Using Uptime Robot to monitor your website
In today’s article, I want to show you how to put a free alert in place so that you know if your website goes down. The service we are using here is Uptime Robot, there are […] Read more
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Welcome to Campfire, here we talk about what’s happening in the world of WordPress websites and digital strategy in a clear, simple language that will make sense to busy business people such as yourselves.
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- Webinar Replays (15)
- Website Review Revelations (5)
- Website tips (35)
- WordPress tips (13)
An introduction to email Automation with Active Campaign
In this first of this series of articles, I’m going to start exploring what email automation is as well as delving into some examples of how we use it here at Glass Mountains. What is email […] Read more
I am not a “WordPress Guru”
This may seem an odd post but I’d like to get this off my chest…. I am often invited into a conversation or asked to give a talk about WordPress and website strategy etc – giving […] Read more
Learnings from a website review – 4
In this article in our series on website review revelations, we’ll look at other elements from the website homepage which had issues – in this case, we’ll discuss ‘call to actions‘…… Random acts of content There […] Read more
Using 1Password
Learn the basics of why you should use a password management system such as 1Password to store & securely share the password credentials for your business. It still surprises me how many people & businesses have […] Read more
Using Yoast SEO plugin to improve your page descriptions for Google
How to use the WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin to help you write a stronger opening sentence on your blog or website page content, that Google will love. In this screencast, I show how you can use […] Read more
Why hackers target WordPress (and what you can do about it)
In this article, you’ll learn why hackers target WordPress websites and, more importantly, what steps you can take to improve your WordPress security. Firstly, let’s set the scene: the internet is a hostile environment for websites […] Read more
COVID, Lockdown, and my lessons from Apollo 13
I’m an unashamed Apollo space nut and I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of the original Apollo astronauts including Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. Now Jim and Fred were on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission […] Read more
Adding notes to WP-ADMIN
How to add notes to your WordPress pages or posts so only your admin team can see them in WP-ADMIN (i.e. the backend of your website). This can be very helpful! As you see from the […] Read more
Removing WordPress Pages with Yoast SEO
We all want Google to LOVE our websites, but sometimes we need them NOT to index certain pages. Here’s how the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin can help >> I’m assuming here that you have a WordPress […] Read more
WordPress webinar and points
On Friday the 24th of April, we ran our first WordPress Webinar. We covered quite a few topics so in this post I just want to go back over the key points and give you any […] Read more
How to improve your homepage
Is your homepage as effective as it could be? In this article, we outline a process you can follow to perform in-depth review of your homepage and start whipping it into shape. Let us show you […] Read more