The Mistake When archiving the Portland Winter Light Festival website to a new subdomain (2026.pdxwlf.com), I performed a standard database migration (Search & Replace) to update the URLs. I assumed that since my media lived in an AWS S3 bucket via WP Offload Media, the links would just follow the new domain. The Problem Everything…
If you’re struggling with Vimeo videos that won’t autoplay in Chrome despite being muted, you’re not alone. This is a common issue that stems from conflicting parameters in Vimeo embed codes, combined with Chrome’s strict autoplay policies. I thought I understood it, but certain stakeholders of my client were still getting only the first still…
Simpler article written in 2019, I’ve last updated this on July 9, 2025 If you do a lot of WordPress development for many clients, eventually you’ll end up with those local sites eating up a good portion of your computer’s hard drive space. Some of my clients have uploads folders that are +1gb. I used…
I’m a firm believer that adding more options and controls often results in a degraded user experience, and so in order to make the determination of whether to keep certain filtering features on the Winter Light Festival, I need to collect user behavior information. So let’s create some custom events for those specific user actions,…
I recently solved this UX friction point for the Portland Winter Light Festival’s artist portal. Here’s a deep dive into three progressive enhancements that make password-protected pages more user-friendly – from basic error messages to zero-click access.
Are you facing challenges with managing author attribution on your WordPress website? Inherit a site with content created by short-sighted former employees or agency? Struggle with recognizing multiple authors per post? I built a custom plugin that seamlessly migrates your content authorship to a “Team Member” custom post type, decoupling it from the native WordPress user system. Enhance security, provide rich author profiles, and future-proof your content management workflow. Learn how to implement this solution and streamline your authorship management process.
I have a client who has over 100+ domains. Some previous tech person had signed him up for DNS hosting by DNSMadeEasy, which is an unnecessary service if you use Cloudflare. Additionally, all those domains could be transferred out of the original registrar to Cloudflare, saving my client at least 50% costs on renewal since…
I create bespoke WordPress websites to solve problems. These websites hopefully solve a client’s customer’s problem through the purchase of a product or service. That’s the obvious part of the job. Often neglected though is that the website backend must also be designed to solve content management issues for my clients. One of the ways…
Pantheon.io is a very robust hosting system specifically geared towards enterprise WordPress (and Drupal) sites. Naturally, they’re a little more restrictive about giving the type of SSH access you’d have on a standard VPS or dedicated hosting server. So they don’t have the normal type of SSH interaction, where you’d generate an ssh key and…
Google Analytics 4 is a powerful tool that provides valuable insights into a user’s desires for their usage of your website. An often-looked feature is an ability to track search terms, which can provide valuable information about what users are searching for and how they’re finding your site. However, many users find that setting up…