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Using the Right Tools Makes All the Difference 1

Using the Right Tools Makes All the Difference

By Pieter Hartsook / April 4, 2018 / 0 Comments
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The Start of a New Website Project Master Roofing Company  is a family-owned and operated Oakland roofing contractor with nearly 40 years experience of servicing residential and commercial clients in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. They had a Yelp page, but they didn’t have their own website. The Process After a phone call to clarify the scope of the project, budget and timeline we had the client send us a list of the […]

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The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com 2

The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com

By Pieter Hartsook / July 14, 2017 / 0 Comments
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I’ve been working on a new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to:

WordPress-Website-Coach.com

I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site after this post you’re reading.

The new site includes all the posts from The Hartsook Letter site, but is focused on the following three areas:

  1. Building new websites
  2. Re-launching older websites
  3. WordPress developer resources & coaching

I hope the new site will be better organized, more up-to-date, more informative, and more useful. Let me know what you think.

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WordPress Resources at SiteGround 3

WordPress Resources at SiteGround

By Pieter Hartsook / November 29, 2016 / 0 Comments
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WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the management of their WP websites: Expert WordPress Hosting SiteGround provides superior WordPress hosting focused on speed, security and customer service. We take care of WordPress sites security with unique server-level customizations, WP auto-updates, and daily backups. We make them […]

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How to embed a viewable pdf in a WordPress post 4

How to embed a viewable pdf in a WordPress post

By Pieter Hartsook / September 29, 2015 / 2 Comments
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Normally putting the URL of a pdf on a line by itself doesn’t display the pdf on a Word­Press page, and if you use the add media button and paste the URL for the pdf into the URL field, you get a link that will open the pdf, but the pdf does not display on the page itself,

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Trouble moving your site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Plan? - Here are some pointers 5

Trouble moving your site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Plan? – Here are some pointers

By Pieter Hartsook / September 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
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Recently a reader raised a question in a comment to a previous post. He was confused about how to move an existing site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting. Having done this several dozen times now I’ve developed some “best practices” and work-arounds I can share.

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Google filters out websites that are not mobile-friendly from search results - how to check your site 6

Google filters out websites that are not mobile-friendly from search results – how to check your site

By Pieter Hartsook / November 20, 2014 / 1 Comment
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Google has started rolling out filtering for Google searches from mobile devices. If you site doesn’t meet the criteria for mobile-friendly, your site won’t show up in the search results no matter how relevant your page is to the search. As more folks are visiting websites using smartphones and tablets it becomes increasingly important for you to make sure your website will provide a good viewing experience for them. Here are Google’s criteria for your […]

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