How to Remove Filters Using Child Theme

Disabling filters included in a parent theme using your child theme’s functions.php sounds like something that should be really easy, but it’s actually a little tricky to figure out. If you’re here, you probably already figured out that you need to use remove_filter, but might have noticed that it isn’t working. The reason is probably that the child theme functions … Read More

Jurassic World Website Review

The Jurassic World website is quite awesome. In honor of the movie coming out this weekend, I decided to review it! I highly recommend you check it out yourself at JurassicWorld.com. The website is responsive and has all the bells and whistles of a modern theme park / movie website with the massive marketing budget of a major movie studio. … Read More

Ultimate Posts Widget is NOT Compatible with Chapelco Theme

If you are using the Chapelco theme for WordPress, don’t use the Ultimate Posts Widget. It will break your theme and site! They must have an overlapping function, because it basically ruins the entire header, leading to a lack of stylesheets. I would wager that it applies to all themes using the Gantry framework as well (which I would not … Read More

“In Pieces” Website Review

If you are a fan of beautiful animations and rare animals, you are going to love this one. In addition to being a super awesome website built with modern web standards, all of the animation work is also done entirely in CSS. Besides being very difficult and impressive, this also means that the animations themselves are able to be fully … Read More

“No Records Were Found” Error with Geodirectory | WordPress

Here’s a quick tip today for those of you using the Geodirectory WordPress plugin or on your website. If you are like me, you probably got the error:

This is what showed up for me when looking at the map on individual listings pages. Strangely, the plugin doesn’t seem to have a good starter guide, and even Googling this … Read More

Best Way to Record Screencasts of a Browser – Screencastify

One thing I love doing for clients is producing video tutorials of myself on their actual website, doing tasks that they are trying to learn. After I upload it to YouTube, they are able to view it over and over again as needed. And with a little help from a plugin I developed called Video Dashboard, I can embed those … Read More

Trigger JavaScript from Embedded Wistia Video – WordPress Tutorial

I’ve recently had the opportunity to do some work with Wistia videos embedded into a website and had the challenge of having events trigger from the videos. In my case, I wanted some JavaScript to run after the videos concluded. Specifically, I was working with the Sensei WordPress plugin from WooThemes and wanted to hide the “Complete Lesson” button until the … Read More

New WordPress Site for Hastings-based Sprinkler Company

I am pleased to announce I have launched a new website for Skip’s Sprinklers based out of Hastings, Minnesota. Skip’s Sprinklers is a family owned and operated sprinkler company that’s been in business for nearly 40 years. They live by the belief that anything worth doing is worth doing right, and the quality of their work is consistent with that message. While … Read More

Bad Request Error When Downloading File From Website

If your situation is anything like mine was, you are very frustrated that you can’t figure out why you can’t download a simple file from you site. In my case, my website is WordPress, and I have followed all of the steps for uploading a file to a page and making it a download link. But when you go to … Read More