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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…