Recent Work Archives - Wally David

Jun 18 2018

Website Development – Busche Performance Group

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Client: Busche Performance Group URL: buschegroup.com Custom WordPress development. Interested in a site like this? Contact me

Jun 09 2017

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Website Development – SNWFitness.com

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Client: Shoreline Natural Wellness & Fitness URL: snwfitness.com Custom WordPress development & videography. Interested in a site like this? Contact me

Feb 20 2017

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Website Development – Foreshore Adventure Run

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Client: Foreshore Adventure Run URL: foreshore.org Custom WordPress development & videography. Interested in a site like this? Contact me

Sep 20 2016

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Logo Development & Landing Page – Duer Construction

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Client: Duer Construction - Building & Design URL: duerbd.com Logo & Identity Development & Lead Capture Landing Page Interested in a logo or simple landing page like this? Contact me

Jan 20 2014

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Website Development – Barothy Lodge

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Client: Barothy Lodge URL: barothylodge.com Custom WordPress development & photography. Interested in a site like this? Contact me

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Web Development

October 27, 2020

Whitelist or Blacklist WordPress User Registrations By Domain Function

Interesting security concepts here. You can either whitelist specific domains essentially guaranteeing only registered users have the same email as the domain of the website, or you can play wack-a-mole by constantly manually adding bad actors to a black list. Both ways have pros and cons.

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September 22, 2020

Customizing The Media Upload Page In WordPress For Clients

Something that is a constant battle with clients is explaining over and over on a weekly basis why you can't take a 25MB HD image of your dog from your iPhone and upload it as a hero image to your blog post. You can fiddle the the php.ini…

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Blog Web Development

July 27, 2020

WordPress 5.5 Doubling Down On A Bad Idea

"Help, there was an update and I don't know how to edit my WordPress website now!" are the most common words I hear from my clients who somehow get stuck in the new WordPress block editor screen. I get their frustration too. I can honestly say that two…

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Web Development

March 6, 2020

Simple Affinity Designer Tweaks For Illustrator Users

I've been using Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo now since both were in beta some years ago. While they are maturing quickly and very stable for production work now that the 1.8 series has been released. However - what's just throwing me is over 25 years of Adobe…

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Web Development

February 17, 2020

WooCommerce Hacking The Price Field For Events With Labels

Because you can't input anything other than a price in WooCommerce, it makes it difficult when using WooCommerce as an event platform to display paid events as FREE, or even adding labels like SEE DETAILS, or REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This little hack replaces the price with pre-defined words. So…

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Web Development

February 2, 2020

WooCommerce Add Insurance On Checkout

Random little issue I had to solve. Create a way to add insurance to an order. Basically create a dummy product not in the store for a set amount. Change the to the ID of your product that is the amount of insurance you want to add to…

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Web Development

April 1, 2019

Font Awesome And “Access-Control-Allow-Origin” Fix

Sometimes cross domain scripting access is a pain in the butt and necessary in WordPress. Especially when dealing with Font Awesome (or web fonts in general) and third party data aggregation sites.. like say IDX or something. Here are my fixes. This post is for no other reason…

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Web Development Website Design

March 15, 2019

WooCommerce – Bulk Length, Width, Height & Weight Using A Shipping Plugin

I found myself in a situation where I pre-loaded an entire WooCommerce store with products before the client decided on the shipping method. There I was with a little over 400 products, staring at the new weight, length and height fields that the plugin added to each product…

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Web Development

February 22, 2019

Troubleshooting SSL For Free Errors

Having an SSL on a domain is pretty much the standard now, and many developers choose to use SSL For Free as their certificate provider. However, many people do in fact have issues getting and/or renewing certificates for unknown reasons. Here are a couple of my tips to…

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Rants Technology

January 7, 2019

Alexa, Solitair and Digital Toilets

I thought the future would be filled with flying cars and personal jetpacks. Turns out I was way off. Welcome to the future where Alexa can now flush the toilet for you while you play solitaire on your smart phone. Read the article here: Introducing The Kohler Numi…

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Web Development

December 19, 2018

WordPress Has Been Forked. Long Live ClassicPress (Gutenberg Free).

