It happened to me a few times: I had access to a client’s CPanel, but not its WP-Admin area.
How could I get into WP-Admin?
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The best solution for multi-pagination with infinite scrolling
Google’s John Mueller created an example of a website with multi-pagination with infinite scrolling.
Also, via Google Developers (Google Search Central Blog):
The demo illustrates some key search-engine friendly points:
* Coverage: All individual items are accessible. With traditional infinite scroll, individual items displayed after the initial page load aren’t discoverable to crawlers.
* No overlap: Each item is listed only once in the paginated series (for example, no duplication of items).
Also see: Google Offers SEO Recommendations For Pages With Infinite Scroll.
Find what you love and let it kill you – Charles Bukowski
“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours” ― Charles Bukowski
Days come, you need to clean your house, organize the desks, pay the bills, go shopping.
But you can also choose to spend some time on the things you love.
Enjoy those moments.
You need to take some risks to win
Sometimes, you need to take risks in order to win.
I can clearly recall times when I took some unorthodox solutions. With a few I won, with some I lost, with many it didn’t matter.
But I sure remembered the feedback I got by taking those solutions better than if I had always taken the middle path.
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John Augustus Shedd
Envy and the bigger pie
“În spatele invidiei stă dorul față de părțile neglijate din tine pe care ceilalți au ales să le onoreze în viețile lor.” – Monica-Daniela Găitănaru.
(Approximate translation: behind envy is the deep desire for the parts neglected, within you, that others have chosen to honor in their lives)
Do you know why you shouldn’t envy anyone?
Because if someone does something good, they grow the world.
Instead of fighting on which part of the pie is yours, you should focus on the bigger pie.
And that’s why the pie is better – it grows bigger.
Simple writing
You need life experience, to have something to write about. Once you have it, it’s not that hard to write.
You need real feedback from your clients, to know what they need, to deeply understand them. Once you know this, it’s not hard to write.
You need to go out in order to understand the client.
Finally, you need to live your life, to see and hear the grass growing, so that you can better experience it.
All experiences matter in order to be a better person.
Getting data is hard. Once you have this, writing is easy.
Prejudice when listening
This happened to me at least two different times when talking with people whose job is listening (therapists, coaches): when I told them I have an issue with eating chocolate, it’s fine not to eat any, but once I take a piece it is very hard for me to restrain my urges to eat a lot of it, they tended to see this as an issue to be fixed. An optimal, normal, logical, solution is the middle path – eat some chocolate, but don’t exaggerate with this.
My middle ground solution is different – eat some cocoa milk with or without honey.
But that prejudice, that not eating any sweets, chocolate included, is a wrong solution, is, in my opinion, wrong.
To me, it’s perfectly fine not to eat any chocolate at all.
No sugar, no sweets, no sweetness, no sweetener.
The only upside of eating sweets is a state of instant happiness, while the upsides of not eating sweets are much more (eating healthy, losing weight, not eating things just for pleasure).
Ideal computer setup
If you look at pictures of desktops of top marketers (27 Pictures of Desks – Top Marketers Share Tips for Cameras, Mics, Lights and Hamsters | Orbit Media Studios), what you might notice is:
- A lot of people use laptops, as opposed to PCs / Macs. I don’t think that’s a good idea, and the first reason for this is that you need a monitor for a proper image and an external keyboard + mouse for proper input.
- Another reason? If you don’t use an external monitor or keyboard, your ergonomics at the office are likely poor.
- Laptops are more expensive than their desktop counterparts.
- Most laptops are also very limited in raw power when compared to desktops.
- More prone to breaking, harder to repair.
- Harder to upgrade.
- There’s a big advantage – mobility of laptops -, but most people in that list spend a lot of time at the PC. If I were them, I’d use a not-so-performant laptop for travelling, and a performant PC for home.
What’s the purpose of your business?
Upgrade your user, not your product. Don’t build better cameras — build better photographers. — Kathy Sierra
Generally, myself included, we tend to forget that whenever we sell products and services we should aim for an experience, a feeling, an emotion.
Don’t focus on the brain, the mind, the intelligence.
Look for the emotion, the feeling, how can you build a relation, how you can make people feel something.
A positive experience, if possible. :)
An online store should, thus, focus not only on the technical and logical characteristics of a product – product specifications, value, price.
There’s an emotional part, also, design, beauty, trust, community, security, engagement, recurrence, empathy.
People need emotions.
(about people) “We are not things!” (Mad Max, 2015).
Also,
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Via Valentin Radu, Omniconvert, at GPeC.