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  • The Nuclear Option: Setting Up WordPress Backups with Dropbox and UpdraftPlus

    The Nuclear Option: Setting Up WordPress Backups with Dropbox and UpdraftPlus

    This blog post is actually from my wicked-awesome WordPress for Small Business Owners course. If you dig it, you should sign up for the whole thing. It’s totally free! Take the Free Course! It’s pretty hard to break a WordPress site. But just in case, one of the first things you should do with a…

  • Stop Jetpack from Slowing Down Your WordPress Site

    Stop Jetpack from Slowing Down Your WordPress Site

    When you install Automattic’s Jetpack plugin, it comes with a ton of features enabled by default. While it has a lot of great features, you probably don’t need all of them. I recently installed it for a client in order to use WooCommerce Services and USPS shipping calculation. I got the shipping information just like…

  • My Dog Remus, His Poop, and User Experience

    My Dog Remus, His Poop, and User Experience

    One of the biggest reasons I moved into the apartment I live in now is that it accommodated large dogs (doggos or puppers, if you prefer) like mine. Many places here in Eugene may claim to be dog-friendly, but only up until forty or fifty pounds. They aren’t prepared for my 85 pound black lab,…

  • Fix My Slow Website! Part 3: Plugins

    Fix My Slow Website! Part 3: Plugins

    This is part 3 in my series on fixing slow websites. Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2! First off, if you’re following this series as a non-WordPress developer, you might skip out on this particular entry, as it’s very WordPress-oriented. Might I suggest finding something else on the blog? Most WordPress sites…

  • Adding a Gravity Forms PayPal Continue URL

    Adding a Gravity Forms PayPal Continue URL

    Just Get the Plugin Gravity Forms is my go-to plugin for any form-related tasks on WordPress. It does everything. Well, almost everything. Recently, I leveraged it to create an online signup form for Camas Swale Farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. If you aren’t familiar with CSAs, it’s a way for people to buy into a local farm. Their…

  • Fix My Slow Website! Part 2: Optimizing Images

    Fix My Slow Website! Part 2: Optimizing Images

    This is part 2 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them. Read part 1 here. Big images are all the rage in web right now. Seems like you can’t turn around without finding high-res hero images and videos. And there’s nothing wrong with these. They generally look great and,…

  • Fix My Slow Website! Part 1: Why is my Website Slow?

    Fix My Slow Website! Part 1: Why is my Website Slow?

    This is part 1 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them If you ever review a job board for web developers, you’ll see many variations on “my WordPress site is slow, what do I do?” I have got 6 websites. The load speed is very slow. Looking for…

  • Capitalize on SEO and appear genuine in 2017: The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer

    Capitalize on SEO and appear genuine in 2017: The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer

    Every year, Edelman does a survey of people across the world to determine how much the average person trusts government, business, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). 2016 started strong, with respondents showing higher trust levels than at any time since the 2008 recession. However, after a rocky 2016, trust levels have dropped across the board.…

  • 6 digital resolutions for 2017

    6 digital resolutions for 2017

    New year, new you. Or that’s what I hear. For business owners, the laundry list of resolutions is often inseparable from their business. “Reorganize the filing cabinet.” “Paint the ceiling.” “Be a little more hands-off this year.” While sorting out all the things you want to tackle in 2017, don’t forget about your business’s digital presence!…

  • Add Google Fonts to the Divi customizer

    Add Google Fonts to the Divi customizer

    Divi is a powerful WordPress theme and page builder from Elegant Themes that allows folks like me to quickly generate modern and professional designs when a custom job just isn’t justified. It’s one of the most popular theme solutions for WordPress out there and offers a lot of customization options. Out of the box, Divi…

  • Snapchat group chat, and why you need user research

    Snapchat group chat, and why you need user research

    The latest update to Snapchat includes a feature that has a lot of people excited: group chat. This new feature targets folks who use the app as a primary way of communicating with friends, rather than something like Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts or traditional text messaging. Like those other apps, users can now set up…

  • WordPress 4.7 brings video headers, PDF thumbnails

    WordPress 4.7 brings video headers, PDF thumbnails

    The WordPress 4.7 update just dropped, and it comes with a variety of great changes. Like most WordPress releases, 4.7 is named after a famous jazz musician. This time around, the WordPress folks celebrate vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Take a listen while you soak in the new features. Justify and underline removed from editor If you’re…

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