Several WordPress Meetup Groups in the U.S. are joining hands to organize the: WordPress “Mega Meetup”: The “Plugin Draft” Episode event on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 6:30 PM EST. The event aims to highlight several useful plugins and demystify them for participants, and will also feature a host of talks and sessions. The organizers promise a fun event…
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Add Images to Your RSS Feed for Your MailChimp Campaign
If you don’t already have a subscription option for your posts to get emailed out, you should. I use Mailchimp because it’s free for my number of subscribers and has great features. Speaking of which, if you haven’t already signed up for my newsletter, you should! I have Mailchimp set up with automation so every…
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Replace Featured Image with Video
Ever want to replace that WordPress featured image with a video instead? The VideographyWP plugin let’s you do just that! You’ll need to be using YouTube videos. Once you install it, you will need a YouTube API, but there are easy to follow instructions on how to do that. Once your API is set up,…
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Plugin Review: SG Optimizer by Siteground
I’ve talked a lot about my favorite host Siteground, but today I’d like to talk about a plugin they offer that helps speed up your site called SG Optimizer. Actually, I’m not going to just talk about it; I’m going to show you some results from adding it to some of my clients sites. Review…
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ReCAPTCHA ERROR for site owner: Invalid domain for site key
Recently got this error after changing domain names for a customer. I tried two things to fix. 1) I tried V2 instead of V3. That didn’t work 2) I realized that I had added the https:// at the front of the domain name on the google setup. Once I removed that, it worked like a…
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Creating a map with custom icons with Toolset
Recently a customer needed a map with custom icons rather than the regular map maker icons that come with Google maps. He wanted it to look something like this so each icon represented a different type of store. To do this you’ll need 3 things: 1) A custom post type with Toolset Custom Fields set…
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Using WP Code Highlight? Don’t Upgrade to PHP 7 Until You Do This!
I recently upgraded my site from PHP 5 to PHP 7 and loved the speed boost, but then I noticed one of my favorite plugins broke. I was getting this warning: Deprecated: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in /Applications/AMPPS/www/mysitetest/wp-content/plugins/wp-code-highlight/wp-code-highlight.php on line 68 Yes, WP Code Highlight has been deprecated for a…
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