Ashley and I recently were invited to a Thanksgiving party. For the sake of privacy, we’ll call the host of the party “Elizabeth.” Elizabeth sent the party invite to Ashley via Facebook’s “Events” feature. Yesterday Ashley checked on the status of the event to see what delicious goodies we’d be feasting on—only to find out [...]
How to Customize Your Live WordPress Theme Design Without Anyone Knowing
This is just a quick and easy tip for people who’d like to customize a WordPress theme design while it is live. Using this simple technique, you’ll be able to design, edit and test changes you make to your WordPress site’s currently activated theme without worrying about your visitors seeing your work in progress. The [...]
WordPress Image Attachment Gallery (Revisited)
As promised but long overdue, here is the followup to my original Make A Custom WordPress Gallery from Post Image Attachments post. Unfortunately I don’t have time to formulate a witty monologue to accompany this version, nor the time to go into great detail about the changes. This newer version gives you greater control over [...]
Make A Custom WordPress Gallery from Post Attachment Images
Update: A newer version of this function can be found here: WordPress Image Attachment Gallery Revisited * You may still benefit from reading this post, however. If for no other reason, you’ll help validate my existence. I recently had a client who needed a custom WP image gallery that would let him wrap images around [...]
How to Fix the “Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” WordPress Message
I have a tendency to be old school. For years, I’ve updated WordPress, plugins, and themes the old fashioned way… through tried-and-true FTP. Lately, however, I’ve come to appreciate WordPress’ built-in update feature and have been using that instead. It is far more efficient than using FTP, it can run in the background while I [...]

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