certain users or groups in Google BigQuery.
Oct 24
/Privacy & Compliance
Prepare your WordPress website for a SOC compliance audit.
Oct 17
/WordPress
Advanced tactical tasks for securing a WordPress website.
Sep 29
/WordPress
The most probable causes of a slow WordPress website.
Sep 26
/Analytics
DIY approach to server-side event tracking with Laravel + Redis.
Sep 24
/WordPress
WordPress is the #1 tool used to build websites, powering over 40% of the websites online today.
Sep 18
/WordPress
Serve all WordPress website visits from https:// and not https://.
Sep 10
/WordPress
How to remove all [srcset] attributes from images in WordPress.
Aug 23
/Analytics
Useful BigQuery examples for querying Google Analytics 4 data.
May 16
/Development
Redirect an entire domain in CloudFlare, forwarding all non-WWW traffic to WWW, or WWW to the root domain, at the page level with a single rule.
Apr 23
/WordPress
Deploy updates to Kinsta with git push, utilizing the same approach as WPEngine under the hood.
Apr 4
/WordPress
How to disable all built-in RSS feeds in WordPress.
Mar 27
/Development
Creating valid SSL certificates for localhost web development, supporting one or many local domains.
Mar 24
/Marketing
Adding and updating custom campaign types and member status values for your SalesForce campaigns.
Mar 9
/WordPress
Programmatically add a user to all sites in a WordPress multisite network (WPMU).
Feb 12
/Development
Automatically fix typographic widows to avoid a single hanging word on its own line.
Jan 19
/Analytics
Track conversions for TikTok ads with high match rate attribution using both the Pixel and Events API.
Jan 18
/WordPress
A working fix for the Sage/Blade template errors that hit WPEngine sites on 1/18/2023.
Jan 5
/Development
Calculating an age in years, months and days from a user provided birthdate (MM/DD/YYYY).
2022
Dec 19
/Analytics
How to track your Hubspot form submissions in Google Tag Manager, step by step.
Dec 10
/WordPress
Stop WordPress form spam in Gravity Forms with custom spam filtering rules.
Dec 5
/Development
Steps to fully uninstall Elasticsearch from your server.
Dec 4
/Analytics
The best way to track Marketo form submissions as conversions in Google Tag Manager.
Nov 30
/Analytics
Work with Drift's built-in Google Tag Manager events to simplify event tracking.
Nov 28
/Development
CloudFlare began rate limiting images.
Nov 17
/Development
Simple CSS rules to remove box-shadow from one side of an element.
Nov 5
/Development
How to start, stop and restart MongoDB from the command line.
Aug 8
/Development
Custom corporate branding for Zoom landing pages, emails, and more.
Aug 5
/Development
Previews and names of all available Apple News supported fonts.
Jul 25
/WordPress
Create your own rules to stop form spam submissions on your WordPress website.
Jul 17
/WordPress
Configure transactional email for WordPress that's reliable using
an SMTP Relay or an HTTP API.
May 28
/Analytics
How to track unique pageviews in GA4.
May 12
/WordPress
Why is your WordPress admin so slow? It's probably
HTTP API requests made by premium plugins.
Apr 18
/Analytics
Automatically targeting prospects that are most likely to become paying customers
is one of the best ways to lower customer acquisition costs.
Apr 12
/Analytics
How to define custom conversion events in Google Tag Manager,
and why it's a good approach to follow.
Apr 4
/WordPress
Fixes for a common WordPress database error: "Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired".
Mar 30
/Development
Validate a US Social Security Number (SSN) with
JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby and more.
Feb 19
/Development
A recent update to the popular SVG Support WordPress plugin may cause broken SVG's on your WordPress site.
Feb 11
/Development
A simple pattern I use to validate emails.
2021
Sep 9
/WordPress
WordPress editor stylesheets won't load external assets with @import rules, but there's an alternative approach you can use to load fonts into the Gutenberg editor.
Jul 15
/Development
"SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module" is a common
Node.
Jun 22
/WordPress
Track, log and notify team members when changes are made to a WordPress website's file system, database and DNS.
