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How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 2: Taxes

How to Set up WooCommerce SeriesHave you missed a previous post in this series? Go ahead and see the whole series.Setting up Woo If anyone has told you that selling...
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Updating WordPress Plugins: Why and How

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in the world, powering millions of websites globally. One of the reasons behind its popularity is its vast library of...
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How and Why to Backup A WordPress Website

Backing up your WordPress website is crucial for ensuring the security and continuity of your online presence. A website backup is essentially a copy of all the website’s files, including...
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How to Incorporate Online Booking for WordPress Sites

If you have a business that relies on client appointments, it's time to set up online booking system. You are losing money and wasting time if you don't. With online...
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Five Ways to Accept Donations on your Website

I get asked by a lot of organizations and nonprofits how to accept donations on your website. I can answer this is a multitude of ways. The one thing I...
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Will my new website be easy to manage?

One of the questions I get with new clients pretty frequently is asking about how easy or difficult will it be to manage the website. Will they be able to...
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IDX Integration for WordPress

If you are a real estate agent or broker, you may be thinking about adding listings to your website. I find that realtors are about 50/50 on whether they want...
Website Maintenance

Three things every website owner should be doing to make sure their website is working

The thing about websites is that they aren't like posters and books... they are on technology that changes. Any tiny change can cause a problem with your website. Far too...
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Facebook Messenger on your website

I'm an admin on a lot of different Facebook pages. One thing I've noticed over the last year is that more and more people are contacting businesses via Facebook messenger....
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How to Embed YouTube Video in WordPress

I was searching through old blog posts the other day, looking for out-of-date posts and happened upon one where I describe how to embed YouTube video in WordPress. This post...
WordPress Document Management

WordPress Document Management

Have you ever wanted to offer your website visitors a way to download documents, like PDFs, Word docs, or even Power Point files? Figuring out the best options for WordPress...
Professional Website

A professional website will grow your business

There are a lot of choices when it comes to getting a professional website and many times a small business with a tight budget will opt for a do-it-yourself website...
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Comment Spam

Everyone hates spam. You can get email spam, form spam, analytics spam, robocall spam and comment spam. That's a lot of types of spam and I'm sure that's not even...
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Why use Google Analytics for your site?

Because if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Having a website is great. You should have one. But a good website, a strategic website, is one that is...
WordPress Web Design

Why use WordPress for your small business website?

There are a lot of options when it comes to websites for your business. WordPress? Joomla? Drupal? Wix? Weebly? SquareSpace?  Open source or something proprietary? How do you know which...
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The Best WordPress Plugins for Small Business Websites

Did you know there are currently 54,476 plugins in the WordPress Repository? That's a lot of options for expanding the functionality of your website. I thought I'd share a list...
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Email Blog Subscriptions – How and Why

Do you have a business blog? I feel strongly that creating new, original content is one of the best ways to drive new traffic to your site, and help you...
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How to customize your permalinks in WordPress

As I'm learning my way around Gutenberg, I'm finding myself with new questions that I'm determined to find an answer to. One of those questions right off the bat was...
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Brute Force Attacks: What you need to know.

If you've never been the victim of a Brute Force Attack, be grateful. And then take steps to prevent it from happening to you. As a person who has been...
Schedule your blog posts

Scheduling WordPress posts to publish at a different time

If you're new to blogging, you may not be aware of this but did you know you can publish blog posts for future dates and times? Just because the button...
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Adding PDFs (and other docs) to posts and pages using Gutenberg

Using the Gutenberg editor is A LOT different than using the classic WordPress editor. And there are many things you are probably familiar with in the old editor that you...