Plagiarism is rampant on the internet. If you’re a blogger-and a good one-chances are someone has stolen your content. There are bad actors who use automatic scrapers that will pull your entire blog posts so they can steal your content and search engine juice! But something you can do is prevent them from showing your…
Did you know that your site’s images can affect your search engine placement? If images are slowing down your site, you will be penalized in Google – not to mention frustrating your site visitors. Here are some tips for you to review before you upload the next image to your site or blog. Don’t use…
Here’s a nifty trick that I like to use for certain clients who have a very clear “call to action.” Give it some pop by styling it as a button! It will appear on every page, and work wonders! 1. Add the link your WordPress menu as a regular menu item. In this case, it…
I had a client who had many, many posts under the old date permalink structure and wanted to change it to just the post name. But she didn’t want to lose the SEO to her old posts – let alone any sites that link to them. Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t have 301 redirects built in when…
You don’t need to create a child theme in WordPress unless you plan to dig in and update the original theme’s files. This should only be done by a seasoned web developer who understands HTML and PHP coding. But if you do, and want to change either the functionality or design of the original theme,…
There are several plugins that let you add custom checkout fields to Woocommerce, but I didn’t want the weight of adding a whole plugin. So if you want to write your own custom code (like I do) here’s how you add a custom checkout field in WooCommerce. I placed this code in my Child Theme’s…
Many of my clients and businesses in town have to “pivot” their business models to adjust to the quarantine. Here are some ideas and resources to help your business get through this time.
I’ve had a simple home page philosophy that has evolved over my twenty years of web development, and it works. You have to answer three questions when a visitor first lands on your website: What is this? What can it do for me? Where do I go from here? So breaking it out, here’s how…
I get many clients asking about opening an online store, without really knowing or understanding what is involved. Some have a fantasy of selling product and making tens-of-thousands to hundreds-of-thousands to millions of dollars each month–rarely the case. So I’ve put together this list of things to consider before you jump in and pay a…
A client had this situation: WooCommerce with Stripe payment processor, but the credit card fields weren’t showing on the checkout form. It was creating an extra 2 steps with the Stripe popup. Here’s how to fix that: 1. Click on WooCommerce > Settings > Payments 2. On the payments, you’ll see STRIPE enabled and on…