by Heather Valencia | Nov 19, 2021 | Hosting, Wordpress
USING CLOUDWAYS HOSTING AS A WEB DESIGNER When working as a web designer, it is important to use the most updated software and tools in order to provide the best service for your clients. While there are plenty of options that you can use for cloud hosting, Cloudways...
by Heather Valencia | Jan 22, 2021 | Hosting, Wordpress
As a freelance web designer who uses WordPress to create and manage my website and those of my clients—I am well-positioned to gauge WordPress users’ needs. When it comes to ensuring each of these sites functions well, one of the most important aspects I need to...
by Heather Valencia | Oct 16, 2020 | Divi Theme, Wordpress
Have you ever wanted to add a custom social media image or icon to divi but the social platform you needed to add wasn’t something very popular or included in any of the font sets available out there? Well, guess what? There is a super easy way to add an image...
by Heather Valencia | Mar 19, 2020 | Wordpress
Proper naming conventions for the extension of your images has the ability to improve your SEO on your website. This tells google and search engines what the image actually is (auto-body-paint-job.jpg) versus the generic naming convention that your camera might apply...
by Heather Valencia | Mar 2, 2020 | Wordpress
WordPress has many options for enabling notification bars for the use of temporary messages, public notices, flash sales and cookie notices you want to make stand out on your website. Because of the ease of use, my preferred plugin is Apex Notification Bar. It works...
by Heather Valencia | Oct 19, 2019 | Divi Theme, Wordpress
Do you have a broken WordPress website from an update or what seems to be no reason at all? I’m going to let you in on a little secret from an expert in WordPress repair and maintenance. In my 10 years of work, I’ve been able to fix or at least identify a...
by Heather Valencia | Dec 7, 2018 | Wordpress, Divi Theme
The new WordPress 5.0 Editor (Gutenberg) is here and a lot of websites are going to feel the pain! But sometimes going thru a a little pain can be pleasant in the end, right? 😉 What Should You Do About The Update? The introduction of a new editor is essentially going...
by Heather Valencia | Jun 5, 2018 | Divi Theme
Unfortunatly, you cannot change the sizing of gallery images for the portfolio grid in the CSS file. In this particular case, it’s just a few lines of PHP code you’re going to throw into your child themes functions.php file. Just make sure the featured...
by Heather Valencia | Oct 26, 2017 | Code, Wordpress
Let’s speed up and optimize your wordpress website right now. This is more for advanced users who are comfortable with modifying the .htaccess file, php.ini file and wp-config. Remember, always back up your website before making any drastic changes like this....
by Heather Valencia | Oct 25, 2017 | Wordpress
WordPress Has Come a Long Way Since 2003 When WordPress first came on the scene back in 2003 it was primarily used as a blogging platform. Since that time it has grown to become the predominant content management system online making up approximately 28.8% of all of...
