Posts Tagged ‘thing’
Creating a Sign-up Form with MailChimp List Setup
Creating a sign-up form for the MailChimp email service is pretty easy with the MailChimp List plugin, unfortunately there are also several limitations that you either have to live with or find a way to work around (and I haven’t found a workaround yet.) After installing the MailChimp List Subscribe Form you will have…
Read MorePutting WordPress Login at the Top of Your Site with Registration-Login Bar
Sometimes I just want to make the registration and login process a little easier to access. Well, not just easier to access because you can use the Meta widget to put login and registration links on your web site. The thing is, when you use the Meta widget you are directed to a separate login…
Read MoreWhy you need a General Practitioner “Nerd”
It’s a very familiar situation – you have a web site and you know what you would like done. Or maybe your computer is having a problem. Or might it be that you want to set up a mailing list to all of your customers. It seems like a simple thing that you want but…
Read MoreCustom Contact Forms
Custom Contact Forms The Custom Contact Forms plugin has a lot of settings for you to modify. It is a very parametric driven forms generator with no drag and drop that I could find. It does appear to allow you control over just about every aspect of the forms appearance, and for those of you…
Read MoreForm 7
Form 7 This is an extremely popular forms plugin for WordPress, so I thought I would give it a try. The thing is, my initial impression was so bad that I really didn’t delve into it very deep. I was looking for a plugin that could be used by casual WordPress administrators; unfortunately Form 7…
Read MoreDifferences Between Outlook and Windows Live Mail
Ok, Microsoft has two major mail clients – the kind that you run in Windows rather than access from the web using a browser. I’ve often wondered if the free mail client that comes with Windows Live services, Windows Live Mail (WLM), could replace the onerous Outlook Mail that comes with Microsoft Office. Bottom line: …
Read MoreConfiguring MailChimp Auto-responder for Income Infuser
The Mailchimp auto-responder will work with Income Infuser, but it has to have a specific configuration. For the most part everything works just fine between the two of them if you just pay attention to the naming of the variables and understand the way MailChimp treats variables. First, MailChimp delimits field names with special character…
Read MoreWindows Live Domain Suspended
I use Windows Live to manage the email for my domain, NormSash.com. But one day after making some DNS changes I noticed the warning Service Suspended in my Live Domain Admin screen.  I modified the DNS MX records per the instructions at Windows Live Help, but when I perform a DNS lookup for the MX…
Read MoreProblem: Web Expression files conflict status when publishing.
Thanks so much for posting this solution, Guy Thomas. I’ve often faced the problem where my Expression Web local site was in conflict with my remote site. Using this simple solution method you posted (with one slight addition) seemed to solve my issue. When I bring up my site in Expression Web and look at…
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