It’s generally accepted in the SEO world that you should only have one h1 tag on each page. While opinions may differ on that (especially if you build correctly and use tags like aside and main), the ability to remove some options from the dropdown of styles is very welcome. Drop this into your functions.php file, clean up the TinyMCE…

It’s been a while hasn’t it. Years ago, I always thought there was no excuse for a web designer or developer having an old & outdated portfolio, but now I see why. The good ones are so busy with client work, and put all their energy into their clients sites. Makes sense now I think about it. I had a…

Quite often, I use an ACF Post Object field to let the client chose a multiple number of items. That returns an array of post objects. If I want to get the ID for each of those post objects, you could loop over it. Or, let WP abstract that away with a little helper function. Enter wp_list_pluck(). We now have…

If you, like me, are mostly disabling Gutenberg for all the things, you’re probably also looking to simplify the UI where possible. I remove a few buttons and type styles from TinyMCE, so the client can only chose from stuff that won’t ruin the design of the site they paid a lot of money for. The only way they can…

Like many developers, I have a starter theme. Mine’s called Origin. It has a lot of stuff specific to a particular type of project I do often, so it’s not open source. But, there’s a lot of gems there which may be useful to others. I’m going to start sharing them here, and add some Category nav items to the…