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The Proprietary Shopping Cart Fiasco: A Rant.

The Proprietary Shopping Cart Fiasco: A Rant.

Based on my experience since becoming a web developer, I’m glad I don’t work in television, because I’d never enjoy shows the same way. Last week I went online to purchase a ticket to a local sporting event, and was greeted with the bright red text “Please refrain from using any special characters in your…

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Maketing to Fear vs. Educated Customers: a No-Brainer.

Maketing to Fear vs. Educated Customers: a No-Brainer.

I don’t primarily sell web code; I sell peace of mind. I could easily market to fear. Fear sells extremely well: just check out the 24-hour news channel to see what I mean. The quickest way to make money in maintenance or insurance is to create a boogeyman and then be the hero who saves…

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How to display your Favicon in an embedded WordPress Post.

How to display your Favicon in an embedded WordPress Post.

Today, I learned that if you are old-school and haven’t set up a site icon (a feature introduced in WordPress 4.3 I didn’t see the need for because I had already set a custom favicon using other methods back-in-the-day) , when your posts are embedded on someone else’s site (a feature introduced in 4.4 this…

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Sometimes it pays to Cowboy Code.

Sometimes it pays to Cowboy Code.

“Im going to regret this moment” I said out loud as I ignored my own advice about having a server-level backup before I started messing around with my server settings. When I am working on client sites, I am beyond careful to never code on the live site, and to have multiple redundant backups, so…

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Update Your Site To WordPress 4.4, like a Pro.

Update Your Site To WordPress 4.4, like a Pro.

Last week I watched live as the WordPress core developers rushed down to the wire to release version 4.4. It was the first release that I’ve been around to watch be pushed live, and it was really fun. I make my money on keeping people’s WordPress installs up to date and backed up, but I…

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Beginner Mistakes in WordPress: not using a Staging Site.

Beginner Mistakes in WordPress: not using a Staging Site.

Easily a top-ten mistake I see beginner WordPress users making is updating plugins, themes, and other code on the live site. Updating your code on the live site, without checking to see if it’s going to break stuff, is what developers call “Cowboy Coding,” and it’s an epidemic among beginners. If you update it on…

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