May 18
/Development
How to style a <select> dropdown placeholder value in a way that
is similar to the CSS ::placeholder pseudo element.
Feb 24
/WordPress
How to update an Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) repeater field programmatically.
2020
Sep 10
/WordPress
The simplest way to get WordPress post content by post ID.
Sep 8
/WordPress
Create a WordPress admin user with PHP to login to a site with only FTP access.
May 5
/WordPress
Automatically generate an ordered reference to all
action hooks and filters for a WordPress install.
Apr 27
/WordPress
How to fix `cURL error 60: SSL certificate: unable to get local issuer certificate` errors in localhost WordPress environments.
Apr 2
/Development
Selecting an option by its text label, getting the label for a currently
selected option, selecting an option programmatically and more.
Feb 25
/Development
Practical examples of JavaScript module patterns
and how to include them as a dependency.
Jan 17
/Development
Simple commands to export and import all
MySQL databases that exist on a server.
2019
Dec 20
/Development
Quickly get Moment & Moment Timezone working in an
Angular CLI TypeScript project.
Dec 20
/Development
The simplest way to format numbers and floats as
currency strings in JavaScript and TypeScript.
Dec 19
/Development
How to safely display any HTML in an Angular component
without escaped or encoded characters.
Dec 11
/WordPress
Solving "failed to send buffer of zlib output compression" errors in WordPress.
Nov 26
/Development
Ionicons 4 include a native web component that doesn't
work in an Angular app, here's a quick and easy fix to solve the problem.
Nov 25
/Business
How to get the Mac Dock app working
on multiple external display monitors.
Jul 15
/WordPress
Widen the Gutenberg editor with a few lines of admin CSS so layouts match the front end.
Jul 8
/Development
Read route and query parameters in an Angular component without pulling in a library.
2018
Dec 6
/WordPress
The best way is to install the official Classic Editor
plugin created by the Automattic team.
Sep 18
/Privacy & Compliance
Run a quick, effective scan of your business
website for ADA accessibility compliance.
Sep 7
/WordPress
Big list of custom WordPress websites
for Fortune 1000 companies.
Sep 4
/WordPress
Automatically fix hanging words (or typographic widows) in WordPress
content using this helpful function to filter the_content().
Jul 27
/Privacy & Compliance
Make your WordPress dropdown menus WCAG 2.
Jul 5
/WordPress
Simple, effective way to disable the WordPress
REST API if you're not using it.
May 23
/Development
How to fix a "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression"
JavaScript error when working with jQuery 2.
2017
Nov 12
/Marketing
Documentation on Google search operators for advanced searching and filtering of results.
Aug 14
/Business
Over the past 10 years as freelance web developer I've learned important
lessons about business, relationships, money and life.
Jul 3
/Development
Tips to help you find and fix this common XHR JSON API syntax error in JavaScript:
"SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0".
Jun 30
/Development
Automatically indent HTML files on save in Sublime Text.
Jun 19
/WordPress
Parse Markdown in Timber/Twig templates with
this custom twig filter/extension.
Jun 16
/WordPress
Safely change the name of a WordPress plugins admin
menu using the following function.
Jun 10
/WordPress
Building single page apps inside of a WordPress plugin.
May 29
/Development
Quickly add a git remote for
an existing Heroku app.
May 17
/WordPress
Find & fix malicious 301 redirects to seonix.
May 5
/Development
Express.
Apr 28
/Development
Real world examples of angularjs $http and $resource cache, including how
to work with localStorage and sessionStorage.
Apr 24
/Development
Define your own custom tag delimiters to change {{ myScopeVar }}
to your own syntax, such as {! myScopeVar !}.
Apr 13
/Development
How to create AngularJS directives that are only allowed for a specific HTML element or tag.
Apr 12
/Development
Reduce a JS build task with Uglify from 15-20 secs to 500ms.
Apr 6
/WordPress
Having trouble with user enumeration, or maybe you have notices in your
error logs about "Preventing Possible Attempt to Enumerate Users"?.
