AlexVasquez.
Founder and Principal at DigiSavvy. I help businesses get where they’re growing. I do that by building robust website platforms for our clients then quietly run them so they don’t have to. Writing here about the boring discipline that keeps sites fast, stable, and out of your way.
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How to Write an Email Newsletter That Grabs People’s Attention
You got mail. Even more accurate, you got email; lots of it. All it takes is an hour…
Apr 8, 2019My WordPress Development Workflow 2018
Development & business workflows are deeply personal opinions we all have when it comes to creating with WordPress.…
May 17, 2018Social Media for Business Presentation
This past week I was honored to be invited to speak at the City of Asuza’s inaugural Small…
May 12, 2017Demand a Proper Scope Phase
What follows is a lesson for people looking to hire a freelancer or agency to build out your…
May 8, 2017[Tip] Rendering Beaver Builder Layouts on Archive Templates
Page builders. They’re all over the place and if you build sites for clients then you’ve at least…
Aug 29, 2016Life Balance Tips — Kick Ass at Work Without Going Insane (or Why Spending Time Away from Work is the Best Way to Kick Ass at Work)
I’d like to start by acknowledging the irony that I’m writing a blog post about this—I’m going to…
Aug 5, 2016Pressmatic Teardown
I saw the tweet that Pressmatic was announced as a Sponsor of the WordCamp in my backyard. I…
Aug 3, 2016ActiveCollab 5 vs. Asana
How we work; how we set up our workflows and go about our day-to-day business is a very…
Jun 30, 2016The Best Damn Articles on Branding in the Known Universe
What a neat day today is. Adam Fout, from Blue Steele Solutions , has offered to grace our…
Jun 10, 2016Blogs on the Internet You Should Read
The internet is a huge place. More content is generated today than at any other time . It’s…
May 25, 2016Syncing Content For WordPress? There’s a Plugin for That!
There are over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress repository as of this writing… I suppose that will remain…
May 6, 2016Remove Annoying Admin Notifications With This Awesome Plugin
WordPress is a pretty awesome tool. It’s well developed and has a lot of great features out-of-the-box. But…
Apr 27, 2016Self Hosted Invoicing
Today’s post is aimed at my fellow agency owners and freelancers. What are we going to talk about?…
Feb 22, 2016LearnDash Tutorial for Creating Courses and Selling Them with Easy Digital Downloads
More and more people and businesses are monetizing their content and websites by offering online courses. I think…
Jan 9, 2016WordPress Blogs and Podcasts Worth a Damn
What? You thought I was going to do a blog post and troll the blogs and podcasts that…
Jan 15, 2015The Problem With Developing for BigCommerce
Outright saying that something sucks is generally a ballsy call. I’m not the kind of person to outright…
Nov 16, 2014Restoring Your Website on SiteGround Hosting
Step 1. Submit a support ticket! Have it answered in 5 minutes and be done!! There. End of…
Sep 26, 2014Bypassing the WP Engine Login Lockout Period…
Do you host with WP Engine? We do! In fact this site is running smoothly on WP Engine!!…
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