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WordPress and the plugins, web services, automations and processes that let WordPress do amazing things.
Simple Sweet free stock image plugins for wordpress
Quick guide on a great little free stock photo plugin for wordpress that connects to Pixabay. (Plus a second plugin for Pexels. The second plugin is still coming along maybe not yet as reliable.)
2 Directions to Automate MailChimp and WordPress
There are 2 directions in which MailChimp and WordPress can work together. A WordPress blog post can trigger a MailChimp email newsletter to be sent out of MailChimp. This is probably the oldest and most common. It involves creating a Campaign in MailChimp from the...
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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
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,...
How to Cancel Media Temple Hosting Plan
Can’t find that quick spot in Media Temple to close a service, cancel hosting or your account? here’s the easy link.
Password Managers – Zoho Vault from 1Password
Some of my initial reflections, goals and notes on moving from 1Password to Zoho Vault as part of a Zoho One plan. Currently undecided and still gathering information.
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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...