Category: WordPress
Introduction This was an end-to-end site development project. But, it involved very little customization and was built with off-the-shelf plugins and the DIVI 3.0 theme. The customization that was done included a little CSS, choosing some images and setting options in the theme. Overall it was a relatively smooth experience. Scope of Work: Modern Responsive…
I have purchased and used many themes and they all suffer from very similar limitations. The most egregious is mobile support – for the purposes of this article this is the only limitation I will touch on today. 99.9% of configuration options I have seen in theme control panels are limited to a single value.…
Recently, I needed to clone a large WordPress site from my current hosting provider to an Azure-hosted virtual server. The reason for the clone was to get better performance at a price that wasn’t astronomical. WPEngine needed at least $600.00 to kick up the performance of the site, and highly recommended their $1200 solution in…
Our prior article covered installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012 and IIS version 7.5+. In this article we will walk you through the process of turning on Multi-Site for IIS. It is assumed that you have a working installation of WordPress on Windows Server and IIS and that you have a current backup.
Introduction There is no such thing as a “5 min install” for WordPress. It is a great marketing slogan. But anyone who has ever installed WordPress knows that that is all it is — marketing. And when it comes to Windows Server and IIS, there is definitely no such thing as a 5 min install.…
Introduction and Business Problem When working on large WordPress projects, there is a frequent need to turn off all custom and 3rd party plugins in order to troubleshoot an issue. But once the troubleshooting is complete, how do you remember which plugins were turned on or off before the troubleshooting started? Plus, how do you…
Introduction and Business Problem The WordPress administration dashboard can be a mess. Granting access to it to the end user is simply asking for trouble. There are many tools that allow you to control what shows up on the dashboard, but none of them allow you to control the ORDER in which the widgets show…
Introduction and Business Problem The WordPress administration dashboard can be daunting. Granting access to it to the end user is almost always problematic. There are many tools that allow you to control what shows up on the dashboard, and more tools that allow you to put a custom widget on it. But there is nothing…
TablePress is a wonderful free plugin for WordPress. But, the tables that are created are generic - plain looking with no sense of style. It occurred to us that we could vcreate a large number of easy-to-use reusable stylesheets that would make it easy to transform bland and generic looking TablePress Tables. The bonus would be that the styles could be used on any other table where a CSS classname could be assigned.
Introduction and Business Problem WordPress Multisite is a great way to run a set of sites, without having to deal with the hassles of upgrading and managing multiple installations of WordPress. But it works best if the sites are somehow related to each other — for example, maybe all the sites belong to the same…