by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 16, 2026 | Case Studies, Code Snippets
COVESA runs a busy in-person calendar. All member meetings, networking receptions, industry conferences, demonstration showcases, dozens of them across a year and across the globe. Their site needed an events page that sorted itself. Upcoming events on top, past...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 14, 2026 | Divi
The Short Version Every site had something. Six months, six migrations, and not one of them came through with nothing to fix. Most were small. One stopped the site from loading at all. Old plugins are still the number one problem. A senior care site went white the...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 14, 2026 | WordPress, Code Snippets, Review
The Short Version FluentSnippets is my default. Every snippet is a real PHP file on disk, it runs zero database queries, and it is free. WPCode is what I leave on a client site. Only it hands out role based access, from $199 a year. Code Snippets free is PHP and HTML...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 10, 2026 | WordPress, AI, Freelance
The Short Version One rule, nine copies. A single policy about when a work log gets written was sitting in nine files across seven workspaces under nine different names. A playbook that contradicted itself. One file told the assistant to use a file handoff tool, then...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 8, 2026 | Divi, Divi 5
The Short Version It is the markup, not the CSS. The copy was built from div elements pasted out of Word, and Divi’s spacing rule only targets p. A paragraph gets 14 pixels, a div gets zero. The two look identical in the builder and render 14 pixels apart live....
