Who doesn't love seeing traffic spikes from referrers in their Google Analytics reports? The first thing most of us do is copy the referrer path into a new browser tab and try to find where the link back is. Have you ever gone to the referring page only to have it try to sell you… Read more »
This WordPress function will look for TODO comments in your theme files and organize them on your Admin Dashboard inside of a metabox. Each TODO item can have an optional category and priority associated with it. This will help with your theme development so you don't accidentally forget a TODO item, and allows a team… Read more »
This is a WordPress Admin Dashboard metabox that detects and organizes important information for developers. The information ranges from basics like server IP address to more advanced things like domain expiration date and registrar. Some information is useful at a glance while others are good for warnings and page speed. This metabox also provides a search… Read more »
When it comes to advertising on websites, we are our own worst enemies. More and more users are turning to browser extensions like AdBlock to hide banner ads because developers and website owners are placing more ads on their pages than content. The industry did this to itself, and I have no pity for it. That being… Read more »
WordPress shortcodes allow developers to let authors customize certain aspects of their posts in a controlled way. Since the TinyMCE editor does tend to yield inconsistent results for raw HTML (even when entered in the Text tab), shortcodes are a great way to be sure that code will output as intended when used in the… Read more »
As web developers, we constantly prepare our websites to work if a user has JavaScript disabled. Other practices of graceful degradation are measurable through metrics within Google Analytics, but how can we tell if our users are disabling JavaScript? Additionally, you are missing pageviews on your site by not counting visitors without JavaScript! One lesser-known fact is… Read more »
Since the primary implementation of Google Analytics is using JavaScript, how would you log events when users have JavaScript errors? This is an important question because if you see this event in your analytics action must be taken ASAP! If you're not tracking errors, you are missing an important aspect of avoiding user frustration! Setting this up… Read more »
Tonight, I launched the next iteration of Gearside Creative. If you notice any strangeness, feel free to contact me— I'll be making updates periodically. Read more »
Nebula is a springboard WordPress theme framework for developers. It has tons of custom functionality built-in (like shortcodes, styles, and JS/PHP functions), but unlike other themes the WP Nebula is not meant for the end-user. Wordpress developers will find all source code not obfuscated, so everything may be customized and altered to fit the needs of… Read more »
There was a great post on Technical Marketing about tracking social media events and logged-in users in Google Analytics using the new Universal Analytics. I would like to elaborate on the instructions to make it even easier to set up and get tracking. The following examples use a combination of JavaScript and jQuery. It is… Read more »
Chris Blakley is the digital design and development strategist at Pinckney Hugo Group in New York.
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