When anchor tags go wrong (in Divi in this case)
Anchor Tags Anchor tags are useful bits of html. We use anchor tags to jump to a specific place on the page we’re on or…
How’d you do that? WordPress, HTML, CSS and more
We’ve shared a few tips recently in the Facebook WordPress for Nonprofits group and Give Community that are worth re-sharing here. Before we get to…
Indents and Hanging Indents
If you’re using WordPress, indenting a paragraph is pretty straight forward. Expand the toolbar and use the indentation buttons (left and right). This paragraph is…
Keep your website updated!
While looking at a potential new customer’s website recently we found it had been infected with malicious software that causes any visitor’s computer to use…
We recommend Little Green Light
We spent a lot of time going over Donor / Constituent Relationship Management solutions for small non-profits recently. Many are just too expensive. Some lack…
Security Matters
Customers sometimes ask us to explain the value of our managed website services. There are easy and obvious parts. For example, hosting services and the…
Trust is not everlasting
A recent series of attacks on WordPress websites have come from widely used, previously trusted plugins. In most cases, the authors had sold their plugins…
Lincoln Land Conservation Trust and Rural Land Foundation
Lincoln Land Conservation Trust (LLCT) contacted Trail Websites after learning about our work on the Walden Woods Project website. LLCT was in need of an…
Yoast says sliders and background videos should be banned
Our customers know that we at Lewis Studios and Trail Websites do not recommend the use of sliders or background videos. Rather than write a…
WordPress Post Revisions: Go back in time!
WordPress saves revisions of your posts as you edit. This may not be obvious to you. With a post open for editing, click the “Screen…
New River Land Trust
New River Land Trust (NRLT) found Trail Websites via social media. They wanted to improve their website to make it easier to maintain and navigate…
Using has_term to check if a WordPress post is in a category
Sometimes the documentation lets us down. In WordPress, has_term($term, $taxonomy, $id) is used to check if a post has a term. The documentation says the…