Markus Raab
I’m a multipotentialite who loves to create and help people.
I worked at research & design, in corporate world and am now fully into remote freelancing.
Web design, web shop, SEO preparation, visual identity, photography, remote work consultation.
> Get your WordPress website and WooCommerce online shop.
> Get professional photos for print and web. Have a look at lookmal.com.
> Increase your visibility and get more visitors and customers. Start with SEO – Search Engine Optimization.
> Learn about remote work and remote companies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Web Design - WordPress
Make a good impression and show your products and services with a state of the art website. Your customers and Google will like it. We will work on the concept and strategy of your online presence. Get the technical topics like hosting, domain, security, performance under control. Implement design, features, and content.
Web Shop - WooCommerce
Sell physical and digital products with your own online web shop. WooCommerce integrates perfectly to your WordPress website. Design your shop and start selling. Get secure payments, configurable shipping options, and more.
Improved Google Ranking - SEO
Having your own website is the first step. Next you want to be found by people interested in your business. Search Engine Optimization will make you rank higher on Google and bring visitors to your side. It’s like if suddenly more people walk into your shop. More visitors increases the chances to gain more revenue.
How To …
Learn about WordPress, WordPress plugins, Divi theme and page builder, hosting, email.
The best cheap or free email solutions for your domain in 2020 (Cloudways)
When I switched from DreamHost to Cloudways I was thrilled to get such an amazing performance and additional features like backup/restore or a staging system for a lower price. Of course, there must be a catch. Cloudways does not come with its own email hosting. That means no email address with my personal domain. It is time to look for very affordable or free alternatives. Luckily, both exist – cheap and free.
Migrate WordPress website from DreamHost to Cloudways
Moving from DreamHost to Cloudways is not that difficult - if everything works out smoothly. The migration part itself is not challenging, however, there are some things to consider if you want to perform the full migration inclusive all the necessary steps to run the...
Trick spam bots with Honeypot for Contact Form 7
As soon as you offer a contact form, e.g. with the very popular Contact Form 7, you will find a lot of spam in your inbox. Most of those messages do not come from actual people but from so-called spam bots. There are several methods to avoid or reduce the number of such spam messages. All of those methods work differently and it might even make sense to combine them.
Quick fix for Divi: Stretched featured image on a mobile screen
Quick fix for the image ratio of a blog post's featured image on a mobile screen in the Divi theme. If you follow the guidelines and add a featured image to your post at the recommended size 960 x 440 pixels it looks good on your computer browser and on your mobile...
The WHY of my favorite WordPress plugins
There are over 50,000 WordPress plugins out there. It is really difficult to find a plugin stack that works well for you. Some plugins are not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Some plugins do redundant jobs or interfere with each other. Some plugins are hard on your webserver. This article gives an overview of plugins I work with regularly including their purpose.
Basics about .htaccess in WordPress
The .htaccess file (hypertext access) lets you manage the configuration of your web server. Even a small change in this file can break and take down an entire website. Therefore it is always recommended to take a backup before touching the .htaccess file. The best way is to just use an FTP client like Filezilla and download the file to your local computer before even opening it.
Show a single button on a fixed position on every page and post
There are cases in which it is quite useful to show a button (or any other element) on one fixed position on the screen. No matter if you want to do this temporarily to permanently, you for sure do not want to touch every single page and post on your website. The solution is quite simple by adding the button to the global footer or header and simply reposition it via CSS. Every page that shows a footer or header will also show that button.
Get rid of spam emails in Contact Form 7 by integrating Google reCAPTCHA v3
Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form for WordPress. Unfortunately, the contact form is not only used by people to get in contact. I would even say it is most often used by bots to simply spam. There are several ways to avoid spam emails in WordPress. In the following article, we will have a look at how Contact Form 7 uses Google reCAPTCHA to reduce the number of spam emails.
How to set up a child theme in Divi 4.x?
A child theme in WordPress is pretty much always useful if you plan to make changes to the code of a theme. Without a child theme changes to your theme files will be overwritten at the next theme update. If you break something by extending your theme troubleshooting...