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In an ongoing effort to limit the number of plugins I use during development I’ve decided to create my own simple email lightbox popup for a number of sites. Nearly all sites need some way to capture email addresses. One of the simple and most effective ways is to create an email lightbox popup encouraging […]

I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of my first Premium WordPress Theme WorkoutPro. This theme is centered around the fitness / wellness industry and is perfect for gyms, fitness centers, yoga studios, personal trainers, chiropractors, group fitness centers and more! This Fitness WordPress Theme makes managing your stunning website simple, with no coding skills […]

In this tutorial I will go over plotting locations on a Google Map using Advanced Custom Fields. The base of the code used to accomplish this is directly from the Advanced Custom Fields documentation found here. Creating the Google Map Fields with Advanced Custom Fields First, let’s create an ACF repeater field. Inside this repeater […]

In a recent project I was asked the best way to promote upcoming camp programs for an athletic facility. One option was to add a new section to the home page. This would be a bit out-of-flow and we felt it wasn’t the best approach. We decided to use a simple light-box that would show […]

The most powerful form plugin for WordPress is Gravity Forms, hands down. Along with Advanced Custom Fields and my Core Functionality Plugin, it is one of the three plugins I include in every WordPress website I build. The options of what can be done with Gravity Forms are endless. This tutorial will go over how […]

WPEngine is one of my go-to hosting solutions. Their platform is second to none, their customer service is top-notch and they offer a strong set of features that can make hosting, migrating, backing-up and all the other mundane tasks of running a website simple and safe. Today I’m going to talk about one of my […]

Over the years I have been asked to move WordPress blog posts many times. The most frequent need for blog post migration is during the development of a new site where the client needs to keep all blog posts, but has no need for other things from the old site. Instead of migrating the entire […]

I came across a project recently that required the use of a custom post type for ‘News’ articles. No problem. It was also required that the news articles show on various other pages throughout the site within the page content. Again, no problem, a simple shortcode can handle this without issue. The issue comes with […]

One frustrating thing I’ve run in to multiple times is the difficulty in working with YouTube embed codes when it comes to responsive design. Typically you can make an image, or video, responsive by simply assigning a 100% width with a variable height, but that doesn’t work with YouTube embeds. If you use this tactic […]