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Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. Hopefully, you will find the Christmas Spirit so that Santa’s sleigh can fly this year. We have had many Q&A articles over the years here at MainWP, but this one is very special! Dennis noticed a testimonial from a guy named Kris a while back. We looked into it and it was actually Kris Kringle. Yes, THAT Kris Kringle! The one and only Santa Claus. After Continue reading the post...

Jetpack is a commonly used plugin on-sites the plugin will not remove all of its data when it is uninstalled. You can use a simple plugin that will delete two of the common option names in Jetpack. In order to delete the two main options for Jetpack, the plugin will need to be installed from the locally downloaded zip file and activated and it will delete the two options and then delete itself. jetpack_options Jetpack_private_options A complete list of the Continue reading the post...

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind Continue reading the post...

In the December Roundup, we are going to talk about the State of the Word, a train going to the State of the Word, Big Orange Heart, a few acquisitions, and some worthwhile articles to read. Before we get to those, let me share a couple of pieces of news. The WP Weekly Awards has closed and Davinder is tallying the results currently. He hopes to have them next week. I’m excited to see who won awards in the various Continue reading the post...

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway is a widely used plugin for adding Stripe integration to your WooCommerce store. A recent release in version 5.7.0 of the Stripe plugin would cause a number of Stripe-related assets requests and external Stripe requests to load on single product pages and cart pages on your site. This would cause product pages and the cart page of the site to be much slower due to the extra requests being loaded from Stripe on them. The express Continue reading the post...

Have you ever wondered what your peers charge for web care services? Have you ever wondered what other services your peers offer? Yeah. Me too. That’s why I decided to find out. I created a survey to find out these answers and a few more. And since Google is powerful, I used its form feature to create the survey. It will only take a few minutes to fill out. In today’s article, I will talk a bit about the ins Continue reading the post...

Somewhere along the way –I can’t say when– I ran across the HeroPress website. As you all know, I really like stories and the telling of overcoming adversity. HeroPress tells those stories, so I was immediately attracted to the platform. Over the past several years I have been fortunate enough to meet Topher and Cate (virtually) DeRosia, the couple behind HeroPress. I have worked with them in various settings. In the past few months, HeroPress expanded with new projects and Continue reading the post...

Self-hosted support plugins are available for WordPress but a number can be limited. One of the newest support plugins that were launched is Fluent Support. The company behind the plugin WP Manage Ninja is also behind well-built plugins such as FluentCRM, Fluent Forms, WP Social Ninja, and Ninja Tables. To get going to setup the support portal setup you will need to create a support portal page and use the shortcode on it. The Portal page in Fluent Support uses Continue reading the post...

Stopping spam comments for spam form submissions is normally solved using an anti-spam plugin or service or in the case of a form plugins using reCaptcha or another captcha service. One of the newer options for protecting spam on your site is Human Presence. Unlike using a captcha service on-site forms the spam protection is invisible to site users and a frictionless experience. The service also integrates with a number of other platforms and CMS such as Magento, Drupal, and Continue reading the post...

Like so many pages, the services page on your website is almost an after-thought. I mean, after all, it’s website content. How hard can that be? Right? How hard can it be to write a page for your website care services that generate some kind of conversion? Yet, often when I look at service pages, I see similar mistakes over and over. So, today, we are going to dive into three types of things you need to write your website Continue reading the post...