This series charts the ups and downs of putting WordPress containers into production. I’ve been using Docker on my local development machine for some time. It makes it easy to start, stop and rebuild development environments in seconds and have …
This guide will walk you through the basics of building a Grunt WordPress Theme. Starting with installing Node and getting Grunt into your theme directory. Then installing plugins & configuring tasks to work on your WordPress theme files. At the …
Docker is a container engine capable of encapuslating applications into a package capable of being deployed anywhere and have it operate in the expected way. Getting up and running with Docker on Ubuntu is a straightforward process that takes less …
Best Reloaded is a responsive, mobile-first, theme. Find it on github: https://github.com/pattonwebz/best-reloaded-bootstrap-theme/
There’s a number of different ways you could use Git in your WordPress development workflow. That’s one of the beautiful things about Git – it works well with almost any workflow including different types of WordPress development flows. You might be …
By setting up some simple tests and looking at the results you could be getting more leads, downloads and signups on your site. It’s as easy as comparing A against B and reporting the results. If you run meaningful tests you’ll get …
If you want to remove comments section on a Genesis site it’s unbelievably quick & easy. That’s because Genesis is a WordPress framework and not just a theme – it’s cleverly built to allow you to access pretty much whatever …
I’ve looked at a lot of Analytics reports over the years and the one thing I can guarantee to see every time I look at a new profile is that the top pages aren’t actually going to be the top pages …
This year PattonWebz officially got big enough to become a business in it’s own right. Some brilliant opportunities were offered to me and I met some amazing people while I worked but above all I learned a lot about all …
For over 2 years now PattonWebz has been using a Bootstrap WordPress theme to help make it look awesome while I share my posts on it. The reason I wanted a Bootstrap theme was because it made being responsive easy …