When building custom WordPress themes for clients I like to give them as much control over their content as possible. However, when you take into account that clients may not be aware enough when inputting images and content their site may end up looking pretty rough if they uploaded a huge image or short piece […]
Read the entry: Using a featured image as a background image in WordPressA couple clients recently needed some basic password protection for a selected group of WordPress pages. I thought “Great, WordPress already has that built in”, which it does, but with one drawback. Password protection when used in WordPress only applies to the page that it was setup on. Now, like anything in life, there are […]
Read the entry: Automatically password protect child pages of parent page in WordPressLong gone are the days where all your content lived on individual HTML pages and you would FTP to your site to update a sentence. This is probably pretty obvious, and to be honest some of you may not remember the good ol’ days of cowboy coding. Nowadays there are many content management system options […]
Read the entry: Why I Choose WordPressI am super excited to write this post and say that Hector, the app I have been working on for the past month is ready for the limelight and officially launched. Hector is project management for freelancers and allows you to see all of your projects and todos on one screen regardless of who you […]
Read the entry: Hector is here!When you are new to freelancing your number one priority is to get work. That’s the anxiety we have as freelancers since our next paycheck is not guaranteed. This anxiety can actually be counter productive in certain situations and can lead to what I think of as a right of passage for a freelancer. I remember […]
Read the entry: Don’t let your plate get too fullAt the beginning of 2014 I had set a new years resolution to learn Ruby on Rails. Well, like most resolutions made, I never followed through. I spent maybe 10 hours the entire year trying to learn rails. I was distracted and I wasn’t ready. 2015 rolls around and I found myself making the same resolution, […]
Read the entry: My First Rails App – KidkooToday is the day. Today The Freelance Podcast officially launches. Episode 1 is live and ready for your ears.
Read the entry: The Freelance PodcastThe Button As usual I was working on a project and had to put together a cool little button. The button had a gradient with a hard stop and was angled. See the button in action in the pen below.
Read the entry: CSS only gradient buttonI was working on a project recently and along with a bunch of other cool things, it required a content accordion. Specifically it needed to have 4 different boxes for content that started out as equal widths and when a user hovered over a given box it would expand that box while collapsing the others. […]
Read the entry: A CSS only responsive content accordionMigrating Ghost to a new server is fairly straight forward, and when I needed to move this site to a new server it was all pretty easy to do. However, when I went to write a post and upload an image I ran into an issue. Every time I would try to upload an image […]
Read the entry: Quick Tip: Migrating Ghost to a new server and can’t upload images