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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...
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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
Vision Board Post – Divi Template
Today as I read a blog article by a client and friend, I was inspired to draft this initial Divi Layout Template. I'm calling it a Vision Board template. The idea is to recreate the concept of a specific type of vision board. (There's a video at the...
Transition – Freshbooks to WP Project Manager
Step 1 Get Project manager running I have been using Freshbooks since 2010. For the last two weeks I started using the Free version of WP Project Manager, and now I'm going to the Pro Version. With the Pro Version, I initially get access to things like: Duplication of...
Save a bundle – VXi BlueParrott Xpressway II Under $30!!!! (75% off)
Great short term deal on VXi BlueParrott Xpressway II, temporarily available on Groupon at 75% off. Can be used on Nuance Voice recognition products, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Dragon Dictate (for MAC)
Convert Text Blog Posts to Videos -Automated tool
Came upon this excellent freemium service that converts text blog posts into a video with royalty free video clips and sound. You can story board your article and easily share the video to Facebook & other social media channels
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Super Easy WordPress Tools For Restaurants!
Need some great tools to make building a Restaurant website with WordPress and Divi Themes, easy. There are three things to focus on in this article:
OpenTable Plugin
Creating Food Menu pages that look awesome & include categories like Gluten Free, Range Free Chickens and more
Conversion Tracking (for OpenTable) and other things on a site
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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...