How to add a mobile responsive menu to your Genesis WordPress website 16 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm

This tutorial explains how to add a Footer Anchor mobile menu to a Genesis or StudioPress WordPress website. The beauty of the Footer Anchor technique is in its simplicity – it just works, and there i...

Use a background image as a fallback when embedded Gists don’t appear 6 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm

Embedding Gists to display code snippets normally works great, and I wrote a post a few days ago explaining how to do that on a WordPress site or blog. But what about when, for whatever reason, your G...

Embed Gists on your WordPress blog without a plugin 3 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm

When I first started writing tutorial blog posts that involved posting code snippets I would add the code directly into the posts and use the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin to render it readable on ...

How to fix StudioPress Metro theme widget titles 20 May 2013 | 04:39 am

I really like the Metro theme from StudioPress. Recently I was working on the third WordPress site I’ve built with Metro and ran into a small problem. Widget titles for the widgets provided by a certa...

How to replace the StudioPress background header image with a real image logo 10 May 2013 | 10:56 pm

I think I need to start by saying that this post is in no way a complaint about StudioPress themes or the Genesis framework. I switched to Genesis and StudioPress late in 2012 and I couldn’t be happie...

Improving the end-user experience for the Soliloquy WordPress slider with custom post types and a filter 29 Mar 2013 | 11:25 pm

One of my tasks as a builder of websites is to make the user experience for the client as painless as possible, on both the front and back ends of the website. Painless, or better yet, enjoyable, user...

Saying “No” and other good advice for creative types 18 Mar 2013 | 06:04 pm

This video from Creative Mornings features Jason Santa Maria giving a talk on saying “No,” along with lots of other great business advice for those of us in the creative world. Having been a home buil...

Load FooBox plugin scripts and styles only when needed 13 Mar 2013 | 09:49 pm

FooBox is a relatively new lightbox plugin for WordPress sites that is responsive and, in my experience so far, works very well across multiple devices. I currently have it installed on a number of we...

SEO advice for startups from Google (10 minute video) 8 Jul 2012 | 06:42 am

SEO advice for startups from Google 8 Jul 2012 | 03:42 am

A ten-minute video of SEO advice from Google, the people who are writing and re-writing the book on SEO.