One of the most requested features of a website is a contact form. But which contact form should you use? If you’re running WordPress I’ve rounded up a list of 8 very useful plugins to suit almost any site.
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4 Plugins to Make Building Pages Easier
I get this question a lot. What is the best visual page builder plugin? A lot of small businesses and entrepreneurs want to be able to get a beautiful looking website without swimming in the mess of all that code. Definition: A visual page building plugin is a tool installed
WooCommerce Code Snippets
This post with WooCommerce code snippets is mostly for myself, but I also answer questions at the WooCommerce Community Boards periodically, and this list of snippets can be useful for answering those questions. /** * Remove WooCommerce Updater Notice */ remove_action(‘admin_notices’, ‘woothemes_updater_notice’); /** * Code to fix HTTP Error on
A/B Testing with Google Experiments on WordPress
A/B testing is getting more and more popular, but typically in order to do so you had to add plugins to your site or use third party services. Now with Google Experiments, Google has integrated A/B testing right into their Analytics platform. What that means is you can easily test
How to Move Your WordPress Website
I’m a designer and developer, so I move WordPress sites a lot. Of course I also move clients between different hosting companies, between servers, create duplicates of their sites, and more. So I’ve gotten a lot of opportunities to test out WordPress migration approaches. Here is a breakdown of how to
Recovering from the Hack
So you were hacked, but the good news is you’ve gotten your site cleaned out. So now what happens? How do you recover from this and move forward?
Why were all my plugins deactivated due to an error?
You may have recently seen this message on one of your WordPress sites: The plugin xyz has been deactivated due to an error: The plugin does not have a valid header. What does that mean and why did it happen?
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How To Remove Comments & Trackbacks on WordPress
With WordPress 4.3, WordPress has finally stopped allowing comments on new Pages. However, if you have an existing site every kind of data on your site probably allows both comments & trackbacks. That means pages, posts, media, and any custom data types you have. While it may sound like a
Why Do Websites Get Hacked?
This is a question I get asked a lot. “Why would anyone want to my hack my website?” Your website may not have any eCommerce, may be small, may be just a personal blog, so you wonder why on earth anyone would even care enough to hack your site.
What to do If Your WordPress Site is Hacked
So you just got that dreaded email from your hosting company that says “we’ve detected an issue with your website” or “malicious code or links have been found on your website” or the worst a client emails you and says “your site has been hacked”.