If you’re moving from Blogger to WordPress or just considering changing hosts, it’s important to carefully consider your host before choosing. Web hosts are generally split into two categories. There are a lot more than two categories if you want to get super specific, but […]
Hi Ashley – I want to create a page for specific books, but I want as little text as possible on the page. Instead, I would like to make it so that the book synopsis pops up when you hover over the image (instead of […]
I receive an awesome WordPress security question from Shannelle: Ashley! You’ve mentioned that you got to do a login page to access the real login page, and I was wondering, how did you do that? I’m being bothered by so many emails about people trying […]
Anna and I have been working on this free theme, Ingrid, for months. We had to change our plans a little (explained below), but we’re so thrilled to be able to offer it to you today for free! Let’s talk about this long ass process. […]
Through my years as a plugin author, theme developer, and website builder, I’ve logged into a lot of other peoples’ WordPress installations. More often than not, those people have plugin or WordPress core updates they haven’t done. Through blogs, Twitter, and other social media, I […]
I recently found myself in several situations where I needed a maintenance or coming soon page (once for my site and once for a client). I could have just used one of the many WordPress plugins, but being the stubborn girl that I am, I […]
Sooo I accidentally wrote a novel on Facebook highlighting some of the key differences between WordPress and Squarespace. I’ve written about Squarespace before but with how popular the platform is getting, I thought it deserved a slightly more thorough post and comparison to WordPress. Before […]
I don’t just mean theme frameworks (though they also apply). I mean any kind of framework. Genesis (theme framework) Kirki (Customizer framework) Redux (options panel framework) others?? Wait, aren’t these things supposed to make my life EASIER? Well, yes, but that’s part of the problem. […]
A lot of steps go into building a WordPress plugin. I’ve released many premium plugins, free plugins, and even one plugin in the WordPress.org repository. Today I thought I’d talk about what it actually takes to build a plugin, whether it’s free or paid. First […]
Hello Ashley, Is there any way to replace the automatic WordPress emoticons (eg. if you type in :), it automatically translates to a smiley) with customized ones? Thanks! Cecilia Hi Cecilia! It’s actually quite easy to customize your smilies in WordPress. All it takes is […]