Here are some useful plugins I’ve used to help out churches that I think you might find helpful. Staff Directory Many churches and organizations like to have an online directory of their staff. While you can create this with the visual editor in WordPress, it generally doesn’t turn out as well as you’d like. A […]

We’ve already seen how I saved 37% of my page load time by editing and removing a few unnecessary plugins in this post. Now I’m going to share a few more methods I used to cut another 3 seconds off my page load time. Load jQuery from Google My site, like most WordPress sites uses […]

No one likes a slow website. Have you ever wondered if the plugins you use in WordPress affect your site’s load time? Recently I began a quest to reduce my page load time significantly by making changes and checking the results with Google Search Console and Pingdom Tools. Here’s what I discovered about the plugins […]

Here is a version of the sliding doors technique that doesn’t require php expressions. Just use this code in place of your theme’s current page menu. [php] <ul class="navigation"> <li class="<?php if ( is_home() ) { echo ‘current_page_item’; } ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>" title="Home"><span class="nav-left"></span>Home<span class="nav-right"></span></a></li> <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=&link_before=<span class="nav-left"></span>&link_after=<span class="nav-right"></span>’); ?> </ul> [/php] All this […]