Have a WordPress Expert Look at Your Site

ClockworkWP has the privilege to “inherit” sites from other developers on a regular basis. Each time we onboard a new website for a care plan, we look through the site and make sure that it is functioning as expected. I can’t believe what we found on this one. The end client uses another company for…

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DNS, Mailgun, and I’m Losing My Mind

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I became slightly balder today because I pulled most of what was left out. I was trying to set up Mailgun to send mail within a WordPress site. Hosting companies like WP Engine don’t allow mail to be sent using the “built-in” SMTP server and they recommend using a 3rd party tool. That’s totally fine,…

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Three Articles For GoDaddy

Writing articles on my personal blog and Sideways8’s blog has always been fun. I’ve been in this industry for 20 years, I should have some knowledge that is worth sharing, right?!? The industry has changed dramatically over the years. No longer does anyone use frames in pages, the blink tag is deprecated and Netscape is…

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WP Grunt Child

I found it frustrating that I had to write regular CSS and JS when working on extending a pre-built theme. So I have modified our Grunt config and integrated our SASS and JS build process into a template that can be used in any child theme. Check it out here: WP Grunt Child. To use…

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Custom Posts Made Easy using PODS

We specialize in custom PHP development and we currently use WordPress to do most of the CMS-related work.  If you are a one-person-shop, you might not have the skills in house to build custom content types and that is where PODS comes in. PODS is a very simple way to get rolling with custom post…

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Our Development Tools (Part 1)

Development Tools

What are CSS Preprocessors? We have used two different preprocessors at Sideways8, LESS and SASS. Preprocessors are used in many different languages and have been around for a very long time. The idea is very simple, a preprocessor is a program that takes input, processes it and produces an output that can be used as…

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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…

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WordCamp Atlanta 2016 Coming Soon!

This is going to be a fun WordCamp this year. Last year we added a “beginners day” and we had 200 sign up. This year, we are splitting up to a the beginners day into three tracks, one of the tracks will be the developer’s track. I was asked by the other organizers to lead…

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Our Migration to Our Hosting Platform

Web hosting has changed dramatically since I first had my first server in 2004.  I know, what hasn’t changed dramatically in the tech world since then?  Back then Blackberrys (or Blackberries?) were cool and Facebook was called “The Facebook” and no one knew about it. The number of hosting platforms available these days is almost endless and just…

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Converting a Photoshop File to a WordPress Theme

This post has been in draft mode for 3 years.  What is really funny is that post is still relevant today.  Standards have changed, things have gotten better, but it is always a fun challenge to try to make a site look just like the Photoshop (PSD) file.  This shows you how we work We…

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