Wetherbyweb

15/12/2023

Peace of mind

Just been alerted by the software which monitors the websites that I manage, that the plugins in the attached image have been updated by their authors. Just one click on the Update tab and all the plugins are up to date.

If you want to know about my management service for websites, just get in touch

https://wetherbyweb.com/peace-of-mind-2/

08/12/2023

If you operate a website which invites people to subscribe to your newsletter then you need a website which incorporates the MC4WP plugin and adds them directly to a Mailchimp database. You can then use Mailchimp to send out your newsletters without worrying about breaching data protection rules or GDPR regulations. Get in touch for more information - Call 07966 355054 or email [email protected]

Do you ask people to subscribe to your newsletter? If you operate a website which invites people to subscribe to your newsletter then you need a website which incorporates the MC4WP plugin and adds them directly to a Mailchimp database. You can then use Mailchimp to send out your newslett...

29/07/2022

When Elmet Lions Club decided to resurrect the Great Selby Bike Ride after Selby Lions Club closed down we decided to bring it into the 21st century in terms of its organisation and set about doing so in the following manner:- We set up a Paypal business account and applied for charity status with Paypal to reduce the fees charged for transactions....

24/06/2022

Track the Click

If you have a website with external links how do you know how effective they have been at driving traffic to that site, be it an e-commerce site, a companion website, technical content or blog article?

The answer is a WordPress plugin called Track the Click. It’s free and will log all the traffic that resulted from a visitor clicking on an external link on your website.

The basic functions of the plugin include:

Unlimited link click tracking
Local tracking and reporting of clicks
No limit on storage of link click data
Real time forwarding of link clicks to Google Analytics for tracking and reporting
Track outbound link clicks in all areas of your site: header, body, widgets and footer
Two standard views

You can download the plugin from the WordPress repository here - https://wordpress.org/plugins/track-the-click/

22/06/2022

If you have a website with external links how do you know how effective they have been at driving traffic to that site, be it an e-commerce site, a companion website, technical content or blog article? The answer is a WordPress plugin called Track the Click. It's free and will log all the traffic that resulted from a visitor clicking on an external link on your website....

25/03/2021

Three recent news reports provide insights into what's happening to businesses during lockdown.

First, have announced major changes to their supermarket operation indicating an even greater shift towards online sales. They announced that they hadn't expected to reach their present level of online sales for another nine, yes nine years.

Then chocolate maker announced they would be closing all their retails shops and shifting to onlime sales with some sales via supermarkets.

Finally an industry review of what will happen to online sales after the boost they have seen as a consequence of the pandemic lockdowns suggest that they may drop as people return to shops when they re-open but they will then continue to rise again.

So if you haven't started selling online yet and think you won't bother now that lockdown will be eased, think again. First there is no guarantee that lockdown will be eased if a new wave of Covid spreads and online sales are going to continue to grow anyway.

Making that transition is not as difficult as you might think. With a combination of and I can offer you a seamless switch to e-commerce and set up a payment gateway with the likes of Paypal.

Get in touch and I can answer any questions or doubts you may have.

27/11/2020

GitHub, Inc. is a subsidiary of Microsoft which provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features. It has always worked 100% remote and has now published an e-book about remote wroking based on its own experience. You can download it from Github at or from this link on my website: ebook-remote-playbook

GitHub, Inc. is a subsidiary of Microsoft which provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features. It has always worked 100% remote and has now published an e-book....

10/08/2020

This is what WordPress said about its 2017 flagship theme:- Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus, a logo, and more. Personalize its asymmetrical grid with a custom color scheme and showcase your multimedia content with post formats. [ 171 more words ]

This is what WordPress said about its 2017 flagship theme:- Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus, a logo, and more. Pe...

18/12/2018

WordPress version 5.0 and the Gutenberg block editor

Automattic recently updated WordPress to version 5.0 and at the same time added the Gutenberg (block) editor as the default content editor.

If you are not familiar with the block editor it is possible to continue to use the Classic editor that you are used to.

Just install and activate the Classic Editor plugin from here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

You can learn more about the block editor here: https://gogutenberg.com/

Get in touch if you have any questions or problems.

Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend thi …

18/12/2018

Just spent a week in hospital where every doctor or nurse asked me when my birthday is. I'm going to get a helluva load of prezzies next birthday! rocks!