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How to Migrate from MailChimp to EmailOctopus

Mailchimp is a solid provider for sending out email campaigns. Mailchimp recently made a change to expand out as a full service, all-in-one marketing platform, which means the pricing will increase, as Mailchimp will include the number of users who unsubscribed on a list to the total count. There is a solid alternative to Mailchimp, which also includes reasonable pricing at all list count levels, EmailOctopus. EmailOctopus uses AWS SES to send out emails, which means email campaigns are reliable to send. First, you will need to signup for an EmailOctopus account. You could try the shrimp plan, which includes

Sebastian Moran June 27, 2019 1 Comment

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How to write a compelling about page for your agency or site care business

Do me a favor. Pull up your Google Analytics. That’s it. I’ll wait. Now that you have them up, what is your most visited page? My guess is that your homepage is the most visited page on your website. Is that right? Good. Now, what is the second most visited page? What’s that? Your About page? That’s what I thought. Think about if you will. When you get introduced to someone, you want to know more about them. It’s like when I see a pretty lady at the coffee shop, my first thought is, “I want to know who that

Todd Jones June 26, 2019 No Comments

How to Remove VaultPress Plugin Data from a Child Sites Database

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How to Remove VaultPress Plugin Data from a Child Sites Database

VaultPress is a backup plugin, built by Automattic. VaultPress can also cause the site installation to bloat the database for postmeta and option entries. Some of the examples of the bloat will be in these option names, created by the plugin; vaultpress vaultpress_allow_forwarded_for vaultpress_service_ips_external_cidr _vp_ai_ping _vp_config_post_meta_name_ignore _vp_config_should_ignore_files _vp_current_scan _vp_signatures The option name which can cause the most issues is _vp_ai_ping. On some sites, _vp_ai_ping has entries which have been known to bloat the site’s options database table with 300-500MB of data. VaultPress plugin has an option in its settings to delete all VaultPress settings. When the VaultPress plugin is

Sebastian Moran June 24, 2019 1 Comment

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Q&A with Vito Peleg of WP Feedback

Imagine starting a web agency in the back of your van while your band is on tour. Imagine learning the ins and outs of digital marketing as a member of a rock band. For Vito Peleg, this is how he got started. The founder of WP Feedback shares his journey to agency owner as well as product launcher. How did the idea for WP Feedback come about? I actually started building websites for clients as a freelancer from the back of a van while touring the world with the band I had at the time, as I needed to deal

Todd Jones June 21, 2019 No Comments

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Handy iThemes Security Constants

iThemes Security plugin is an easy to use security plugin for your child sites. One of the lesser known things about iThemes Security is that the plugin includes a number of constants, which can be added to your child site’s wp-config.php file to set certain things on or off. MainWP has an amazing code snippets extension, which allows you to set constants from the MainWP Dashboard site. This means that any of these constants for iThemes Security plugin can easily be saved to any connected child sites. If you had issues with emails being sent from iThemes Security plugin, or

Sebastian Moran June 20, 2019 1 Comment

WordPress Business

Two years later: The state of page builders and who has changed directions

A little over two years ago, I decided to write an article on WordPress page builders. In reality, I wanted to know how many there were. I started a spreadsheet to keep up with them. It was a pretty long article and in the end, we came up with some 33-page builders. I know I missed some too. For example, I didn’t list Avada because it is a theme framework that includes a page builder. The landscape has changed drastically since April 2017 when the article was published. For instance, Gutenberg has launched. Even though Gutenberg is not consistent in

Todd Jones June 19, 2019 4 Comments

Using the Site Health Tools Manager Plugin

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Using the Site Health Tools Manager Plugin

WordPress 5.2 introduced the new Site Health feature for checking the health of a site. There is already a plugin to remove the Site Health feature from WordPress core in version 5.2. It is already possible to set which of the Site Health tests you would like to enable on a site using the Site Health Tool Manager plugin. Site Health Settings You can deselect which tests you do not want to run in the site health checker. The MainWP Bulk Setting extension work with the Site Health Tool Manager plugin, which means you can globally set which tests you

Sebastian Moran June 17, 2019 No Comments

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Podcast Junkies: Nine podcasts many MainWP users love to listen to

Are you a podcast junkie? What is on your playlist? I did a random poll in the MainWP Users Facebook group asking members what podcasts they like to listen to. The first person to respond was Joshua Vandercar, and he informed me his favorites were not tech or WordPress based. No problem. I didn’t specify so I encouraged others to list their favorite podcast regardless of industry. The result is that one of the podcasts in this list is not WordPress related. So, here are the top nine listed. Nine podcasts mentioned by the MainWP community Think Like a Hacker

Todd Jones June 14, 2019 4 Comments

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Do Not Use the WooCommerce Admin Plugin on Your Child Site

WooCommerce Admin is a feature plugin for WooCommerce, which uses React and the Gutenberg block editor to improve certain lacking core features, such as reporting and analytics in WooCommerce. Reporting in WooCommerce can be slow, as well as being MySQL resource heavy if you have high order levels on the site, whilst the WooCommerce Admin is a step in the right direction. Though the WooCommerce Admin has been in development for a number of months, the feature plugin is still a beta plugin, and still not suitable for use on a live site. In the most recent release of WooCommerce,

Sebastian Moran June 13, 2019 17 Comments

WordPress Business

Using Stages of Awareness to create content for selling your website care packages

There’s a lot of content created every day — and most of it gains almost no attention. Austin Mullins, Copyblogger Ten years ago I had just moved back to my home state. I lived in a larger city in a state to the west for over 13 years but moved home to start over. It was a tough time. Finding a job seemed impossible. Nevertheless, I landed a job with a car dealership. They would pay me a salary the first month while I got up to speed. Then I found out that it was all about chasing people who

Todd Jones June 12, 2019 No Comments

How to Migrate from MailChimp to EmailOctopus

How to write a compelling about page for your agency or site care business

How to Remove VaultPress Plugin Data from a Child Sites Database

Q&A with Vito Peleg of WP Feedback

Handy iThemes Security Constants

Two years later: The state of page builders and who has changed directions

Using the Site Health Tools Manager Plugin

Podcast Junkies: Nine podcasts many MainWP users love to listen to

Do Not Use the WooCommerce Admin Plugin on Your Child Site

Using Stages of Awareness to create content for selling your website care packages

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