I’m a PhD candidate and have spent much time analysing journal articles. For example, my initial PRISMA-based structured literature review (SLR) involved analysing thousands of articles to determine seminal works, prolific authors, publishing journals, etc. Students and researchers spend a lot of time on bibliometric analysis however, it can be very difficult and time-consuming when […]
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How To Add or Edit PDF Properties With Python
Unless you pay for a PDF writing application then it can seem difficult if you want to edit or add to PDF file properties. Adobe Acrobat Reader for example lets you view document properties (open the document then click File – Properties) but you need to have Acrobat Pro to be able to edit properties. […]
Engage Visitors with an Interactive Marketing Reveal
Interaction by your customer with your content leads to more conversions. A ‘scratch to reveal your discount’ (also called reveal marketing) works really well. Zembula and various other services provide this functionality however I wanted to see for myself how to create this reveal. Reveal Marketing is a tactic for raising engagement by requiring recipients […]
A responsive countdown timer for Mailchimp
Creating a sense of urgency prompts our potential customers to buy. Scarcity of course is another means of persuading people to buy. In email marketing, or on our website, a countdown timer is a great way to impose these psychological effects on our clients. A simple countdown timer for email marketing On websites we can […]
How to use Font Awesome icons as backgrounds in WordPress
I was recently creating a landing page for my Mailchimp classes and wanted to use an icon font as a background image in place of a JPG, PNG or other image. Image files slow down webpage load speed so it makes sense to use a lightweight icon font instead of a background image where possible. […]
Does WordPress work with PHP 7?
A major part of WordPress code is written in PHP. PHP version 7 was released in December 2015. This is such a significant release that PHP version 6 was skipped entirely. For non-technical folks (as well as those that are very technical) the major talking-point is that PHP 7 has been tested to run twice […]
Solve ‘Fatal Error’ WordPress message
A client using Uber Global hosting here in Australia needed some help. Upon copying a website to Uber hosting using BackupBuddy they got a white screen. After renaming the plugins (to deactivate the plugins as the WordPress dashboard was inaccessible) and then trying to activate the plugins again, the ‘Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes […]
Add your own RSS feed to WordPress Dashboard
If you develop WordPress websites for clients you may wish to show posts from your RSS feed in your clients WordPress Dashboard. This is especially useful if you regularly publish articles that will help your clients. Fortunately this is really simple using the WordPress wp_add_dashboard_widget and wp_widget_rss_output functions. How to show your feed in another WordPress […]
How to get Mailchimp Subscriber Popup working in WordPress
I spend an equal amount of my working time on WordPress and Mailchimp related tasks. I’m listed by Mailchimp as an Expert and have worked as a WordPress specialist for quite a few years. It’s rare however that I get to work on a technical challenge involving both at the same time. Today however was […]
Create a Shopify Theme Dev Environment
I’ve recently been working with setting up Shopify online stores. There are a few popular ecommerce services out there that are very powerful, inexpensive and really good but I just love the architecture and coding practices that Shopify use. For themes, Shopify use Liquid (resulting in files having the .liquid file extension) which is a Ruby programming language […]