After two years of miscommunication the Gutenberg Drama has finally reached a tipping point. WordPress has been forked. Welcome to ClassicPress. The thing is, when your an Open Source platform like WordPress and you find yourself in a position where leadership from the top-down ignores their users concerns,…

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Web Development

December 13, 2018

Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress

I hate automatic updates for pretty much everything, operating systems, software, phones, you name it. I'm not against security, I'm just against something happening with little to no communication to the end user or the administrator who ends up cleaning up the mess when one of those forced…

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Web Development

December 12, 2018

JS In No Conflict Mode – Solving Inherited Errors

Here's a post for newbies. Every now and then you'll inherit some random web project where your trying to modernize the look but your stuck in an archaic platform with no easy upgrade path. In my case, Magneto v1. I was trying to add bootstrap on top of…

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WordPress 5 Gutenberg - Disable It And Use The Classic Editor

Rants Technology

December 5, 2018

WordPress 5 Gutenberg – Disable It And Use The Classic Editor

The WordPress 5 Gutenberg update will probably hose millions of websites tomorrow seeing how most themes and plugins aren't set up to work with the new editor. This is mainly because of the underline horrible culture at Automatic of pushing auto updates on its users without the ability…

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Marketing & Branding Web Development

August 19, 2018

Effective Storytelling And Why It Matters To Your Brand

Every culture has stories – stories engage us, help up relate, empathize, and often make us feel part of them. Stories are everywhere. They’re a key part of what helps us to identify with each other and make sense of the world around us. Emotionally they grab us,…

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Web Development

August 12, 2018

Is it time for a new website?

Is looking at your website painful? Are there parts of your website not functioning properly? Does your site even work on a phone or tablet? Was it launched before 2012? Does it rank with major search engines? Can you or anyone at your company even update your…

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Web Development

August 10, 2018

Download Every Google Font From Git As TTF’s

Did you know you can download EVERY Google font for use on your local computer right from GIT? With the main stream acceptance and use of Googles amazing font repository, I've pretty much tried to ditch all the other paid type foundries and use Google fonts for all…

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Web Development

August 2, 2018

Remove GoDaddy’s Broken Monitoring Script Added

I noticed on my GoDaddy hosted websites that my browser console suddenly started throwing an error about a missing/broken script in the DOM. <script>'undefined'=== typeof _trfq || (window._trfq = []);'undefined'=== typeof _trfd && (window._trfd=[]),_trfd.push({'tccl.baseHost':'secureserver.net'}),_trfd.push({'ap':'cpsh'},{'server':'p3plcpnl0799'}) // Monitoring performance to make your website faster. If you want to opt-out, please…

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Rants

August 1, 2018

Is there a difference between a company’s culture and a company’s brand?

Think of your company as a living thing. Your employees are the lifeblood. They pump through the veins. They sell your product or service. They represent you. They advocate for you. They embody your message. If the blood isn’t healthy, the company isn’t healthy. If the blood isn’t…

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Rants Technology Web Development

July 23, 2018

The Cult of the Complex

I'm reposting this article. It's worth a read. I couldn't have said it better myself. by Jeffrey Zeldman May 31, 2018 ’Tis a gift to be simple. Increasingly, in our line of work, ’tis a rare gift indeed. In an industry that extols innovation over customer satisfaction, and…

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Web Development

July 22, 2018

11 Steps To A Great Website

#1 START WITH CONTENT Everything ever built well started with a well crafted plan. Content for your website is like the glue and mortar that builds the site map and determines the structure. Starting with images and dummy content and building out a site is like building a…

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July 8, 2018

Ranking With Google PageSpeed

No matter whether you're on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device, you increasingly expect a website to load quickly. Google cares a lot about speed too. In an attempt to help improve the quality of its search experience, Google has used load times as a positive ranking signal…

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Web Development

June 21, 2018

Why I love Googles Readability Score Testing – It’s killing Corporate Jargon

“Readability” measures how easy it is for people to recognize words, sentences, and phrases. When your site’s readability is high, users will be able to efficiently scan your site and take in the information in the text without much effort. In plain words, overly technical, or overly complex,…

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Recent Work Web Development

June 18, 2018

Website Development – Busche Performance Group

Client: Busche Performance Group URL: buschegroup.com Custom WordPress development.Interested in a site like this?

