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tl;dr Skip to the solution. If you're a developer, then there have been times you beat your head against a wall trying to figure out why something that worked in local development doesn't work on a live server. So you troubleshoot... Is the … [Read more...] about WordPress ORDERBY RAND and WP Engine

Howdy. I'm popping in today with a quick tutorial on how to add a custom icon to the Simple Social Icons plugin. For this example I'll be adding an icon for Houzz, a website dedicated to home renovation and design. Warning: There are affiliate … [Read more...] about Add Houzz Icon to Simple Social Icons Plugin

Some years back I built an e-commerce website for a client using a StudioPress theme and the Shopp shopping cart. I customized the theme to match my client's brand and added custom functionality to Shopp to address features we needed that weren't … [Read more...] about Case Study: Rebuild an E-Commerce Site with Beaver Builder and WooCommerce

Nexcess, part of the Liquid Web brand of families, recently announced the addition of Managed WooCommerce Hosting to their product lineup. It's impressive (I'll share why shortly), but first, let me loosely define a few terms so that we're all on … [Read more...] about Nexcess Managed WooCommerce Hosting: What You Need to Know

Staging sites are to WordPress hosting as responsive design is to the web: At this point, there's an expectation that those things just are. Not all WordPress hosts have gotten on the staging site bandwagon yet, but the best of them have. If … [Read more...] about Working with WP Engine Staging Sites: What You Need to Know