by Ernie St Gelais | Aug 12, 2026 | Case Studies, Code Snippets
Three customers in one week told a client the same thing: the required checkboxes on her shipping rate form would not check. The button that returns rates stayed locked, so nobody could get any further. She had been patient about it for a couple of weeks. Three...
by Ernie St Gelais | Aug 8, 2026 | WordPress, Reviews
Every WordPress site needs one SEO plugin, and picking it is one of those decisions that quietly follows you around for years. The Rank Math vs Yoast question comes up on almost every site I take over, usually because the previous developer installed one and nobody...
by Ernie St Gelais | Aug 7, 2026 | Case Studies, Code Snippets
COVESA runs a news and blog page that has to serve dozens of categories and hundreds of tags, and it still needs to page through years of posts without falling over. The build that solved it is a blog filter with pagination that runs on top of Divi, filters by...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jul 31, 2026 | WordPress, Security
A visitor lands on a WordPress site and sees a familiar looking box: “Verify you are human.” It looks a lot like the checks you see from Cloudflare and other security services, and it asks the visitor to press a couple of keys to prove they are real. It is...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jul 30, 2026 | WordPress
I used to keep seven sets of font sizes on every site I built. One for each Divi breakpoint. Desktop, tablet, phone, and the in-between sizes too. Every heading got hand-tuned at every screen width, and a single design tweak meant editing the same number in seven...
