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Eric Karkovack (897 Articles)

Eric Karkovack is a web designer and WordPress expert with over two decades of experience. You can visit his business site here. He recently started a writing service for WordPress products: WP Product Writeup. He also has an opinion on just about every subject. You can follow his rants on Bluesky @karks.com.
Behind the Scenes of ClassicPress – the WordPress Alternative

Behind the Scenes of ClassicPress – the WordPress Alternative

WordPress 5.0 brought with it a lot of change and controversy. Most of the buzz surrounded the switch to a new block-based editor named Gutenberg. It seemed to have left…

Stylemix Themes Releases 4 Industry-Specific WordPress Themes Sponsored

Stylemix Themes Releases 4 Industry-Specific WordPress Themes

While it’s true that each industry and business has its own challenges and needs, the WordPress theme market hasn’t always recognized this. So often, themes are released with promises of…

A Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman

A Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman

Spotlight on Maddy Osman, a WordPress evangelist, sharing insights and experiences from her career.

How to Ship a Custom Login Form in Minutes – Without Coding Sponsored

How to Ship a Custom Login Form in Minutes – Without Coding

If you can create a user login form for your product or app in minutes – and without coding – you must be doing something illegal or magical. Or, you…

Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites

Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites

As software evolves, we can find ourselves having to adapt to new ways of doing things. There’s a learning curve involved that, while frustrating at first, becomes second nature once…

How to Test Your WordPress Website for PHP 7.x Compatibility

How to Test Your WordPress Website for PHP 7.x Compatibility

There are a number of benefits to running your WordPress website on a recent version of PHP. Among the most noticeable perks is the massive increase in speed. PHP 7.3…

5 Signs You Should Replace Your WordPress Theme

5 Signs You Should Replace Your WordPress Theme

WordPress has been around for well over a decade. And, coupled with its massive market penetration, it’s reasonable to assume that there could be a whole lot of outdated installs…

How to Add Mobile Navigation to Your WordPress Theme

How to Add Mobile Navigation to Your WordPress Theme

Let’s look at one method for adding an attractive and functional mobile navigation system to your WordPress theme.

Perfect the User Experience with userstack

Perfect the User Experience with userstack

Improving user experience with Userstack, a tool for understanding and optimizing website interactions.

Microsoft’s Browser Legacy

Microsoft’s Browser Legacy

The browser market is changing. With the recent news that Microsoft is abandoning its EdgeHTML browser engine in exchange for Chromium, it seems that Google has won the browser wars…

The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019

The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019

2019 is upon us and it has me thinking big. And since everyone else out there is telling you what will happen in the new year, I’m going to do…

What WordPress 5.0 Taught Me About Stress

What WordPress 5.0 Taught Me About Stress