Posts Tagged ‘maintenance’
Note to self: converting a site to Google Analytics 4
This post includes the steps for converting a site from Google Analytics 3 (GA3) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4.) I’m posting it so I’ll be able to find it myself, but it may be helpful for others as well. If I find further information about making the switch I’ll try to update this post. Earlier…
Read MoreSupporting Water1st
Water1st is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring everyone in the world has the same access to piped water that people in the United States have come to expect. They got in touch with us when their website began to buckle under the pressure of a critical fundraising campaign. We helped them move their website to…
Read MoreNew version of the SeattleUnity website
We helped to extensively revise an “interim” website for the Seattle Unity community back in 2020, both to put a solid foundation under their old website and to keep their congregation up to date on progress on their new building on the edge of Denny Park near South Lake Union. Two years later their facility…
Read MoreFix missing Ninja Forms on your WordPress website
So, about the WordPress Ninja Forms plugin and missing forms. If you use NinjaForms and got that forced security update in mid June, 2022, your forms may have disappeared from your Contact page or other places on your site. Chances are the site isn’t really broken. Instead the plugin may have disabled the forms by…
Read MoreOn Facebook outages and why it’s still ok to “own your own content”
Over at PostStatus David Bisset has a thoughtful post about brushing off the recent Facebook/Instagram/WeChat outage with quips about “own your own content.” Time will tell if Facebook being down on Oct 4th will be the single greatest system failure in tech in 2021. There’s been some good writing explaining what went wrong (and the fact that mistakes…
Read MoreIf you get email from GSuite saying remove links (you’re probably ok)
First things first: if you got a confusing email from GSuite that says something like “[Action Required] Remove internal links to the G Suite Domain Contact page for your organization” don’t panic! Bottom line up top: They’re just recommending that you clean up any old links to an out-of-date service that you probably weren’t aware…
Read MoreWebsite consultation
Of course we do office consultation for maintenance clients. When we say you get one hour a month for standard site maintenance we mean it. Sometimes that involves fixing something that wasn’t working quite right on the back end. But sometimes it involves a one-hour strategy consultation on how to blog effectively. No, we won’t…
Read MoreExpert cleaners can fix that. Like when I leave a pen in the laundry. Or when someone breaks your website…
I can’t say how cleaners feel about cleaning ink-stained shirts to be honest, but we love fixing websites. Broken or misbehaving or just plain old websites are like the world’s best puzzle. I’ve been washing and drying my own clothes for a very long time. But I can still make rookie mistakes. Like this weekend when…
Read MoreOnce you get your website secure it’s easy to keep it secure!
It’s a mistake to say “WordPress is insecure.” Yes, it may have once been insecure but then Toyota’s cars once had motorcycle engines! A lot’s changed. David Hayes recently said this very clearly. It is very common for people who know very little about WordPress to say that it’s insecure. And there’s some reasons from history that this diffuse…
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