WordPress makes it simple to embed videos from a wide variety of sites, but while helping a client with their landing page, I noticed something odd – the videos were not collecting viewer stats. Looking into this further, I discovered that WordPress automatically adds a “do not track” parameter to the video URL when it …
Every year, the war on spam escalates, making it harder for legitimate businesses to get email through to their customers too. Gone are the days where you could simply send email from your web server and expect it to land in the inbox. Now, you have to be an expert in email hosting, deliverability and security, as …
I moved my Trust Vega SaaS to a new web host recently, which meant the dedicated server IP address I’d spent the last 6 years nurturing to ensure our excellent email delivery had to change. Until that point, I had never really had to think much about the wisdom of keeping web and email services …
A couple of years ago, I switched our cPanel servers to use the more modern FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM). Although requiring slightly more memory than other PHP FastCGI implementations, the appeal is superior performance, scalability, and security. All was great, apart from one teeny, tiny issue… PHP-FPM would periodically and randomly go 100% CPU and …
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 …