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The Setlist
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

The June Setlist includes Social Rocket and the Edit Author Slug plugin

If you are like me, you like all kinds of music. One of my favorite genres back in the 80’s is R&B. I loved some of the musicians during that time like Kook & the Gang, DeBarge and the Mowtown sounds, etc.  So, this month, our setlist is coming straight from the 1980’s R&B genre featuring The Whispers, The Pointer Sisters, Irene Cara (remember Fame?), and Kool & The Gange. We are talking about a plugin to change the slug for your author, a rocket ship for sharing on social media, a simple way to add social proof, and a

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the WPfomify Plugin on your Child Sites for Conversions with Social Proof

Conversions improvements on your child sites is going to increase sales if your site is using an e-commerce plugin like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. A solid plugin to be able to add social proof to your child sites is WPfomify. WPfomify has a large level of features and is very easy to use and setup. WPfomify has a huge range of integrations that it will work with like WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Gravity Forms, GiveWP, Zapier, ConvertKit, LeardDash, and LifterLMS. We are going to cover how to set up a conversion notification for WooCommerce. WPfomify will add a new

random thoughts
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Random thoughts, end of May, and here comes Summer

When summer comes, the heat turns up, and often, we find fun things to do. What are you doing that’s fun this summer? So, as we exit the month of May, let’s pause a moment to collect or random thoughts. Or, at least my random thoughts. New places to go I visited the WP Feedback Summit a few weeks back. In doing so, I met some new (to me) people. A couple of people I met were  Kristina Romero of GoWP and Donata Kalnenaite of Termageddon.  These new places have led to new relationships. I have joined the go GoWP Niche

Featured Image Colleen Gratzer
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Colleen Gratzer wants to help you make sure you are compliant for website accessibility

Ever been to an outdated government website? I have. It’s frustrating. Perhaps the website isn’t responsive or built on tables (yikes!). Even worse, it may not adhere to any accessibility standards. We simply can’t ignore or take lightly the idea of accessibility in website design. That’s one reason I brought Colleen Gratzer in to discuss the subject more. You may have heard about the Domino’s lawsuit regarding accessibility. “Guillermo Robles, who is blind, has tried to order a custom pizza from Domino’s at least twice in recent years, using the company’s website and mobile app. “He says despite using screen

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How MainWP is Different than the cPanel WordPress Manager

cPanel offers a very basic WordPress manager for being able to in a limited form create or manage your existing WordPress sites within cPanel. The WordPress manager provided by cPanel will allow you to be able to list the WordPress sites that exist on your cPanel account. Features that the WordPress manager in cPanel offers is to manage the existing sites on your cPanel account. The basic setting options which display within the WordPress Manager will be the site URL, how much disk usage is being used for that site, and the version of WordPress core that is installed on

Featured Image Colleen Gratzer
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A with Colleen Gratzer designer, developer & accessibility expert

Accessibility. Two things to note. First, I have a hard time spelling it. What about you? Second, I am woefully inadequate to talk about the topic. Almost four years ago, I posted two articles on MainWP about accessibility. In the conclusion of the second article, I wrote, To make your website Accessibility-ready, you will still have to do your part. Remember, part of making a site Web Accessible is following best practices with your content which exist aside from your theme. I think this remains true. I know very little more than I knew then. So, this time I put

Featured Image: Youtube Show
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

6 Things I learned from starting a Youtube Show

My friend Davinder had been after me for a while to start a podcast. He even had me on his podcast. In the past couple of years, I frequented a handful and discovered I didn’t mind talking about things I like and know something about. A couple of those podcasts actually recorded a video. I’m a handsome man, so they worked out pretty well ;). When it came time for me to create a podcast, I decided just to do a video show. After all, I wanted to populate my Youtube channel, and I thought this would be a great

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Disable Automatic Plugin and Theme Updates on your Child Sites

WordPress 5.5 introduced a new automated update feature for plugins and themes. If you are already using MainWP to professionally handle plugin and theme updates for your client sites, then we suggest limiting your clients ability from setting plugins or themes to be automatically updated. Your clients hired you to update and test plugins before being updated and letting them set updates automatically defeats that purpose. If you need examples of why automatic plugin and theme updates are not a good idea then you only need to look at the breaking changes in the recent WooCommerce 4.0 release or the

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using NitroPack to Optimize Your Child Site Performance

NitroPack is a service with an integration plugin for WordPress which will improve your site’s load times. NitroPack has a number of pricing plans you can start with a free plan which includes up to 500MB of resources storage and up to 200 page optimizations per month. If you go up a plan to the $19 per month priced plan it includes 1GB of resources storage and up to 20,000 page optimizations per month. After you have installed and activated the NitroPack plugin on your child site it will add a sub-menu settings item; Settings > NitroPack In order to

The Setlist
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

May Setlist: Musings about life and a roundup

My friend Chanti sends out an email every Sunday. She calls it the Sunday Setlist. I love it because I love music. A setlist is, of course, the queue of songs that a musician uses to remind them what songs they will perform. Perhaps we could use a little more music these days. Therefore, today this article will contain a setlist of sorts.  Now, me being a product of the 80s, that tends to be the type of music I love. What is your favorite decade of music? Why You Need a Privacy Policy If You Are Using a Contact

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