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June 18, 2018

Why Have A Custom Client WordPress Dashboard? – WallyDavid.com

THE PROBLEM As WordPress developer, I've worked with many clients who haven’t used WordPress, or for that matter, any content management system before. I can usually assess the overwhelming look of (oh God, what have we gotten ourselves into, dread) when a client logs into their WordPress backend…

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Technology Web Development

June 12, 2018

Why You Need An SSL – It’s Not Optional Anymore

IF YOU ASK USERS TO INPUT ANY DATA, YOU NEED AN SSL CERTIFICATE If your website has forms, login fields, a shopping cart, or any other input sections across its pages then you’re running out of time to avoid Google marking them as not secure. Well, actually... time…

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Rants Web Development

June 9, 2018

Content is priority, not an afterthought in web projects

Here's a story/rant about content priority. Too many times I've seen web projects go sideways when coordinators or project managers push for a site outline first rather than completed copy -- then let that copy drive the outline of a project. If the content is an afterthought and…

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May 24, 2018

A Simple US GDPR Privacy Policy – How I’m Handling It

GDPR privacy has created a sudo-circus panic atmosphere among (US) web developers as we all try and figure out how to get all the sites we host and manage compliant. Since it is way easier if you don't offer any eCommerce or product sales though your site, or…

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Blog Web Development

May 22, 2018

Sublime – View In Browser Plugin

View In Browser helps you to launch your projects into your default browser with a simple shortcut, ctrl+alt+v. It also enables shortcuts for various other browsers installed on your computer, such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and more.

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Blog Web Development

May 15, 2018

Making iOS & Android Website Home Screen Icons

Have you ever tried to save a website link to your home screen on an iOS or Android device only to see a really bad squeezed representation of the website you were trying to bookmark as an icon? There is a better way, and with a bit of…

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Blog Technology

May 12, 2018

Pre-Colored Fonts Hit The Mainstream Font Repos (Like a Digital Virus)

What are colored fonts? Well this is how myfonts.com puts it: MyFonts.com Excerpt: "You can think of color fonts like, say, emojis: these fonts come with preset color schemes, so when a user typesets with them, some colors appear incorporated in them, determined by the font’s designer. Altering…

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May 9, 2018

Harden Your WordPress Hosting With A Default PHP.INI Config File

Here is a basic set of PHP.ini directives for any cPanel type hosting to help secure and harden your hosted WordPress websites. Sometime your servers are in another state or country and in the wrong time zone. This can mess up some date and time plugins - this…

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Blog Web Development

May 9, 2018

Managing WordPress Upload Sizes For Different Sites On One Server with .INI Files

I manage a few VPS servers that have multiple websites on them, one of these servers having close to 40 WordPress websites on it. One question I get asked about is how to give every site a different upload value and override the default PHP directive of 4MB…

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Blog Rants

May 3, 2018

New Study Finds That Collaboration Drives Workplace Performance

EXCERPT: It's perhaps fair to say that most modern workplaces endeavor to be social and work towards collaboration in their affairs, and with good reason. A Stanford study from a few years ago found that even the mere perception of working collectively on a task can supercharge our performance. Participants…

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Blog Web Development

April 11, 2018

Sublime – ColorPicker

Well, this is worth it if your a Sublime user. ColorPicker enables a color picker dialog and allows users to insert or change a selected color. To open the color picker, simply type cmd+shift+c on a Mac, or ctrl+shift+c on Windows or Linux. By default the hexcode inserted…

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Technology Web Development

March 22, 2018

Visual Guide To Installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on Media Temple or a PLESK Hosting Account