Feb 24
/WordPress
The two best ways I've found to move a WordPress database between hosts safely.
Feb 24
/WordPress
Search within a taxonomy by patching the way WP_Query
handles the MySQL GROUP BY clause.
Feb 20
/Development
Get Your Express.
Feb 8
/Development
PHP's $_POST won't work with a content-type of application/javascript.
Jan 20
/Analytics
Track client-side JavaScript errors as Google Analytics events using
Google Tag Manager and avoid error logging software.
2016
Dec 4
/WordPress
Avoid using any of WordPress' built-in taxonomies and post types names to
avoid collisions when creating custom taxonomies and post types.
Oct 27
/Development
Steps to reset geolocation prompt's in Google Chrome, useful for for testing
navigator.
Oct 25
/Development
Handle on enter key press events in Angular
using this simple directive.
2015
Jul 6
/Business
A free, open-source way to record your screen as an animated GIF.
Jul 6
/Development
Quick way to make a simple pulsate
animation using CSS3.
Jun 18
/Development
Determine equality for two JavaScript objects.
Mar 21
/WordPress
Check if WordPress content was created using the
SiteOrigin's Page Builder or built-in editor.
Feb 13
/Development
Presented at the February 2015 Boston Node.
Jan 29
/Development
This simple regex rule makes wildcard find and
replace routines easy in Sublime Text.
2014
Dec 23
/Development
Simple way to serve static HTML, images, stylesheets and scripts with Node.
May 9
/WordPress
Sample page content for testing CSS against the
HTML output of the WordPress TinyMCE editor.
Apr 21
/WordPress
How to use meta boxes to effectively manage
web layouts beyond the editor.
Apr 11
/Marketing
Lessons learned integrating Pardot,
WordPress and Gravity Forms.
Feb 5
/WordPress
Use this function to remove the "Posts" menu and
posting area from the WordPress admin.
Jan 25
/Marketing
What Dublin Core metadata is, and whether it still earns its place in your markup.
2013
Dec 18
/WordPress
For use as custom post type menu icons.
Nov 19
/WordPress
Discover exactly what functions are attached to any WordPress hook, in the order they fire.
Oct 16
/Development
Grab the thumbnail for any YouTube video straight from its URL, in every available size.
Oct 9
/WordPress
Remove the obvious WordPress fingerprints from your site without breaking anything.
Oct 8
/Development
Why `if ($el)` always returns true in jQuery, and what to check instead.
Oct 6
/Development
Using is(":checked").
Oct 6
/Development
Redirect the browser properly with `window.
Oct 6
/Development
Using is(":visible") or is(":hidden").
Sep 30
/Development
Lay a bulleted list out horizontally and keep the bullets, with copy-paste CSS.
Sep 23
/Development
Copy the icon characters from this table, and paste
them directly into Photoshop.
Sep 23
/Marketing
Examples of content curation done right.
Sep 3
/WordPress
Getting Roots theme rewrites and clean asset URLs working on WPEngine.
Aug 11
/WordPress
Well known brands running WordPress today, and what their builds tell you about the platform.
Aug 11
/Business
How to find and vet a web designer, and the warning signs worth walking away from.
Apr 8
/WordPress
Step-by-step instructions for building a business website on WordPress from scratch.
Jan 11
/WordPress
The local, staging and production setup I use to test WordPress changes before they ship.
2012
Dec 18
/WordPress
A quick fix for "Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined" in the WordPress admin.
Dec 5
/WordPress
Include custom post types in author archives with one drop-in function.
Nov 30
/WordPress
Give site owners the option to display taxonomy term descriptions on archive templates.
Nov 26
/WordPress
The difference between is_home() and is_front_page(), and which fires on a static homepage.
Nov 5
/Development
Why vertical-align misbehaves between two inline-block elements, and how to fix it.
Nov 2
/WordPress
Compress WordPress uploads automatically so slow images never reach production.
Oct 12
/Business
SaaS website designs that sell, and the patterns behind their conversion rates.
