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MainWP Client Report Personalization
I was asked if it was possible to add individual notes to clients when sending out client reports in bulk. As the MainWP community forum had just opened up, I asked there and got this useful reply from Bogdan Rapać. Having tried this out, I thought I would add a little more context and share…
Read MoreWhat’s new with MainWP Client Reports
Here’s an overview of the two client reports extensions available as part of the MainWP pro package. Both are more customizable than they may first appear and can be used together. As mentioned in my last video on MainWP we consider client reports to be essential to our business, but only to remind customers who…
Read MoreAdvanced Custom Fields Pro Life Time Deal Is Going Soon
Apologies for mentioning this just after the festive holidays, but the ACF pro plugin lifetime deal is due to end in “early 2020”. I’m not an affiliate. I’m just a big fan of this plugin. I was in two minds about this. I’m completely behind Elliot Condon’s decision to finally charge subcription, but equally I…
Read MoreClient Website Maintenance with MainWP
What’s MainWP MainWP a (5 star rated) WordPress plugin that let’s you turn a WordPress install into a Master Dashboard. From there you manage all your other WordPress sites more efficiently. Updates and changes can be done in bulk with a single button click. We’ve used MainWP daily since 2015 and It’s been central to…
Read MoreUsing WordPress for Client Friendly Project Management
I’ve been using 3rd party project management (PM) tools for an age. As an employee I had the job of trailing an early contenders for our Government department. I carried on as a self employed web “designer” moving about from BaseCamp, to Trello to Asana. More recently, I’ve started to feel they have become…
Read MoreMy WordPress Image frustrations solved by Stencil?
A while back I made a video post on ways to save time when using WordPress images. It featured ways to automate image optimization, SEO and some sizing tips. These things have been very handy for me, but I still had a problem explaining to clients where to go for free images, how to crop…
Read MoreAdding a Child Theme without losing your Customizer styles
Perhaps you’ve forgotten to add a child theme, inherited a site without one or thought you might not need one until now. Maybe you want to save complex customiser setting for another project. Either way there is a great plugin from the WordPress repository called Customizer Export/Import that could save you time. When you install and…
Read MoreTimed Post Content for Events, Job Listings and Limited offers
I’ve been working on two projects each with Custom Post Types where posts needed to automatically disappear based on the date. One was for events. The other for job listings. The best solution seemed to be a plugin called Post Expirator. In short At the time of writing Post Expirator had not been updated…
Read MoreThe Breeze Cache plugin – How I set it up and why I use it.
UPDATE: March 2021. I am presently using WP Rocket (again). Breeze seems to be working fine, but there was small period in 2020 where my sites were experiencing long Time to First Byte. WP Rocket introduced a few useful additions for me such as deferred loading videos scripts and optimized google fonts. I still think…
Read MoreUsing the Custom Post Type UI plugin
A short video post on how to create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies with the Custom Post Type UI plugin. It is part of my new series on making a Product Site with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer . Settings used for the CPT In red are the areas I will typically alter from the…
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