Stop Events from Ending Before They Start (Meta Box Fix)
January 26, 2026
A clean, editor-friendly way to validate event start and end dates in WordPress using Meta Box, with support for separate date and time fields.
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SureRank and Bricks Styling Conflict
November 29, 2025
If you have used any of my styling overrides to make Bricks more legible, and you installed SureRank, you may notice some oddities. Everything is huge. This is because SureRank…
Writing Tips Plugin
November 23, 2025
Creating a solution to help guide content creators.
Displaying Theme and Plugin Versions
September 28, 2025
This is a for-fun addition that probably wouldn't apply to many websites unless versioning is a thing.
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Stop Events from Ending Before They Start (Meta Box Fix)
A clean, editor-friendly way to validate event start and end dates in WordPress using Meta Box, with support for separate date and time fields.
SureRank and Bricks Styling Conflict
If you have used any of my styling overrides to make Bricks more legible, and you installed SureRank, you may notice some oddities. Everything is huge. This is because SureRank resets the font size to 100% (16px base) in lieu of the 62.5% (10px base) that Bricks uses. Since Bricks…
Writing Tips Plugin
Creating a solution to help guide content creators.
Displaying Theme and Plugin Versions
This is a for-fun addition that probably wouldn't apply to many websites unless versioning is a thing.
Adding Featured Image to the WordPress API
UPDATE: All this is great, but unnecessary. It turns out that all you need to do is pass a URL parameter in the WP API request _embed=1 and most of the data will be returned. I always thought it was odd that the featured image was not available... now I…
New Bricks Builder Post Conditions for Comment States
Fine-tune your Bricks post layouts with new conditions that distinguish between comments being disabled entirely and comments being closed.
Controlling Text Alignment
Generally speaking, more than a single line of text should not be center-aligned for improved readability (there are several caveats). With a quick assist from ChatGPT, I was able to put together a dynamic way of changing this. I needed this for an article layout on my Etch site, where…
BricksExtras Print Feature
One of the really nice features added in BricksExtras 1.4.9 was adding the print button to the sharing buttons and assigning a specific area of the page to print.
Card and List View
Using features from Automatic CSS, container queries and a video from Kevin Geary to create a cad and list view option for site visitors.
Returning an Image Caption as Dynamic Data
Using a basic function and Bricks Builder, it is easy to output a featured image caption, anywhere you need it using dynamic data.
