Website Building
Adding a Child Theme without losing your Customizer styles
Perhaps you’ve forgotten to add a child theme, inherited a site without one or thought you might not need one until now. Maybe you want to save complex customiser setting for another project. Either way there is a great plugin from the WordPress repository called Customizer Export/Import that could save you time. When you install and…
Read MoreTimed Post Content for Events, Job Listings and Limited offers
I’ve been working on two projects each with Custom Post Types where posts needed to automatically disappear based on the date. One was for events. The other for job listings. The best solution seemed to be a plugin called Post Expirator. In short At the time of writing Post Expirator had not been updated…
Read MoreThe Breeze Cache plugin – How I set it up and why I use it.
UPDATE: March 2021. I am presently using WP Rocket (again). Breeze seems to be working fine, but there was small period in 2020 where my sites were experiencing long Time to First Byte. WP Rocket introduced a few useful additions for me such as deferred loading videos scripts and optimized google fonts. I still think…
Read MoreUsing the Custom Post Type UI plugin
A short video post on how to create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies with the Custom Post Type UI plugin. It is part of my new series on making a Product Site with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer . Settings used for the CPT In red are the areas I will typically alter from the…
Read MoreMake your own Custom Post Type plugin with custom Taxonomy easily
This video post shows that you don’t need to a be an ace developer to build your own simple plugin. This is also part of a series I am developing on creating a Product site with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer. You might want to do this because: 1. It’s a lightweight option 2. It…
Read MoreWorking Smarter with WordPress Images
For over a decade I’ve been wasting time doing the same tedious tasks in WordPress. I decided I needed to get a grip. Here’s 5 things I’ve started doing when working with images. 1. Automatically add Image Meta-data Habitually, I was good at adding meaningful (SEO friendly) names to my images files, but in…
Read MoreMaking a better website business with Beaver Builder.#4 – The Blueprint Templates
Last time we looked at the plugins in our blueprint install. This time we are looking at the blueprint itself and the templates and pages we use. Don’t expect an aesthetically pleasing designs. Here, the aim is to save time with a design checklist. Here’s the Blueprint The site below is hidden behind a coming soon…
Read MoreMaking a better website business with Beaver Builder.#3 – The Blueprint Plugins
In this third post I’m sharing the WordPress plugins we are using for our new web building service. Why we have chosen them and how we are handling licenses. Plugin Licensing and Client freedoms I talked about this subject recently in the podcast I do with Nathan Wrigley at WP Builds. This episode was called What…
Read MoreMaking a better website business with Beaver Builder.#2 – Addon Packs
In part one I talked about how I’m creating a new productized web building service around the Beaver Builder theme, plugin and Beaver Themer. Here, I’m looking at the role 3rd party Beaver Builder addons in this. In part, it is a follow up to my post looking at the main players in the market, but…
Read MoreMaking a better website business with Beaver Builder.#1 – The Master Plan
My website building business is rubbish. I’m not happy with the work or what clients have been getting. I expected this. I had not found the right process for the right client. Now I am ready to get serious and I thought I would share my journey. The Master Plan That’s a bit grand for…
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