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The September 2019 edition of the World of WordPress including Automattic and much more

In this month’s World of WordPress we talk about the latest acquisitions by Automattic, Jeff Chandler’s move away from WP Tavern, the new Yoast Care program, development environments, and WP Beginner’s accelerator. Just like WordPress news, the summer has been hot! Let’s ride. Automattic acquires two companies Automattic continues to expand its influence by acquiring two companies in the past month. First, they acquired Tumblr in a move that got a lot of attention. I’m sure they have something in mind for the “micro” blogging platform. In recent years, Tumblr has bounced around first to Yahoo! then to Verizon who

Todd Jones September 6, 2019 No Comments

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How to Disable Emails and Log Emails on Staging Sites

Needing to use a staging site for testing client site updates is an essential practice. You do not want to send customers any site emails by accident since the site that has a staging site for testing had a membership or affiliate plugin active. To make sure emails are disabled on a staging site, use the Disable Emails plugin. The plugin has no settings and should disable site email on the staging site in most cases. One extra step to remember is if you have any SMTP or transactional email plugins active on the site. Remember to deactivate those on

Sebastian Moran September 5, 2019 1 Comment

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Where ultimate guides go wrong, the key to writing valuable content that doesn’t sound like every thing else

We often call long-form content an ultimate guide. After all, who doesn’t want to read “The Ultimate Guide” to anything? The only problem is that these days we have a lot of those ultimate guides and often they are anything but. I’ll admit, every time I see a new “Ultimate Guide” of anything I roll my eyes. Why? Most of the time they aren’t worth the title Ultimate. If someone uses the word “ultimate,” I am expecting them to put everything in the article. When it comes to using ultimate, I kind of think like Ben Sailer of CoSchedule, “So,

Todd Jones August 30, 2019 No Comments

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Finding a business edge with podcasting and Google My Business Pages

A few years ago, I ran a football (American) blog. I had a blast and probably made $100 total. Maybe. We talked about football in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where I lived at the time. One of my writers, I had a couple, asked me if I wanted us to do a podcast. I thought, “why not?” So, using Blog Talk Radio, we launched a live hosted podcast more like a sports radio show. We had people call in, and sometimes they were pre-invited. For example, before she was a global sensation, we managed to talk digital marketing expert Shama

Todd Jones August 22, 2019 No Comments

Migrate from the Stream Plugin to the WP Security Audit Log Plugin

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How to Migrate from the Stream Plugin to the WP Security Audit Log Plugin

Stream is a plugin from XWP which works, but compared to newer security audit plugins such as WP Activity Log, it is quite limited. Stream can also bloat the site database, depending on how long logs are being stored by. To reset the database of entries that Stream has created, you can do so from wp-admin; Stream > Settings > Reset Stream Database When you deactivate and delete the Stream plugin, the two custom database tables that the plugin creates will not be removed, unless you click on the uninstall next to the plugin in the plugin list. An easy

Sebastian Moran August 22, 2019 No Comments

Using Gumlet to Speed Up Your Child Site Images

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Using Gumlet to Speed Up Your Child Site Images

Site image will be one of the heaviest assets on your child site. The easiest way to speed up a site is to have a CDN compress images when uploaded, and then have the CDN serve those site images for users of the site. One solid Image CDN which has an easy-to-use WordPress plugin is Gumlet. First, you will need to sign up for a Gumlet account. After you have signed and verified your account, you will need to setup your web folder source. The source for the web folder will be the site URL, without the trailing/at the end

Sebastian Moran August 19, 2019 1 Comment

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Three ways to make your WordPress consulting business easier

Today we are going to talk about three ways to make your WordPress consulting business easier. Notice I didn’t say easy. There is a difference. It isn’t easy to run a WordPress consulting business, but we can do some things that it more manageable. The next time you are feeling frustrated with your business, remember we aren’t in this alone. We all walk the same journey. Getting clients You might put getting clients squarely in the “have to have” camp, and you would be right. Your ability to run your business is pretty much dependent on getting clients. There are

Todd Jones August 16, 2019 No Comments

Losing Information by Activating Jetpack

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Losing Information by Activating Jetpack

Jetpack provides a number of modules which can benefit the site it is connected to. But for Jetpack to be used, Jetpack needs to use a WordPress.com account to connect to your site. What does it mean for your site to be connected to WordPress.com to be able to use Jetpack? What is being copied over? Well, more than you’d think of the site database is being copied over to create a clone of your site on WordPress.com server. If you wanted to use the search module, or the related post module, that data is being queried after the full

Sebastian Moran August 15, 2019 No Comments

How to Safely Remove the Hummingbird Plugin from your Child Site

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How to Safely Remove the Hummingbird Plugin from your Child Site

Hummingbird is a caching and performance plugin with over 70k active installs, but the plugin can cause issues and does not work well as a page caching plugins. The plugin deactivation in Hummingbird will not delete the advanced-cache.php drop in it adds, nor will it remove the constant added into your site wp-config.php. The file to remove if you no longer want to use Hummingbird and use another lightweight solution is; wp-cache.php in the wp-content/wphb-cache folder. You can delete the wphb-cache folder from the wp-content folder on the site server. The other file that Hummingbird will create is; The constant

Sebastian Moran August 12, 2019 4 Comments

WordPress Business

Four essentials of running a website consulting business

Let me ask you a question. You might want to sit down for this. What do you call yourself? Are you a website designer? Are you a website developer? Maybe you refer to yourself as a digital marketer? We have a lot of titles for what we do here in this industry. You may refer to yourself as a freelancer or a freelance web developer. We can get hung up on names for what we do, but one this for sure, we need to be ready to put on a consultant hat. After all, we consult our clients. We consult

Todd Jones August 9, 2019 1 Comment

The September 2019 edition of the World of WordPress including Automattic and much more

How to Disable Emails and Log Emails on Staging Sites

Where ultimate guides go wrong, the key to writing valuable content that doesn’t sound like every thing else

Finding a business edge with podcasting and Google My Business Pages

How to Migrate from the Stream Plugin to the WP Security Audit Log Plugin

Using Gumlet to Speed Up Your Child Site Images

Three ways to make your WordPress consulting business easier

Losing Information by Activating Jetpack

How to Safely Remove the Hummingbird Plugin from your Child Site

Four essentials of running a website consulting business

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