Tutorials

Reduce Gravity Forms spam using common spammy terms via the comment blacklist

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.

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Tutorials

How to create the perfect blog URL permalink structure in WordPress (with examples)

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.

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Tutorials

Stop WordPress username appearing in comment classes

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.

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Tutorials

Change Permalink URL Structure for One Specific Category including the Archive Page in WordPress

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.

Initially I used a plugin, but there were a few issues with this option so I decided to create a solution in PHP instead.

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Tutorials

WPForms Spam Filtering Using the Comment Blacklist Field

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 another plugin, so I created a solution in PHP.

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Tips & Tricks

Where exactly IS your Facebook ad account?

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

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Tips & Tricks

Want to see what’s happening on your website right now?

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.

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Tips & Tricks

Bounce Rate: What on earth is it and why does it even matter?

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.

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Tips & Tricks

That time I nearly destroyed my business

In 2009, I had a thriving business that was turning over more than 600K, and I almost lost it all because I got lazy.

Watch my video to get the whole messy story on my business near-miss, and why I’ll never make that same mistake again.

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Tips & Tricks

How to tell where your website traffic is coming from

It’s time for another dose of Measurement Magic, with the Data Fairy, and today’s topic is Facebook pixels. What on earth are they, and why would you even want one?

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