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Best WordPress Maintenance & Management Services

January 8, 2022 by wpmods Leave a Comment

Maintaining a WordPress site is annoying for most people – whether you’re a small business owner, the agency that created the site, or an in-house marketer.

If it’s a large company, you’ll have a dedicated in-house team.

If you’re small, you’ll likely want to outsource it.

Some people can get lucky and find a reliable freelancer on a marketplace like Codeable.

But there’s a lot of value in WordPress maintenance service agencies that take care of all of it for you for one flat fee.

Here we’ll highlight a few of the top options.

1. Vaulted Oak – Highest Quality Service

Vaulted Oak is a sister agency of NYC agency Barrel.

For serious businesses making at least $1m+ a year generated via your WordPress site, you shouldn’t cut corners.

There are cheaper services out there but you should go with Vaulted Oak because they’re backed by a true agency that bills for million-dollar website projects.

Most competing maintenance companies outsource to $5/hr WordPress developers that can be good for a frozen yogurt shop but not for larger companies.

Their pricing is pretty reasonable overall, and about the average price of most tier-1 to tier-2 WordPress agencies in the U.S. The quarterly model forces commitment over the monthly model.

They list the following as the most common tasks they can help with:

Troubleshooting website issues
System & app upgrades
Browser compatibility fixes
Content edits and population
New web pages or templates
New website features
3rd party software integrations
On-page SEO
ADA compliance remediation

If you’re a real business, every hour spent on WordPress is a waste of time if it’s not your core competency. Outsource it.

Plus the name just sounds reliable.

2. WP Buffs – Cheap and Reliable

WP Buffs is the heir apparent to the pioneer in this space – WP Curve. I was a WP Curve user and loved them. I’m a current WP Buffs customer and am just as satisfied.

Unlike some other low-cost competitors that only offer backups and security, they truly offer unlimited tasks and ticket support.

Their prices are amazing:

How do they do this? Overseas talent mainly in the Philippines and South America.

Another trick? Bozos like me that haven’t filed a ticket in 6 months. That means they’ve got $600 in free money from me.

But don’t try to hire low-cost freelancers on your own. You’ll spend a lot of time filtering resumes and interviewing to get the same level of talent WP Buffs already has.

Summary – Just those 2!

Unlike other posts that force a cognitive load on you with 20 options, just decide from one of those two. If you want top-notch quality, go with Vaulted Oak. Want cheap and fast? Go with WP Buffs.

Social Media Icons, Logos, and Names

October 18, 2019 by wpmods Leave a Comment

The Biggest Social Icons List: 100+ Free Icon & Button Packs (azmind.com)

Topics: Flat Social Media, Social Media, Free Social Media Icon, social icon, social media icons, vector shapes, Ico, free social icons

The Gradient Social Icons Set includes 48 icons of the main social medias coming as rounded rectangles with strong colors and gradients, and a fresh look.
The icon set contains 35 dark rounded social media icons in 2 versions: colored and gray, coming in PNG format with a size of 48 x 48 pixels.
The PNG files come in two versions: with shadow (128×128 pixels) and without shadow (114×114 pixels).
This set includes 10 icons of popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook, in AI and PNG (256×256 pixels) formats.
24 free social media line icons in fully editable PSD format.
20 popular social media icons in PSD and PNG, in two sizes (114×114 and 57×57 pixels) and two styles.

54 Beautiful [Free!] Social Media Icon Sets For Your Website (buffer.com) – Jan 06 2016

Topics: social icons, social media, Flat Social Media Icons, social media icons, icon sets, file format, PSD Flat Social Icons, custom color

1. Iconmonstr
2. Iconfinder
3. Daniel Oppel’s Free Social Media Icons
4. Social Media Long Shadow Icon Set
5. Simple Flat Social Media Icons
6. Nucleo – Free Social Icons
7. Circle Flat Icons Retina-ready
8. Free Colorful Icons
9. Social Media Icon Stickers
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13. Free Flat Social Media Icon Set
14. Simple Line Icons
15. Free circle icons
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24. Publicons
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28. Flat Social Media Icons by Enfuzed
29. Socialico Social Media Icons Font Pack
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31. Icons by Simeon K
32. PSD Flat Social Icons
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34. Designmodo Flat Social Media Icons
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53. 230+ Free iOS 9 Style Social Media Icons
54. Vector Christmas Social Media Icons

Quick and Easy Way to Implement a Social Media Icon List with Hover effect (medium.com) – Jul 07 2019

Topics: Ionicons, material design, Hover effect, social media icons, Quick and Easy Way, Android, open source, open-source icon

Learn how to create a social media icon list that can be added to a website’s footer or About page

We will be using Ionicons to add the social media icons. Ionicons is an open-source icon set that can be used in web, desktop, iOS, and Android applications. The icons come in iOS and Material Design versions. (medium.com)

How to Add Social Media Icons to Header? (wpastra.com)

Topics: Astra, social icons, Social Icons Widget, Social Profiles, WordPress, custom menu item, Social Media Icons, Menu Widget

Astra allows adding social icons in the header with the help of widgets.

