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Eaton Academy

Eaton Academy is a leading independent private school in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Its mission is to provide individualized “Education Solutions for Every Mind, Every Age”. With low student-to-teacher ratios; programs for kindergarteners to post-graduates; options for on-premises, distance, and virtual learning; and curricula ranging from life skills to college prep; Eaton stands apart as an educational institution that successfully serves a broad range of learners with varied needs and learning styles.

Eaton first hired me in 2007 to redesign their first-generation Website which had been managed by school staff. Eleven years later, we embarked upon a new redesign, to make the site mobile responsive and to better reflect the breadth and depth of the school’s offerings.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Portfolio

By Jeff Cohan, August 24, 2016

What Exactly is a Web Application, Anyway?

When I tell people my business is building and maintaining Web sites and Web applications and providing WordPress support services, I get interesting reactions.

Pretty much everyone knows what a Web site is.

Fellow WordPress developers/designers and WordPress Do-It-Yourselfers (people who build and manage their own WordPress Web sites) know what WordPress support means.

But many people don’t understand what I mean by “Web application“.

In this article, I attempt to explain.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Web forms, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, August 1, 2016

Use Custom Fields to Hide Stale Posts

Custom fields in WordPress (meta-data) can be extremely handy for controlling how you display your blog posts. In this article, I describe how I used custom fields — together with modifying the WordPress loop for the site’s front page — to solve a not uncommon problem: When blog posts about events from the far past show up in the “Recent Posts” section of a site’s home page, visitors might react negatively. It’s a little like letting newspapers pile up in your driveway when you’re on vacation: people might think you’re lazy or not home. Deleting such posts isn’t the answer.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: Custom Fields, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 26, 2016

Offer Live Chat for Enhanced Customer Engagement and Sales

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Live Chat is here to stay, and smart businesses everywhere and in every industry are using it to provide the immediate personal touch that their prospects and customers long for. In this blog post, I discuss the Live Chat software I’m currently using (Tawk.to) and offer some reasons you ought to consider going “Live Chat” as soon as possible.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Customer Service, Live Chat, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 23, 2016

Enhanced Media Library Pro Plugin for WordPress: First Look

While building a WordPress powered e-commerce website for a bridal shop that could have thousands of images to manage, I quickly realized we’d need a much better way to manage images than navigating through hundreds of Media Library screens — especially considering the very limited functionality of the native WordPress Media Library.

I considered several solutions before remembering that I had used the Enhanced Medial Library plugin (free version) on another client site. This is a first look at Enhanced Medial Library Pro (although I suppose it’s also a first look at the free version).

Spoiler alert: For a one-time payment of $25 for unlimited lifetime updates for unlimited sites, you might not have to read past this summary.

(But please do.)

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Reviews · Tagged: Media, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, July 23, 2016

Make Responsive Lightbox by dFactory Work with FooGallery

Make Responsive Lightbox by dFactory Work with FooGallery

This is a repurposing of an earlier blog article, First Look at Foo Gallery. I wanted to make it easy for people to find this solutions for making FooGallery and Responsive Lightbox by dFactory work together.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Snippets · Tagged: FooGallery, Media, Plugins, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, May 13, 2016

Display WordPress and WooCommerce Tags as Lists

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Instructions for displaying a tag cloud as a list in WordPress and WooCommerece.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Snippets · Tagged: php, Taxonomies, WooCommerce, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, May 11, 2016

Decisions

The decisions we make (as well as the ones we don’t make, because not to decide is to decide) can have profound, life-changing consequences. Dang if that’s not both scary and exciting. In this article, I share a couple of anecdotes about decisions and remind myself it’s good to stop sometimes, smell the coffee, and reflect on things.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Musings

By Jeff Cohan, May 10, 2016

Protected: Gravity Forms API Tutorial

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General

By Jeff Cohan, May 9, 2016

Do I Need to Hire a WordPress Developer? – Part 1

Friends, family, acquaintances, and clients often ask the question, “Do I really need to hire a WordPress developer”? While WordPress is an extremely accessible tool for building Web sites, there are some reasons to consider bringing in a professional. In this admittedly thinly-veiled pitch, I offer some insights that focus on the potential problems associated with WordPress plugins – and how professional WordPress developers can avoid and address them.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Plugins, WordPress

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Formally trained in liberal arts and education (I have a B.A. in Government from Harvard and studied Secondary Education at Rutgers Graduate School), I have honed my skills in the communication arts and sciences as a teacher, trainer, instructional designer, writer, photographer, calligrapher, helpdesk manager, database programmer, and multimedia developer.

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