As we’ve grown, I’ve started seeing some occasional strange errors when trying to SSH or push to GIT repositories on certain user accounts on our cPanel server. Then today, when switching an account to PHP8, the error locked up SSH entirely, and would only go away when I rolled back to PHP7.4 Turns out, the …
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post showing how to track aMember sales in Google Universal Analytics “Enhanced Ecommerce” using Google Tag Manager. Well, Google Analytics Version 4 (known as GA4) is now out of beta, and I’ve started migrating my aMember sites tracking to use GA4. This article shows a clean install …
Every modern browser has a “Do Not Track” setting (DNT), which tells websites whether the user wants to be tracked or not. It’s been around since about 2011, but it’s been largely ignored until recently, because the definition of “tracking” has been hotly debated. The advent of GDPR has rekindled the idea of DNT, because …
If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to handle your Google Analytics, then you will need a way to populate the dataLayer with eCommerce data when you make a sale in your aMember site. Here’s how I do it on my sites, using aMember’s own Conversion Track plugin. Step 1: Add the dataLayer in …
Note: ClickBank have now updated their code samples in line with this article. ClickBank’s Instant Notification Service is a webhook that lets you get transaction notifications in real time. For example, you can use them to inform your membership software when members join/pay/cancel. ClickBank provides the following sample code for PHP: The problem is that …
Genesis now has center align, so this post is now archived One of the things that bugs me about the featured image setting in the Genesis framework is that you can only choose left or right align… you can’t center align! Of course, if I always used images that were all exactly the right size …
I’m really excited to announce that our latest project – the AWtomator marketing automator for AWeber – is now taking on beta users. AWtomator gives AWeber users the kind of behavioural dynamic campaign tools that you’d normally only find in premium systems like InfusionSoft. The key elements are Link and Automation Events, which let you …
We are pleased to announce that there are three new aMember plugins now available Spambot Blocker Are you plagued by spam signups on your aMember site? Does your heart sink when the customer you thought you acquired turns out to be junk? Are you sick of deleting countless spam accounts every day? Then you might want …
After upgrading to Apple OSX Mountain Lion, I found that I was unable to connect to the upgraded mac via Screen Sharing any more. After searching in vain for solutions, in desperation I decided to play with the screen sharing settings in case there was a new option or something. In the end I was …
The H264 Streaming Module is a webserver plugin that enables HTTP pseudo-streaming – the technology that allows you to jump to any part of a video regardless of whether it has been downloaded yet. This post is mostly an aide-memoire for us, but putting it ‘out there’ in case it’s useful to others too. HTTP …