After a bit of a hiatus here due in no small part to moving from San Diego to Albuquerque (second move in less than a year), I visited my own WordPress blog only to find that it had disappeared!. Not exactly what you’d like to see from your website developer. My booboo gives me the […]
You may be thinking, “Who in the world would want to hack my lowly little WordPress website?” Well 48 hours worth of data from a brand spanking new WordPress website may just show you. I installed a fresh copy of WordPress on a new domain on February 1, 2017. By the evening of February 3,
As a follow-up to our article back in August on Facebook Instant Articles, today we’re sharing our Transformer Rules for the Divi framework. We ended up with the following Custom Facebook Instant Articles Transformer Rules to make Divi acceptable to Facebook Instant Articles markup. You can find the rules already incorporated into the Instant Articles
SSL Certificates are Now Required by Chrome Update: January 9, 2017 Google has finally rolled out changes in Chrome that make the fact that you don’t have an SSL Certificate glaringly obvious to your visitors. Elegant Themes has posted a nice piece about it, but this is what it looks like… You definitely don’t
WP Super Snow We discovered the WP Super Snow plugin a year ago and it worked wonderfully well to add snow effects to our WordPress websites. It hasn’t been updated since then, but it still works just fine with our sites and the latest version of WordPress (4.6.1). It doesn’t even slow things down, despite the warnings.
Short and sweet for Thanksgiving Day, 2016. Google is primed to release a new version of it’s mobile friendly test for web pages. You can try it out here. There’s really no excuse these days for not passing it. In related news, it also seems that pages served up using the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Here at Blue Sky Digital Strategy, we are fanatical about website and server performance. We employ a variety of tools to eek out as much speed as we can from our servers and site configurations. Enter Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) –a Google/Twitter/WordPress-supported open source project that allows any publisher to load pages at lightning speed on mobile devices.
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Update 7/2/2017: I’m not quite sure what happened, but there was an update for the FBIA WordPress plugin today. I went back into Facebook’s Business Manager, and magically, Instant Articles was working again. Still no response from the Facebook support team. Anyway, everything seems to be right in Facebook world again ;). Update 6/24/2017:
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[et_pb_section fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off” admin_label=”Section”][et_pb_fullwidth_image admin_label=”Fullwidth Image” src=”https://blueskydigitalstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Google-Apps-Unlimited-2.png” alt=”Google Apps for Business” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”justified” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Google Apps for Business If you’re anything like me, you’ve fallen in love with the Cloud. I store all kinds of things up there. I especially like
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be teaching a Super 1-Day Workshop – WordPress for the Professional Photographers of America on May 13. While driving to a Professional Photographers Guild of Houston meeting a couple of months ago, I realized that I might be able to help fellow photographers with all the lessons I’ve learned since learning
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