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WordPress and the plugins, web services, automations and processes that let WordPress do amazing things.
Snagit 2021 Upgrade – Templates get even better
I really needed to speed up my process of creating training images and videos. So today, I'm upgrading to Snagit 2021 today. (I updated to the latest Camtasia a month back). Why am I personally upgrading? Snagit is improving in leaps and bounds. The improvements in...
Zoho Meetings Microphone Options on a Mac
Kept having problems with Zoho Meetings not pushing audio from my better microphone to the actual system. I could 'select' the Microphone in Zoho Meetings Settings, but still no sound. I'm on a Mac, and I found that if I open up the Mac Audio Settings window, I could...
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Quick items we are working & researching
Three Easy to Edit Image Hover Effects Free Divi Layout from Divi Soup
This free Divi layout uses the native Divi image and text modules with absolute positioning to show or hide text or swap the image for another on hover. View the demo and download this free
Deleting redundant Twitter Lists
This week I was building up a few twitter lists for a local WordPress meetup group. Somehow I had the twitter app on my phone open and twitter on my browser going at the meetup at the same time looking at lists and....A few of the Twitter Lists were duplicated. I...
How can people subscribe to WordPress Post comments?
Recently a good friend of mine, book author and speaker and blogger of many many years, asked me a question about the subscription options on their WordPress site. Background My friend's name is Craig and he runs SecondChancetoLive.org. I have helped Craig with a few...
Video Testimonials from Group Video Chat – Morning Ideas repurposing content
I was reading this article from TechSmith and thinking of some of my own business challenges. At the bottom of the article they mentioned video testimonials and I thought of my client Dave Courvoisier and his new(soon to drop) book. We were talking about gathering new...
WooCommerce Variation with Downloadable File types – 2020 update thanks
Just wrapped up a product setup of a WooCommerce product with 2 variations (epub and mobi) for ibook and kindle readers. This is to sell a book. I found and benefited from some quick research to get this done. There had been several updates that made the process a bit...
Can you spot the phishing tip offs?
Can you spot the tip offs that this email is a phishing email pretending to be an account deactivation from Apple?
Advanced WordPress filtering – Search & Filter Pro & 2 others
1 - Advanced WordPress Filtering with Search and Filter Pro Just wanted to share a quick Wordpress plugin (paid) system that we came across while doing some research on a client project. We didn't use this tool this time as the client went a different direction.Still,...
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Quick items we are working & researching
Mechanism for selling Spotify Playlists or lists of Spotify tracks
Say you have created the best party playlist ever, and you want to sell it. How do you do that? In theory the process would be... Create a file of your Spotify tracks/playlists that can be sold and bought Just export your Playlist and then sell the export file and the...
Updated Roadmap for WordPress in 2019| WordPress.org
Joost De Valk, the founder of Yoast aka the WordPress SEO plugin and NEW head of Marketing for WordPress' Automatic, has updated the 2019 Roadmap for WordPress. Now that Gutenberg, the codename for WordPress update 5.x, has successfully launched, phase 2 of the Block...
Testing a Gravity Form to Conversational app converter
Having a little fun testing out a tool (Free on repository and Pro versions) that converts Gravity Forms forms into a conversation experience, sort of like AI but more of a chat bot. The key here is converting complex gravity forms into a better experience to increase...
Apple Touch Icon 404 errors
I run the Redirection Plugin on some sites. It logs 404 errors which is handy to clean up loose ends. The Apple Touch Icon 404 errors get annoying. Handing reminder of the solution here on Stackexchange. 2 solutions - Define the icon in the head file or upload 100x100...
Default Featured Image Plugin to transform site without
Found a handy, simple plugin for setting Default Featured Images on a Wordpress site. Client had 370+ posts (podcast episodes) without featured images. Going back and adding them one at a time for the old articles wasn't in the cards for now. However we needed some...