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Gutenberg Snag: White Text on White Background – How to Fix

Posted by on December 12th, 2018

Gutenberg has been out for… Like all of a week now. While it’s sometimes breaking things and sometimes working A-okay, there are some weird bugs that are popping up here and there while we wait for theme authors and plugin authors to roll out adjustments to their items to make Gutenberg work as seamlessly as possible. One issue I ran into was a curious one – white on white text in the backend.

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Site Launch: ANEWU Medical Spa

Posted by on December 3rd, 2018

hasOptimization is proud to announce the launch of a new site for Merrimack, NH medical spa ANEWU Medical Spa. ANEWU Medical Spa originally came to hasOptimization looking to improve their ad performance on Facebook and around the web. While we were glad to help, as we were assisting to prepare new advertising methods, we noticed that there was one big problem: ANEWU’s current site was lacking in a lot of elements that are critically necessary for success when it comes to advertising, especially on mobile platforms like Facebook. First and foremost, the site was not fully responsive, making it hard…

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How to Show WordPress Featured Images in MailChimp RSS – Without a Plugin

Posted by on November 23rd, 2018

We’ve already gone through how to get featured images/blog post images to show in MailChimp with the Featured Image in RSS plugin, but perhaps you don’t want to use a plugin. Maybe you’re looking for a way to edit your RSS feed without putting yet another plugin into your WordPress install. Never fear! We can help guide you through this plugin-less route. It’s actually quite simple, and there’s a few different ways to do it. Let’s take a look!

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Site Launch: Prescott Farm Environment Education Center

Posted by on November 17th, 2018

hasOptimization is proud to announce the launch of a new site for Prescott Farm Environment Education Center in Laconia, NH.

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Gutenberg is coming: What you need to know

Posted by on November 7th, 2018

If you have heard anything about WordPress, you might’ve heard the word “gutenberg” thrown around quite a bit lately. Here we talk about Gutenberg, what it is, and how it will affect your website.

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Site Launch: Repair Wireless

Posted by on October 19th, 2018

hasOptimization is proud to announce the launch of a new site redesign for Repair Wireless, an all-things-tech repair shop in Brockton, MA.

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How to Embed Pinterest Pins on WordPress without them Disappearing

Posted by on October 15th, 2018

I love using Pinterest to embed content into WordPress. It’s great! It’s an endless source of content, and for the most part all of the credit you need to offer back to the original creator of the pin is already contained within the pin. You aren’t hosting images on your own space as well, so it’s an all around win. Embedding pins from Pinterest is as easy as pasting in a little bit of embed code. Easy enough, right? However, the problem with WordPress is often that content (including code) pasted in will disappear as soon as the visual editor is…

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RIP Google+

Posted by on October 10th, 2018

Recently Google announced they were finally going to kill off Google+ (G+, Google Plus).

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Google’s New Agency Accounts are Kind of a Mess

Posted by on October 3rd, 2018

Listen, we’re Google users at hasOptimization. We talk great things about Google. But let’s face it… Google doesn’t always do everything well. Whether it’s having a myriad of unnecessary messaging apps for no good reason, or half-way phasing out an interfaced platform but not entirely that businesses and users alike use… Google has a history throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. So we come to Google’s new Agency accounts for Google My Business.

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Please Welcome PPC Advertising Manager Julia!

Posted by on September 11th, 2018

Remember I said the other day that we were doubling our staff, and then I had the gall to introduce just one person? Yeah, that math didn’t add up. But now it will! Please welcome our new PPC Advertising Manager, Julia Clark! Julia has a high-flying PPC resume, including work for some major brands and media outlets, and also holds a job with an NYC based marketing firm. She’ll be joining us part time to improve and expand our PPC advertising program, which currently is handled by yours truly. The long story short (or the TL;DR version, as we say…

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