If you're on this page then I don't need to explain to you what Bricks Builder is. But like any new piece of software, there are a few foundational pillars you need to have under your belt to get a grasp of what you're doing. So here's my personal list of things to know about […]
WordPress is designed to be easy to use so you can get things done on your website quickly and easily. However, this flexibility opens the door to some pitfalls, and in the article below we'll talk about 5 of them. Don't upload very large images. Images are great for making plain content more engaging, and […]
Stand around the water cooler with WordPress developers and you'll overhear tons of opinions about what WordPress plugins to use, and which ones to avoid. In this top 10 list, we're going to highlight our top 10 favorite WordPress plugins that we use when we build sites for dentists and physicians. (n.b. We have no […]
Your Business NEEDS a COVID-19 Notice. Customer service is often about meeting client/user/visitor expectations, and as we progress into the COVID-19-era, people expect to see some type of announcement about how your business is handling the crisis. Please meet HelloBar, free edition! HelloBar is a great service for adding announcement and notifications/popups on your website; […]
Like any agency owner, I wear multiple hats: marketer, accountant, server administrator, etc. And while I have managed servers and the support is excellent, I do dig on my own sometimes when there's an issue. In this instance I was getting some 500 errors on sites while I was doing some routine checks, and it […]
We've often asked which plugins we recommend for the WordPress websites we build, so here's a list. Updated June 9, 2019 Recommended WordPress plugins for medical websites and dental websites (and all healthcare websites): Accessibility: Accessibility by User Way Backups: BackupBuddy Structure: Broken Link Checker Editing: Classic Editor Structure: Disable Comments Media: Enable Media Replace […]
…And So is the New Gutenberg Editor WordPress 5.0 is probably the most significant major release of WP in many years because it includes a new editor, Gutenberg. In Gutenberg, the team at WP has made WP friendlier and easier to use. But Not Everyone is Ready to Switch Gutenberg is very new, and there […]
Wordpress Updates Your Wordpress installation requires that you provide an email address in order to send you infrequent - but important updates. In general, Wordpress will only send you an email when a new version of WordPress is available, or if Wordpress has automatically completed a minor update (this is the expected behavior). You can […]
BackupBuddy Errors and Notifications BackupBuddy by iThemes.com is the backup plugin that we recommend and use for our sites and our client sites. BackupBuddy functions by automatically creating a nightly backup of your WordPress website. Important Concepts: A WordPress website “lives” online and as such you cannot backup a WordPress website as you would copy […]