Astra allows adding social icons in the header with the help of widgets. You can use any external plugin to customize the social icon widget and append it to Astra header. (wpastra.com)

In case you need other widgets than above, you can try using external plugins like – Social Icons Widget by WPZOOM Ultimate Social Icons Widget (wpastra.com)

Every Social Media Logo and Icon in One Handy Place (sendible.com)

Topics: Pinterest, Twitter, clear space, minimum size, Youtube, Official logo, social icons, Circle Icon

You’re under enough pressure without having to waste time searching online for the latest brand guidelines and assets for every social media network.
Maintain a clear space around the logo – Every brand guideline asks you to allow a clear space around their logo so that it’s visible.
When you place the logo on a background image, always use the white logo version.

For images with a light background, Twitter recommends applying a 10-20% black tint to the entire image to maintain legibility of the white logo. (sendible.com)

Minimum size – To ensure the logo maintains its visual impact, don’t go any smaller than 16 pixels wide. For social icons, Twitter prefers you use the logo without a container. But if you need one, then use either a square, rounded square or circle. The minimum width for social icons is 32 pixels. (sendible.com)

1000+ Free & Premium Social Media Icons (canva.com)

Topics: social media, Social Media Icons, commercial advertising, creative output, social media platforms, Instagram, school event announcement, marketing collateral

Feast your eyes on these special social media icons, perfect for spicing up your custom designs and making them ready for posting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other popular social media platforms.
These days, social media platforms have become a nearly inescapable part of our daily lives.

Feast your eyes on these special social media icons, perfect for spicing up your custom designs and making them ready for posting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other popular social media platforms. (canva.com)

These days, social media platforms have become a nearly inescapable part of our daily lives. (canva.com)

Query Multiple Taxonomies in WordPress

October 18, 2019 by wpmods Leave a Comment

Looking to query multiple taxonomies in WordPress? We’ve done the research to find the best guides for you.

query multiple taxonomies (wordpress.stackexchange.com)

Topics: property type, user contributions, Stack Exchange Inc, Answer site design / logo, logical relationship, Possible values, similar products, current post ID

I have a function set up to show ‘Similar Products’, i.e. showing products that share the same products-category taxonomy term. This works great but I want to narrow the function even further and m…

Query Multiple Taxonomies in WordPress 8

How To Get Posts with Multiple Taxonomies | Tom McFarlin | Tom McFarlin (tommcfarlin.com) – Feb 03 2014

Topics: custom post type, WordPress, custom taxonomies, custom post, database queries, data objects, custom queries, custom themes

Specifically, if you’re used to the ideas of models and views, or data objects and a presentation layer (or whatever language your framework of choice uses to describe this information), you can think of custom post types as a bit of a hybrid of models and views.
Nonetheless, if you’re used to working with WordPress, custom post types, and custom taxonomies, then you’ve likely faced a time when you’ve needed to query information based on a combination of the two.
Again, there are endless ways in which data can be stored, represented, and stamped using custom post types and taxonomies, and this is but one way to retrieve posts that are stamped with two taxonomies.

I think that one of the more underestimated aspects of building solutions with WordPress comes with leveraging custom post types and custom taxonomies. (tommcfarlin.com)

Nonetheless, if you’re used to working with WordPress, custom post types, and custom taxonomies, then you’ve likely faced a time when you’ve needed to query information based on a combination of the two. (tommcfarlin.com)

But for those of you who are new to custom post types, custom taxonomies, and/or custom queries, there are some key things to understand. (tommcfarlin.com)

Query Multiple Taxonomies in WordPress 9

Retrieving Results Filtered by WP_Tax_Query – GenerateWP (generatewp.com) – Jan 04 2017

Topics: WordPress, advanced filtering, filtered data, query data, WP Query class, filter settings, simple queries, needed data

WordPress stores taxonomy-related data in separate database tables.
wp_term_relationships stores the relationships between terms (category, tag, custom) and an object (mostly posts but can be used for other objects in WordPress – like Users or Comments).
To retrieve data from those tables it translates query data and conditions to SQL.
You can create simple queries or even multiple advanced queries with different kind of relations between them.