Mark L
In the vast landscape of website builders, WordPress stands out as the undisputed choice for small business owners looking to establish and grow their online presence. While platforms like Squarespace and Wix offer user-friendly interfaces and quick setups, WordPress proves its superiority across several critical factors. Flexibility and Customization WordPress, as an open-source platform, offers … Read more
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely outgrown the confines of Wix or Squarespace and are eyeing the flexibility and scalability of WordPress. Making the switch might seem daunting at first, but fear not—many have successfully navigated this transition, and you can too! Here’s a concise guide to give you an idea of the steps we … Read more
One of the more confusing aspects of WordPress websites is that there are actually two options available to anyone first embarking on their WordPress journey: WordPress.org and WordPress.com. For a newbie, you’d almost certainly assume they are the same thing, and while they share the same base WordPress Content Management System (CMS) software, their implementation, … Read more
Page/Post Scheduling Most WordPress users are aware of the ability to preview new pages and posts, and save them as a draft until you are ready to publish. But on more than one occasion I’ve been surprised to find that some of our content creating customers don’t realize WordPress has the built in ability to … Read more
With cold winter weather in full swing and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I’d write about the WordPress plugins that make web developer nerds like us feel warm and fuzzy inside! WordFence Security In our opinion (and we’ve been doing this for 20+ years now), WordFence is the single best method to … Read more
WordPress is our favorite content management system for a whole host of reasons. It works as a fabulous framework for everything from eCommerce to Learning Management and has a solid architecture in place that allows it to be competitive with any stand alone web software for any application you can imagine, while still retaining flexibility … Read more
Each website page has a specific address, just like a home or business. In website jargon this is called the “url” or uniform resource locator. The technical details of how typing the url into the address bar (or clicking a link) actually brings up the specific webpage can get a bit complicated. On a simple level it involves back and forth communication between the web browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.) and the server, which is where the website is “hosted” which basically just means where all the files, images, and data for the website live. Along the way there is an “address lookup” which involves things like ip addresses, domain names, and DNS records.
As web developers, we’re often working on the most complex features and integrations that WordPress is capable of. From creating custom website themes to building new plugins, or perhaps linking with a complicated third party API to sync data from another system, we usually are working on aspects of WordPress far beyond what most website … Read more
Two of our favorite plugins for WordPress are the robust and powerful Gravity Forms and the ubiquitous eCommerce plugin WooCommerce. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin that we like so much that we provide a free license to our clients as part of our WordPress Security and Performance Plan. WooCommerce is the backbone of any WordPress eCommerce website, and the core software is free and developed/maintained by Automatic, who are the same folks that started and maintain WordPress itself. Each plugin is wildly popular, and as such there are many add-ons that allow for integration with other software/plugins. In this post we’re going to explore how you can use the WooCommerce plugin: Gravity Forms Product Add-ons in order to leverage the power of Gravity Forms to build intricate and conditionally based product configurations which link to a WooCommerce product, allowing you to then enjoy all of the eCommerce specific architecture that WooCommerce provides.
Custom Post Type UI and Advanced Custom Fields Pro can combine to provide near limitless possibilities for customizing your WordPress content. Watermelon Web Works is hear to help you utilize these two wonderful plugins to help create and display content on your new or existing WordPress website.