Getting from A to B to Zed
Here at Earthling, we build custom websites and applications that solve our partner’s business problems. Leading up to the launch of your project, some technical setup is required so that the published website allows the user to get from Point A (typing the domain...
The Quest for Support Details
You wake up in a dark office, the monitor across the room lights up and you are drawn to it. You stumble toward the desk and peer at the screen. There is a note: Your blood pressure rises. Your brain races from one corner to the next. “Who is Jill?” “Where am I?!” The...
HubSpot vs WordPress?
During my “Car Shopping for a CMS” webinar, I leaned heavily on that metaphor to describe the difference between a handful of CMS choices: Craft CMS, WordPress, and Wix/Squarespace. A great conversation topic arose around another option: HubSpot CMS. What does it do...
Thanks from an Earthling
If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything. -Count Rugan, "The Princess Bride" (1987) First and foremost, during this whole wackadoo year, I'm thankful that I'm healthy (albeit a little more round than I'd like). I'm thankful that Earthlings were poised...
Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
By Jamie Role, Director of Applications When I graduated from college and got my first job as a programmer, I felt like I could do anything. The first few years in the working world I felt eager and confident, but then the doubt started creeping in. I saw all these...
Membership Management with Salesforce and Pardot – Filene Research Institute Deep Dive
Filene Research Institute works with its member credit unions on cutting-edge research, incubation programs to test and scale new solutions, advisory services, and host communities and events to help their own members improve and strengthen their financial well-being....
5 WordPress User Roles and What They *Really* Mean
Why is it important to know about, pay attention to, and moderate the use of User Roles on your WordPress website? Not everyone needs carte blanc access to all of the administration area of your site. Some of your content managers may only need to write their own...
B2B Ecommerce Series: RMAs Can Help Admins and Customers
Is your organization struggling with an uncontrolled flow of product or order returns on your B2B ecommerce site? Do you get random requests on your contact form with incomplete or confusing information about returns? Return requests can be extremely costly for...
Dr. Devlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Plugin
Plugins, those powerful little pieces of code that extend the capability of a website (typically a WordPress CMS), have a bit of a reputation problem. One of the rumors going around is that a website can have “too many plugins”. And, as rumors go—there's a little...