Speaking at WordCamp Netherlands 2022

In the WordPress world, we have WordCamps. It is an event that will have 150 to 3,000 people depending on the event. WordCamp US can have up to 3,000 and smaller events, like WordCamp Atlanta (that I always attend) can have up to 650 people. The WordCamp Nederlands (WCNL) 2022 sold 483 tickets, which is…

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Have a WordPress Expert Look at Your Site

ClockworkWP has the privilege to “inherit” sites from other developers on a regular basis. Each time we onboard a new website for a care plan, we look through the site and make sure that it is functioning as expected. I can’t believe what we found on this one. The end client uses another company for…

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Why I’ve Lost Faith in Other Hosting Companies

First and foremost, I write this with an extremely saddened heart. I know it is just hosting that I’m talking about, but WP Engine used to be stellar. In fact, moving from VPS.net to WP Engine in 2015 was one of the best decisions I made when I was helping run Sideways8 Interactive. It saved…

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DNS, Mailgun, and I’m Losing My Mind

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I became slightly balder today because I pulled most of what was left out. I was trying to set up Mailgun to send mail within a WordPress site. Hosting companies like WP Engine don’t allow mail to be sent using the “built-in” SMTP server and they recommend using a 3rd party tool. That’s totally fine,…

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Three Articles For GoDaddy

Writing articles on my personal blog and Sideways8’s blog has always been fun. I’ve been in this industry for 20 years, I should have some knowledge that is worth sharing, right?!? The industry has changed dramatically over the years. No longer does anyone use frames in pages, the blink tag is deprecated and Netscape is…

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How to add a Font Awesome icon as a menu item

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I’ve started recording a lot of videos, this being the first, for 48in48 (If you don’t know what 48in48 is… we build 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours).  At the events, we have 150 (or so) volunteers building these web sites and a lot of times, they have a lot of web experience, but…

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A Page Builder Must Have Add-On

Page builders are more common in the WordPress community now than ever.  There has been a void for content formatting for years.  As much as we all love the WP Editor (more specifically TinyMCE Editor), it doesn’t even make it easy to have two images side by side.  To do that, you would have to…

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Beaver Builder Visual Hook Guide How To

One of the guys (Bret) showed me this plugin that is on GitHub and I figured it would be helpful for a lot of people that aren’t quite sure how to use the plugin to create a video. This video will walk you through downloading the plugin from GitHub, enabling the plugin, and then creating…

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Social Media Ted Talks

I’m a big fan of Ted Talks, it forces me to think through my processes and my habits. Recently I wrote a blog post called “Breaking the Social Media Addiction“. Was I addicted to Social Media? Maybe, but I don’t think so, but I’d rather assume I was and make some changes to make sure…

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