The goal of this post is just to quickly get GA4 installed on your WordPress site. This post will be nowhere near an exhaustive explanation of what GA4 is or best practices for managing your…
Category: Tutorial
Using CSS Grid with the Underscores Theme
October 8th, 2019 Update: WP Rig is a better option than _underscores these days. This post hasn’t ages so well, but do check out Morten Rand-Hendriksen‘s video below for a comprehensive intro to building a…
How to Find Your robots.txt File and Ensure it’s Error Free
This brief tutorial serves as a quick sanity check to help you find your robots.txt file and make sure it isn’t stopping your site from getting crawled by search engines. Video Transcript: Just want to…
Submit Your Sitemap to Google in Under 2 Minutes Using Yoast
One of the most important tasks you need to complete when launching a new site is submitting your XML sitemap to Google. With the Yoast plugin, you can get this done in under 2 minutes.…
Configure PHP Storm for WordPress
PHP Storm isn’t free, the learning curve is a little steep, and configuration can be difficult. But that first time you click ⌥ + ⌘ + L and watch all of your => line up…
Cowboy Coding vs. Local Development
If you’re making changes to your live WordPress site, you’re engaged in cowboy coding. If this hasn’t resulted in the “White Screen of Death” yet, it almost certainly will. A local environment provides a disposable,…