WooCommerce Plugins to Consider when you sell Restricted Items

This list is for a client who sells physical goods from their WooCommerce website. Some items have restrictions that prevent them from being shipped to specific countries and across specific state lines. Sequential Order Numbers Pro – $49/year (August 2024) A potential annoyance with WooCommerce websites is how fast the order numbers can grow. I…

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RankMath SEO Course Review

RankMath SEO Course Review - Building a strong foundation

RankMath SEO recently announced their new SEO Course! As a website manager with mostly self-taught SEO skills and very little formal training, it sounded like a good way to fill in some of the gaps. RankMath SEO Course Overview Chapter 1 starts slowly with some “very basic building blocks to a strong SEO foundation.” Things…

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Can AI help me stick to a blog posting schedule?

Can AI help me stick to my blog posting schedule?

I love being a website manager! But being involved in 30 websites with a waiting list of about 15 more, it is easy to fall behind on my own personal projects. Will AI help me stick to a blog posting schedule? Why can’t I stick to a regular posting schedule? First, I need to take…

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Stepping into AI: RankMath Content AI Review

RankMath Content AI Review

I am so excited to share this review of RankMath’s Content AI! I had the pleasure of using RankMath’s new Content AI beta last weekend. I have to say, so far I am impressed and excited to see how this will improve my publishing game! I can see Content AI saving time as I try…

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Stepping into AI: Pros and Cons of Using AI to Write Your Website Articles

A robot contemplates "the pros and cons of using AI to write your articles"

Guess what? This post was generated with the help of RankMath’s new Content AI and edited by Michelle at EastTexasDesign.com . RankMath is my favorite WordPress SEO Plugin! AI-powered technologies have revolutionized various industries, including content creation. Many businesses use AI to generate website articles to save time and resources. It is important to consider…

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Set up WordPress to use Yahoo! Mail with Post SMTP Plugin

As security tightens to fight the scammers and the spammers, it gets harder for our websites to do the things that we have come to expect. For example, today I realized that one of my more neglected websites was unable to pass along contact form submissions. Oops! 1. Install the Post SMTP Plugin The free…

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2021 Domain Names For Sale!

Time to clean out my domain name closet! Below is a list of domain names that I simply do not have time to build/maintain websites for. I continue to renew them thinking that maybe some day I will have time. Contact me or leave a comment below if you want any of these names. Comments…

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Force SSL Checkout in WooCommerce

When I set up my most recent WooCommerce website, I got the message: “Square is enabled, but the force SSL option is disabled; your checkout is not secured! Please enable SSL and ensure your server has a valid SSL certificate.” My client has a properly installed valid SSL certificate. I checked their “Really Simple SSL”…

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Adding domains to your Standard UCC SSL Certificate

These directions work on HarmoniousHosting.com , a GoDaddy reseller. Scenario: A client has 3 Managed WordPress websites with SSL Certificates. Two sites have individual certs. One has the UCC SSL Certificates, which will cover up to 5 sites! Certificates, domain names, and hosting are all under the same Harmonious Hosting account. The nice thing about…

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