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I’ve discovered a way to create a dropdown menu on the page itself using Advanced Custom Fields and custom PHP code, making it easier to change templates on the fly. This solution streamlines the process and eliminates the need to constantly edit template conditions in Bricks.

Tired of fighting a losing battle against contact form spam on your WordPress site? Learn how to outsmart spammers and protect your inbox with this comprehensive guide to preventing contact form spam, regardless of which plugin you use.

I wanted a simple way to take payments, and to show the payment form in a modal window. I created a shortcode that displays a button, that then displays any external URL in a modal when clicked.

When your site goes into maintenance mode during plugin and theme updates, WordPress loads a default page that is VERY basic and not very attractive or professional. You can control the look and feel of your WordPress maintenance mode page by creating a custom “maintenance.php” file that includes your branding, relevant images and contact details.

To further reduce Gravity Forms spam submissions, you maintain a list of spammy words in your Disallowed Comment Keys field and check all form entries against this list, using the custom code provided in your theme’s functions.php file.

I’ve been trying to create the perfect blog URL structure that appeals to my sense of order for more than 7 years. And I finally discovered the last piece of the puzzle. It’s time to lay out my entire solution for you, including examples.

I recently discovered that my username was being exposed in the WordPress classes for comments as comment-author-[myusername] and being scraped and abused by some sharp spammers. Here’s how I fixed the issue.

I’m working on a site where I want to pull out just one single category of blog post, “Case Studies”, into its own URL structure, so I can see how this category of content is performing in Analytics, and also to send a signal to Google about the importance of this content to this website.…

I’ve recently begun getting spam messages through my contact forms that are submitted by humans, not bots, so they don’t get stopped by the standard honeypot setting in WPForms. I wanted to create a content blacklist for WPForms that was easy to maintain and add new terms to. I also didn’t want the overhead of…

So you’ve decided you want to start using Facebook ads. Great. Now what?! Well, the very first thing you need to do is find your ad account. I know this seems like a pretty basic thing, but you’d be amazed at: A) How many people struggle to find it, and B) How much of the…

Did you know that you can watch what your customers are doing on your site in real time using your Google Analytics account? I absolutely love this feature of Google Analytics. It’s like watching my website breathe.

So you’ve heard about bounce rate, or you’ve seen it in your Google Analytics reports, but what is it, and why does it matter? Watch my video to find out what bounce rate is all about, and how you can get it headed in the right direction.