It is October 2021 and I am testing the WordPress full site editing capabilities with Gutenberg. As of this writing, this is only available via the Gutenberg plugin until WordPress 5.9 is released in a few months. I had cloned the Theme Experiments repo directly in my test site’s theme folder. The cool thing is
I enjoy building websites with WordPress as it is very quick and easy to install and modify. In order to make my development work easier, I prefer to utilize Docker containers as an even quicker and easier way to spool up a WordPress site locally and then deploy to an external hosting service when completed.
Google is paying attention to whether you have an SSL certificate to your site. It is my understanding that Google will rank sites higher that now can be reached via HTTPS:// rather than only HTTP:// (note that the ‘S’ is missing – for ‘Secure’). I found it rather easy to setup a free SSL certificate
I am relatively new to using Docker, and I wanted to share and also make note of some useful information for myself on how to setup a few containers to allow my server to host multiple website containers. I know there may be better and more efficient ways to create the end result, one of
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
Local development server I have tried various ways of creating a local development environment for me to test my website ideas, most of which seemed highly technical and took me days of research. I don’t have the time to learn all the aspects of setting up a server, and I am always looking for new
Note: this is an older post. I have since created a newer post that might be of better explanation. Visit my newer Simple Theme Using Underscores and Bootstrap Remejy Simple Blue The theme I am creating is going to be a simple blue theme that will utilize Underscores.me and Bootstrap. I created a few themes
