The GDPR was rolled out on Friday, May 25, 2018. A lot of publishers (if you run a web site, you are in the eyes of the GDPR a “publisher”) have been hanging back to see what all the furor is about. But there are a few things that you really need to do now […]
Creating a Gallery and Albums Without a Gallery Plugin
A few months ago, I wrote about our experience in porting a site from CMS Made Simple to WordPress and the difficulty in finding similar plugins to replace the CMSMS modules the site was using. Turns out that the popular WordPress plugin Next Generation Gallery conflicted with the one plugin we found that worked well […]
Adding Document Icons to Links
I’m a firm believer in knowing where that link is going to take me before I click on it. That’s why I like to use document icons to indicate what kind of document is behind a download link. For client sites, it’s a matter of creating a paragraph style that inserts an icon when that […]
Listing Excerpts From Child Pages
Now you wouldn’t normally need to display an excerpt from a page’s description, would you? I didn’t think so either. But apparently there is a need. And when there’s a need, we aim to please. We had a client who wants to display custom excerpts from a page’s child pages on the parent page with […]
Creating Custom WordPress Pages
One of the powers of WordPress has always been its custom Pages feature. It’s one of the least understood, most under-utilized, and most often misused feature WP has. In order to harness the power of WordPress, and to drive a non-blog site, understanding and exploiting custom Page templates is essential. I’ll show you here how […]