Category: WordPress

WordPress: Core Fixes, Plugin Issues & Platform Updates

VegasGeek is a WordPress development and support agency, and this category covers the platform itself including bugs, plugin conflicts, and the fixes that come out of active client work. Posts include resolving og:image and featured image conflicts, and custom plugin builds like Set Sort Order for sorting custom post types and taxonomies. This is the most direct line to what we actually fix day to day.

  • Do You Hide Features to Stop Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Sites?

    Do You Hide Features to Stop Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Sites?

    This week, while answering questions in a WordPress forum on Facebook, somebody asked: What is the best way to give my client access to update content but not give them full control of the WordPress Dashboard? I’ve been asked this question many times in the past, and here is how I typically answer it: Rather…

  • Git + MAMP + SiteGround

    Git + MAMP + SiteGround

    For too long now I have put off the chore of getting my local development environment set up in a way that would allow me to use Git to push my code directly to SiteGround. I had tried in the past but always ended up hitting a stumbling block somewhere along the way. There is…

  • Adding conditional headers in WordPress

    Adding conditional headers in WordPress

    While working on a project recently, the client wanted to display a custom header graphic for a specific ection of their site. This was complicated by the fact that there were a few places where the header needed to be changed; a static page that’s used as a landing page for the content, the category…