What a difference a year makes
A lot has happened this past year. Obviously a lot has happened in the bigger sense but I’m talking about the WordPress world where millions…
Improving our own site performance
The old story goes that the cobbler’s children don’t have good shoes because the cobbler prioritizes customers over his own family. Web designers and developers…
Gutenberg: block based editing coming to WordPress soon
Some Trail Websites customers are now using the Elementor page builder for enhanced page layouts and widgets that make complex pages easier to create. Others…
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…
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…
Stewardship Reporting with Google Forms
Land trusts practicing good land stewardship produce a report each year summarizing stewardship activity and land use for stewarded properties. We’ve seen many methods for…