Sep 23
/Development
Test Internet Explorer on a Mac for free using a virtual Windows machine.
Sep 18
/Development
Build mailto links that prefill subject and body without breaking on special characters.
Sep 6
/WordPress
The quick, correct way to get an RSS feed for a custom post type in WordPress.
Sep 4
/Development
Set up wildcard local domains in MAMP Pro so any hostname resolves without editing hosts.
Aug 22
/WordPress
Run oEmbed on excerpts and custom fields with a single line of code.
Aug 20
/WordPress
Show post dates as "3 hours ago" using WordPress's built-in human_time_diff().
May 29
/Development
Repair an SVN checksum mismatch on commit without losing your local changes.
Apr 20
/WordPress
Allow plugin installs and core upgrades on a MAMP localhost without the FTP prompt.
Apr 15
/WordPress
A live test page for the Responsive Video Embeds plugin — resize the browser and watch.
Apr 13
/Development
Why TimThumb images break behind Cloudflare, and how to confirm caching is at fault.
Mar 30
/Business
WordPress & The Expectation of "Free".
Mar 15
/WordPress
Handy snippets for identifying which template file WordPress is currently rendering.
Feb 27
/WordPress
WordPress has a hidden screen listing every editable option in your database.
Feb 25
/WordPress
The references and standards worth following on a professional WordPress project.
Jan 8
/Development
Load social sharing widgets on demand with AJAX instead of on every page load.
2011
Dec 27
/WordPress
Add your own meta fields to media attachments and read them back in a theme.
Dec 22
/Marketing
Add Open Graph tags so shared links show the right title, description and image.
Dec 14
/WordPress
Track and display popular posts without a plugin, using WP_Query and a custom field.
Dec 13
/WordPress
Get rid of the unwanted tooltip WordPress adds to every inserted image.
Oct 26
/Development
A simple PHP and JSON caching function that cut a 5 second API call to milliseconds.
Oct 11
/Development
Force browsers to pick up modified CSS, JavaScript and images instead of stale copies.
Oct 4
/WordPress
Build numbered WordPress pagination with paginate_links() and a custom WP_Query.
Sep 26
/Development
A library of re-useable LESS classes and mixins worth keeping in every project.
Jun 23
/WordPress
A real world benchmark of WordPress speed gains from full page caching and a CDN.
Jun 1
/WordPress
Every practical way to add custom meta boxes, and which one fits your project size.
May 30
/WordPress
Strip the junk markup Microsoft Word leaves behind when clients paste into the editor.
May 23
/Business
Habits that keep remote work sustainable before you become a social vegetable.
May 19
/Development
What LESS adds to CSS — variables, mixins, nesting — and why maintenance gets easier.
May 17
/Development
Connecting to a MAMP MySQL database over SSH from the OS X Terminal.
May 16
/WordPress
Give the WordPress user profile screen a real editor instead of a plain textarea.
May 12
/WordPress
Display the total number of results found on a WordPress search page.
May 2
/WordPress
Loading resources from a CDN is a great way to improve website performance.
Apr 25
/WordPress
Fifty WordPress sites with genuinely good design, and what to borrow from each.
Apr 21
/WordPress
The checklist I run before any WordPress redesign goes live.
Apr 14
/Analytics
Add Google Analytics to a WordPress theme in code, no plugin required.
Apr 14
/WordPress
Map and load your 301 redirects before launch so rankings survive the new URLs.
Apr 7
/Marketing
SEO best practices for YouTube videos: titles, descriptions, tags and thumbnails.
Mar 31
/Marketing
Optimize Flickr photos so people actually find them, and get traffic back to your site.
Mar 24
/WordPress
Move enqueued scripts to the footer in WordPress with one function.
Mar 17
/WordPress
What to look for in WordPress hosting, and where cheap plans cost you later.
Mar 16
/Business
The least painful way to share a page from iPad Safari to Twitter.
Mar 14
/Development
The best way I've found to process URL parameters
with JavaScript in the browser.
Mar 10
/Development
Recreate Hulu's homepage content slider with jQuery Cycle and CSS3.
