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WordPress is a potentially powerful, business-class Content Management System. Potentially. Out-of-the-box, it’s just a blog. To unlock that potential and get from blog to business-class CMS […]

I’ve been meaning for a year or two to update my site development to use FlexBox for layout rather than Foundation’s old(?) float-based column layouts. Recently […]

I’m gonna be upfront about not liking Divi, or any other page-builder. While they make a lot of things easier for designers who aren’t developers, they […]

One of the cool things about being involved with ClassicPress is the ability to see (and sometimes take part in) interactions with people who are using […]

For a few years, I’ve been hoping for a WordPress fork (WordPress is an open source project that allows taking the code and using it to start a new platform, or ‘fork’) that focuses on Content Management System (CMS) capabilities.

For Evo, it’s time to shake things up; to seek new opportunities, new people, new ways of seeing ourselves. After more than 18 years in Santa Fe, […]

There are several studies and articles over the last few years (google: ‘facebook makes us sad’) pointing to social media decreasing our happiness and sense of […]

Web design and web designers are subject to fads. The proliferation of ready-made templates and themes (adhering to the latest web design fads) encourages shoe-horning content into presentation models that often don’t address real-world needs of business websites.

You’ve seen the ads and you’ve seen the websites made with Do-it-Yourself web builders: Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, and several others. There are even a couple of WordPress themes that come pretty close to turning WordPress into a DIY platform, Divi being perhaps the best-known.

With a project I’m working on, I need to make sure site editors can add categories as needed, then automatically allow visitors to use those categories to filter posts on the front end. That means a custom taxonomy is the way to go.