Website Building
Migrate Or Clone A WordPress Site To Any Host With Migrate Guru
Notes From This Presentation Why Migrate Guru? One-click migration. It will clone 1 gigabyte sites in under 30 minutes. Key Features For Me: There’s no overload on their site. Everything is transferred and migrated through their server so it can’t crash at you site. It’s built for large sites, also it will move and clone…
Read MoreHow to Kill Gravity Form Email Spam – Zero Spam
This looks at a range of options for getting rid of email spam. As there is not one solution to spam each l have their merits. But when we have a problem we use the lightweight and free Gravity Forms Zero Spam plugin. It”s worked as advertised on scores of sites for many years.
Read MoreGravity Forms: Easy to miss features and tips
Here’s a few Gravity Forms features I wish I’d used earlier. Included: Gravity Forms conditional notifications, thwarting email spammers and reducing database bloat.
Read MoreShould I use PX, EM or REMs? Page Builder Edition
Should I use PX, EM or REMs? (page builder edition) Why BB V 2.2 added Em, Rem, & Viewport-based units and I’ve not covered this for 2 years. The Page builder documentation can not really advise on what to use. Page Builders help no-coders ( DIYers and client) who could be confused by the options. I’ve…
Read MoreGravity Forms version 2.5. What’s new
A video post taking a look at what is coming to Gravity Forms 2.5. The hightlights are:
Cleaner (Gutenburg-esque) styling to the form editor and revamped settings pages.
Drag-and-drop column control (for up to four columns).
WooCommerce database updates made easier with MainWP Pro
One of my frustrations with maintaining WooCommerce sites has been updating the plugin in bulk via MainWP (easy) only to login to one of the sites later and discover it is waiting on a database update. What it did not realize for the last 5 years is that as a MainWP Pro user I could…
Read MoreHow to remove the WordPress Site Health Check widget
In WordPress Version 5.4 the Health Check widget was added to the Dashboard by default. For many of us who support clients with administrator roles this could be an annoyance, but here are a few ways to remove it. 1. Manually add a code snippet Add this to your child theme’s functions.php file // Removes…
Read MoreWordPress Productivity with Assistant
Assistant is a pre-release plugin (available on the WordPress repository and on Github) and by the Beaver Builder team, In their own words: Assistant is a new way to work with WordPress. It’s an every-day productivity tool that lets you navigate your WordPress site and handle quick tasks without needing to go to the WordPress…
Read MoreWhat’s coming to Beaver Builder V.24?
This video takes an early look at what is presently due to come out in Beaver Builder version 2.4. A couple of things are worth saying first: 1. Most plugin authors don’t publicly release Alpha versions so we can’t expect things to work perfectly or be the final version. More things may come. Beaver Builder…
Read MoreMonitoring websites. So many tools, yet this is what I do
I’ve been offering low cost website hosting and maintenance for about 5 years. Without it, our business would have gone down the pan. Instead, it’s close to being a passive income that’s giving us lots of freedom. What’s great is… MainWP has given a low cost and efficient way update and manage sites on mass.…
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