For a decade, I’ve been personally developing custom and published plugins, correcting and designing custom themes, and optimizing WordPress for clients. It’s been quite a roller coaster and I have very, very strong opinions about the implementations I’ve done for companies large and small. I’ve also been critical of builders – plugins and themes that enable unrestricted modifications to sites. They’re a cheat, often massively inflating the size of a site’s web pages while slowing
Martech Zone: Welcome To My New Martech Publication!
It’s only been a year since I last reskinned our WordPress site. While I liked the layout, I had a ton of plugins and customizations to make it function the way I wanted it, too. With WordPress, that can begin to spell disaster from a performance standpoint and I was seeing the cracks in the foundation. So, I went on the hunt for a design that could incorporate both very large displays as well as
Add CSS Animation To Your WordPress Site with CSS Hero’s Plugin
CSS Hero is a fantastic resource for CSS modifications in WordPress themes for quite some time. Tools like these are making customizations simple to WordPress users who want to customize their designs, but lack the CSS coding experience necessary. CSS Hero Features Include Point and Click Interface – mouse hover and click the element you want to edit and adjust it to fit your needs. Theme Agnostic – Add Hero powers to your themes, no
Common Theme Development Mistakes with WordPress
The demand for WordPress development continues to grow and almost all of our clients now have either a WordPress site or an embedded WordPress blog. It’s a solid move – not loved by everyone but there are so many themes, plugins, and a vast amount of developers that it makes sense. The ability to modify your web presence without scrapping a platform and starting over is just a huge advantage. If you ever have a
Randomize Your WordPress Headlines Easily
I was looking for a plugin or some code to shuffle headlines on our home page at DK New Media to have some fun and dress up the home page a bit. The problem was that I have a theme applied that has specific fields for the tag line and description of the site, and I didn’t feel like tearing it apart for this modification. To do this with plugins and theme modifications would require
Custom Post Types with Custom Categories
WordPress is becoming such an indispensable platform to so many companies, but the average company doesn’t even take advantage of a fraction of the capabilities. One of our clients wanted to add a resource section to their site but didn’t want to do it using pages nor in blog posts. This is exactly what WordPress supports Custom Post Types for! In this case, we wanted to add a Resource Section to one of our clients’
Pagelines 2.0 Reinvents WordPress Theming and Ecommerce
WordPress has continued doing a fantastic job… not just updating their platform but in the way they’ve really opened it to third-party integration. Plugins and Themes for the platform are everywhere, and they’re very affordable. New businesses have developed around the platform as well, Pagelines being one of them! The company is very proud to announce the launch of Pagelines 2.0, a theme framework that transforms WordPress. Pagelines 2.0 boasts the following features: Drag &
Welcome to The 2009 Marketing Tech Blog
If you’ve been a long-time reader of my blog, you’ve probably noticed some changes of recent. I’ve been soliciting the assistance of new bloggers and transforming the blog from my blog to our blog. Today was a huge step forward with that strategy – you’ll now see that my blog has a new theme! The stunning design was developed by one of our very own, Jon Arnold President of Tuitive Group. He did a beautiful