If you’re dealing with fake or temporary emails in your sign-up forms, you know they create issues. Whether it’s clogging up your database, wasting resources, or spamming. We see a lot of bogus signups on RightBlogger for people trying to abuse our free tier. So I thought I would share some of my best tips …
While creating Meta Preview Tool I had to build a way to grab a page’s metadata to improve the site’s experience. When users enter links into sites they expect a preview of the URL. Apps like Discord, iMessage, Messenger all show previews of URLs when they are entered. That’s why in this quick post I …
If you’re a YouTuber who is also juggling a blog and channel you know how difficult it can be to manage both. Luckily if you’ve spent the time and effort to make a YouTube video you can quickly turn them into blog posts. Managing a blog can easily take up a lot of time but …
Hex opacity refers to the level of transparency in a color, represented as a hexadecimal value. In web design and development, hex opacity is commonly used in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to specify the degree of transparency for a particular color. The hex opacity value ranges from 00 to FF, with 00 being fully transparent …
Looking to display sunrise or sunset times in your website using Javascript? While there are plenty of ways to do this including using the SunCalc library to calculates times on the fly in this quick guide I am going to show you how to use the free SunriseSunset.io API. Full disclosure: I made this free …
TL;DR I built a blog title generator on my friend Ryan Robinson’s site using OpenAI’s API. It’s incredible to finally see AI reach a usable point to built web products easily. I found OpenAI’s GPT-3 API which allows you to submit a “prompt” and get a response from their AI engine. Of course since I …
This is a story about how the domain SmartWP.com was stolen from me and my friend Ryan Robinson. I’d consider myself pretty savvy with web security and domain name registrar but had no idea what GoDaddy had in store for us. TLDR; Don’t keep any domain of value on GoDaddy, I recommend using Cloudflare as …
Social Warfare Review: Social Sharing Plugin for WordPress Everyone wants their content shared on social media and WordPress offers a massive selection of social sharing plugins. I stumbled across Social Warfare and Social Warfare pro while trying out social plugins. Here is my review of Social Warfare. What is Social Warfare? Social Warfare offers a simple …
Elementor Review: The Best WordPress Page Builder in 2020? Page builders have taken WordPress by storm. There are tons of choices for page builders, Beaver Builder, Divi, Themify, Cornerstone, and loads more. After testing out a lot of the WordPress page builders I have found Elementor to be the best page builder for WordPress. Here is …
With the latest release of WordPress 5.0 there is now a new default editor for your posts called Gutenberg. This includes an expandable system of blocks that can add functionality to your content.
Blocks can include includes embedding videos, buttons, testimonials, and more advanced elements like restaurant menus.