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WordCamp Kansas City 2018 Troubleshooting Session
I had the privilege of speaking at WordCamp Kansas City 2018 in a session about troubleshooting the most common WordPress issues. You can download the slides from my talking by clicking here.
Add Custom Color Palette to ACF Pro Color Picker Field
If you’re utilizing ACF Pro and their color picker field types within your WordPress theme(s), maybe you’ve wondered if it’s possible to add the site’s color palette to the swatches available within the field so you, or your client, aren’t left to hand input a specific color’s hex code or select a similar color from… Read more
Fix Redirect Chain on WPEngine
Recently I encountered an issue working with a client hosted on WPEngine when converting their site to use SSL that I thought I’d share a fix for. When converting a site to HTTPS, for SEO reasons, it’s important to 301 redirect from the non-secure URL. It’s important to not only do that for the non-secure… Read more
Adding a Custom Link to Custom Post Type WordPress Admin Submenu
Recently I had a situation where I wanted to add a submenu item to a custom post type within the WordPress admin that pointed to a completely separate area of the admin where they could find form entries related to that custom post type. That was my particular use case but you could take this… Read more
Converting WordPress to HTTPS
Last month, Google emailed a warning to website owners that, starting in October 2017, Google Chrome would begin marking any page with a form as “not secure” if your site was not protected with SSL. I have a (very effective) Quick Connect form on the footer of every single page of my site, meaning my entire… Read more
Displaying Regular WordPress Custom Fields with ACF 5.6.0+
If you’re an ACF user, you may have noticed in the latest updates of the plugin that the regular WordPress custom fields interface is no longer showing on Edit screens. This was done largely for speed boosting reasons and you can read more about the reasoning here. Starting in version 5.6.0 of the plugin, it… Read more
Getting Validated WordPress AMP Pages
I’ve set up Google AMP pages on a couple WordPress projects now and, depending on the suite of plugins the site is rocking, it can be far from a walk in the park. Here are the plugins I’ve typically leveraged to get AMP up & running on a blog: the Automattic Google AMP plugin and,… Read more
