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I give businesses web solutions. Web design and development. Pretty boring stuff.

WordPress Origin Story

Oh boy. Long story.

I decided to make a web development business in 2012. During my research and early phase, I was building static sites. I heard A LOT about WordPress though, so I eventually took a look at it. I was totally clueless and overwhelmed by it all because one of the 1st things I did was look up theme creation and had no idea about the WordPress loop and the theming structure of WordPress.

I eventually started figuring things out and packaging WordPress with my sites to present to clients so that they could edit their site.

My breakthrough point was when I decided to make my own theme. This was for a Hawaii blog (thehawaiiplan.com). I started out with a responsive theme (Skeleton for WP) and I just totally dissected it. Learned about making child themes, the theming structure of WordPress (which is actually one of the loveliest things about developing with WP, the loop, custom post types, creating your own meta fields, and also grid systems.

With the ability to make custom themes, the ability to cater the admin GUI to my clients, the ability to speed up production using plugins, and because Auttomatic is so keen on updating WordPress, I have to say that WordPress is truly a great platform to work with. It’s not perfect, but at only 3.9 versions, WordPress could very well be perfect one day.

  • Member Since: July 2nd, 2012
  • Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Website: ronswebsite.com
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  • Created a topic, After update, former refund orders were emailed again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I was upgrading from Woocommerce 2.3.11 to 3.65. Q…

  • Created a topic, Carousel Crop not working for non-logged-in?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I like Elementor a lot. I found an odd bug (?) t…

  • Created a topic, Accessibility… adding elements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is concerning the accessibility of the menu gener…

  • Created a topic, Great tool for developers on big websites, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Having auto-generated menus based on page hierarchy is…

  • Posted a reply to <span class=\"resolved\" aria-label=\"Resolved\" title=\"Topic is resolved.\"></span>[Yocto] Anyone else get their posts hacked using this theme?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Nevermind, I did a check and the vulnerability likely came from a plugin. I was…

  • Created a topic, Anyone else get their posts hacked using this theme?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Just wondering if anyone was hacked and had content re…

  • Created a topic, Your SSL for app.photodropper.com expired, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is causing this plugin to not work. Expired 1/4/2…

  • Created a topic, Customizing as a Developer is a Nightmare, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    TLDR: It's good out of the box, but for advanced needs…

  • Posted a reply to Default Message/No Tweets?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for that. Very interesting. I tested it out. With not tweets available, I…

  • Posted a reply to Captcha?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Oh, I just realized you need the pro version to have captcha :/. Otherwise the…

  • Created a topic, Captcha?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I was wondering if this allows some sort of captc…

  • Posted a reply to Default Message/No Tweets?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    From my brief file searching, I wasn't able to find the message in your files.…

  • Created a topic, Default Message/No Tweets?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Is there a way to have a default message in case there…

  • Created a topic, Suggestion: ADA Compliant — Search Bar, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am doing ADA compliance. The search bar you have can…

  • Created a topic, Doesn’t work after sorting/filtering?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I see that it doesn't work after I sort or filter my p…

  • Posted a reply to Disable Mega Menu on Mobile, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello, I see that this fixed. TY. I'm curious: I can see that it hides…

  • Posted a reply to Sub menu’s inner menu not show in mobile why ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I had the same issue with v1.1.2, with no javascript console errors. I replaced the…

  • Created a topic, do_shortcode doesn’t work?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi. I am trying to get this plugin working. I bought t…

  • Created a topic, Archive Widgets — based on a meta value and not post date?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey everyone, I'm trying to recreate the archive WP w…

  • Created a topic, Does not work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I got a project where a site was using this plugin. I …

  • Created a topic, How can I get an error output?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi. Does anyone know how I can get an error output? I …

  • Posted a reply to cURL error 56:Recv failure?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    actually, when i tried it today, it worked. i suppose it could have been due…

  • Posted a reply to cURL error 56:Recv failure?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    thanks ryan. i am completely at a loss in terms of this error.

  • Created a topic, cURL error 56:Recv failure?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, I am trying to understand this problem. …