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Gravity Forms Running Total

The use case is pretty short and simple. Adam asked me if there is any way to come up with a total given on a specific field. For example, if there is a donation page, and people are donating money to a cause, he wanted a way to display how much has been given to…

2017 SSL Certificate

Get Your SSL Certificate Now

In October of last year, I wrote about SSL certificates, and told people to start getting an SSL certificate, even if you don’t think you need one. Any site that has a password field, or accepts credit cards, it needs an SSL certificate. If you do not, your rankings in Google will go down. I’ll…

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Three Things for WordPress in 2017

I recently did a talk at the Marietta WordPress Meetup that I co-lead concerning the state of WordPress in 2017. This is heavily based on news topics from sites I regularly visit and things gleaned from the “State of the Word” by Matt Mullenweg (leader of WordPress). There are 3 things that are priority for…

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Print designer's terms converted to Web terms

Over my 20 years of web development/design, I have run into a lot of terms that only print designers use. I was lucky enough to work at a really cool design shop where I picked up a few terms that “new” developers might not know but clients or designers use often. One thing that frustrates…

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Did Apple shift focus away from the Mac?

I’ve always been interested in different operating systems.  I’m sure I’m the only kid in school that was running OS/2 because Windows was inferior in the mid-90’s.  I’ve always had multiple OS’s around, from Novell DOS to OS/2 to Linux, it has always been around.  In the business desktop realm, up until 2006 I used…

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Custom WordPress Plugin Development

If you have been ever needed a plugin to do any type of integration, Twitter, Facebook, something else more unique, you can spend a lot of time trying to find a plugin that fits your needs.  I’ve done that a ton of time doing that personally, and many time I think, “Wow, I could have…