Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.
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Looking For A Good Content Organizer For WordPress (Solved!)
I recently imported a decades worth of tweets on my site, and the hashtags were automatically added as regular tags. Now I want to go through and wrangle them. I know I can do a lot of this in core WordPress, but I’m hoping I can find some utilities that will make this easier.
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A Litany of Potential Improvements.
After importing over a decade of tweets into my site, I had several improvements to offer to the import utility I used. I compiled my changes to the code, and submitted it as a pull request, detailing what I needed, and why.
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Devin, waiting for me in the living room. DAD! DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?! I don’t, Devin. What time is it? IT’S MINECRAFT TIME! COME PLAY WITH ME! ❤️
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WHEW what a process! I managed to get all of my tweets that I exported and deleted from Twitter two years ago, all imported into this site, including all of the photos and videos. I think I can finally say that I have centralized all of my content through alexstandiford.com now. Huge thanks to Shawn…
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I made several small improvements to my site today. Chief of which is finally getting the mysterious clock in the top-right corner functional on mobile. Also, dancing mermaids. 🧜♀️ I still have a vision of putting a music player on it, and discovered I can totally do this with Last FM. That’s coming. We must…
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There’s something about Dark Cabaret that I’ve really been enjoying lately. It uses interesting instrumentation, is always at least mildly theatrical, and in the case of American Murder Song, the 1816 Americana theme is really doin’ it for me. https://www.last.fm/user/alexstandiford/obsessions/7009208
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Upgraded my headphones this weekend. I got a set of Sennheiser HD650s. The DAC is coming tomorrow, and I can hardly wait to try it out!
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Let’s talk about how Siren will allow you to incentivize people who aren’t affiliates. One example – you could pay content writers a bonus based on how much traffic they drive to your site. This video explores that concept a little bit.
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Small Adjustments
I think this time budgeting approach is finally going to be what helps me actually start exercising consistently. I’ve been budgeting my time with timers over the last several weeks. One thing about this setup is that you create “buckets” of time, but don’t really dictate exactly when those buckets get emptied. This is a…
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I think it sucks that affiliate programs almost always only pay out a commission to the last person who referred that person. I think this is a limitation of most modern affiliate management plugins, and it stifles any collaborative opportunities between your affiliates. What if you could share the engagement among everyone who ever referred…