Case Study: How To Recover Access To WordPress When You Are Locked Out One of my maintenance clients came to me with a problem.  He works for a company that has recently let their IT person go.  In this post I’ll teach you how to recover access to WordPress when yo are locked out. The login details for WordPress and Bluehost were handed over, but when my client’s team tried to login they could not. They did not have access to the password recovery email, they did not know the passwords they were completely locked out. Recovering Bluehost Access I […]

I’ve just completed a client project where I built an app from a client’s WordPress site, in this case study I will show you how to make an app for a WordPress website. My client runs the website skopemag.com and he wanted an app for his audience.  His tag line says “Diverse Music Media For The Digital Age” and has has a wide range of stories about new music. His site (and now the app) is a multi media combination of news stories, video and of course audio files for the new music he features. His content is an ideal […]

In this video walk-through I’ll take you through a password protected podcast setup I created for a client in WordPress. The site is Qiological.com owned by Michael Max Plugins / Extensions Used Here is a list of the plugins / extensions used in this project. WooCommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions WooCommerce Membership PowerPress Photo Credit: seefit Flickr via Compfight cc Wrap Up – Password Protected Podcast If you need  help building a Password Protected Podcast get a quote

I’m going to be black balled from the Guild of WPers when I publish this post, but here we go anyway! WordPress is not the only game in town, sometimes WordPress is not the best tool for every project {sharp intake of breath from the audience}. If there is a pre-made website solution for a particular project you are planning, then please look into that before you try and build a custom solution from WordPress plugins and a theme. WordPress is of course open source and free but any complex problem you are trying to solve probably needs some custom […]

I’ve been trialling a new tool to reach out to old clients this month and I wanted to share my Woodpecker Review. What Is WoodPecker? It’s an email outreach system where you can contact people on your list. It has a drip facility where you can send a series of emails, if someone replies they are taken out of the drip. It sends like a human would, a few requests per day not a bulk outreach. It sends from your gmail account. It monitors replies, auto replies, bounces and cleans your list up. I’m using woodpecker to reach out to old clients […]

Last week I wrote about a client project where I setup gravity form routing, today I want to write about gravity forms dynamic content. We can dynamically pass data into a form to add to an entry, this is how you can do this. What Is Dynamic Content? Dynamic data is content that changes each time the form is loaded, it can be used on the display of the form or on the notification sent out when the form is completed. An example; my client has a single form but wants to send a different PDF to form completors based […]