Odds & Sods

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
February 15, 2018

Yelp is Not a Good Marketing Tool for Your Business

For years Yelp salespeople have called periodically to get Spigot on board with advertising through their platform. These people have all been brushed aside.…
February 12, 2018

Multi-Radius Syntax for Sketch

Not every shape with a radius should be the same on all sides. Thankfully Sketch has this functionality built right in. Since I can…
January 24, 2018

WordPress Show All Posts on a Custom Post Type Archive Page

WordPress archive pages show a limited number of items, controlled from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most section. The default…
December 22, 2017

How to Migrate from Yoast SEO to The SEO Framework

I've used Yoast SEO (formerly WordPress SEO) for nearly as many years as I've been building WordPress websites. In the past few years Yoast…
November 3, 2017

Special Character Reference

The following reference table is from the Webmonkey Special Character reference page, a link that I've kept for at least a decade (http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/), (Note…
October 31, 2017

Goodnight Firebug

So many web technologies have come and gone over the years, and when their time is up, most go quietly. Last week Mozilla announced…
September 28, 2017

Transmit 5 Empty Directory When Using Transfer and Skip

10.31.17 Update: Good news! Update to Transmit 5.0.5 fixes this issue! I really like the new version of Transmit. It's super fast and easier…
September 22, 2017

Drift Chat

We've used Drift chat on our sister site Cinch for over a year now. During that time we've been able to help countless people…
August 23, 2017

Transmit 5 Missing Skip Feature Workaround

Transmit 5 was released back in mid July. I picked it up right away, not only for the initial launch discount, but because Transmit…
June 23, 2017

Spigot JSON Feed

TLDR; Spigot has a new JSON feed for posts, and you can find it here: https://spigot17.spigotdev.com/feed/json. Our Portfolio feed is here: https://spigot17.spigotdev.com/feed/json/?post_type=portfolio I still…