How to Add an Email Link on a WordPress Page or Post

WordPress currently does not come with a wysiwyg way to add an email link within your text.  If you highlight some text and choose Edit/Insert Link, you get the option to link to an https:// page or to select a page or post or product on your own website, but not a choice for email.

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How do I integrate my website, email marketing, and social media?

So you’ve decided to jump in and really get going on marketing your company online!  The first questions you may have are: What does online marketing mean? How do I do this most effectively? How can I push out (email out) my message while helping my own website stats? Getting Started with Online Marketing Online…

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Setting up your website for good SEO

SEO: Search Engine Optimization.  This means optimizing your website so that search engines know what your company is all about and will return your page when people search your key words on the Internet! There are things you can do to your website to optimize your site.  Setting up your website for great SEO is…

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Images now "free" from Getty Images?

Getty Images has announced a new way of using their photos. (article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26463886) They have taken the “youtube” approach and are now letting web developers embed certain images for sale on their website on websites around the world. What does this mean for you?

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Gravity Forms Email Notifications Not Received

Today I had my second client who was not receiving their notifications from our Gravity Form on their website. This was a simple form with only a few fields on their contact page. We would fill out the form, submit the form, I could see the form in the back end of the website, but the client would never receive the email!

Here is the solution…

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WordPress Insert into Post is not Working! – How to Fix!

Problem:

You are working away on your Wordpress site. You go to your theme options or some other options where you can add a logo or special image, like a post category image, or a portfolio category image, or a theme option such as a logo.

You click the button to upload image or browse your Media Library. You find your image. You click Insert into Post and nothing happens! The place where the path to the image should appear stays blank! Here might be the solution……

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Hosting Plans – Do They Matter in Terms of Speed?

One of my clients, Web Corner Stores,  has many ecommerce websites using WordPress and Woocommerce selling rug pads like all Wool Rug Pads.  We noticed that when we launched the original websites, they sites were slow.  Moving from page to page was slow and loading the home page sometimes took 10 or 15 seconds!  This…

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What is a Gravatar, Why you need one, and How to create one

Have you noticed that on some websites when you make a comment or when you sign up for a membership, you have a spot for a profile photo?  If you have signed up using Facebook connect, which means there was an option to create your id using your Facebook account, you will automatically have the…

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