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Studio Perspective, Web Development
Evaluating if a WordPress plugin poses a risk to your site’s security
Plugins are the most significant risk to your WordPress site’s security. Plugins are custom-coded applications that you allow to...
How to block spam on contact forms?
Over the past years, we’ve seen an increase in spam that our clients and we received. It’s known that...
How to create a WordPress account via MySQL
When working with WordPress, you sometimes get all the information you need, hosting access, FTP(s), Git repository but you...
WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) – vc_map() field examples
I’ve been working with WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) for about one year now, and one of the...
SEO / Marketing, Web Design, Web Development
Is WordPress the Right CMS for Your Business?
Your website needs a solid foundation for laying out content and publishing it. If you want complete control of...
What’s the difference between a Web designer and Web developer?
You may have noticed that there’s still confusion between a web designer and a web developer. If you are...
SEO / Marketing, Web Development
How to set up Google’s AMP Project on your WordPress website
The Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP is a Google project designed as an open standard for any publisher to...
2017 Website Trends for Online Businesses
The one constant when it comes to running an online business is that you’ll always have to deal with...
Display post counts within link for categories and archive
Recently I had to add the count of posts in each category or archive on the sidebar. I knew...
How to add a search bar to main navigation menu
WordPress 3.0 introduced a new menu system that is easier to use and maintain straight from the user interface....
How to add an icon to the parent menu in WordPress navigation
Sometimes we need to add a small icon to indicate that there is a submenu. While I could do...