In the Askillity Mastermind Facebook group that I run for my customers, I often get questions about how make certain things happen in WordPress. You see, finding a particular plugin to do a particular thing can be really difficult when you don’t know exactly what that thing is called or how it works. You just saw it, and you want it for your website. … Read More
“Oh no, not again!” You stare at the WordPress dashboard as your palms start to sweat. The little number in the little circle next to ‘Updates’ is mocking you. It knows you’ve been ignoring it. It also knows that you can’t afford to ignore it much longer. You HAVE to do the updates or you’re going to get hacked. (But you really, really, really don’t want to … Read More
I’ve updated this post in honor of Winter Storm Jonas who will be visiting me in just 12 short hours. Stay safe East Coast! “Oh the weather outside is frightful” and it will be on your website too, with these Snow WordPress Plugins. Sometimes you just gotta give in to the good cheer and festiveness of the holiday season. And snow falling is a … Read More
If your website is on WordPress, you’re on the best CMS website platform out there. Its popularity is growing like crazy and as of 2015 over 25% of the world’s most popular website are on the platform. But that popularity also attracts the bad guys. WordPress developers are constantly hopping to keep in front of the hackers. If you want to keep your website … Read More
For awhile now I’ve been kind of annoyed that WordPress core doesn’t allow you to duplicate pages. I work so hard to put together attractive, well-converting, solidly designed pages and it makes sense that I’d like to reuse them with different content. Sales pages, webinar pages, special features – all great reasons to reuse a page format. I’m planning a webinar series for 2016 … Read More
If you use PayPal to process payments with WordPress, you’ve probably received a cryptic and somewhat alarming email about updating your IPN settings. The subject line screams: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades. While the email does a great job of scaring the crap out of you and making you think your website is going to come crashing down around your ears, it doesn’t … Read More