Author Page for Rebecca Markowitz
Rebecca Markowitz has built over 50 WordPress sites for clients as Web Project Manager and WordPress specialist at illuminea. illuminea is a Jerusalem-based boutique web agency. WPGarage shows my dedicated relationship with WordPress over the years - full of love, laughs, tears, growth and strong drinks. L'chaim!
Hack: How to use Jetpack’s ShareDaddy plugin without connecting to WordPress.com
ShareDaddy was a great social sharing plugin. And then it was integrated into Auttomatic's Jetpack which required connecting our clients' sites to a WordPress.com account which was majorly awkward... since our clients don't have a WordPress.com account (you can read more about our feelings on Jetpack here). So, we went off to ... View PostManaging multiple WordPress sites: A review of ManageWP, WPRemote and InfiniteWP (my fave)
Over at illuminea.com, we manage over many WordPress websites as part of our WordPress hosting and maintenance service. All of these sites need version upgrades, plugin upgrades, and the rare theme upgrade (since we never use the default WP themes like TwentyEleven). Amazingly, there are 3 services
... View Post5 Useful Tips for Gravity Forms
We are huge fans of Gravity Forms (so obviously we're an affiliate), a premium WordPress plugin for creating forms, because nerdily enough, it actually makes creating forms kinda fun. But most importantly, Gravity Forms makes it really easy for
... View PostData Serialization, WordPress, and my new best friend
Recently, Miriam wrote about Data Serialization and what a pain in the tuchus it can be to migrate a site that has serialized links in the database.
So, today, when I migrated one of our client's sites from our staging server to the live/production server, I was frustrated that some of the widgets
... View PostHow to list subpages with a title and excerpt in WordPress
We developed a site that has really rich subpages (child pages) but the parent page is mostly a blank placeholder that directs people to the subpages. Instead of merely leaving a blank parent page, we wanted to give a preview of the content on each of the subpages. I found the code for how
... View PostDisclaimer popups before sending an email or submitting a comment using simple jQuery in WordPress
Several of our clients requested that we add popup disclaimers before someone sends an email to the site admin or before they submit a comment. Here's a screenshot of what we're going to do:
Jetpack WordPress plugin – The new comments and image carousel features almost make me want to use it
WordPress.com has limited flexibility and functionality in many ways. For example, you can't add plugins, and you have to sign up to a paid upgrade in order to use ads. Even so, many of us who use and create self-hosted WordPress sites (with WordPress.org), have some serious FOMO when it comes to some of the built-in
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