The Blog

  • Using Cloudflare with WordPress in 2021

    For years I’ve championed the use of Cloudflare wo WordPress developers and business owners. That’s never changed. What has changed is Cloudflare itself. Bigger and better every single year, but that means we need an updated guide for you to reference. Here it is, no frills, just direct settings and screenshots for how I setup…

  • Yoast’s “Enhanced Slack Sharing” feature… improved.

    The recent Yoast update came with a cool new feature: Enhanced Slack Sharing. This isn’t magic, it’s using existing Twitter-based meta tags in the HTML to add extra data to previews. Slack uses these still (Twitter dropped support), hence the name. Here’s what it looks like: The extra meta tags added now give us an…

  • Dynamic Open Graph images using Microlink Cards

    There’s one thing I dislike about blogging, and that’s creating a custom open graph image for each blog post. Even with a handy PSD template, I often forget. Worse yet, when I want to change them, I’m left editing all my existing posts. The good news is that there is a better way to do…

  • How to use Themeco Pro template colors anywhere on your site

    How to use Themeco Pro template colors anywhere on your site

    The new pro theme by Themeco has many amazing features. One of which is the colours templates. This tip will convert your colour manager palette into global CSS variable that you can use anywhere.