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Lazy Loading Background Images WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Lazyload Background Images in WordPress

A fast loading website is an integral part of building websites nowadays as it may help site visitors stay and explore more. Lazy loading images is one of the techniques which may result in better performance. One of the easy plugins to enable lazyload of background images is called Lazyload Background Images. 1. Lazyload Background Images In the plugin settings, you can also add the selectors for elements that contain background images. By default, the plugin will lazyload background images that are contained in inline CSS. To enable background images to lazyload, navigate to wp-admin, and get into “Lazyload Backgrounds”

Sebastian Moran August 3, 2022 No Comments
Privacy by Design and Foundational Principles
Privacy
Donata Stroink-Skillrud

Should You Design Websites with Privacy in Mind?

When building websites for clients, you usually have to juggle multiple priorities, from staying within the budget to presenting outstanding designs that your clients will love, to building out all of the features and functionalities that have been requested. One facet of website design that many designers and clients overlook is the meeting of privacy-related requirements. In this article, we will discuss why you should keep privacy in mind when designing websites, the concept of privacy by design, examples of best practices, and some tips so that you and your agency can build beautiful websites that also meet privacy requirements.

Donata Stroink-Skillrud August 1, 2022 1 Comment
2022 MainWP features
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

2022 MainWP features: Good enough for a crime fighter

The opening story is completely fictional. Do not take this as an accurate account. It is for fun. 🙂 A few months ago, MainWP’s resident support tech, Keith Crain, was monitoring the support tickets when he found a request. The request came from someone who had an email that consisted of Dark Knight and Gotham. Crain thought to himself, “Could it be?” Turns out that the dark caped crusader uses MainWP to manage several sites for his colleagues, a group he called JL.  👀 The Dark hooded knight had a request: Could MainWP launch a dark mode? Crain immediately got

Todd Jones July 29, 2022 No Comments
Remove Broken Link Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove the Broken Link Checker Plugin Data on Your Site

If you are using the Broken Link Checker plugin on your site, it may cause resource and CPU issues on the hosting server. The blc_installation_log option could get as large as 1MB with 50kb of autoloading data if you have many posts on the site. The options values that the Broken Link Checker plugin uses are; wsblc_options blc_activation_enabled blc_installation_log The Broken Link Checker plugin uses the following database tables to store the data; wp_blc_filters wp_blc_instances wp_blc_links wp_blc_synch The database tables should be removed when you deactivate and uninstall the plugin. However, if they still exist, you can use a plugin

Sebastian Moran July 27, 2022 2 Comments
Reasons for Long Term Partnership with WordPress Agency
Tips & Tricks
Editorial Team

10 Reasons to Choose a Long-Term Technical Partnership With a WordPress Agency

A high-quality website can do wonders for online businesses of all shapes, sizes, and niches. After all, your website is the main entrance through which users get acquainted with the products and services you provide. Moreover, businesses with top-notch websites generate more significant revenue and are likelier to establish good relationships with their customers. Remember that the development and maintenance of a site is a time-consuming and all-encompassing endeavor that requires high levels of technical expertise. There aren’t many people who can keep their site fully operational while at the same time staying focused on their actual business growth. This

Editorial Team July 26, 2022 No Comments
website care onboarding checklist
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

A Checklist for onboarding WordPress Web Care clients

Today, we are going to ‌take a closer look at a checklist for onboarding WordPress website care clients. At the end of the article, you will find a link to download a PDF version of the checklist. If you don’t already have an onboarding checklist for your website care clients, this article is for you. 1. Add the client to your customer portal and/or CRM Add your client to your client portal and/or client relationship management system. This task should be at the top of your list. Some people have a client portal that they use to manage clients. There

Todd Jones July 23, 2022 No Comments
SEOPress Data Remove
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove the SEOPress Plugin Data on Your Site

If you are using the SEOPress plugin and want to migrate to a different SEO plugin, you may need to remove the database tables it was using. Before deleting the database tables, make sure that you run the migration from SEOPress to the SEO plugin that you want to replace it with. Here’s the database table that you will need to delete; wp_seopress_significant_keywords Additionally, there will be SEOPress database entries in both the postmeta and options database tables; the entries will start with; seopress_ If your host comes with phpMyAdmin access in the control panel, then it would be recommended

Sebastian Moran July 20, 2022 No Comments
toolbox
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Toolbox: Running your web care business with Groundhogg, Zencastr and more

In this month’s toolbox, we talk about tools to help you in several ways, including podcasting, CRM and funnels, database cleaning, and powering a website in the modern age. As a web care business, we acquire new customers and websites regularly. These tools may be helpful as you onboard your new clients into your web care business. Ready? Let’s roll. WP Sweep WP-Sweep Have you recently acquired a new website for your web care business? You likely will do a lot of auditing of your new website, and one of those areas may be the database. A great tool to

Todd Jones July 16, 2022 No Comments
Remove Code Snippets Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove the Code Snippets Plugin Data on Your Site

The Code Snippets plugin is a commonly used plugin for storing code snippets that are not tied to the child themes functions.php file. Code Snippets Plugin for WordPress The Code Snippets plugin will store created code snippets into the below custom database table; wp_snippets Existing code snippets in the plugin can be downloaded as PHP files which you can turn into site-specific plugins or you could add them into the child themes functions.php file. To remove all of the code snippets data when you uninstall the plugin, select “Complete Uninstall” by navigating to: Snippets > Settings > General The default

Sebastian Moran July 13, 2022 No Comments
Q&A with Talisha Lewallen
Interviews
Todd Jones

Q&A with Talisha Lewallen of WP Connects

Talisha Lewallen is the CEO and Co-founder of WP Connects an organization that seeks to connect United States military personnel to careers in WordPress. Talisha is also an award-winning Cherokee Nation Basket Weaver, a mom, wife, and farmer. She has several family members who served or are already serving the US Military and noticed they struggled to to enter civilian life including re-entering the workforce. Through a connection with Post Status Publisher and Owner, Cory Miller, she started WP Connects. Today, we learn more about Talisha Lewallen and WP Connects. What is your WordPress origin story? My WordPress Origin story

Todd Jones July 8, 2022 No Comments

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