This is a fairly easy visual guide to installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on Media Temple or PLESK panel hosting accounts. If you want to know how to do this in cPanel or GoDaddy click here. A couple of things to note right from the start, Let’s Encrypt SSL…

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Rants

March 2, 2018

Leadership & Culture

For those that hold a leadership position, creating an environment in which the people in your charge feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves is your responsibility as a leader. The culture starts with your lead. If there is no culture or the vision is…

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Web Development

February 22, 2018

Wisita Videos As Backgrounds or Light-boxes in WordPress

Many of the newer WordPress themes have built in functionality for adding videos as backgrounds or in pop-up light boxes. A lot a add-on plugins that deal with video this have this too. However most, if not all, present a box to enter a URL to the video…

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Web Development

February 21, 2018

Please, please, no more RFPs

I love this article from Smashing Magazine called A comprehensive web planning guide. This outlines pretty much everything wrong with agency web quoting and why I want to stay in bed most days. Everything goes back to planning, communication and having all the right people in the room…

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Rants

February 2, 2018

What Damn Fold? RANT

It's 2018 - wanna know what makes my eye twitch? Every device in the world that has ever existed that has ever displayed the internet in any way, shape or form has always scrolled down to display additional content. Heck, until modern responsive design, most every application on…

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Web Development Website Design

January 18, 2018

Works for Web Development Too

Some of the worlds best and brightest developers wrote a Manifesto for Agile Software Development. I kind of think this applies to web development too. We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to…

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Rants Web Development

January 6, 2018

Code of Professional Conduct

Professionalism. Integrity. Competence. Design professionals have certain fundamental obligations to society, to clients, to the profession, and to peers and colleagues. The Code of Professional Conduct states guidelines and rules for the conduct of design professionals in fulfilling those obligations. The Code is arranged in three tiers of…

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Rants Technology

January 5, 2018

Being a Lion – Standing out in a field of web developer sheep

This is an insight into the life mottos I base my development and creativity by. I thought to start 2018 off right, I'd actually write down everything I've been saying for years about being a lion so it had more purpose and meaning to myself and others. Standing…

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Blog Technology

January 1, 2018

Prototyping Online – Why?

I just tried Proto.io and before that I messed with Prototyping by UXPin. The other hot one right now seems to be Fluid UI. I'm not a huge fan of all the online prototyping tools that are coming out. Just like all the other wizbang whatever frameworks that…

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Blog Technology

December 1, 2017

WordPress Hackery – Salient Remove Dates From Blog

To remove date from blogs. Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel: body article.post .post-meta .date { display: none; } .meta-author, .meta-category, .meta-comment-count {display:none !important;}

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November 11, 2017

WordPress Hackery – Limiting Upload Sizes

Here's a note to self. Limit uploading large files in individual websites by adding this to your functions.php file in the theme directory. @ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '4M' ); @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '4M'); @ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );

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Technology

November 5, 2017

Fix “Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers” in WordPress for Google Insights

If you've ever visited Google Insights and got this message and wondered how to fix it to get your page score up, here's a little hack to fix that annoying "Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers" error that Google Insights throws at you.…

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Technology

October 30, 2017

Visual Guide to Installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on GoDaddy cPanel Hosting

This is a fairly easy visual guide to installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting accounts. If you want to know how to do this on a PLESK Panel or Media Temple, click here. A couple of things to note right from the start, Let’s Encrypt SSL…

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Technology

October 16, 2017

My KUBUNTU Apps – Install Commands

I put this helpful guide together for my sons 9th grade computer tech friends using Kubuntu 17.04. First open this link in Firefox in Kubuntu or Ubuntu. Then find the terminal in the start menu called Konsole. You guys can copy these commands and enter them there: Install…

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September 16, 2017

WordPress Hackery – Salient Mega Menus How To

Mega Menus Tutorial Click here to view to full tutorial. - Turn on CSS Classes from the Screen Options menu The code is: megamenu columns-4 replace the number 4 in this code with any number to adjust the columns.

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