Perhaps a useful way to display blog articles.
Case Studies
Including success stories and How-To articles that are longer than your average Techniques.
- How to Create a Custom Member Directory for a WordPress/MemberPress Membership Site: Details
- I Built a WordPress Plugin for Downloadable Files
- Hayes Shutters Online Ordering System
- Custom Web Form: Contract Generator in PHP & MySQL
- Case Study: Emergency Notice Banner for Hybrid Web site
- How to create 323 unique landing pages with Pretty URLs – from just one page
- Use SurveyMonkey to Schedule Meetings
- Custom Facebook Tab Using iFrame
For Staff
General
Most articles in this category address general Web and Internet issues. Some of them are rants and ramblings that may have less to do with the Web and the Internet and more to do with life lessons and business lessons.
- You built an online course, but they haven’t come.
- Replicating a Website in WordPress on SiteGround
- Visualize an Audience of One
- How To Structure MemberPress Memberships
- MemberPress Quiz Question Types: What You Should Know
- Scam Alert: ATT/Yahoo! Phishing Scam 6/4/2024
- How To (and How Not To) Choose a WordPress Theme
- Being the Master of your Domain (Name)
- What’s In a (Domain) Name
- So you want to offer online courses…
- How to Make a Stale Website Fresh
- Gravity Forms Partial Entries is Not What You Think
- Make your Web Site the Heart & Hub of your Online Marketing Strategy
- Why SiteGround Hosting?
- Trello Board Tour: Jeff’s Blogging Board
- Give Gutenberg a Chance
- Sharing Blog Posts on Social Networks: Why & How
- A Time For Storytelling
- Strong Testimonials – Problem with v2.40.2
- Try Live Chat Next Time You Need Customer Service
- 7 Lessons I’ve Learned from Live Chat
- Life Happens
- PayPal Phishing Scam Alert Oct 11, 2018
- How to Create an Effective Value Proposition
- What Exactly is a Web Application, Anyway?
- Offer Live Chat for Enhanced Customer Engagement and Sales
- Decisions
- Protected: Gravity Forms API Tutorial
- Do I Need to Hire a WordPress Developer? – Part 1
- BlueHost Implements Auto-Updating of WordPress. WTF?
- Side Effects of Rebuilding Web Sites to be Responsive and Mobile-Friendly
- Traffic Does Not Equal Audience
- Everything can be gamed
- Lessons Web Developers Won’t Learn in School
- Yet Another Facebook Survey
- Before you gripe and whine
- Disambiguating Call To Action
- How To Get 1,000 Twitter Followers In 24 Hours: Follow 1,016 People On Twitter
- Mistaking Me For Someone Who Cares
- Social Networking is a little like Baseball
- About.me: WTF?
- Why I Love Firebug for Firefox
- Unfollow-A-Huckster Wednesday
- Short(er) Form Video
- When a client trivializes your work, call a time-out.
- Enough already with the formulaic blog titles
- Hang out with a friend online
- What are WordPress Post Formats, and why should I care?
- Post Formats have NOT been removed from WordPress 3.6 core
- Do you know what business you’re in?
- Don’t blindly do what your customers ask you to do just because they asked you to do it
- First ask why
- Don’t delete old content.
- Please stop endorsing me on LinkedIn.
- HTML5 Outliner
- Everything you could ever want to know about the role and importance of HTML headings in Web documents, including blogs
- 13 Timeless Lessons from the Father of Advertising
- Spreading your ideas
- Repetition
- Generalists and Specialists
- Knowing where to kick.
- Making Sense of WordPress Post Formats
- What to look for in WordPress themes: Pluggability
- It was bound to happen: I disagree with Seth Godin.
- Because we can.
- Should I update to the newest version of WordPress?
- Child Themes – WordCamp ATL 2012 Presentation
- PHP OOP Virtual Study Group?
- Bad News: Facebook is Converting Old Groups to New Format
- Libra: Division of Labor
- Things WordPress Doesn’t Do So Well: Tables
- Libra: What Is It?
- Bring your Facebook Fan Page to your Web site
Portfolio
A sampling of Websites and Web applications I have developed
Reviews
Reviews are First Looks grown up. Generally speaking, the articles in this category involved more extensive research and testing — and often comparative testing — than First Looks.
- WP Staging Plugin: a First Look
- WordPress Free Booking Plugins Face-Off: Amelia Lite vs. Simply Schedule Appointments
- Use FooGallery for WordPress to Show Off Your Stuff
- Enhanced Media Library Pro Plugin for WordPress: First Look
- FooGallery Plugin for WordPress: First Look
- Embedded Facebook Posts available to all
- 14 days exploring Pinterest, Day #3
- 14 days exploring Pinterest, Day #2
- 14 days exploring Pinterest, Day #1
- Testing Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin
- Tipsy WordPress Plugin from iThemes
- NetworkedBlogs: Testing it out
- Downscaling Images On Upload in WordPress
- From Blog to Facebook: Testing WordBooker
Snippets
Code snippets I want to have handy. You might, too.
