Taco and WordPress Enthusiast
This past weekend we decided to chase the changing leaves west and spend a weekend in the mountains. The drive was a few hours, and if you too have 3 kids you know that can’t possibly done without stopping (several …
With a little help from my friend ChatGPT, and free hosting from Kinsta, I launched a silly little WordPress Dashboard Widget Generator. It’s just a simple utility that provides you with the PHP you need to create a custom dashboard …
If you’re not familiar, a page hero is a name we’ve given to, typically, the first section on any given page of your website. At a bare minimum, it usually has the page title or H1 heading, but it can …
As a companion to an upcoming video, I wrote a blog post on my strategy for auditing and testing website performance.
Be honest… how many subscriptions do you have that you haven’t touched in the last 6 months? Most of us will wildly underestimate this number — from both forgetfulness and to avoid the shame. That, of course, is why subscriptions …
Today I’m sharing 5 of my favorite free tools for design! If you have any free tools you love, be sure to share them down in the comments! Icones: https://icones.js.org/ Accessible Color Matrix: https://toolness.github.io/accessible… Closest Accessible Color: https://www.learnui.design/tools/acce… Vivid Gradient …
I recently did a livestream where I shared the latest version of my Starter Site and several people commented about me using a GeneratePress child theme. So, today I decided to make a video to show you how you can …
I told my buddy Jonathan that I’d take a stab at redesigning the Pie Calendar website, and here’s the original next to my design concept (Figma): Not sure if they’ll use it (or perhaps just parts of it) — but …
Have you ever caught yourself sinking hours into something and wondered “Why am I doing this?!?!”? I have… more times than I’m comfortable admitting. In fact, just the other day I spent about 4 hours trying to find the perfect …
I asked 3 security experts and 3 maintenance experts how often we should be updating plugins — and the results are fascinating!
About Kyle
After spending 15 years as a graphic designer and earning a business degree, I launched my agency, OGAL Web Design, in 2017. A year later, after finding the amazing community around WordPress, I co-founded The Admin Bar, which has grown to become the #1 community for WordPress professionals. I'm a husband, proud father of three, and a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Main Gigs
OGAL Web Design is my performance-first website design agency (of one) in Virginia.
The Admin Bar is my 10,000+ member community for WordPress Professionals.
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