I have used categories in so many different ways as I learn WordPress, it has gotten thoroughly confused at various times. I tried doing strange things to generate urls that worked for my purposes only to have the url double itself. I did find that putting a single period in the “Category Base” did eliminate
When I work on testing for my websites, I use a local development server. My favorite choice on my Mac is DesktopServer. It is not the local server of choice that I have this problem, it is me being impatient. I get too excited and forget to let processes run, and the most important one
There are many different ways to organize content in your WordPress installation. Not one method can be considered the best and only way to create a structure. You have to look at the goal you want to achieve and choose what you think will be best for you. This is how I used the categories
I was having an issue for the last day trying to understand why my responsive menu for my custom WordPress theme using an Underscores.me template was not allowing the navigation items to display vertically above one another. I do want the menu to display horizontally when on larger screens. I researched W3Schools.com and took apart
Security of your website is very important, especially any content management system (CMS) that allows users to login to the site to create posts. WordPress is my favorite CMS and I use it for many of my sites. The question I often ask myself is how best to obfuscate my username so as to not
Did you know that many themes have a default that display the username for an author of a post? What could be wrong with this you say? Well, just knowing the username can be that one step closer to breaking into your WordPress website. All a hacker will now need to do is try to
Quick development can be accomplished by using Bootstrap with the Underscores framework. Underscores.me is a vanilla, “no styles included”, framework for starting your developent of a WordPress theme. I use Bootstrap to provide the styling functionality. In order to get started, we first need to get the two working together. Check out my post in combining
Research Similar Sites In order to better understand how you compare, research similar sites to see what might be missing that you could capitalize on for your readers. Not every site should have the same information, and each should offer up some useful bit of information that might not be found somewhere else. Your readers
Topic List When we first start our blogs, for the most part we still do not know what we really want to talk about. Planning ideas on topics should really happen prior to starting the blog or well in the beginning stages. It is far too easy to get into a state of confusion and
Identify your user This is not an easy step. The user of your website is not likely going to be the “Ideal” user you are thinking about, and most of all YOU are not the example of the user that will likely use or find your site. While it is easy to design based upon