Mar 3
/Development
Format currency and money fields as users type without breaking the submitted value.
Feb 24
/Development
Create, read, update and delete cookies with jQuery, including expiry and path options.
Feb 17
/WordPress
Pull an external RSS feed into WordPress content with a shortcode, using built-in SimplePie.
Feb 15
/Development
What I learned building SimilarSounds.
Feb 10
/Development
The favicon files and markup every browser and device actually needs.
Feb 8
/Development
Why array_push() fails on associative arrays in PHP, and what to use instead.
Jan 27
/WordPress
Trim down and customize the TinyMCE editor toolbar and format dropdown in WordPress.
Jan 20
/Development
Detect iPhone, iPad and Android visitors server-side with a single PHP function.
Jan 13
/WordPress
Run one query to get every custom field attached to a post, page or post type.
2010
Dec 2
/Development
How I test websites across browsers, including standalone Internet Explorer versions.
Oct 27
/WordPress
Setting up repeating field groups with the Custom Field Template plugin — and the data-loss bug to avoid.
Oct 15
/WordPress
A look at PageLines, a drag-and-drop CMS theme framework for WordPress.
Oct 7
/Development
Comparing Typekit and Cufon for web font replacement, and where each one fits.
Oct 1
/WordPress
Advanced WordPress performance work: caching, queries, assets and hosting.
Sep 30
/WordPress
Replace the default WordPress maintenance message with a branded page during upgrades.
Aug 24
/WordPress
Why Google shows a date in your search snippet, and how to stop it.
Aug 13
/WordPress
Use custom post types to structure a content-heavy WordPress site properly.
Aug 10
/WordPress
Load your own CSS and JavaScript in wp-admin to simplify the dashboard for clients.
Jul 13
/Development
Building a diagonal navigation bar with CSS, jQuery and XHTML — harder than it looks.
Jul 9
/WordPress
More WordPress plugins that turn the platform into a genuine content management system.
Jul 5
/WordPress
A running list of the newest WordPress CMS plugins worth paying attention to.
May 31
/WordPress
Serve jQuery and other libraries from Google's CDN to cut WordPress load time.
May 25
/Development
Rotations, shadows, rounded corners and animations you can use in CSS3 today.
May 18
/WordPress
How the early WordPress custom field plugins compared, and what replaced them.
May 16
/WordPress
What custom post types in WordPress 3.
May 11
/WordPress
The features WordPress 3.
May 9
/Development
Why I moved off Dreamhost shared hosting to a Media Temple DV, and how it compared.
Apr 19
/WordPress
Six plugins that fill the gaps between the WordPress editor and a real CMS.
Jan 14
/WordPress
Why default WordPress search returns poor results, and how to improve relevance.
2009
Dec 25
/WordPress
A reader asked whether WordPress holds up against a traditional CMS.
Dec 21
/WordPress
Stop the auto-update prompt for a plugin you've customized and can't overwrite.
Nov 30
/WordPress
WordPress took the Overall Best Open Source CMS award for 2009 — here's what that reflected.
Nov 16
/Marketing
Add a rich HTML signature to Gmail without a plugin, and keep the formatting intact.
Sep 22
/WordPress
Whether to start a custom WordPress theme from a framework like Thematic or from scratch.
Sep 14
/Business
What corporate web design work really demands, and why being quiet gets you nowhere.
Sep 14
/Marketing
How writing style and call to action wording change conversion rates.
Aug 30
/WordPress
Ten sites publishing WordPress content that's actually worth reading.
Aug 27
/WordPress
Brand the WordPress login page with your own logo and colors using hooks, not core edits.
Aug 23
/Business
Five publications worth reading regularly, and what each one is good for.
Aug 20
/Business
The different routes into a web career, and what each one actually demands.
Aug 12
/Business
A CMS design we launched at Fresh Tilled Soil, featured on WeLoveWP.
Aug 5
/WordPress
The plugins that turn WordPress from a blog into a content management system.
