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NOW CODING!! HolisticNetworking on Shopify
NOW CODING! HolisticNetworking is now a Partner! Interested? Contact Me Today! In the years and decades that I’ve been working in various sections of the IT community, the one thing I’ve watched every...
View ArticleBig News! Automattic buys out WooCommerce
Probably the biggest name in WordPress stuff besides Automattic (the WordPress development company) is WooCommerce. That’s largely because so many people looking to use WordPress also want the...
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5 Ways Your Business Saves Money with WordPress (and HN)!
At HolisticNetworking, we understand: you’re not a web developer and you’re not a web company. You need the web to do what you do best. But maybe the web has been taking too much of your time and not...
View ArticleFinding Your Following: 5 steps to your “Local to Your Business” audience.
It’s a great, big world out there, and they’re all on social. You’re a business owner or a social media manager that needs to make sure your business is getting it’s due attention. But with all the...
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Rochester Optical Stores get right to the point, with HN!
The new, improved Rochester Optical Stores website. More than anything else, I love making life simpler for my customers. Who doesn’t? And when making my customer’s customers’ lives easier is the name...
View ArticleWordPress request filtering: how to filter posts by custom taxonomies.
I’m mostly just placing this snippet of code here because I don’t want to lose it. Regardless, if you’ve been searching for a way to filter your list of posts (or CPTs) by a custom taxonomy (like you...
View ArticleThe menu challenge: grouping posts by their taxonomy.
Sooner rather than later, you’re going to get asked. No matter how you slice it, people are going to insist they need it. But… how do you go about grouping a list of posts by taxonomy? I’ll give you an...
View ArticleNow Hiring: Part Time Sales Partner!!
HolisticNetworking is looking to hire a part-time, outsourced sales partner to sell our line of WordPress website and custom hosting solutions. This position could lead to a full-time position down the...
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The WP Customizer: Ok, I’m on board now.
Change is hard. After 14+ years of WordPress development, change is also a constant thing. But the change to using the WP Customizer, as required by the WordPress repository, had me kicking and...
View ArticleThe Gist: creating WordPress menus that use Zurb Foundation to spread...
If you’re looking to use Zurb Foundation for WordPress layouts (hint: you should totally be using Zurb Foundation for WordPress layouts), you’ll probably want to create a fluid, responsive footer that...
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Death to the About Us page.
Come on in, Mr. Client. Have a seat. I wanted to have a word with you about your website. You know, the massive data structure that combines text, audio, video and images all in the pursuit of...
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HOW TO: Using Zurb Foundation 5 and 6 together
I’ve been a big fan of Zurb Foundation for quite a while. So much so, that every WordPress project I’ve created in the last six months (about 40, all tolled) have been built using my Foundation...
View ArticleHappy Spring! Refresh your feeds!
Among my very favourite reads on the Internet, AddThis always has something worth reading: Tip 6: Freshen Up Your Feed Brainstorm new types of content you haven’t tried in the past as a way to drive...
View ArticleUpdating the WordPress Customizer with Kirki
I’m sure I’m not alone among developers who are continually frustrated by the lack of imagination shown for implementing the Customizer in WordPress. Sure, I have praised its existence and support its...
View ArticleRachel Barnhart
Without [Holistic Networking]’s expertise, The Rochesterian would not be where it is today. The blog was voted best in Rochester in its first year by readers of City Newspaper. [Holistic Networking]...
View ArticleLarry Moss
Tom has been great to work with. He was able to transition a custom built legacy system into a clean and modern WordPress installation that is much easier to maintain. He didn’t simply move 25 years of...
View ArticleJulia Powers
Tom/Holistic Networking helped us to create a dynamic user experience with intuitive navigation, which is critical for a company with both B2B and B2C sales channels. We also needed to build an...
View ArticleAnn Maynard
I have had the privilege of working with Tom at Holistic Networking at multiple clients over the past 10 years. He has consistently provided web development, digital marketing and e-commerce solutions...
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jQuery UI Autocomplete Field Does Not Populate Before Submit
So the issue is this: I’m creating a faceted search interface for a client’s application. Rather than clutter a window with textbox after textbox, select after select, most of which they don’t use on...
View ArticleUsing a “spinner” with a jQuery UI dialog
I’m not a fan of unstyled content. I don’t think many developers are. Worse, while I like to reuse my dialog divs, I don’t want the old content confusing users when the dialog first opens. And of...
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