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Donata Stroink-Skillrud

Google Analytics: Privacy Friend or Foe?

The truth is that most of us have either used or installed Google Analytics on client websites. It’s relatively easy to use, provides great insights on website performance, and gives excellent clues on how to improve engagement. In fact, Google Analytics has become so popular that it’s used on over 28 million websites and many agencies usually have it listed in their standard operating procedures for building new websites. Even though Google Analytics is a great tool that many of us are intimately familiar with, Google Analytics has also made headlines recently for a different issue – privacy law non-compliance.

Donata Stroink-Skillrud July 5, 2022 No Comments
WordPress roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

WordPress Roundup: Breakdance, Meltdown, Women in Tech and more

In this month’s WordPress roundup, we take a look at an existential threat, women in tech and in WordPress, and confusion with Oxygen Page Builder. Women in Tech and WordPress I graduated high school in 1989.  I felt the smartest people in my glass were the girls. And they proved it by graduating at the top of my class. So, I never had a problem with the idea that women were smart enough to do what men do. Kathy Van Zant recently shared some of our journey as a woman in the world of tech. You might call it a

Todd Jones July 2, 2022 No Comments
Remove WP Offload SES Plugin Logs
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Optimize Database Usage for the WP Offload SES Plugin

The WP Offload SES plugin is used to send site emails using the cheapest AWS SES service. WP Offload SES Lite Plugin for WordPress Below are the custom database tables that the WP Offload SES plugin uses; wp_oses_attachments wp_oses_clicks wp_oses_email_attachments wp_oses_emails wp_oses_failures wp_oses_jobs The database table to check; wp_oses_emails From the WP Offload SES plugin settings, check that you are not storing 30+ days or email logging in your site’s database. The ideal setting for log storage would be between 7 & 14 days. Otherwise, it can result in that database table being 20~30+ GB in size. Settings > Offload

Sebastian Moran June 29, 2022 No Comments
telling your origin story
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Telling your origin story: 3 types of origin stories to tell for WordPress consultants

What is your favorite superhero? What is your favorite character? We all have our favorites. For me, it may depend on the time and place. I have always liked Batman and Spider-Man, largely because they are a part of my childhood. I remember watching the silly Spider-Man Shows on Public Broadcasting Service TV as a kid. I watched a lot of Spider-Man, Superman and Batman shows as a kid, so they resonate. I have made up a few characters along the way, none of which have made it to print. I mean, if you make up a character, there has

Todd Jones June 24, 2022 No Comments
Pre Load Images WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Preload Images on Your WordPress Site

One of the easiest ways to improve front-end performance is to preload the images which contribute to the largest contentful paint (LCP) of the site. To find the images that should be set to preload, test your site using popular performance testing tools, or use the MainWP Lighthouse extension, and navigate to the waterfall results to find the image URL. Head & Footer WordPress Plugin There are a number of ways to preload images by either using a header and footer plugin and then adding the image URLs that should be preloaded in the header of the site. After the

Sebastian Moran June 22, 2022 No Comments
Atarim- Collaboration Tool for Digital Agencies
WordPress Business
Editorial Team

Meet “Atarim” – A Stress-Free Collaboration Tool for Digital Agencies & Teams

MainWP 🤝 Atarim: Visually Collaborate with your clients with Atarim while managing their sites with MainWP! Website building has progressed a fair bit in the past 10 years. We now have a plethora of themes and page builders to choose from, which make it super easy to make our designs come to life. Compare this to the time when we needed to be sufficient in HTML/CSS to design an entire website and the difference in the time it takes is literally night and day. How have things changed when it comes to managing multiple WordPress sites and collaborating with clients

Editorial Team June 20, 2022 No Comments
toolbox
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Toolbox: Playing in a WordPress sandbox

WordPress sandboxes can be very helpful for developers and WordPress professionals. There are several needs for having a sandbox, including testing plugins or themes, testing updates, training a client to use WordPress, a place to showcase a client site under development, and a place to showcase a WordPress product. Usually, developers create sandboxes either online or locally on their own machine. Either option is efficient, but if you want to have an online sandbox, you may want to explore ways to do so. Many of us have created online sandboxes on our own servers using a domain we have in

Todd Jones June 18, 2022 No Comments
Constants for UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup Plugin
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Some Useful “Constants” for UpdraftPlus

If you are using the UpdraftPlus plugin for site backups then you can control a number of parts of the plugin using constants. Useful Constants for UpdraftPlus The constants for the UpdraftPlus plugin can be added to the site wp-config.php file. Adding constants to your site wp-config.php is possible using the code snippets extension of MainWP. You can also manually edit the site’s wp-config.php file to add the required constant to it. If you have larger database tables then you can set the backup for the database to always use binary MySQL dump using this constant; define(‘UPDRAFTPLUS_ALWAYS_TRY_MYSQLDUMP’, true); If you

Sebastian Moran June 15, 2022 2 Comments
Q&A with David McCan
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A with David McCan of the Dynamic WordPress Facebook Group

Like many of us in WordPress, David McCan didn’t start his career thinking he would build websites. He studied Anthropology in college. While working on a dissertation, he worked at a large public library system. It was there that he first interacted with the internet. McCan was the lead in installing public access computers into the library. Eventually, he authored the library’s first website, and from there, he was hooked. I have used David’s information before. He creates a lot of tutorials and is constantly teaching what he learns. McCan has become somewhat of a “goto” for many of us

Todd Jones June 9, 2022 No Comments
Image Formats for WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

What Are the Best Image Formats For Your WordPress Website

Since the beginning, JPEG and PNG are the most commonly used image formats in WordPress but with Version 5.8, WebP images are also supported in the media library. As part of the performance focus for WordPress core, WebP image conversion while uploading images might be coming in the later releases. But… There is a plugin “Performance Lab” by the team behind “WordPress Performance Group” which allows you to enable WebP conversion while uploading JPEG files to your media library. Give it a try to test and measure the difference it brings by converting images to WebP image format. You can

Sebastian Moran June 8, 2022 No Comments

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