Welcome to Mailchimp online training! I recorded the videos that make up this class in December 2018. Mailchimp has changed a bit since the videos were created however the class will still prove very valuable for many people. Some of the videos were originally sold as an online Mailchimp class therefore the references to certificates […]
Tutorials
Mailchimp Tutorial : Introduction
Welcome to Mailchimp online training! I recorded the videos that make up this class in December 2018. Mailchimp has changed a bit since the videos were created however the class will still prove very valuable for many people. Some of the videos were originally sold as an online Mailchimp class therefore the references to certificates […]
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 […]
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 […]
WordPress – How to add Social Media icons into a menu
There are many ways of showing social media (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc.) icons on your WordPress menu. Almost all include having to install a plugin or the theme to provide the icon links. What many people want however is to include icons in a WordPress menu itself which most plugins and themes don’t easily support. […]
How to set a default value for Mailchimp fields
Mailchimp allows a very useful feature called Merge Tags. Merge Tags are a means of inserting data from our subscribers list into a Campaign (a Campaign is the email newsletter that is sent to your subscribers). This is extremely useful for personalising Campaigns such as inserting the recipients first name into the email. But what […]
Where can I see my past Mailchimp campaigns?
A question I get asked often when delivering Mailchimp training is where to find the link to sent Mailchimp campaign emails (i.e. archives). This is one of those things that is really useful if you want to include a link on your website to past issues of your email newsletters. Fortunately this is really simple […]
Resolve WP Super Cache error
If you see the following error in the source of a WordPress page “Super cache dynamic page detected but late init not set. See the readme.txt for further details” then fear not. This error is due to a setting being required in the WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin. Of course, as the warning describes, the answer lies […]
S2Member – Fix Home Page Redirect
I came across a problem using the great WordPress S2Member membership plugin. For some reason, if a person that wasn’t logged-in tried to view the Home Page (actually the Front Page) then the person would be redirected to the membership options page. There was nothing set to make the Home Page accessible to logged-in users […]
How to use lettering.js in WordPress
I had a need on a WordPress website to style the fifth letter of a specific word. In CSS there is no pseudo selector or otherwise that allows us to do this. We have, in CSS, pseudo-classes such as :nth-child but this doesn’t allow for targeting a specific letter in a word. There are also […]