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- American Football Stats API: How to Get NFL and College Data Into WordPress
Every guide to building a football site starts in the wrong place. They open with themes, show you a nice scoreboard layout, and pick a plugin by the end of the first screen. Then you install it and discover the real job: something has to put 285 NFL games, 32 team records and roughly 17,000 player stat lines into your… - Kadence General Settings: Layout, Sidebar and Performance
This is part 7 of seven. It covers the 108 Kadence general settings in the General panel, which is where your content width, the sidebar, the back-to-top button, the performance switches and the social link boxes all live. Every default below was read out of Kadence 1.4.5 itself, not copied from the documentation. The official docs list these settings and… - Kadence Colors and Fonts Settings: Palette, Type and Buttons
This is part 6 of seven. It covers the 45 Kadence colors and fonts settings – the global colour palette, the type scale, and the three button styles the theme ships with. It’s the smallest part of this reference and the one I’d read first. Almost every colour setting elsewhere in Kadence points back at the palette defined here. Every… - Kadence Footer Settings: Rows, Widgets and Copyright
This is part 4 of seven. It covers the 100 Kadence footer settings – the three footer rows, the six widget areas, the footer navigation, the social icons and the copyright line at the bottom of every page. The footer is the header’s mirror image. Same builder, same gears, same General and Design tabs. If you’ve read part 2 on… - Kadence Post and Page Layout Settings: All 126 Defaults
This is part 5 of seven. It covers the 126 Kadence post and page layout settings that decide what a single post looks like, what a page looks like, what your blog archive looks like, what your search results look like, and what happens on a 404. Five sections, and they don’t all live where you’d expect: Section Settings Single… - Kadence Header Components: Menu, Search, Button and Logo Settings
This is part 3 of seven. Part 2 covered the header’s structure – the rows, sticky, transparent. This one covers the 145 settings that belong to the things you put inside those rows: navigation, search, a button, social icons, custom HTML, and the logo. Every default here was read from Kadence 1.4.5’s own settings registry. The official docs list these… - Kadence Header Settings: Rows, Sticky and Transparent
This is part 2 of seven. It covers the 93 Kadence header settings that build the structure – the three rows, the sticky behaviour, the transparent mode, the off-canvas panel and the hamburger trigger. It doesn’t cover the things you put *inside* a header. Navigation, search, buttons, social icons and the logo are components, and they get part 3. Every… - Kadence Theme Settings: How the Customizer Actually Works
The first time I went looking for the Kadence theme settings I closed the Customizer again. There were panels inside panels, tabs I didn’t notice for a week, and a Header section that looked empty. (If you can’t find the Customizer at all on a newer install, here’s where it went.) So I counted. Kadence 1.4.5 registers 969 default values… - NinjaFirewall Review: The Only Free Firewall That Runs Before WordPress
Short answer: NinjaFirewall is the most genuinely protective free security plugin I’ve tested, it adds nothing at all to the page your visitors download, and it costs you about 22 milliseconds per request plus a real amount of fiddling. If you want a security plugin with a friendly dashboard that scans for malware and holds your hand, this is the… - SEO Simple Pack Review: I’ve Run It on This Site for Five Months
Short answer: SEO Simple Pack handles your title tags, your meta descriptions and your social sharing tags, it does all three properly, and it does nothing else at all. If that’s the whole of what you want, it’s the lightest way I’ve found to get it – no database tables, no background jobs, and about 2 milliseconds added to your…