A Beginner’s Guide to Functionality Plugins in WordPress
Learn how to turn your custom code snippets into a clean, reusable WordPress functionality plugin that’s safe, organized, and future-proof.
Mark Westguard
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How to Make “Read More” Links Accessible (Without Sacrificing Design)
Simple tweaks to add meaning to your links, improve SEO, and avoid costly accessibility issues.
Kyle Van Deusen
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Your Website Isn’t Safe Yet… Maybe: 4 Privacy Law Changes Still To Come In 2025
New privacy laws are rolling out in Tennessee, Minnesota, and Maryland — and they might apply to more businesses than you think.
Trevor Willingham
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‘Silence Isn’t Subscribing,’ According to New FTC Rules… and Common Sense
Think silence means consent? Not when it comes to subscriptions. Learn what the FTC’s new rules on “negative option” offers mean for your website—and how to avoid fines that could cost you 19,236 tacos.
Trevor Willingham
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Mastering CSS Grid: A Step-by-Step Guide to Grid Template Columns
CSS Grid has been a game changer for me, especially with the grid controls available in ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Grow Your List Like a Human, Not a Hustler
A practical guide for agencies who want real subscribers, not just big numbers.
Kyle Van Deusen
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Using Clamp for Responsive Section Padding: A Step-by-Step Guide
In one of my recent videos, I introduced a new font size calculator I created. Afterward, ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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How to Create a Scroll-Reveal Effect with CSS in GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks
Recreate Google DeepMind’s scroll-reveal effect in GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks with this simple CSS trick—no JavaScript needed!
Kyle Van Deusen
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Understanding WordPress Taxonomies
Learn how to create and manage custom taxonomies in WordPress to better organize your content and improve site structure.
Kyle Van Deusen
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How to Set Up Your Website on Cloudflare’s Free Plan
If you’re looking to improve the performance and security of your website, Cloudflare’s free plan is ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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How to Create Animated Background Gradient Text with CSS
Recently, I’ve been exploring animations, and one effect caught my attention: the animated background text featured ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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30+ Books Every Freelancer and Agency Owner Should Read
Agency owners and freelancers: Unlock your entrepreneurial potential with this curated list of 30+ must-read books.
The Admin Bar
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Creating a Dynamic FAQ Section with Custom Post Types and Accordion Blocks
Learn how to create a dynamic and easily manageable FAQ section for your website using custom post types, accordion blocks, and taxonomies.
Kyle Van Deusen
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Building a Magazine-Style Layout with Multiple Query Loops in WordPress
Discover how to create a visually engaging magazine-style layout in WordPress using multiple query loops.
Kyle Van Deusen
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How To Write Accessible Website Copy
One of the most overlooked aspects of accessibility is website copy. It’s not just the design, layout, & features of your website, the copy has to be accessible too.
Abby Wood
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Education Over Sales
This post is an excerpt from our newsletter, The Friday Chaser. Subscribe and get content like ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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No One Likes a Perfect Person
As business owners we put a lot of pressure on ourselves… Oftentimes, so much pressure that ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Two Ways to Expand
If you’re getting overwhelmed with work, and needing to expand capacity, there are two routes most ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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What to say to clients who insist on self-hosting
Web developers know that self hosting undermines website care plans and puts sites at risk. Here’s what to say to get clients to trust you with hosting.
Matthew Sebert
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How Do You Do It?
During a TABLE call this week, we got off on the topic of creating a “our ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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They’re Asking for Referrals
If you’ve ever worried that a disproportionate number of your leads come from referrals, then you’re ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Do you need a degree to be a web designer?
Do you even need a college degree to work as a web developer or designer? Well, that depends on the type of career you’re planning.
Kyle Van Deusen
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My Trick to Avoid Overwhelm
I get overwhelmed pretty easily — especially at work. It’s always been this way for me… ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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33% of American’s did what? ????
I read a stat this week that was pretty shocking — it said that over 33% ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Debugging Your Design
When we have our “developer hat” on, it’s natural to debug problems step by step. If ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Running Your Own Race
This week I saw a tweet by Mike Oliver that stopped my scrolling pretty quickly… “Maybe ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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5 Reasons They’ll Pay You More
It’s not uncommon that someone in the group asks how they can get clients that are ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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How I got a ???? as my email address
As a designer, developer, or just through the entrepreneurial spirit, I bet you’ve had some random ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Voted The Best WordPress Community!
It’s official — the results have been tallied, and The Admin Bar has been voted The ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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I’m telling myself “NEVER AGAIN!”
How many times have you said to yourself “I’ll never make that mistake again!”, only to ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Accountability is the Catalyst for Progress
If you’re like most agency owners, you have a laundry list of things you know you ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Scrolling Image Effect with GenerateBlocks
The full-length screenshots of websites we’ve created are great — but having a giant, skinny image ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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“Done Today”
This week I added a new “view” inside my Airtable base I use for managing all ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Don’t try to sell me a car
I drive a hunk of junk. The check engine light constantly comes on and goes off randomly. ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Easily Grab Photos from Word Docs
This is a trick I find myself using pretty often when clients send me copy in ...
Matthew Sebert
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What’s on the menu?
The more I think about having “packages” for website builds, the more it makes sense — ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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If I Won the Lottery
I don’t buy lottery tickets often, but every now and then (when the jackpot is big ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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It’s really easy to undercharge
Blanket statements about pricing (eg. “You should charge a minimum of $X for a website”) have ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Should You Fire Yourself?
Spending too much time working “in” the business and not “on” the business is a pretty ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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What is Storytelling in Marketing and Why Should You Care?
Humans have been telling stories forever and our brains have evolved to love them. How can you use the power of stories to promote your business?
Suzanne Bird-Harris
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Building a Minimal Client Dashboard in WordPress
I recently decided to build my own minimal dashboard for the clients on my care plan ...
Matthew Sebert
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Recommended Reading
The best reads for web designers, agency owners, and freelancers.
Kyle Van Deusen
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How to Find New Web Design Clients
While we don’t claim to know all the answers, Kyle and I have had some incredibly smart guests on our podcast and I’ve gathered together each one of these here (in no particular order) in this post along with the major takeaways from each episode if a TLDR fits your busy schedule a bit better.
Matthew Sebert
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Thirty-Eight Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-Five Years of Combined Experience
Our group, The Admin Bar, has 38,355 years of combined experience in the web industry — ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Checklists, top contributors, and you can never update enough…
This Week in TAB You may have already seen, but this week I combined the magic ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Documenting processes, prospecting clients, new tools, and more
This Week in TAB Before you dive in, I just wanted to send a big thank ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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Productivity tips, client dashboards, tempers, and more
This Week in TAB Take a look at what’s going on in and around The Admin ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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SEOHive White-Label Content & Copywriting Examples
Most recent articles written by SEOHive: Since SEOHive launched back in April of 2020 there has ...
Kyle Van Deusen
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