A simple WordPress Plugin to remove empty p tags in wordpress for individual post and pages. I hate those empty p tag in my markup
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Sunday – the day of rest. That does not need to mean you sit in front of the T.V all day, doing nothing. This last week has been a hetic old week for Ambercouch. Mainly due to recently coming back from a road trip in Arizona but largely to do with the continued blame assigned to jet lag for all my short comings this week.
I’m tired – it’s the jet lag. I’m too busy – It’s the jetlag. I’m behind on my work – It’s the jetlag. Well, no it’s not, quit complaining and organise yourself. There are 24hrs in the day, everyone has the same amount of time each day. Getting outside to clear your mind each day or every couple days can and does actually help bring some clarity to your world.
Come to Pontyclun Networking!
Every other Wednesday AmberCouch meet up with other local businesses from the Pontyclun area at Sovereign Connect. We joined this group at the very end of 2014, maybe you have read the other article we wrote when we were undecided what to do. For us the process of networking wasn’t something we were used to. We have never needed to go out and find work, it all comes through our own website or word of mouth. However, we are a husband and wife team and we work at home, we thought it was a good idea if one of us occasionally left to meet some real people face to face. The novelty!
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Here is a gist to force https access of your site through .htaccess. Just add this to your .htaccess file at the route of your site and users will be redirected to https if they do not specify the protocol or try to use http.
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Love them or hate them a responsive carousel slider is still a thing. Of course it needs to be a responsive and touch enabled, but apart from that, which carousel should you use?
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Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff is know for it's seasonal beer festivals. Next up is the popular Maibock beer festival which will take place at Chapter at the end of May, 20th - 24th.
There will be a tasty selection of new brews, established favourites and authentic BBQ food specials to celebrate the transition from winter to spring. Enjoy a pint of well-crafted German beer in the spring sun!
Each beer festival Ambercouch create a new poster design - always different from the one before. Although we do always include something from a previous poster, we started doing this years ago and now including something from a previous poster has become an in office challenge. Sometimes it is obvious, sometimes it is the tiniest detail that I doubt nobody notices.
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This is the first in a series of posts / screencasts documenting how to install, what you need (what I use) to develop web sites. This is a vast topic so I will be keeping things as brief as possible and including further reading links when I can.
After a slow start during the first 24hrs, I was expecting a surge of action. This didn’t happen. Apart from the fact that the reach is gaining numbers by the day, (from 566 to 1203) this doesn’t really mean anything if there is no engagement.
There was a flicker of engagement in the form of someone ‘liking’ the post. There was also a few links to the site from the post and yes, there was a marginal increase in the traffic to our site on that day. These actions though could have been achieved from just re-posting the same post on a chosen day. At the moment, although what we have spent is low, is is hard to tell if there has been any extra benefit from paying for the ads instead of just sending it out organically. The reach has definitely improved but there has been less engagement through the paid advertising than there was when it was posted organically the first time round.
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Hashtags are increasingly popular within social media. Are people getting it right?
Q: Who is not using their #hashtags correctly? How should you be using your hashtags and why?
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Most people who own a company Facebook page would have noticed quite a reduction in organic reach. For many small business that don’t have a monthly marketing budget and rely on the exposure they get through their page, this is not good news.
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