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I purchased ArpReach many years ago (one-time fee, lifetime license) and moved all my lists from Aweber to it (that was when Aweber decided to raise their fees tenfold overnight). This was the best thing I've done.
I haven't paid for any list management service for years, so I guess you can count this as "free". However, it requires some knowledge of php, databases, and general troubleshooting, as things break often and you have limited support (or none at all depending on the issue). You also need to be running your own server (at least VPS) because all emails will be going through your server (you would get yourself banned on a shared server).
You can use any plugin to collect visitors email addresses from your WP sites. On my Genesis sites, I only use ENews Extended (no reason to use anything else). If you're a complete newbie and you're afraid you won't be able to install or troubleshoot a php script running on your own server, then I guess something like Aweber or Constant Contact would be enough. Now, you can't really find anything free like you're expecting. Free services - if there are any - are probably abused by spammers and your emails would never reach your subscribers. Also, if you decide to go this route, read all the fine print. Services like MailChimp are very picky and HATE affiliate marketers and even people who sell digital goods.
Wordfence is good, but it wouldn't stop sending me emails every time a plugin needed to be updated. This with 100+ sites was very irritating. So I started using Cerber on all my sites and it turned out to be really good. A great security feature is to change the /wp-admin or wp-login page. You can change it to whatever keyword you want. This strengthens your site a lot, since many hackers try to brute force login into your site's admin area.
The same thing was happening with one of my Genesis sites too. The problem turned out to be my Genesis child theme, not a plugin... I had to rename the template on FTP to regain access to my wp-login page, and then figure out what in the theme was causing the problem. It was an issue with the functions.php.
I had tried this code before. It adds the stuff to the primary navigation bar, but I need to add the widget to the secondary (top on news-pro). I tried to replace the words in the code (primary for secondary), but the result is the same. All the other solutions I have found here and other places have codes to edit the primary navigation bar only.
So how exactly did you use this plugin (Facebook DeBugger) to get this fixed? I installed the plugin but can't figure out where is its managing area or what it does. Did not fix my problem.
I have always used Studio Press themes on pages I share on Facebook, then now just on this one site on the same server as the dozens of others (that work just fine) it won't pick up the featured image to show on FB. I changed the theme to other Genesis themes I use on other sites, but the problem persists...
I haven't provided an URL because my point is that I have the exact same problem on EVERY theme I try, it's not a specific issue on something I'm working on right now. However, my client doesn't allow me to share any of the URL of his sites on public forums anyway. I've tried Magazine, Lifestyle, News Pro over the years working on multiple sites.
I didn't answer to complain, I answered because I wanted someone to tell me how to fix the overflowing issue, but I was also very frustrated after reading dozens of answers here for the same question and nobody giving a solution.
The overflowing happens in relation to the slider border. The way I fixed it now is just to set the border to 0px so you can't see the overflowing, because you also can't see the border.
I can't believe you guys have never seen it!
Since it has happened on every template I tried to use for the past 2 years, I assume the plugin itself has bad CSS and from the dozens of questions here about the same issue, I assume this is not something that is happening just to me, right now, on this specific website.
My point is, if this is happening to everybody trying to use the plugin, this means the plugin needs some fixing, but nothing has been done for years... I'm just saying.
Hey guys,
I've been trying to solve this same issue with every theme I try to add a Genesis Slider, for years! I end up giving up on using Genesis Slider and choose a different plugin or get rid of the slider altogether.
But now I really want to use the GENESIS slider (not another slider) on a specific site and I'm running into the same old problem. I just end up frustrated and looking up here, it seems a lot of people have the same problem.
Genesis slider doesn't work out of the box for most of the new (HTML5) themes. I've read dozens of threads today trying to find the solution for the overflowing of the slider images to the right, but noone answers! What I've seen here is conversations going "private", people solving the problem, but not sharing how they did it and like here, people just not answering for weeks, then posting "oh, I guess you've figured it out"!
That's lame!
Why don't you you guys just fix the damn plugin?
What's the purpose of making a plugin available that just won't work for most of you own themes without tampering with it?
I always try to avoid starting new threads or answering others with questions, because I value everybody's time, so I usually spend hours reading other posts trying to find the solutions I'm looking for, but this is just driving me crazy, because all the threads I've read, there's just bullshit responses.
If anybody knows how to fix the image overflow PLEASE, can you post it here?
I'm still struggling with this... Both translation plugins won't do anything at all. I also edited the .mo file inside the child theme's folder, nothing changes and the comment fields are not available to be translated. Also "filed under" and "tagged with" are available in the .mo file, translated, but still show in English. The only fields I managed to actually permanentely change (and will survive WordPress updates) are changes I added to the function file, but I can't find the correct codes for everything I need to change. This is very frustrating!
Since I installed a plugin called Anti-spam By webvitaly, Akismet is useless for me and I deactivated it.
With Akismet I used to spend at least an hour a day moderating suspicious comments or just deleting spam caught by Akismet on my 50+ sites.
This plugin stops ALL atomated spam using javascript. Now only once in a while I need to moderate manually added spam.
I got this code to work for translating a few things, but the word "reply" at the bottom of the comment won't change. I see there's something about that on the code, but couldn't figure out what to edit to change the "reply" text. This text won't change with .po translations or editing directly the comment-template.php, so I thought of using this code as it worked for the other areas of the comment form.
I'm having the same problem translating Going Green Pro to BR Portuguese. I installed the plugin and it translated almost the whole theme, except for the comment area. I edited the .po file, but the comments fields remain in English. I don't know what else to do... (these strings are not hard coded anywhere)