For any number of reasons you may wish to embed a Tweet in a WordPress page or blog post. Fortunately this is incredibly simple and no HTML knowledge is needed. Just follow the instructions below. How to get the URL of a Tweet First off we need the URL of the Tweet that we want […]
Marketing and Mailchimp News and Tutorials
How does Mailchimp send my blog content?
Mailchimp has a really simple means of automating the sending of your blog content as a Campaign (email newsletter); RSS-to-Email. Most blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger, Weebly and Wix automatically create a feed in the form of RSS or Atom. The feed contains the content of your blog posts in a way that Mailchimp […]
What to do about Mailchimp Bounce and List Deletion Warning
So you’ve imported a list of subscribers into Mailchimp and now you see the following message: Bounce and List Deletion Warning Mailchimp’s artificial intelligence system, Omnivore, automatically scanned your recent import. Omnivore flagged the list for having a large number of addresses that may cause complaints, high bounce rates, or blacklistings. Our research shows that […]
How to get Mailchimp Subscriber Popup working in WordPress
I spend an equal amount of my working time on WordPress and Mailchimp related tasks. I’m listed by Mailchimp as an Expert and have worked as a WordPress specialist for quite a few years. It’s rare however that I get to work on a technical challenge involving both at the same time. Today however was […]
Create a Shopify Theme Dev Environment
I’ve recently been working with setting up Shopify online stores. There are a few popular ecommerce services out there that are very powerful, inexpensive and really good but I just love the architecture and coding practices that Shopify use. For themes, Shopify use Liquid (resulting in files having the .liquid file extension) which is a Ruby programming language […]
Add focus to a Mailchimp subscribe form field
I’ve written various posts in the past regarding how to have a form field in focus automatically when a website page loads. What we mean by in focus is that the cursor will be active in a predefined field when a webpage is loaded. This means that all the viewer need do is start typing […]
Add focus to a Gravity Forms field
Adding focus to a form field means that when the page with the form loads, the field with focus will have the cursor flashing in the field ready for text input. Various research has shown that this increases conversion rates. HTML5 includes the autofocus attribute that makes it simple to add focus to a field […]
Survey: Email marketing significantly beats Facebook
Social Media is all the rage. Businesses of all sizes seems to spend inordinate amounts of time on their social media. Latest research suggests that email marketing still is far more effective at both converting readers and gaining followers (or subscribers). … adults who want to stay in touch with your brand are almost twice […]
WooCommerce – exclude categories from showing
A customer uses WooCommerce to power their online shop. They required a certain category to be available through the WordPress dashboard but the category wasn’t to display on the shop pages or any widgets. Here is the PHP required to achieve the outcomes. Just add the following to your functions.php. Don’t show WooCommerce category on […]
Microsoft Word to WordPress Style Guide
A few years back I posted a Microsoft Word style-guide for content that is to be copied and pasted into WordPress websites. Copying and pasting from Word to a WordPress page or post is still very common therefore I thought I should update the guide. Why do I need to style content correctly in Microsoft […]
