by suleski | May 6, 2016 | Products, Reference, Review, Technical
The problem I have close to a dozen sites that I personally handle. That includes feature requests, performance, and backups. To perform backups, I pretty much set aside a decent chunk of time to manually export the WordPress databases, then I FTP down the...
by suleski | Dec 23, 2015 | Technical, Troubleshooting
I have a client whose site mysteriously looked messed up one day. After some digging, it turned out that all of the WordPress text widgets were removed. Thought that was an odd thing for a human to do, so I suspected that there was a correlation to a plugin or...
by suleski | Jan 2, 2015 | Reference, Technical
The WordPress backend has a very specific look to it. If you are looking to add a new page there, you’ll want to style it similarly. It’s not very clear what is available, but after a lot of searching, I came across these links that help shine light on...
by suleski | Nov 5, 2014 | Technical, Troubleshooting, Walkthroughs
Intro Recently, I joined the WordPress Theme Review Team. I’m in the process of reviewing my first theme and these are some notes that may come in handy. Setup a test environment I have a local WAMP setup. If you develop for WordPress and are still uploading...
by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Reference, Technical
Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries. As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar. To get it going, do...