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Add Custom Font to Your WordPress Site

We love the impact that various fonts can have in expressing a certain aesthetic or in aiding in the delivery of a message. It feels great when a certain font perfectly fits the style that you are aiming for. Sometimes theme providers give you font options that are exactly what you need, but alas, sometimes…

.env Changes Aren’t Updating in Laravel

I just had an issue where I updated a value in a Laravel install’s .env file. I tried just running the following command, per suggestions from other sites, but it didn’t work: Instead, the following commands fixed the issue and actually allowed the config values in production to be changed:

Nano Editor Cheat Sheet

I have found the first 8 Nano Editor functions listed in the nano editor cheat sheet below to be the most valuable in the work I’ve done as a DevOps engineer. Ctrl x – Close the file Ctrl o – Save the file Ctrl w – Search for a string in the file you’re editing…

Serious Issues with GoDaddy’s WordPress Hosting

There are 2 primary issues that we have encountered with GoDaddy’s WordPress hosting platform. The first is GoDaddy’s inability to allow any WordPress versions other than the latest. The second issue is GoDaddy’s inability to offer access to PHP logs. These 2 issues are significant and have contributed to why we designed our hosting platform…

How to clean up inline styles for Gutenberg using the javascript spread syntax

In this video we’ll show you how to clean up any inline styling for Gutenberg blocks using the javascript spread syntax.  We’re building Gutenberg blocks for a WordPress theme and we want to give the user control over some CSS properties like padding, border-radius, etc.  Padding alone has four different properties that you’d want to…

Make Laravel S3 Uploads Either Public or Private

You can either make ALL uploaded files in laravel public or private OR you can switch between either public or private. If you want to make all uploaded files public, set the config/filesystem.php files s3 array to the below values (replacing the AWS keys with your own) AWS S3 Array in config/filesystems.php You can remove the…

Fix 500 Error on GoDaddy WordPress Hosting

We had an issue today where my client’s WordPress website hosted on GoDaddy’s managed WordPress hosting platform went down, ie showed a 500 error, after updating several WordPress plugins.   We’re going to show you the quickest way to fix up a WordPress site showing a 500 error on GoDaddy, but, in the meantime, we go…

Add Popup to X Theme

We love the flexibility of the X Theme. It’s an amazing WordPress theme that offers nearly infinite possibilities in laying out your website. There are so many options however, that it can be difficult to know everything that you can do.  We figured out the 6 SIMPLE STEPS to ADD POPUP TO X THEME and…

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) and provides an understandable structure for your website. This means that WordPress makes it easy for you to add/edit the pages of your website, to add plugins to massively and flexibly extend the functionality of your website, to add blog posts to your website, and to add or update…

How to store arrays as attributes when building gutenberg blocks in WordPress

In this video we’ll show you how to store arrays as attributes. This will super-power your block building and save you from having to create a bunch of extra attributes. Think of adding padding attributes to a block in Gutenberg. You’d have to 4 attributes to pull this off, one for the top, bottom, left…

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