Front-End Web Developer St Louis MO | WordPress Developer
Last week ThinkProgress.org announced that it had migrated to Medium. This was a little shocking to me to see a large established website move to Medium that had previously been powered by WordPress. WordPress is a huge part of my life. I build …
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I recently wrote a blog post for WordImpress.com where I work Priority Support. WordImpress is a premium WordPress plugin shop with some awesome products such as Google Places Review Widget and the amazing Give Donation plugin. See all of their …
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I really enjoyed reflecting back on 2014-2015 and writing a post about it. One of my goals for 2016 is to write more. But what do I write about? That's the hardest part for me. I thought, why not just start with dissecting the problem a bit to peel …
This is part three of a series of three posts Part One: An overview, some background, and pondering "titles" and Identity Part Two: Getting help and support, and considering employment Part Three: WordCamp US and goals for …
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This is part two of a series of three posts: Part One: An overview, some background, and pondering "titles" and Identity Part Two: Getting help and support, and considering employment Part Three: WordCamp US and goals for …
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The last time I really sat down and wrote a post reflecting back was in April 2014. I wanted to write a post looking back on 2015 but I will start from where I last left off in 2014 to get caught up. This post is split up into parts: Part One: …
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The way I manage projects changes constantly depending on what I am currently working on. If I have a large complex project, ideally working with a team, then I like to use Asana to organize my projects and keep tasks, due dates, and important files …
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There are several plugins out there for managing multiple WordPress installs to keep them all up to date and backed up and so far I really like MainWP. MainWP works as a plugin that is installed on its own dedicated WordPress installation. The …
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Want to embed a Powerpoint presentation in a page or a post? Like this? Google Drive & Google Slides You will need a Google Drive account to do this. Either upload the Powerpoint file to Drive or at it to your Drive folder on your …
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This is a post that has been bobbing around in my head for a while now, just waiting to get out. It's a long story and to be honest I haven't a clue if I have an audience but it feels good to share. It's stuff that I try to be private about (it's not …
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I've worked with WordPress websites where the frontend content has not been in English but I have yet to run into a situation where the backend is not English. Today I'm working on a dev project where the client needed to duplicate their live site to …
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Blogging With Dani is an excellent blog written for bloggers. In one of my recent posts I talk about free website platforms and that one of the benefits of a self-hosted Wordpress website is that you are in control of your site. One of the …
There are some situations where I will refer a person to a free website service. But I always point out the pros and cons of using such services. In this blog post by Seth Godin he illustrates an excellent point about companies like Facebook …
I received a letter today from Google Engage, a new referral program for website design agencies. They sent me a handful of Google advertising coupons to offer as a service to my clients. Adwords credits are given away a lot if you know where to …
To sync your Facebook events to Google Calendar, Apple Ical, or Microsoft Outlook... Login to Facebook and click on Events in the upper left (under your profile photo) Click on Calendar (next to list). In the upper right, click on the …
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Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this app or those who created it. For me these last few weeks have been about increasing my productivity. I like popup notifications and basically any tool that cuts down on the number of browser windows and …
[box type="note"]Update: Ecwid has added this post to their knowledge base and I've been getting a lot of traffic to this post. Your question or concern might not be covered here so if you want help or would like to hire me to assist with your Ecwid …
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I recently restructured my website and did some housecleaning. Mostly content was being moved around and not necessarily deleted. Any time your website is updated search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo must re-index the content. Re-indexing will …
Steve Struemph Design was featured in the August 2012 Edition of Columbia Business Times as a new web design and development business in Columbia. …
A New Challenge Recently I encountered what has been my biggest challenge to date. A hacker managed to get into my client's web server, create a file and inject a script that was designed to re-route users to a website in Russia. The hacker, I …
