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Using SimpleForm Plugin for Clean Site Forms

Simple but performance-based contact forms on your child sites are worth knowing of clean plugin options. On certain sites, you do not always need a number of extra fields in your contact site forms. There is a recent plugin option that works well and it is called SimpleForm. After you have activated and installed the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called Contacts. The plugin adds basic contact fields and you can set the provided fields you would like to make required. Form submission made using the SimpleForm plugin can be accessed from the following admin menu;

Sebastian Moran December 23, 2019 No Comments

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Using WP Search Insights Plugin for Tracking Site Searches

If you are using default search on a child site knowing what terms are being searched for on the site is hard to find unless you are using something like Google Analytics. There is a new plugin that will track search terms on a site and it is called WP Search Insights. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new menu item in wp-admin; Tools > WP Search Insights The first part you will be taken to is the dashboard which will show you popular and the recent searches. Also from the dashboard settings of

Sebastian Moran December 19, 2019 No Comments

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Using the Suki Theme on Your Child Sites

Knowing which fast and performance-based themes for your child sites is something that can take time to research and test. A more recent theme that is clean lightweight and performance-based but has a number of modules built in even in the free version is the Suki theme. After you have installed and activated the Suki theme on your child site it will add a new admin menu under; Appearance > Suki You will be able to find all of the available modules for Suki. Each of the modules can then be opened in the customizer. There is a pro version

Sebastian Moran December 17, 2019 No Comments

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Using Speed Booster Pack Plugin to Improve Your Child Site Performance

WordPress will try to load a number of additional requests, which in most cases are needed, such as emojis and dashicons. There is an easy to use a plugin called Speed Booster Pack, which can be installed on all connected child sites. The settings can be enabled using the MainWP Bulk Settings Manager extension. You can use this key to save the settings in Speed Booster Pack to all child sites where it has been installed and activated. If you have used WP Disable or Perfmatters plugins in the past, the Speed Booster Pack plugin is similar. After you have

Sebastian Moran December 12, 2019 2 Comments

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Using the Disable Plugin Deactivation Plugin on Your Child Sites

On a number of your managed child sites, it is worth knowing how to disable plugins from being deactivated or delete the plugin. There is an easy to use a plugin called Disable Plugin Deactivation which can be installed on all of your connect child sites and then you can easily set those options. After the plugin has been installed and activated on those sites it will add a new admin menu under the plugins admin menu in wp-admin; Plugins > Plugin Deactivate Settings All of the options will be disabled by default. You can then change the options you

Sebastian Moran December 9, 2019 No Comments

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Speed Up Your Child Site using the WP Performance Plugin

Options are important when it comes to having plugin options to easily improve the front-end load times of your child sites. It’s also worth knowing which ones work well. One such option is a plugin called WP Performance. After the plugin has been installed and activated, it will add a new admin menu called; WP Performance Plugin tab for settings are broken down as; CACHE CSS JAVASCRIPT IMAGES DATABASE CDN SETTINGS ADD-ONS In the cache settings, you can set cache to automatically clear. If your site does not have content which only changes daily, then setting clear cache after 24

Sebastian Moran December 5, 2019 No Comments

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How to use My WP Customize Admin Plugin on your Child Site

An easy way to clean up wp-admin and remove certain parts from not showing on child sites when clients need to login can be a pain to take care of. But there is an easy to use plugin which will allow you to customize a number of things from not showing in wp-admin. First, you will need to install and active the plugin My WP Customize Admin/Frontend. The plugin when activated will add a new admin menu called; My WP To edit admin for the site go to; My WP > Admin > General You can set notification from showing

Sebastian Moran December 2, 2019 No Comments

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Using the weMail Plugin for Sending Out Newsletters

There are a number of email marketing options that you can use for sending out a newsletter to your customers who have opted in on the site. One of the most recent self-hosted options for email marketing for your site is weMail plugin from weDevs. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your site it will add a new admin menu called weMail. The first time you use weMail plugin it will guide you through a setup wizard which can walk-through or you can skip the setup wizard and go through the different parts of the plugin settings. weMail

Sebastian Moran November 28, 2019 No Comments

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Using Zeus WordPress Admin Plugin to cleanup Admin Menus on your Child Site

The wp-admin can be a mess, due to the number of admin menus plugins will add, as well as certain menus and settings you may not want clients to view. One easy way to clean up wp-admin admin menus is to install the Zenu Admin Theme plugin. After you have installed the plugin on the needed connected child sites, you can then edit which menu items will show from; Settings > Hide Menu You can select which menu items you want to hide. Select that menu item, and then hit the save button. Other handy features that Zeus Admin

Sebastian Moran November 25, 2019 No Comments

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Using the Koko Analytics Plugin on your Sites

If you need an analytics solution for your site that does not cause performance issues and is self-hosted there is a new plugin called Koko Analytics. Some cool things about Koko Analytics it will deal with thousands of site visitors as well as sudden bursts of higher traffic levels, it works with page served from page caching plugins and is GDPR compliant by design. After the plugin has been installed and active on the site it will add a menu item to; Dashboard > Analytics From the Analytics settings, the default will be to go to the settings where you

Sebastian Moran November 21, 2019 12 Comments

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Using SimpleForm Plugin for Clean Site Forms

Using WP Search Insights Plugin for Tracking Site Searches

Using the Suki Theme on Your Child Sites

Using Speed Booster Pack Plugin to Improve Your Child Site Performance

Using the Disable Plugin Deactivation Plugin on Your Child Sites

Speed Up Your Child Site using the WP Performance Plugin

How to use My WP Customize Admin Plugin on your Child Site

Using the weMail Plugin for Sending Out Newsletters

Using Zeus WordPress Admin Plugin to cleanup Admin Menus on your Child Site

Using the Koko Analytics Plugin on your Sites

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