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Busy day. Quite a long list. As I say at the end

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Yes, this was a busier day than usual. And yes, there’s more I could have / should have / wish I could have done. That’s what tomorrows are for, I guess.

But it wasn’t that much busier than usual.

What do you need done for your website? Tomorrow, I mean. Or later in the week.
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Busy day in the life of a Wordpress website support specialist - Realbasics.com After nearly 15 years working with WordPress, and more than 13 years supporting other people’s websites, I end up doing a lot of really cool stuff. So I just thought I’d mention what my workday was like today. So today I… Attended my weekly business networking meeting Moved two sites to new ho...

From the post: "Real Wordpress is free, open-source, created and distributed by a not-for-profit foundation, and distributed to individual tens of millions of personal web servers around the world. Meanwhile, the for-profit, deceptively named Wordpress.com is a social-media-style company like Twitter or Facebook, with terms of service that let the owners freely collect and sell your information."

Click through to read the rest.

Why the difference between real Wordpress vs for-profit "Wordpress.com" matters - Realbasics.com Short answer? Real Wordpress is free, open-source, created and distributed by a not for profit foundation, and distributed to individual tens of millions of personal web servers around the world.Meanwhile, the for-profit, deceptively named Wordpress.com is a social-media-style company like Twitter o...

But when I do I… 😂😂😂

Why aren’t website’s contact form messages showing up in my inbox? It’s a common problem. It’s a common question. Here’s an answer.

Answering the question "Why is email through Wordpress so complicated?" - Realbasics.com Why aren't website contact form messages showing up in my inbox? It's a common problem. It's a common question. Here's an answer.

Cool set of questions that Google looks for when ranking website content.

From the horse's mouth - what content does Google look for? - Realbasics.com You’ll often hear people say the best way to boost your ranking with Google is to have great, useful, relevant content. Which to be honest ought to be pretty obvious… but isn’t, given the zillions of ways people come up with to try and game the SEO system. So… what exactly does Google mean w...

Bogus DMCA Infringement Notices May Be The Product Of “Black Hat” PR Agencies.

First Of All, What They’re Doing
It looks like the actors behind this behavior do this one neat trick
- Identifies a “controversial” or negative post about one of their clients
- Copies the contents and posts it on their own website…
- …using the names of attorneys (at least one) as the authors
- Manipulates the publication date to one day before the original’s published date
- Submits an infringement notification with the alleged lawyer’s name and a phony gmail address.
- …
- Make money
They’ve got a lot of !% # gall, right?

Bogus DMCA infringement notices may be the product of "black hat" PR agencies. - Realbasics.com Have you received an email claiming you’ve infringed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) recently? For people with screen readers here’s the relevant text from the screenshot Cloudflare received a DMCA copyright infringement complaint regarding: realbasics.com The information we received ...