Posts Tagged: Website Redesign

Category: Articles

As a website designer and developer, I have built themes for various content management systems. The biggest is WordPress. For the past six years, I have been building templates for HubSpot and I have seen some great advantages which alleviate the major pain points of building WordPress sites. Below is my list of five benefits… Read more »

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Category: Code Snippets

When migrating a HubSpot blog to WordPress or another CMS you will often find text strings in your articles that look like this {{cta(‘4cdfhg-a57e-dfh-dfh-5c6dfhgdfhdfgc’,’justifycenter’)}} Most likely you are going to replace those with a new button pointing to a landing page but that takes time to update. Also doing a database find and replace would work… Read more »

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Category: Code Snippets

When performing a WordPress blog migration you sometimes just need to export a certain number of posts vs the entire collection. The easiest way I have found to do this is by performing a custom query using the list of posts by their url slug. // WPQuery args for slugs – create array fro list… Read more »

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Category: Common Questions

One of the most critical decisions for a business is where to host its website, and a CMS or content management system is a crucial component. Some companies with an internal IT team prefer to self-host their CMS using open-source software like WordPress because they require higher-level security or business integrations. However, a growing trend… Read more »

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Category: Code Snippets

Below are two code recipes for your htaccess file to redirect different versions of your domain. Once you have things added you can use this redirect testing tool to verify all the versions of your domain are redirecting properly.

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Category: Common Questions

A website created by a page builder service like Godaddy, Wix, WordPress, or Squarespace are a dime a dozen. But a lead-generating website is a rare jewel. Strategically built websites help you generate new business and communicate your brand story. Below is a list of common questions to ask before redesigning your business website. List… Read more »

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Category: Code Snippets

Below are two PHP scripts you can use to help get a list of URLs of content in your WordPress site. I use these when I am migrating posts or media library files to another sites without using a plugin. Follow the steps below to use these scripts Open a text editor and copy and… Read more »

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Category: Tutorials

I was working on a site migration and I needed to create an excel spreadsheet of all of the urls, page titles, and meta description. This document would then be shared with the copywriters to work on editing the page copy. I found some nice online tools to make this process easy. Step 1: Generate… Read more »

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Category: Code Snippets

I recently worked on a project which needed me to shut down a WordPress blog and migrate it’s content. I had about 20 posts and pages that were going to migrate but everything else was going to be deleted. Since htaccess runs their commands from the top to the bottom, place your known redirects above… Read more »

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Category: Articles

Think about all of the things you look at every day: websites, movies, billboards, menus, youtube videos… Your eyes and brain are constantly absorbing information. All of this visual content is influencing your frame of reference. Some streams of images are more powerful and persistent than others. Take for example your computer, you could easily… Read more »

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