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Double Click Form Submission Fix

A common issue with form submissions is the user double-clicking the submit button and the form information being duplicated. Here is a simple solution to fix this issue. The one thing that you have to do is make sure the form is still submitted and then the button is disabled. You can not just disable

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Google’s Latest SEO Change – Featured Snippet Rankings

Danny Sullivan, Google’s public search liaison, announced on January 22, 2020 that if your website is listed in the featured snippets that your website will also not be listed on page 1. This is a huge change from the way search has been handled in the past. Prior to this search change, a website could

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Creating a template part in WordPress

Part of the process of developing a website is recognizing when certain design patterns appear in multiple places and pages. The header and footer are examples of code that is written once and then called through a function to appear on multiple pages. WordPress has these functions available for us to place on the page.

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WordPress vs HTML5

So many times when building a website you are bombarded with hundreds of options. Do I use WordPress? What even is PHP? Do I really need WordPress, or is HTML good enough for my site? Well, luckily for you we have some of the answers you’ve been looking for. What’s your use case? When trying

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How Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness Applies to Website Building

We’d like to thank the Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness for the inspiration behind this amazing blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ4yNgXelk 1. Teamwork (Client, Designer, & Developer) It takes a team to build a website and it doesn’t happen overnight. Designers rely on feedback from both the client and the developers. Without client feedback, the designers won’t

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CSS Attribute Selectors

CSS selectors can be pesky, but so can design requirements. When it comes time to build a website, having a full arsenal of selectors at your disposal can be an invaluable skill. Attribute Selectors Attribute selectors come in handy quite often when dealing with third party plugins or when you need to select a specific

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WordPress Spam Prevention

When it comes to running a WordPress site, there is nothing worse than getting hit by spambots or fake users posting comments on blog posts or sending you a fraudulent contact request. We take a very proactive approach with all our WordPress sites by installing two primary countermeasures to spam. Google reCAPTCHA Google’s reCAPTCHA comes

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Our Top 3 Favorite WordPress Plugins – 2019 Edition

Reinventing the wheel isn’t just unnecessary, it’s a waste of precious development time and resources. That is why when we run into a good WordPress plugin, we utilize it as much as we can. Here are a few of the best plugins we used for WordPress in 2019: 1. UpdraftPlus Backups If there is one

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How to use Isotope

Isotope Sorting Isotope is a plugin that allows you to sort and filter HTML elements on a page with minimal setup. This post is going to focus on the sorting aspect. The following is a stripped-down example of how we used Isotope to sort elements in two different ways, either by name or by an

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Using URL Canonicalization to Fix Duplicate Content

URL canonicalization is an SEO practice that is effective for website optimization. Not only does optimizing your website tell search engines how to index and rank your pages, but it also helps your site rank higher on sites like Google. A poorly optimized website can negatively impact its ranking with search engines. One of the