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Congratulations! You just launched your client’s website and is a great looking project. You are showcasing it to your developer friends and sharing it in your Slack community. You also begin making plans to add it to the portfolio on your website. All systems go. But wait! Before you do all that, are you sure your client is ready to take the keys and drive this new car? Remember the first time you got a car? Remember how it felt? Continue reading the post...

When it comes to an online marketing strategy, business owners look for tools to help them execute their strategy. Often, the tools are expensive, especially an all-in-one application such as Hubspot. Hubspot is a great set of tools for those that have the budget, but what about smaller businesses and solopreneurs? There are many options available to those are our customers without breaking the bank, and those options are directly tied to what we know best, WordPress. Online Marketing Strategy Continue reading the post...

Frankly, when most small businesses set out to build a website, they do it backward. Let that marinate for a bit. What I mean by backward is that they add the content at the end of the process. I have spent countless hours waiting for clients to submit their content. You know what I mean, right? There should be a law that says clients have to submit content first, but I digress. Copy ends up being way more important than they Continue reading the post...

While there may be some debate about the priority of the home page, it is still one of the most important pages of a website. It is the place a user can alway go to to get him or herself out of the maze of your website. A home page is sort of like a compass. Therefore, it is still a very important part of your website and given proper attention to optimizing for user interaction. 1. Begin with the Continue reading the post...

So, you decided you wanted to get started offering a WordPress Maintenance Service for your freelance WordPress business. You have researched all it that is involved and you think it something you can add to your services fairly quickly and easy. Congratulations! Here are eight tasks to do to get you started. WordPress Maintenance Service 1. Decide on what you will offer Getting started, you may want to keep your maintenance packages to a minimum. You will want to offer Continue reading the post...

  When my mom grew up as a little girl in rural Northern Arkansas in the 1950’s, her father was a farmer. Farmers, as you know, reap what they sow during harvest. It takes a long time to get to that point. In the meantime, the family had to buy groceries and pay the light bill. How do they do that? My mom called it the “milk check.” It came every two weeks. The milk check was the check the Continue reading the post...

Our most powerful and useful Extensions is the Bulk Settings Manager.  I don’t say that lightly this Extension literally allows you to copy the settings from any plugin or theme and send those settings to any and all of your Child sites! “Does this mean I can now control the settings of any of my plugins or themes on any of my Child sites from my MainWP Dashboard?” “Yes it does! “ Edit: The Free with Social Share promotion ended Continue reading the post...

Can I add MainWP Dashboard site as a Child Site? This is a question that I see in MainWP support almost every day and the answer is Yes! There are multiple reasons why you should do this, however, I will focus on one in this article. First, let me guide you through the process of connecting a dashboard to itself. Go to your Dashboard site Go to the WP > Plugins > Add New page Search for MainWP Child Plugin Install it Continue reading the post...

Version 3.1.3 introduced one significant change in MainWP Child plugin. The first thing that you will notice is that the MainWP Child plugin is no longer listed in the WP Admin menu as a top level menu item. Starting with this version, MainWP Child plugin can be found in the WP > Settings menu. The reason for moving the MainWP menu to the WordPress Settings is that we wanted to keep client child sites cleaner and make the plugin settings Continue reading the post...

Advanced Uptime Monitor 3.0 is out. This version contains a few interesting improvements and a few issues fixes. That is not all, Extension went through a cleaning and refactoring process in order to improve the user experience. New Features Add New Monitor form has been updated. Along with the design changes, Monitor Interval option has been added, so users can set monitor interval from the Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension. This option has been added to the Edit Monitor form also, Continue reading the post...