Get and/or Add Update CC link on Client Site
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Add Client User Accounts on WPEngine Dashboard
Certain functions for websites can only be done by someone with a user account on the WPEngine Dashboard. (my.wpengine.com). For example, you can purge cache, do redirects at the domain level and set up SFTP user accounts. The most common need for our clients is to access the dashboard to set up an SFTP user account….
Setup Private Pages on Website
There are a couple of ways to do this. If you want each person to have their own login user name and password, then we need to add a membership plugin and turn your site into a membership site. The cost of this depends on the functionality that you need for this. For example, do…
Generating Client Monthly Reports on the Client Site
Monthly Reports typically go out on the 5th of the month. Many parts are automated, and using keyboard shortcuts allows for sending these most quickly, the process is as follows: 9/5/24: Video below explains an update to the process of sending reports from 10/2/20. While the process described is still relevant, the explanations and examples are…
Brief training on Meet Edgar social media scheduling tool
We currently use the Meet Edgar tool for scheduling and automating social media posts for RadiateWP. Here’s a few videos that give a quick overview on how we use the tool: pw: radiatewp
WordPress Security Plugins, 2FA (2-factor authentication), and RadiateWP
Many clients come to our service with security plugins (like Wordfence, WP Security, iThemes security, etc). Sometimes they have 2FA (2-factor authentication) enabled. At RadiateWP, once we move the websites to our hosting provider, WP Engine, we often disable and remove those plugins. Here’s why: Most of the clients are coming from a non-managed hosting…
Active Campaign Lists
We use Active Campaign when there is a need to send bulk email. There are two different “groups” of people on the RadiateWP Client list in AC 1. Client list – people who pay us money 2. Website owners – the people who own the websites. Sometimes a contact is both. Client list – https://rwp.activehosted.com/app/contacts?limit=100&listid=1&status=1&tagid=43Website List – https://rwp.activehosted.com/app/contacts?limit=100&listid=1&status=1&tagid=44…
Download backup of website from WPE
Here are the steps to get a public download URL for a website backup from the WP Engine portal (no WPE login needed).
30 Minute Book Summary for Traction (EOS)
YouTube video has a good 30 minutes book summary of the book Traction by Gino Wickman.
How to disable plugin updates for a specific plugin
If a plugin has customizations that cannot be overwritten and plugin updates need to be disabled to freeze the plugin on the current version: Note: As mentioned above, it is likely best to put the code into the plugin that needs to be disabled itself. This ensures that code for that plugin stays with that plugin…