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  1. Steve

    Which website would you work on?

    In your position, i would work on the uk domain (we are still a pretty big market over here, and you have a massive SEO headstart). Then if you get to the point that you feel the domain is holding you back, just 301 it over to the .com - you might want to spend tomorrow morning making a basic...
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    How Many People Work With A Business Partner?

    I think it probably depends on your own skills and personality. For me, having someone to bounce ideas off, split the workload, and crucially keep each other motivated is priceless. I whole heartedly believe that momentum is the most important aspect of a successful project - I preach this...
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    Landing Page Testing & Hierarchy of Tests

    Do you have a stable source of traffic (good ads campaign) and stable conversion rates? If not fine detail 'testing' is practically impossible. I personally wont do fine grained landing page split testing until i have at least 20 conversion events a day, ideally a whole lot more, and there isnt...
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    Google Docs to Elementor JSON template

    Just like any programming question, an example of the input (Google Doc) and output (page layout) would really help. Personally, I would probably go for a mix of ACF, dynamic content fields in elementor, and bespoke elementor widgets, or ACF and coded bespoke post template. Then the input is...
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    Full-Stack SEO

    As a client SEO, it can certainly give you an edge, for example by being able to call out bullshit from other Devs (especially prevalent with smaller businesses that outsource Dev work), but for most larger clients the code is version controlled, and deployed through a pipeline you will never...
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    Dev Stack Recommendation for Static Site With Occasional DB Requirements

    If we have sites under that scenario, we build out an API on a subdomain (in whatever language suits) and call in from wordpress via Ajax or curl. Works really well with elementor custom widgets for quizzes, booking systems etc
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    Dev Stack Recommendation for Static Site With Occasional DB Requirements

    Wordpress with a full page cache (eg WP Fastest cache) IS a static site - static html is served direct from the webserver. It also has a comprehensive ecommerce package available out of the box (woo) and is easy to extend with custom widgets etc. Its not cool, and the code style is old, because...
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    Onsite Analysis Of Links In Body

    You can get some reasonable results by tagging (and excluding) links that: appear in semantic html elements (header, footer etc) appear in elements with certain common classes (.header, .menu etc) appear on more that a certain % of pages I have a bunch of custom code for this type of thing...
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    Coronavirus Hysteria

    It's scary really. How can people believe that numerous independent countries, across the political spectrum, would choose to cause huge economic harm to themselves for no reason?
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    Which wp based landing page template do you recommend?

    It's a far far worse option. As are most themes built around it. Go with a minimal theme (generatepress, astra), and elementor.
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    Introductions Thread

    If you want to build a portfolio for high end web design, building sites for fiverr clients is going to be extremely frustrating - it doesn't matter if you put in 10 times more work than you bill for, if they are buying on fiverr they will have cheaped out on everything else as well. Their shit...
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    Bulk remove featured images in in WordPress

    Sorry, i forgot that `get_posts` sets a limit to the number of returned posts, unless overridden: $query = [ 'tag__not_in' => [123], //array of tag ids to exclude 'numberposts' => -1 //all matching posts ]...
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    How do you automate schema insertion?

    What type of schema, and what format - JSON-LD? Writing custom Elementor widgets is pretty straight forward, and is the way i would do it. But its probably possible with a combination of the html widget and acf shortcodes if you wanted to go that route.
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    Bulk remove featured images in in WordPress

    If there are too many posts, it will just be very slow / throw oom error. If it's not doing anything, then something else is wrong. Are you certain you used the correct tag ids? I'm presuming you are not running this locally with access to xdebug? Anything in your error logs?
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    Bulk remove featured images in in WordPress

    Provided you aren't talking about a huge number of posts, then you should be fine with adding a snippet of code to your `functions.php` file, reloading the site, and then removing it: //takes an array of tag id's...
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    How Should I Choose a Domain & Brand Name for my Website?

    wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogging_(sexual_slang) But otherwise good advice!
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    Troubleshooting my TTFB

    Cloudflare is usually pretty quick, those blog posts you are reading are likely old. Just checked one of our sites, WordPress on shared hosting, behind cloudflare. Pagespeed insights says TTFB under 80ms. I checked a similar site that's not behind cloudflare, and got 50ms TTFB, so there IS a...
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    Conversion to a faster theme? Newbie suggestions needed.

    30k visits a month is not high load. Presuming that most visits are concentrated in an 8 hour window each day, that's still only 2 visits a minute. Any decent shared hosting can handle that just fine. All our stuff is in the UK/EU, so I don't have any recent first hand experience with US...
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    Where do you see the future?

    Do you think there is enough demand for foldables? I kind of had it pegged in the same league as 3d TV - interesting but ultimately a bit shit.
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    Service to set up and publish Elementor posts

    Yes elementor does, no idea about the others. You basically have two types of templates in elementor - design time templates, essentially saved designs you can load into a page manually and edit, and run time templates, where you design a template that gets applied to multiple items, getting...
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