You don’t have a desktop/website version of your app but yet you make me create an account to access your content. So I can not login on my computer to access your content. (5 Mile app this one’s for you!) I can’t export my data. You have no feature to export all my data I […]
Read more...2020 the real Google mobilegeddon
Back in 2015 the internet was in a panic! Google had announced that it was going to factor in whether your site was mobile friendly as a ranking factor. This left website owners struggling to try and meet the deadline and get a mobile friendly version of their website up. It was a big cash […]
Read more...Favicon is now a SEO factor
*Update: After much criticism from the community Google has removed the favicon from their search results for now. But in an ever evolving SEO world Google can make really bad decisions that affect your website’s SEO and the below is a case that almost played out!! Google has finally rolled out their experimental layout of […]
Read more...How to remove favicon in Google Search
Annoying little Google! I just noticed when using Google to search it shows all these annoying and mostly ugly favicons next to the url in the search. After doing some Googling apparently there is no way to really turn this off. It’s suppose to be experimental. But it’s so freaking ugly Google! Stop experimenting on […]
Read more...How to rank your Wix website
Ranking your Wix website aka Wix SEO. How do you do it? Simple, ditch the Wix! Wix is not SEO friendly, it never has been and probably never will be. It would have to completely redevelop how the platform works. There is a lot of hype around Wix SEO, I have even seen companies offering […]
Read more...1999, huh?
So I just found out my laptop I bought refurbished in 2014 has a 1999 wifi card. WTF! It’s true. I have a laptop I bought way back when, refurbished for like $200. At the time it had windows 8 and a very good PC brand I have always favored Gateway. Yes, Gateway went out […]
Read more...The only 2 settings for securing WP Admin
These are the only two settings you need to secure your wp-admin from hackers trying to log into your site. First download iThemes Security Plugin, don’t worry its free! Next go to the settings page. Click on the Advanced link top right. And configure Hide Backend. Then setup what you want the “hidden” url to […]
Read more...Atom Custom File Type Detection
In this example I will show you how you can set OpenCart’s .tpl file extension to read as PHP when opening in Atom Editor. Open your config.cson file. Underneath core: add: customFileTypes: 'text.html.php': [ 'tpl' ] text.html.php is the “source” and the tpl is the file extension. Now when you open a .tpl file it […]
Read more...Gulp, SCSS and WordPress
Ive been using gulp and live reload for many years now. It’s super efficient. Gulp, SCSS aka (sass) and WordPress can be a bit tricky though. Mostly because the typical SCSS structure is to put the final files in directories that aren’t necessarily WordPress friendly or WordPress structured. Also if you are trying to compress […]
Read more...How to Widen Gutenberg Editor
The default width of Gutenberg is quite narrow. Not sure the logic behind this. Here is a quick way to make it a standard monitor width. In your function.php drop this code: //Gutenberg add_theme_support('editor-styles'); function custom_gutenberg_styles() { wp_enqueue_style('custom-gutenberg', get_theme_file_uri( '/css/gutenberg.css' ), false, '1.0', 'all'); } add_action('enqueue_block_editor_assets', 'custom_gutenberg_styles'); Then create a folder called css in your […]
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