WordPress Blog: Dev Tips, Fixes & Behind-the-Scenes from VegasGeek
VegasGeek is a WordPress development, support, and consulting agency that documents the real problems we solve for clients and not theoretical best practices. This blog covers WordPress troubleshooting, automation, SEO and AI visibility shifts, and the actual conversations we have with clients before, during, and after a build.
Most of what’s here comes straight from active projects: a hack that needed a rebuild instead of a cleanup, a client who needed talking out of the wrong solution, a cache-purge workflow that started as our own annoyance. If you’re running WordPress and want fixes that have actually been tested in production, you’re in the right place. Browse by topic below, or jump into the latest posts.
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New Plugin: Set Sort Order
While working on a client project, I added a few custom post types and a custom taxonomy to each. Once the client started adding content to the site, he asked,…
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How I stopped Gravity Forms from performing 1,500 queries per page
For the past two years, I’ve been working with tpn.health to build an online platform where clinicians earn continuing education credits through live and on-demand classes. When we started out,…
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Sending emails with SendGrid from your WordPress website
Depending on where you host your website, you may not have ever needed to consider how your site sends email. Most shared-hosting services handle outgoing emails automatically. But, if you…
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How to crop and resize images for your website
When adding images to your website, it is important to upload a properly sized image to fit the need. It’s not just about the visual display (although, that can be…
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Do You Hide Features to Stop Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Sites?
This week, while answering questions in a WordPress forum on Facebook, somebody asked: What is the best way to give my client access to update content but not give them…
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How to Set Up a Local Copy of Your WordPress Site
As the organizer of the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup, I’m constantly telling people that they should test new releases of WordPress using a staging site or on a local development…
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Git + MAMP + SiteGround
For too long now I have put off the chore of getting my local development environment set up in a way that would allow me to use Git to push…
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Adding conditional headers in WordPress
While working on a project recently, the client wanted to display a custom header graphic for a specific ection of their site. This was complicated by the fact that there…
