This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. I’ve had WordPress clients tell me they don’t worry about security or backups because their site is “too small to hack.” I beg to differ. It’s small sites with owners who have poor security practices that are frequently the target of hacks because they are so easy […]
Depending on your host, you may have gotten a rude surprise recently when you tried to update WordPress and got this message: You cannot update because WordPress 5.2 requires PHP version 5.6.20 or higher. You are running version 5.6.3. That’s right. Unless you’re running the (extremely old and unsupported) PHP 5.6.20 or greater, you won’t […]
This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. Looking to make your site more globally-friendly? WordPress has a number of translation tools that work in one of two ways: multilingual plugins that help you manually add multilingual content, and automated translation plugins that do it all for you (but are not as accurate, with sometimes […]
WP Minder is happy to announce our brand new WordPress training videos for all Maintenance Plan levels. Our new training resources include video tutorials for: general WordPress usage WooCommerce Yoast SEO Gravity Forms Google Analytics (official Analytics Academy videos from Google) In addition, there’s a new WordPress User Manual you can view online or download […]
This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. “Ooh, that photo would be perfect for this post I’m writing. Can I use that picture?” Good question! And the answer may surprise you. Learn about the ethics and laws surrounding copyrighted images in this infographic. So… have you tried Gutenberg yet? I broke down in January […]
This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. This morning I was putting together a mega menu (think: a really huge menu) for a new site. You know when you have a lot of links in a menu, how hard it gets to move things around in that menu in the WordPress dashboard? I have […]
This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. I’m a big fan of the FooGallery image gallery for WordPress, when I need something pretty simple. It supports albums and a lightbox and has a decent variety of free gallery styles, plus their support for the free version is speedy. But sometimes you need more… or […]
This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links. Just in time for the holidays – learn 5 ways to take your ecommerce site to the next level. This is a very useful (and short) article. I totally agree with one of their points and can’t emphasize enough to clients that high-quality product photos are critical […]
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 top WordPress and web marketing links. Seems like every website now has a cookies popup notification, right? In light of the GDPR and some new state-based privacy laws, like we have here in Colorado, it’s not surprising. But how do you get a cookie notice on your site? Here’s a great little tutorial […]