WP Theme Speed Blog

WordPress and the plugins, web services, automations and processes that let WordPress do amazing things.

Search Engine Console request indexing new and old posts

Today, I performed some quick updates for a client to speed the indexing of a new article after a slight hiatus in their blogging efforts. Some times when we dust off a system, it can highlights the...

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‘move discarded messages into’ Impact of the choice of Mail setting across multiple devices

I implemented some new settings to better manage my email(gmail) on multiple apple devices. I’m sharing in case it helps you declutter your inboxes more or helps prevent them from getting bad in the...

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Whitelisting Cloudflare Email Forwarding & Whitelisting Divi Email Forms

'Whitelisting' incoming gmail emails from Cloudflare's Email forwarding service requires creating a 'Filter' in Gmail or Google Workspace (or whatever they've renamed it again this year). And the...

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Re-Sharing old Posts – WP Posts, Custom Post types, pages & more

Client Tips

8 Social Sharing WordPress Plugins. Share WP Posts, Custom Post types, pages, setup schedules, calendars, pick and choose quotes to share from wordpress, sharing templates to different networks and more by picking the right plugin for your social media sharing use case.

Vision Board Post – Divi Template

Divi Theme Tips

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...

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Don't Update too Fast to WordPress 4.0

Client Tips

Its time again for me to caution all but the early adopters to try and wait a bit before upgrading to WordPress 4.0. I routinely advise waiting to update major releases and my typical cautionary advice for an update like this would be to wait at a minimum until 4.0.1...

Managed WordPress Hosting Staging site vs Building your own on Shared Hosting

Staging / Test Sites

Test site on generic shared hosting versus staging site on a Managed WordPress host Building a complete test site On a shared hosting environment requires a good deal of work, installing wordpress, creating a database, cleaning/exporting/importing database files,...

Content Trends – Authentic Stories, Long Stories, Organized Story telling – ep 29 – The ZetaMining Show

SEO, ZetaMining

In this episode +Warren Whitlock and +Brett Bumeter talk about some trends in Content. We dig into the concept of telling authentic stories to make sure your content connects, resonates and engages people. We dig into the (google SEO induced) trend of writing Longer...

WordPress temporary login vulnerability on public wifi

Client Tips

There's a report out of a new security vulnerability for both WordPress.com accounts (you know it if you have it) and self hosted wordpress accounts(you probably know it if you have this one too!) If not just ask below and leave your link. The problem is more serious...

Campaign Monitor and Gravity Forms

Client Tips

This week I am working on a project to use Gravity Forms to collect information and sign people up for an email newsletter run through Campaign Monitor. In this case, the original setup used and setup by a different firm was too complex running on a custom made form...