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Gen Herres wins Member of the Year in the top WordPress community

Gen Herres — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:26:41 +0000

At the end of December 2022, Gen Herres of Anphira won The Admin Bar’s, Member of the Year award. The Admin Bar (TAB) asked their 6,800 WordPress professionals to nominate and vote for the person they think goes above and beyond to assist their fellow members. Someone who consistently offers

Web Accessibility Law Suit Trends

Gen Herres — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:18:32 +0000

The latest trend in WordPress website accessibility is that websites are being sued in New York City for ADA violations. eCommerce sites are 4 times more likely to be sued than non-eCommerce. However, both are being sued with 100s of lawsuits filed per month. Below is information and an actual

What the Justice Department Web Accessibility Guidance Means

Gen Herres — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:13:39 +0000

The Department of Justice recently released new web accessibility guidance for the Americans with Disabilities Act. The updated guidance was inspired by a large number of requests from the disability community for clarity on website accessibility laws. Unfortunately, this guidance was less clear than many had hoped for. Disclaimer: The

WordPress Errors & Their Resolutions

Gen Herres — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:23:48 +0000

So let’s be honest, one of the main draws of WordPress besides the low price is the freedom to do what you want to with your website. But like most things in life, freedom comes with responsibility. This blog post came out of a WordPress meetup that I was recently

Easily Removing Extra Database Tables in WordPress

Gen Herres — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:39:27 +0000

If you’ve gotten the notification from ManageWP that you have extra database tables in your WordPress install, here’s a quick and easy video on removing those extra database tables. Here’s what the notification would have looked like from ManageWP: Backups completed successfully. We have detected database tables we believe do

Conquering Website Accessibility Risks: Business & Legal

Gen Herres — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:35:32 +0000

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. This isn’t legal advice. If you need legal advice for your website accessibility risk, you should consult a lawyer who specializes in it. Part 1: Your lost revenue risk In business, there are all sorts of risks involved when a customer has a bad experience.

Accessible fonts: How to select the best fonts

Gen Herres — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:43:03 +0000

Website accessibility is becoming and bigger and bigger topic on the internet, and for good reason.

Having your website accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities, is just good business. But, website accessibility can also feel like attempting to slay a 12-headed hydra monster while wielding a penknife.

So, in this article, we are going to tackle one head of the hydra monster, and we're going to give you a simple formula for doing it. Selecting your accessible fonts.

Ultimate List of WooCommerce Questions You Need to Answer Before Building Your Online Store

Gen Herres — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:09:55 +0000

The questions that you need to answer before you start building your online store.

How to Transfer a Domain Between Registrars

Gen Herres — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:55:40 +0000

In a previous article on registering domains I discussed domain registration & recommended domain registrars. Now I’ll cover how to transfer a domain from one registrar to another. How to Transfer a Domain Transferring a domain from one registrar to another is a pretty straightforward process, however you should be

How to use Wistia with Revolution Slider

Gen Herres — Sat, 30 May 2020 02:00:23 +0000

Wistia has grown in a lot of popularity as a video hosting service with a lot of premium options, however, many WordPress plugins still don't work well with it. The good news is, anywhere that you can put an HTML5 video with mp4 extension, you can put a Wistia video. All you have to know is how to generate the URL.

How to fix “site experiencing technical difficulties” error

Gen Herres — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:37:22 +0000

Thanks to the 5.2 updates to WordPress, the good old maintenance screen for WordPress is gone. Now we have "The site is experiencing technical difficulties." screen. So what does it mean? Well, frequently, it means "wait 5 minutes".

The Best Way to Fix WordPress Mail for Good

Gen Herres — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:23:41 +0000

You've set up your WordPress site, there's just one issue. Your website can't send mail. This means your contact forms don't work, new user emails don't work, password reset requests can't be sent. It's not a good situation. The good news is, there's a pretty simple fix.

Best Optimization: Autoptimize vs Hummingbird

Gen Herres — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:54:45 +0000

Over the years I've tried a number of optimization plugins trying to both get fast (2s or less) load times and good Google PageSpeed scores. Here's my breakdown of the Autoptimize plugin vs the Hummingbird plugin.

Summer 2018 Website Changes

Gen Herres — Sun, 13 May 2018 18:45:34 +0000

The summer of 2018 is shaping up to have a lot of changes that impact website owners. In short order they are: European Union’s new GDPR privacy policy which affects everyone worldwide Chrome’s July release which will flag any site not using an SSL as “not secure” Google’s July rollout

How to Easily Setup G Suite in 20 min

Gen Herres — Tue, 01 May 2018 01:00:37 +0000

If you haven't setup 3rd party email before, it can be a bit intimidating setting up G Suite the first time. I'm going to walk you through the info you need to gather in advance and then the setup process.

How to build your privacy policy and stop breaking the law

Gen Herres — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:40:48 +0000

Here’s something most people don’t know: if you don’t have a privacy policy on your website then you’re probably breaking the law and violating the terms of service of your analytics provider (like Google). Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, and none of the following can be considered to be legal

Case Study: White label development for boutique investment house’s investor portal

Gen Herres — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:53:46 +0000

A boutique investment house needed an easy way to get documents to and from their clients. They also needed this investor portal to be both easy for investors to use and easy for portal admins who didn’t have a lot of tech-savvy.

Case Study: What one Agency discovered when they got their sites managed

Gen Herres — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:15:42 +0000

Recently, we onboarded a new Agency into a maintenance plan for their client sites. The agency thought they had things under control and were quite surprised when they discovered the truth.

New GDPR law and what it means for website owners

Gen Herres — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 02:13:54 +0000

The European Union has a new privacy law, the GDPR, which goes into effect in May 2018, and unlike previous laws, these are extra-territorial. That means the new privacy law applies to countries outside of the EU. We’ve put together a breakdown of what it means for you as a

How to Post an Announcement to Your Website in Under 5 Minutes

Gen Herres — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 04:26:09 +0000

Lots of business websites need to post a quick announcement. Maybe you’re closing for a holiday, maybe a major storm is causing problems, or maybe you’ve got a limited time special to announce. Whatever the reason, we get a lot of requests to add a simple announcement to websites. So