What malware plug-ins do we use for our WordPress sites?
Hi all,
I know we use Backup Buddy and Askimet but are there others we use or recommend that we use for clients? Clients have been asking me.
thanks.
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Juliette Cook
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Juliette Cook
Responsive sites – can we put a link to ‘see full version’ on the mobile site
Hi smart developers
if a site is responsive – on the mobile device is there a way we can place an option on the mobile site to say ‘view full version of site’ to link to the desktop version??
thanks.
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Juan Villegas
Yes, if the css is properly designed you should have (at least):
-css file with main styles
-css file with media queries and device specific rules
In a traditional request you would load all the css files, and let the browser apply them. If the user requests the desktop version, you should only load the css files that apply desktop rules (usually, main file and the device-specific file that correspons to desktop.. 968-1200px wide)..To decide wether to force desktop or not, id create a link as follows:
–“>Go to Desktop version of this siteIn the php code:
if( isset( $_GET[‘force’]) OR IF THERE IS A COOKIE ALREADY SET){
// here we should set a cookie set_cookie(‘force’, …. ), otherwise the user will see original site in subsequent requests// get desired version
$version = $_GET[‘force’];
}else{
$version = ‘all’;
}in header.php or wherever you are loading css:
//load main css
…//decide wehter to load device-specific css
if( $version == ‘all’ || $version ==’desktop’){
//load desktop
}
if( $version == ‘all’ || $version ==’mobile’){
//load mobile
}Thats a quick draft but it could be shorter if we think a little about it hehe
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Juan Villegas
WordPress removed my php code.. to create the link use:
href=” CODE HERE”
CODE HERE = PHP>> echo add_query_arg(‘force’,’desktop’) <
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Juliette Cook
thanks – a lot of that makes no sense to me but the developers will get it 😉 . So here is another question – a client wants his site ‘responsive’ but wants the top navigation items visible as opposed to a responsive site saying ‘Navigation Menu” so that a user can see his specialties right away. Can we do this – alter what is responsive and what is not>????? how long would this take and what would it entail?
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Jane Klein
301 Redirects: protocol for project coordinators and developers
Project Coordinators will need to instruct the developers to create 301 redirects if a page exists on a site, but will be changing its URL.
You must make sure the 301 redirects are done correctly, because if it is not your client could lose thousands of Google views that apply to their search link equity, rendering them essentially starting from scratch, which is quite disastrous from an SEO perspective. You can make a spreadsheet in Excel or a Google doc, or simply list them in LGED. But the essential message must be that there is an OLD URL that will now change to a NEW URL, and the PC (not the developer) is responsible for determining those. There are two main types.
One, the Orenstein model, where the URL is kept, but page names are changed:
OLD:Â http://www.orensteinsolutions.com/services/teen-psychologist-counseling-therapy/
NEW:Â http://www.orensteinsolutions.com/teen-counseling/
There is also second type, the Joseph Weiss type, where the URL is completely new:
OLD:Â http://www.drjosephsweiss.com/contact
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Juan Villegas
Technically speaking, developers must make sure that all redirects from A to B are:
-301: if the redirect is permanent and we want the seo juice from A to be passed to B.
-302: if its something temporal, like when a site is under construction and we want to temporarily redirect all visitor to an Under Construction page.. in this case, the seo juice is retained by A.A good and free plugin for WordPress: http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
In the google chrome console, make sure to see the following after testing a redirect: http://prntscr.com/2enu5l
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Dave Boylan
a search on “301” under plugins in the dashboard brings up multiple 301 redirect plug ins….fyi.
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Juliette Cook
jane sent this as well: not sure if it somewhere else on the p2 but here is a link about doing this redirect page by page:
http://moz.com/blog/achieving-an-seo-friendly-domain-migration-the-infographic
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Juliette Cook
Fiverr – for Logos and Graphics
Hi all
If a client wants a quickie ‘logo’ that doesn’t cost hundred of dollars, we are charging clients $50 so that we go onto this service, look for a top rated designer and there is usually a quick turn around. Make sure the designer has good ratings. I have had some bad experiences and also look a how long it will take a designer. the more specific you are about what kind of logo you want the better. Colors, background colors and styles that you like will get the results you need for a happy client.
We can also include this in a workshop regarding design and colors for clients.
the site is: http://fiverr.com/categories/graphics-design/creative-logo-design/#layout=auto&jls_sca349_1_auto=1
and becky made a screencast:
Here’s how:Â http://screencast.com/t/fkVT5m26pYW
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Juliette Cook
Placing a form on a wordpress site, estimate, production and testing
hi all,
just like we did for the STWP kickoff check list, my client wants to put a questionnaire on his site and get results instantly. I need to know what this takes – manpower – how many hours to build, test – I am trying to give him an estimate before going into production. Can you help, WP developers? Is there a plug-in for this functionality?
maybe a workshop on this because this could be a great upsell. upsell upsell! hell yeah.
thank you.
juliette
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Juan Villegas
mm a hand-made, simple (name, email, question..) form using ajax and styled according to the site may take 3-4 hours. results would be emailed to the wordpress site owner account.
another possibility is linking a 3rd party form, like aweber/mailchimp. Those usually give you a code that you just copy/paste into the side. Its only html. 1 hour to generate the form in Aweber, copy the code, style it a little, etc.
