This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. Today (Thursday Dec. 6) is supposed to be the (rescheduled) day for the WordPress 5.0/Gutenberg drop. Nothing yet and it’s afternoon… but when it happens, here are some handy links about Gutenberg, the new WordPress editing tool. Should you update to WordPress 5.0 right away? I say […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. If you have a Google map in your site, or have tried to add one recently, and found that following the instructions for getting a Maps API Key (cryptic for many users at the best of times) are no longer working? This is because this summer Google made […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. This week I added a new Resources page to WP Minder. Please let me know in the comments if you find this helpful, or how it can be made more useful… I always customize the WordPress login page for my design clients. It takes just a couple of […]
The FCC votes on removing Net Neutrality protections in mid-December. Do you rely on the Internet for your livelihood? Your entertainment? This is how things will change if this vote goes through. Please, if you are concerned at all by this, learn how to contact your representatives and ask them to stand up for a […]
This week WP Minder launched our new customizable WordPress Care & Maintenance Plans. After polling our clients, we found that most of them would like the option of choosing which features go into their plans. You shouldn’t pay for a service you don’t need, right? What Do You Get with our Custom WordPress Care Plans? […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Want to squeeze more out of your WooCommerce site without resorting to paid commercial plugins? Here’s a roundup of 20 free WordPress plugins to extend WooCommerce, including: WooCommerce-friendly search Product carousel Edit checkout fields Add a ‘New’ badge to new products Customize the tabs on the single product […]
Over the holidays I spent some time cleaning up the WP Minder website – making the Plans much simpler and easier to understand, and replacing the home page content with something that I hope is a lot more helpful to people trying to decide if this service is right for their business. If you get […]
Our available client reporting tool was not ideal, but we’ve revamped our monthly activity report into something we hope you’ll find to be more friendly, readable and useful. Here’s a little preview – click to see more. WP Minder clients will find the new version in their inboxes at the beginning of December. We’ve added […]
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There was a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against DYN today. DYN manages DNS (domain nameservers) and is a major DNS host in the US. As a result, many popular sites like Twitter, Reddit, Etsy, Paypal, Pinterest, CNN and a long list of others have been hard to access today. More information from these […]