You're moving to a new website! Your market has changed or you have a few more resources and it's time to make a change for the better. Awesome. A new website can help you bring more value to your customers or your community. But how do you decide which content goes and which stays? This blog post … [Read more...] about Old Content on a New Site: How to Reuse Old Content
Kyle and I are pretty relentless in our efforts to bring the power of WordPress to growing businesses. The whole premise of Evermore is built around it. We try to write helpful content here that empowers everyone (even those who aren't customers yet or will never be). And, whether as individuals or … [Read more...] about New eBook: Successful Websites for Nonprofits
Recently, I experienced a highly annoying problem in Mac OS X Mavericks: any application (including Finder) would crash whenever the Dropbox folder was opened. This resulted in me losing a lot of work in Adobe Illustrator, for instance, simply because I was trying to open a Save dialog, and the … [Read more...] about Fix Dropbox Crashing OS X Finder
Sometimes, sites can get overloaded with spam comments—thousands per day. Whether this is the case, or you've just never emptied out your spam comments on a big site, you can end up with too many to trash. This is due to some restrictions to the amount of data that can be sent along with a … [Read more...] about Bulk Remove Spam Comments in WordPress
On a frequent basis, we all try to complete a task online and get horribly frustrated. Forms are unintuitive, important pages are hidden, instructions are wrong—sites can be plain unhelpful. When you have to force yourself through a task that's valuable, but you have an unnecessarily difficult … [Read more...] about Help Websites Improve with This “Bad Experience” Email
Here's a quick tip for WordPress theme developers that seems to be a bit buried in the Codex. If you wanted to add a class to the
element based on the page template being used, you can't just go straight for the (usually helpful) is_page_template() function. It can't be used inside The … [Read more...] about Add a Class Conditionally for WordPress Page TemplatesWe’ll cover the basics of the Transients API, see basic examples, and then discuss common places where this method can be most helpful, like large, complex queries or pulling from an external API. We’ll also discuss how this type of caching is unique, when to use it, and how to scale it for big … [Read more...] about Temporary Cache Assistance (Transients API): WordCamp Phoenix 2014
I've seen one too many old Twitter icons, so I decided to do something—anything—to help folks stay up to date. I built a simple, one-page resource of major social media networks' colors and links to their official brand resources and plugins. Perhaps this doesn't help you if you're a seasoned … [Read more...] about Social Media Resource