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Becky DeGrossa
Juliette – putting it on, if he has it all together and doesn’t make changes, is probably about an hour. Our form (on CW site) is done via Visual Form Builder Pro – a paid plugin. He may want to buy it (you can look up the cost) as it ends up looking pretty good compared to other contact form software.
I think we talked about this on his call, but I don’t remember the details of how this will be used. Will they just fill it out and then they get the results and he gets the results? And then they can connect separately from the form submit?
If he wants an interactive form where the form scores things and gives them some indication, right after they’ve answered questions, online, then that is an entirely different thing than what we have. Just wanted to make sure to mention that since I think that an interactive form was mentioned on our call.
Meagan was the one who created our form on CW site, by the way 🙂 It’s pretty easy to do.
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Juliette Cook
Workshop – Hosting, Email Hosting and how it all works
Hi all,
We need to have a workshop about our hosting services and how they work. I have a client that wants to know how Host Gator (for example – could be bluehost too – handles email – for example, is there an easy pathway to check her email? Can you check host gator email on a mobile app?
These are questions I didn’t know the answer to – so it would be helpful to be more informed.
thanks.
juliette
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Juan Villegas
All webhosts offer a webmail service, that works just like a gmail client: they give you an url where you enter username and password and log in to your mailbox.
If the webhost gives you the smtp server, you can always link your @domain.com account to outlook express or also gmail.
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Juliette Cook
i am wondering how hostgator does it – specifically can a user get their hostgator email from their phone?
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Becky DeGrossa
In my experience, none of the email interfaces that come from these hosting accounts are particularly user-friendly. In addition, they have to go to another place to see their email.
My suggestion would be that all of our clients have some friendlier email — usually one they’re already using — such as gmail, yahoo, etc. and that we forward their name@sitename.com email to them at their gmail/yahoo id.
All of you PCs are doing this already. You all have either a page1pros.org id or a counselingwise.com id and we forward your email to your gmail id. You can tell what is “work” related email compared to personal email, and you can respond to or author emails from your “work” id.
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Juan Villegas
take a look at: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/email/setting-up-email-for-the-apple-iphone
basically, they give you the configuration parameters and you use the Mail program in your ithing (iphone, ipad, etc) or even in your desktop client (outlook, thunderbird..)
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Juliette Cook
Great Pixel tool for developers and PC’s
Hi all,
This is a great tool to use when a PC isn’t sure of the size an image should be, when ‘make it smaller’ just won’t cut it and we as PC’s need to give exact dimensions. It is super useful to give a developer the exact pixel dimensions so that there is a lot less guesswork/back and forth and time spent on a task.
It is called PixelWindow and it is FREE on itunes. i got mine for the mac. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelwindow/id503739894?mt=12
hooray!
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Juan Villegas
you lucky mac owner.. 🙂
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Juliette Cook
How long does it REALLY take to put navigation item on a theme and build pages?
Hi all
I have had varied results here. Some developers will take 4 hours and some will take 2 hours. Since we are charging client per hour and have to account for each task what is with the variation on this. So to be specific, a PC says on a task, Place Nav Items in Top and Build out corresponding pages.
We need to set a standard time for this as anything over 2/3Â hours seems too long. I need developer input of course.
thanks,
juliette
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Juan Villegas
mm I think the variation comes from the time it takes a developer to do the context switch from whatever he is doing and start working on whatever he is asked to. if im in charge of a site, and you ask me to create a menu/page, it shouldnt take me longer than a couple of minutes as Im supposed to know already the structure and constraints of the site. In the other hand, if I get a login and a ftp by email of a site i’ve never worked with, then its going to take me some time to get used to it, the plugins it use, the theme, the framework, etc.
other times menus arent created, and thus the dev needs to dive into the php templates and code the menu himself.
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Juan Villegas
last but not least.. several times requirements “outrange” whats included in the theme, and diving into the php files of a pre-made theme isnt as simple as it sounds. simple stuff like making root menu items unclickable or changing the number of columns of a page/post require some evaluation of the consequences those changes will have in the whole package.
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Becky
Browser Issues
What if your client is seeing different things that you are, because they are using a different browser, but you can’t replicate it or see what they’re seeing?
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Becky
Usually if they can tell us the browser and whether they’re on a pc or mac, we can reproduce it.
In fact, there’s a tool that will display a site on different browsers: http://browsershots.org/
I need to come up with a new correlation for “this is the game we’re in and we’re spending this time on YOUR site, not on ours” so that no one can bitch about being charged time for stuff like this. If any of you can think of a good way to say that, let me know.
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Becky
I set up an account at http://browsershots.org/
page1pros
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Becky
Here is what you get back when you run it (it could take some time depending on how many browsers you’re checking out, and since we have a free account).
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Juan Villegas
Check the one I use, browserstack.com. It supports real time and interactive tests, so you can test interactions/menues/overlays.
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Becky
Awesome, Juan! This is EXACTLY the sharing between developers I want to have happen out here!
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Daryl Monte 3:47 am on February 5, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
We use sucuri for malware monitoring. Its a premium plugin and I think we have a package for it – http://www.counselingwise.com/wordpress-hack-monitor-service/
Becky DeGrossa 3:58 am on February 5, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Note that if the client signs up for our Security Plan hosting, the $20/month plan, we utilize Sucuri on their behalf to monitor their site every 6 hours. We also use another paid plugin, ManageWP, that notifies us when their WP version and/or any of their plugins are downlevel and causing a security risk, and we upgrade these with not additional charge.
It’s probably cheaper for them to go with us than to pay for these paid services.
B.