Big WordPress Problem – Slow WP Admin / Uncached Pageloads Slow

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Some problems are first world problems. Other problems are big WordPress problems. Slow WordPress Admin? Slow uncached pageloads? We deal with some big WordPress customers, and often their sites can become slow. There’s sometimes a myth floating around that “WordPress doesn’t scale” or, more specifically, that “WooCommerce doesn’t scale” but there’s a reason I call …

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“Safe” Ways to Increase Google PageRank and Search Rankings

UPDATE 2019 – the article below was originally posted in 2013, and a lot of terminology and practices, particularly in SEO (do we even talk about PageRank any more? Remember those PR toolbars? Remember toolbars!?!), have moved on apace since then, but the general principles still hold true today…  A lot of the time, when …

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How to fill your WordPress website with great looking video

Video is a great way to present your business to customers and partners. Create an immersive experience and find news ways to introduce concepts to your audience. High quality video is now available more easily than ever using some of the services and tools below: Finding Video Stock Footage A quick way to give viewers …

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WordPress editing – keyboard shortcuts

Please note a lot of these keyboard actions have been appended with new actions for the new editor in WordPress 5.0 (aka Gutenberg). We’ll be adding a Gutenberg tutorial later. Over the years, we published a lot of WordPress (and other) Tutorials, and often its the simplest of them which are the most used. We …

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Mandrill: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be able to use Mandrill until the problem is solved.

Troubleshoot this Mandrill-related clash on your WordPress website. The following error message may be produced if the WordPress plugin Mandrill is installed and activated while there exists another plugin on your WP setup which tinkers with the email settings on your WordPress: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be …

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The importance of building an entity for e-commerce sites

One of the typical oversights we see with many e-commerce stores, and generally with potential customers who ask us to help them generate more traffic and sales, is the lack of identity, or what we consider an “entity”. It’s generally an oversight as many webmasters considers an entity be relevant only to serviced types businesses …

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How to Combine Two (or more) Facebook Pages into One

We’ve all done this for business Facebook pages in the past – set up a page with the wrong name, wrong information, or the business for which we originally setup a Facebook page has totally changed (i.e. gone from being a Sole Trader – your name – to a Limited Company – business name) and …

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Add a Padlock (or other) Icon into Checkout Button in WooCommerce

We recently had a request to add a padlock directly into the checkout button in a WooCommerce checkout, so I’m posting a snippet, below, which will allow you to do just that. Please note that several plugins add their own “checkout now” text, which is not the subject of today’s lesson, so you may want …

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