‘Beautiful Honey Comb’ photo courtesy of Flickr user Robert Schmidt

After nearly 15 years working with WordPress, and more than 13 years supporting other people’s websites, I end up doing a lot of really cool stuff.

So I just thought I’d mention what my workday was like today.  So today I…

• Attended my weekly business networking meeting
• Moved two sites to new hosting after major cleanups
• One of the sites I cleaned up was a local business site that was built with a Russian version of WordPress.  So I first converted that back to English.
• Added Google Tag snippets to another site for a marketing client
• Cleaned up several client’s contact form notifications because their SMTP2Go mail relay servers now require authenticated senders.  (I’ll do the rest tomorrow.)
• Helped another user log into a site after their employer reassigned them back to it
• Posted a newsletter for another client
• (Finally) deleted a site I’d been temporarily hosting after their original webmaster died unexpectedly, after never giving the client either hosting or domain-registration acccess.
• (Late last year I helped the client recover their domain name and setup temporary hosting after reassembling the site from an… interesting backup)
• Revised the “join” page for a chamber of commerce website so there were “join” links for each membership level.
• Logged into the chamber’s GrowthZone/ChamberMaster site and tracked down the correct URL for the “join” forms.
• I added accessibility “title=” tags to each of the new links on the chamber site.
• Answered a Reddit user (not a client) who asked about how to moderate aggravating comments on blog posts.
• Consulted with another old client who needed to update their new(ish) logo on their 3rd-party appointment calendar.
• Consulted with another client who asked for help with a QR code to a now-dead domain that (I think) is/was controlled by the client’s parent company
• Agreed to help yet another client refocuse the homepage and two interior pages on their main website rather than build them a new “mini” site.  (I don’t do SEO but I know enough to know their main site has way more authority and cross links than any new site they might build with AI.)
• Logged into Google Search Console after a client’s marketer added me so I could find out why Google claimed it couldn’t index the site.  Answer? There wasn’t a sitemap and Google had last indexed the site back when the landing page only said “under construction.”  I generated and submitted a new sitemap and now Google should quickly figure out the site is actually live.
• Gave another client advice about how to track down their domain registration so we can point their domain name at a new server they’d like to move to.
• Emailed two clients about transferring their websites from their temporary locations on my development servers. (I don’t host client sites; see the note about the other webmaster who died unexpectedly!)

Yes, this was a busier day than usual.  And yes, there’s more I could have / should have / wish I could have done.  That’s what tomorrows are for, I guess.

But it wasn’t that much busier than usual.

What do you need done for your website?  Tomorrow, I mean.  Or later in the week.