by Wayne Hastings | May 12, 2021 | Email Marketing, WordPress
Mailchimp has been driving me crazy. First, a scheduled campaign would send fine for months. Then it stopped even though we hadn’t made any changes. I finally figured out we could force MailChimp to send if we put the campaign on pause, created a new blog post,...
by Wayne Hastings | Aug 20, 2020 | WordPress
If your website runs on WordPress, you might want to hold off on updating to 5.5. Review your theme and plugins to be sure they are current and checked to be 100% compatible. Running old/outdated themes and plugins is the main cause of problems when upgrading to...
by Wayne Hastings | May 4, 2020 | Life, Self Promotion, WordPress
Like the title says, I’m redesigning my website and blog. I got tired of orange so giving pink a try. As I write this, I am still adding my portfolio pieces to the Portfolio section. It will be a while before I get this finished. I have a LOT of work to post....
by Wayne Hastings | Jun 11, 2009 | Content Management, WordPress
Within about 15 minutes this morning, I upgraded three different WordPress websites from 2.7 to 2.8. And the updates would have gone much faster if I hadn’t taken the time to first update all the plugins! I am simply in awe of the WordPress team. The built in...
by Wayne Hastings | May 17, 2009 | Content Management, WordPress
This morning I have been advising an old friend on the merits of self hosting a WordPress blog over the free WordPress.com hosting service. WordPress.com was a great training ground for her, but now she’s diving into the wooly world of setting up mySQL...
by Wayne Hastings | May 3, 2009 | Plugins, Self Promotion, WordPress
A couple weeks have gone by, and I have been tweaking this site a bit, both in the look and feel of the user interface and in the functionality in the plugins installed. I added one new plugin, deactivated one and replaced it with another. Since my last post, I have...
