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Elliot and Maisey, two bunnies

Community Recommendations for SMTP Plugins and Services

Last updated: 23-May-2021 Ensuring that website-driven emails are properly delivered and received presents a well-documented challenge in WordPress. While I will leave others to discuss the technical reasons for this, I will share that when those website-driven emails go missing, using an SMTP plugin for WordPress and a third party email service can provide the

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WordPress and Gutenberg

Community Recommendations for Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress

Last updated: 27-Mar-2021 As I began a new client website project, I was eager to build the site using the new block editor, commonly called Gutenberg. Since Gutenberg was officially added into WordPress a few years ago, it has become a powerful and flexible way for displaying and styling content on the front end of

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Dipping into WP-CLI

The Power of WP-CLI

In the latter months of 2019, I began to explore more earnestly the command line tool for WordPress, WP-CLI. I quickly discovered that for someone who prefers the keyboard to the mouse, it’s a wonderfully powerful, quick, and robust tool for managing and updating WordPress sites. What follows below is a resource that I’ve building

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Liam Dempsey presenting at WordCamp Niagara

What Do You Want to Know about Making Static Sites with WordPress?

In advance of my talk at WordCamp Niagara, I wonder what people might be most interested in learning about. At the risk of letting the cat out of the bag a bit, I will walk through using plugins to convert locally installed WordPress sites into static sites. With that in mind, I wonder what information

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