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WordPress and the plugins, web services, automations and processes that let WordPress do amazing things.
Stopping PayPal Instant Payment Notification errors- where to delete them
Years back I setup a PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) to confirm the receipt of a payment or donation on a website. Fast forward 8 years, and we no longer use that process, which included a plugin and an IPN notification in our PayPal account. A quick google...
Divi Theme Black Friday contest and deals tonight!
Elegant Themes, the creators of Divi Theme, Divi Builder and more has their yearly Black Friday contest at midnight Central Time (CST). You can enter here the contest to win a new Mac Book or great deals on Divi with a yearly subscription or a lifetime membership...
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6 MicroInteractions to help Divi Theme websites in WordPress deliver results
Microinteractions are a great way to enhance user experience as they interact with your site. Slight animations of icons, buttons, or images can cue the user to take action in a fun and purposeful way. There are countless microinteractions you can include on your...
60+ Things You can do to keep safe & decrease the spread of COVID-19/Corona Virus
list to fight the spread of covid-19-hypothesis of things that will help. future step, review & edit those down the practical emphasizing the 80/20 rule. Then prioritize form most to least helpful aiming to pull out all the stops!
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...
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...
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5 methods for Tracking Phone call links + Block Telemarketers
I am a fan of WP Google Analytic Events. I use both the (1) free and the (2) Pro version depending on the client site requirements. With the right class or id tags set, it's possible to track Phone call links. Caveat - Some themes create special locations to place a...
Wild Card Redirects for directories
Helpful regex reminder (I always have to re-learn regex, it just doesn't stick for me.) from Rob Howard on Wild Card Redirects.
Project Management ‘in’ WordPress – @ryancanhelpyou
Just watched a great presentation by Ryan King (@ryancanhelpyou) at WordCamp USA in Nashville in 2018
Clear-Delete old outdated Content in WordPress
No tutorial necessary, just a great reminder at the start of this new year to get rid of that out dated content. Rewrite or improve anything that still has merit or can help. And get those Drafts finished and Published too! I am taking my own advice, just cleared out...
Drafts 5 Dictating via iPhone to WordPress
Downloaded this free app to test out dictation via my iPhone and rapid publishing to WordPress. Drafts 5