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Medical Provider Web Communications & Best Practices for Covid-19
I have website clients that are medical providers and they need to rapidly benchmark their communications to respond to Covid-19, aka Corona virus. This is a developing fact/best practice gathering of details to help + Guidance from Medicaid and BCBS pushing medical...
I can’t log into my google business email account
You will need to login to mail.google.com with the user name or google business email address ex. [email protected] and the password for that account. ~ If needed, here’s instructions on how to reset the password for that user...
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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
Solution – Error Logs ‘preventing possible attempt to enumerate users’
While troubleshooting a problem, I noticed in a client's error logs (running on wpengine) that someone or many someones had generated a warning 'preventing possible attempt to enumerate users'. The WPEngine security system had stopped this. While chatting with support...
ShopperPress Theme
ShopperPress Plugin for WordPress demonstrated at Affiliate Summit UnConference Discount Code for ShopperPress Coupon code: XMAS2019 70% OFF discount on all themes before the end of Dec 2019. Valid from Now - 31st Dec 2019. How to Claim it - Visit ShopperPress get...
12 Steps to Moving Old Blog Posts: When Where & How
Need to get rid of some old content on a website, but can’t quite find the time or the emotional ability to let go of all that old content? Here are some steps to move the content, declutter and optimize your current site using Wordpress.com as a place to receive that old content. Plus the steps necessary to prevent an SEO crisis afterwards.
Do you use the WordPress app for smartphones?
The WordPress App for smartphones and tablets has been around for years and is getting better and better! How to get the WordPress App running You will need Jetpack installed on your site. Jetpack will need to be connected to WordPress.com. You will need a login to...
Good ASE session ‘Automating Your Affiliate Empire’
Wordpress automation panel from Affiliate Summit. It’s a couple years old AND holds the test of time mentioning several great services that are still great places to start for 2019.
Genesis + Divi Builder Plugin vs Divi Theme speed comparisons (video)
Anecdotal speed test of a site running a Genesis Child theme + the Divi Builder Plugin vs switching that same site over to only run the Divi Theme. The results surprised me. Divi Theme was faster. Note the site also ran the ACF plugin. (VIDEO)
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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...