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August 5, 2014 by Stacy Duval Leave a Comment

How to Send Mail from Apple Mail from Multiple Addresses

If you have multiple email addresses, perhaps one for work and one for home, and you want to set up Apple Mail so you can send emails from more than one address read on.

In the Apple Mail application select “Preferences” from under the “Mail” dropdown menu at the top of the screen.

Then select the “Accounts” icon in the choices across the top of the Preferences pane.

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In the “Email Address” box list your emails one after another separated by commas like this: stacyduval@gmail.com, wpguru@stacyduval.com, hotmama@hotmail.com.

The first one will show up first so type in your most frequently used email first.

Then close the window by clicking the red dot in the upper left hand corner. The application will ask you if you want to save your changes and say “Yes”.

Now you will have this dropdown menu in the header of your emails.

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Now when you send or reply to an email you will have to be careful to choose the correct address.

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June 29, 2014 by Stacy Duval Leave a Comment

How to Change the Favicon on a Genesis Child Theme

Step One:

Create a favicon 16 pixels by 16 pixels in Adobe Photoshop. Choose “Save As” to save the file. Choose the format “ICO (WINDOWS Icon) in the format chooser. Name the file favicon.ico.

Step Two:

FTP the newly created favicon.ico to the image folder in your Genesis child theme. Do a hard refresh of your screen and you should see your new icon.

To set up Photoshop to save file in the .ico format you need to install a plugin. You can find the plug at the Telegraphics Website. Download the correct version for your version of Photoshop and then unzip the file. Place the plugin file into the Plugins folder in your Adobe Photoshop folder.

If you do not have Photoshop you can use other image editors to create your favicon in a .png format. There are online .ico converters, to convert your .png to a .ico.

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June 29, 2014 by Stacy Duval Leave a Comment

How to change the site credits in the footer of a Genesis child theme

This is the code you need to put into your child theme functions.php file to change the default site credits in the footer of a Genesis child theme:

The first two snippets can be used to change the site credits.
The third snippet removes the entire footer and creates a simple footer.
The fourth snippet repositions the footer.
The fifth snippet adds a back to top toggle in the footer.

Filed Under: Web Design Tagged With: footer, footer credits, Genesis, site credits

April 30, 2014 by Stacy Duval Leave a Comment

How to Setup BackWPup Part Two

Now we are going to set up a Combo backup which is both a backup of your site files and the database. This backup you would use if you needed to restore the entire site. Chose “Add new Job” and name the job “Combo.” Choose the check boxes “Database backup”, “File backup” and “Installed plugins list.”

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Change the default generated string of letters and numbers after “backwpup_” to “combo.” See the example below: Also I choose Tar GZip and Backup to Folder.

 

The log file will give you a print out of the backup. This is very useful if their is a problem and that is why I choose only to look at the log file if their is a problem. Although if you need reassurance that your files are being backed up you can uncheck this option and receive the log file at each backup. Save your changes and go to the next tab.

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Choose the backup to start “with WordPress cron.” WordPress cron will facilitate your backup happening at the same time every week.

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I choose the backups to occur every day when I am developing a website and then change it to weekly when the site goes into production. Save changes before going to the next tab.

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I don’t change any of the defaults on this tab.

 

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April 30, 2014 by Stacy Duval Leave a Comment

How to Set Up BackWPup Part One

After you have downloaded and activated the BackWPup plugin you will see a menu item called “BackWPup” in your dashboard menu.

Choose “Add New Job” which is one of the sub-menu items under “BackWPup”.

The first thing we are going to do is schedule a backup of the database. So name the Job “Database”.

Then check “Database Backup” and “Check Database Tables”

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The plugin will create a default archive name in the “Archive Name” field. All you need to change are the generated numbers after “backwpup_” to say database. You can see my example here:

The Archive Format should be Tar GZip.

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The options for where your backups are going to be stored are listed under “Job Destination.” I use backup to folder, which places the backup in a folder on your hosting server. I also choose to backup via email and to DropBox because this means my backup is in three places, just in case.

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The last thing you need to fill out on this first “General” tab is the log file. Put in the email and the preferred text for the From field of your log email. I have the email sent only when errors occur, but it does feel good to see the email sent each time a backup is done. You can choose which would make you feel more secure.

 

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Press “Save changes” before you advance to the next tab which is “Schedule.”

Choose the radio button that says Start Job “with WordPress cron.” WordPress cron is a function that will run your backup at the same time every week.

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Choose whether you would like to backup once a month, once a week or daily. I choose daily when I am developing a site and working on it daily. Once I launch a site, I change the backups to weekly. If you don’t add much content to your site, you could even back up monthly. I choose to backup the site at 3 in the morning, because that is when the server is quiet and it won’t put a load on the server to backup your site. Remember to “Save changes” before moving to the next tab.

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On the database tab check all of your database tables and leave the database name alone. Unless your database is really huge, it’s not necessary to compress the file. Press “Save changes” before going to the next tab.

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Go to the next tab “Database Check.” Make sure both options are checked.

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If everything has been really easy so far for you, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION NOW! This is the hardest part. For some reason, BackWPup will try to put the backup into the wp-content folder and you do not want your backups to go into the wp-content folder. I put my backups in a backwpup folder in the root folder of my domain as you can see by the following picture: I also keep 15 backups. You can choose how far back you would like to keep backups by changing this field.

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After you have saved the Job for the final time you are ready to press the “Run Now” button. You can use your CPanel or FTP account to see if the database backup was created!

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