Jul 22
/WordPress
Find broken and dead links across a WordPress site and fix them from the admin.
Jul 16
/WordPress
A widget that lists filtered posts by taxonomy, type or meta without writing code.
Jul 14
/Development
Target Mac or Windows visitors in JavaScript when a bug only affects one platform.
Jul 14
/Development
A three line snippet for targeting Firefox 2 and below, when you have no other option.
Jun 30
/Marketing
Restyle the AddThis sharing widget so it stops looking generic on your site.
Jun 29
/WordPress
A recap of my WordPress SEO and CMS talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup.
Jun 29
/WordPress
Fix WordPress XML import failures on files larger than 20MB by raising the right limits.
Jun 26
/WordPress
I'll be presenting on WordPress SEO and CMS capabilities at this month's Boston Meetup.
Jun 17
/WordPress
How widely WordPress is actually used as a CMS, and what the numbers mean.
Jun 17
/Marketing
Configure All in One SEO on a WordPress site, and the defaults worth changing.
Jun 15
/WordPress
Back up the database, uploads, themes and plugins on a schedule you can actually restore from.
May 28
/Development
Run Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 on a Mac for cross browser testing.
May 21
/WordPress
The plugins and settings that make the biggest difference to WordPress page speed.
May 20
/WordPress
Manage multiple WYSIWYG editors on a single post with the Custom Field Template plugin.
May 12
/Business
Nebula and star cluster photography from the NOAO, for color and texture inspiration.
May 7
/WordPress
Use custom page templates so sections of a WordPress site can look completely different.
May 7
/WordPress
Highlight comments left by the post author so replies stand out in a thread.
May 5
/Development
Why text looks pixelated during jQuery animations in Internet Explorer, and the fix.
May 4
/WordPress
WordPress has no is_child() conditional for subpages — here's the one I use instead.
Apr 29
/Analytics
Pull social media stats into your Google Analytics dashboard with a Greasemonkey plugin.
Apr 28
/Analytics
The simple way to add Google Analytics tracking to a WordPress site.
Apr 1
/Development
Detect where a visitor is located from their IP address and adapt your forms to suit.
Feb 14
/Marketing
Landing page designs that convert, and the structure behind why they work.
Feb 3
/Business
Keep Google Calendar and iCal in sync on macOS without a third-party service.
Jan 12
/Business
A web design rap from The SEO Rapper that's better than it has any right to be.
2008
Dec 22
/Marketing
Add social bookmarking links to WordPress posts with the Sociable plugin.
Nov 7
/Analytics
Which Google Analytics reports actually matter when you're working on SEO.
Nov 3
/Marketing
The WordPress SEO plugins and tools worth installing, and what each one does.
Oct 31
/Business
Whether a degree or a course is worth it for web design work.
Oct 18
/Development
Why jQuery fadeIn() and fadeOut() pixelate text in Internet Explorer, and how to fix it.
Sep 10
/Development
Highlight the current page in a navigation dynamically with jQuery, CSS and PHP.
Sep 9
/WordPress
A jQuery plugin that hides mailto addresses from spam harvesters but not from visitors.
Sep 9
/WordPress
Add default placeholder values to form inputs with the jQuery valueFx() plugin.
Aug 26
/Development
Separating presentation from content with XML and XSL, and where the approach broke down.
Aug 24
/Development
Measure page weight and load time in the browser to find what's blocking rendering.
Jul 28
/Development
Load an external JavaScript file on demand with $.
Jul 2
/Development
A cross browser fix for AJAX requests returning XML in Internet Explorer.
Apr 15
/Business
What a Dreamweaver .
Apr 13
/WordPress
A jQuery plugin that protects mailto links from spam bots harvesting your address.
Mar 25
/Business
The macOS keyboard shortcuts that save real time in a web design workflow.
Mar 12
/WordPress
Highlight the WordPress post currently being viewed inside a sidebar menu.
Mar 12
/Development
A small jQuery snippet that keeps mailto links safe from spam bots.
Feb 6
/Development
Add focus and blur effects to a search field with a few lines of jQuery.