- Post-Specific CSS for WordPress
- CSS Data Attribute Override
- How to overlap elements with HTML and CSS (Grid) only
- CSS Pseudo-classes Trick Using :has, :not, and :hover
- Background image opacity: How to alter without affecting foreground content
- Display List of Active Plugins in WordPress Dashboard
- Adding Taxonomies to the WordPress Body Class
- MemberPress: How to Create a Custom MemberPress Course Progress Page
- MemberPress: Create a Custom Shortcode to Display a MemberPress Membership Price ANYWHERE on Your Website
- Custom Post Type: How to Create a Simple Custom Events Plugin
- CSS Grid: Shortest CSS Grid Tutorial EVER!
- Genesis: How to Hide the Mai Lifestyle Pro Banner Area With Code
- Responsive Lightbox by dFactory: Make it Work with FooGallery
- Display WordPress and WooCommerce Tags as Lists
- PHP: Get All User Constants
- PHP: Get All User Functions
- PHP: Get All Included Files
- CSS Tooltips: How to Create Tooltips with CSS (Only)
- MySQL: Update table using subquery, Excel data
- PHP Shortcode: Custom extensible PHP shortcode function for non-WordPress Web sites
- CSS Multiple Backgrounds
- YouTube Embed in WordPress: How to embed a YouTube Video in WordPress
- PHP, MySQL: Get From Foreigner (utility function)
- NextGen Gallery Compact Album Mods
Techniques
Short How-To articles, similar to but not as involved as Case Studies.
- Custom MemberPress Pricing Pages
- MemberPress Rules Using Custom Taxonomies and Custom Roles
- MemberPress Notification System Extended
- Create Accordions & Toggles in WordPress with HTML and CSS Only
- How To Use MemberPress to Protect Posts that Contain Custom Fields
- Responsive Tables with Minimal CSS
- Custom Front-End Member Listing for MemberPress Website
- Create a Membership Card for a MemberPress Site
- WordPress Custom Post Types: 6-Minute Video Summary
- Make a Poster Graphic with HTML and CSS Using Grid Template Areas — and NO Graphics Program
- Custom Member Directory for WordPress Membership Site
- 10 Tips for Using Basecamp Like a Pro
- How (and Why) to Partially Protect Content on your Membership Site
- Customize User Roles & Capabilities in WordPress: How (and Why)
- Use Case for Custom Post Type: “In The News”
- Avoid Direct Styling; Use CSS Instead
- Blog Tags: What They Are (and What They’re Not)
- Use Custom Lesson Icons for MemberPress Courses
- How to Override MemberPress Template Files
- How To Add Custom Contextual Help Content To The WordPress Dashboard
- WordPress Manual Excerpts: Why, When, & How to Use Them
- How to Build Stunning WordPress Photo Galleries Quickly and Easily With FooGallery PRO
- How to clear cache on iPhone and iPad
- Dynamic Photo Galleries with Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
- Automatic “Visit Web Site” Links on WordPress Portfolio Posts
- How to Reuse Content in WordPress with the amr shortcode any widget Plugin
- Dynamic Linear Gradients for Background Images in Genesis
- Dive Into WordPress Custom Post Types – Part 3
- Add Dynamic Table of Contents to a Series of WordPress Posts
- Help Your Blog Readers Find What They’re Looking For with the Search & Filter Plugin
- Dive Into WordPress Custom Post Types – Part 2
- Dive Into WordPress Custom Post Types – Part 1
- Why, When, and How to use sprintf and printf
- Use Custom Fields to Hide Stale Posts
- Are Your iPhone Photos Upside-Down or Sideways?
- Read Blogs More Efficiently (and Enhance your Blog Reading Experience) Using Categories and Tags
- Which Categories and Tags Should I Use?
- How to use Advanced Custom Fields with Genesis
- CSS Descendant Selectors
- Sort Multidimensional Arrays with PHP array_multisort
- Customizing WordPress Using Vendor-Built Child Themes
- How to add an About Us blurb to every WordPress blog post
- Underlining for Emphasis: How to un-underline text on a Web page with CSS
- Don’t use the admin username in WordPress
- One suggestion for writing blog articles that don’t suck
- Biting the bullet
- About Post Formats in 12 Slides
- iPhone Video: Land, Front Up, Back Down.
- Shorten Your WordPress Slugs (Permalinks)
- How to delete (strip) attachments in Horde Webmail
- WordPress More Tag
- WordPress Categories and Tags