Many of you know that I have my own company.
That company also has its own website.
Some (I doubt anyone who reads here) may have notice that the website has been in limbo for the last few days.
So this website is newly mobile, so I thought I could just do the same updates on my bigger site and VOILA, it would be mobile responsive.
And that’s basically what happened. Okay, I’m a liar. Here’s the story.
I installed the same WP widget. That didn’t cut it. It turns out my theme was out of date. Way out of date. (like two whole versions).
Well my business site was setup really well and really complex-like. Adding that to the fact that my IT guy got a job with Thrvient, when my site had issues, I was totally lost.
The combination of all my WP settings and a theme that I and my new IT guy knew nothing about were not good. I wasted about 5 hours spinning my wheels, maybe more than that. I was up until 3:30 last night. My IT guy spent about 3 hours looking. I’ll pay him for his time, but he didn’t accomplish anything.
I started by updating everything. That helped a little. The site would not load for people not signed in to my WP account.
Problem 1 fixed.
Upon reading some posts in the Headway Theme message board, I noticed that they all began with “All widgets were deactivated”. I wasn’t able to save my changes in the theme editor. Once I deactivated my widgets, things saved.
Problem 2 fixed.
Then, the Easing Slider didn’t work. This was a Custom Code block in my theme. I decided to look at the custom code. It was once line of php.
After that, I skimmed the widget documentation. By skim, I mean what I was looking for was easily isolated away from words: A lone string of php. It had a similar syntax but different words. Copied that and pasted into the Custom Code.
Problem 3 fixed.
Next I wanted everything to be mobile responsive. I decided early on that since my Theme had options for mobile responsiveness, I probably should’t use a widget, so I disabled it (Jetpack). I then made the theme grid responsive then each section.
Problem 4 fixed.
The only thing on my “to do” list, besides add meta info, is updating my images to say “TM” on everything.
That and to blog.
Good news – I interviewed an intern today who I will hire – yay!
Other news – I got 3 emails of people who are looking for accountants. Today. Yay!
2015 is going to push me! I’m pretty pumped!