Using an External Web Service to Deliver WordPress E-mail

Migrate website

We recently discovered that Gmail doesn’t play nicely with emails that are sent from our Azure instance (which is hosting our WordPress sites).  More specifically, Gmail users don’t receive the emails sent to them. Because of this, we have developed an API that resides on a local, on-campus server, wsnet2 to send out WordPress emails. … Read more

Student Affairs Sites

Google Sheets

What follows is a listing of all sites managed by Student Affairs (WordPress, C#, etc.).   View This Data in Google Sheets

2022 Conference Opportunities

Conferences

Note: I make no warranty as to the accuracy of any of the info below; this is just my attempt at aggregating a few conferences of personal interest in one location Conference Name Location Date Price Purpose Url Microsoft Build Online May 24 – 26 FREE (normally $2,395 in person) General purpose Microsoft developer conference … Read more

Tracking E-mail Opens

Email Tracking

Recently I was asked by a client how she could track which recipients were opening her e-mail messages (without using a read receipt).  It turned out to be a pretty easy process, after finding this article: http://dyn.com/blog/tracking-email-opens-via-google-analytics/. As a note of caution, Apple at least offers Mail Privacy Protection which blocks this ability. Anyways, as … Read more

How to effortlessly move a WordPress site using bash scripting + rsync + WP-CLI

Migrate website

After recently being tasked with moving around 100 sites (some multisite, some not), I thought it worth the effort to create migration scripts.  Now, instead of potentially hours worth of work, running these scripts typically takes less than 1 minute. I chose to split the scripts up, one to place on the source server, and … Read more

Protecting WordPress File Uploads

File lock

A Go-Daddy backed security company analyzed over 25k infected websites and 4,426,795 cleaned files to determine that the WordPress content management system accounted for 90% of all hacked websites in 2018 (increasing from 83% in 2017). The top three tactics for attacks included backdoors (68%), malware (56%), and SEO spam (51%).

Search Engine Optimization

SEO

Learning about SEO Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization On-Page Search Engine Ranking Factors 15 Ways To Promote Your Site On-Page SEO: The Definitive Guide Tools 30 SEO Tools SEO Optimization with Yoast (if you don’t have Yoast on your site, contact your web developer) Five Minute Guide To Improving Your Ranking In Google While … Read more