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  • Meagan Vitek 10:21 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink |
    Tags: , , plug-ins, standard message,   
    Categories: Project Coordinators ( 113 )

    Standard Message for Contact Form & Mailpoet 

    Hey everyone,

    In today’ PC meeting, we decided it would be best to add a task to the template, and just be more mindful, of the messaging that we put into the Contact Form plugin and Mailpoet. To make it easier, we came up with a standard message for each. Tweak as the client wishes.

    Contact Form: “Thank you for contacting me. I will reply to you as soon as possible”

    Optin Box on site: “Thank you for requesting my free report. Check your inbox now to confirm your subscription.”
    Optin Email Confirmation:

    • Email Subject – Confirm Your Report Download
    • Email Text:

    “Hello!

    Thanks for requesting my free report. In order to receive your report and to activate your subscription to the list, please click the link below:

    Click here to confirm your subscription. (link)”

     

    • Becky DeGrossa 10:30 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      for Email Subject for optin: Let’ say “Confirm Your Report Download”
      and for the Email Text, let’s say:

      Thank you for requesting my free report. In order to receive the report and to activate your subscription to the list, please click the link below:

      Click here to confirm your subscription. (link)”

    • Meagan Vitek 10:37 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hey Becky – I made the changes you requested 🙂

      We recently added a step in the STWP template – http://screencast.com/t/b42MRQJj

      Do you want me to still add another task specifically for mailpoet to change admin to client name?

    • Becky DeGrossa 10:42 pm on April 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Yes. Clients won’t want their messages coming from Admin.

    • Becky DeGrossa 1:14 am on April 15, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Another addition to this convo re Mailpoet:

      When the person confirms their optin, Mailpoet’s default page is this: http://screencast.com/t/d1Paz45wD9q

      It says You’ve subscribed to: My first list

      Yup, we’ve added you to our list. You’ll hear from us shortly.

      This needs to be changed, obviously.

      So, first the list needs to be changed to named appropriately.
      Second, the messaging on this page need say: Thank you for confirming your report request. The report will be send to you shortly. Please check your email.

      Then, finally, the person should get one final email sending them the free report. This is currently not working on the site I’m testing, so I don’t know what the messaging says, but it should be cleaned up, I’m sure!

  • Juliette Cook 3:35 am on February 5, 2014 Permalink |
    Tags: malware, plug-ins,   
    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    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.

     

     

    • 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.

  • Juliette Cook 5:35 am on December 2, 2013 Permalink |
    Tags: 404 Redirects, Bug fixes, Error Pages, plug-ins, , , ,   
    Categories: All ( 65 )

    QA Testing before a website goes LIVE – We should be using 404 redirected, the plug-in for wordpress 

    Testing isn’t fun, I am going to be honest. I have to go through the entire site and make sure all links and buttons are in working order. I have found 404 error pages that leave a site sort of ‘broken’ and this is not good for google/SEO etc. So I found http://wordpress.org/plugins/404-redirected/ We should use this as a standard plug-in. Why not? Need to know thoughts here. Won’t this save us time? Testing must be accounted for in the Standard Timeline – it is TIME consuming – link, bugs, and more fixing adds up so we can discuss this more in workshops and in the overall schedule, budget and resource allocation.

     

  • Juliette Cook 9:22 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink |
    Tags: plug-ins, , , wordpress forms, ,   
    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    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

     

    • Juan Villegas 9:52 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      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.

    • Becky DeGrossa 6:07 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      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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