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A Story of Seductive Social Media Success and Neglected Email Strategy 🏚️

Published: December 6, 2023; Updated: January 22, 2024 Filed Under: Marketing, Operations, Sales, Social, WordPress

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As much as you love social channels, be smart by strategically optimising business operations, sales processes and leads with website email forms.

Computer Says No: Does Your Website Work for People with Disabilities? β™Ώ

Published: December 18, 2020; Updated: September 17, 2024 Filed Under: Design, Internet, Legal, Web Development, WordPress

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The 2020 surge in internet use has led to record levels of online activity. It’s high time for businesses to check that their apps and websites are fully accessible to all.

Waiting on Final Images for a WordPress Website? Use this Handy Thumbnail Placeholder Trick 🪟

Published: June 25, 2019; Updated: July 30, 2023 Filed Under: Design, Web Development, WordPress

A handy WordPress media uploader hack for dummy image placeholders in your website build, with a quick swap when the final versions are ready.

Stop GoDaddy Spamming Branded Footer Links to WordPress Installatron Sites 🪧

Published: May 8, 2019; Updated: September 10, 2023 Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress

Remove GoDaddy footer links from WordPress websites

GoDaddy’s love of advertising on customers’ websites is annoying. Fortunately, the branded GoDaddy backlinks inserted into WordPress sites generated by quick-install apps can be removed.

Badly Behaved Images? Leverage the Power of Vector Graphics to Eliminate Unruly Design ⚑

Published: September 13, 2016; Updated: March 5, 2024 Filed Under: Design, Web Development, WordPress

Scalable Vector Graphics image

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is the frequently overlooked solution to high quality design both in print and online. Once explained to non-designers, it is obvious the advantages afforded by “vector paths” is common sense, essential to workflow and cost effective…

Dodge WordPress Website Disasters: Use a Localhost for Development 🏗️

Published: February 9, 2016; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Software, Video, Web Development, WordPress

WordPress Disaster

Are you a smart webmaster? Avoid web development hell by testing, building and improving your WordPress site in a localhost offline server…

Can We Really Trust WordPress Plugins? Back Up Your Site Manually NOW 🤔

Published: September 22, 2015; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress

WordPress Manual Back Up

Do you back up your WordPress website manually? You might use a plugin but these can fail, especially free ones. Better a little caution than a great regret!

This WordPress Media Uploader Problem Makes Your Blog Look Amateur πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

Published: August 11, 2015; Updated: March 5, 2024 Filed Under: Design, Video, WordPress

WordPress Thumbnails

WordPress automatically creates thumbnails when you upload images. Add a featured image to a post and a smaller thumbnail is used for your blog archive. How does yours look?

WordPress Duplicator Plugin ZipArchive Failure… My Solution 🥲

Published: April 28, 2015; Updated: August 12, 2023 Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress

Duplicator ZipArchive Failure

I tried to take a backup of my WordPress site using Duplicator but was struck down immediately with a problem I’ve never seen before: a PHP support failure…

You’re About to Get Hacked: A Common WordPress Mistake πŸ”“

Published: March 29, 2015; Updated: September 5, 2024 Filed Under: Video, Web Development, WordPress

WordPress phpMyAdmin Username Security

In this post you’ll learn a vital WordPress security tip for phpMyAdmin to stop your site potentially getting hacked and becoming compromised. It takes only a few minutes…

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