Wil Brown

WordPress Consultant & Educator

Wil Brown is a Sydney-based WordPress consultant, developer, and digital strategist who helps organisations gain greater visibility into the websites and digital platforms they rely on every day. With more than 18 years of experience, he works with associations, research organisations, education and training providers, and not-for-profits to improve website governance, reduce operational risk, and build sustainable digital systems that support organisational goals. Wil co-organises the WordPress Sydney Meetup, regularly speaks at industry events, and has been involved in the WordPress community for many years. He's also a dad, technology enthusiast, chilli lover, and remains quietly fascinated by unusual engineering ideas.

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A MailChimp Opt-in Field for Contact Form 7

MailChimp is one bad-ass email marketing and email list management tool. Contact form 7 is also one of the most popular free contact forms for WordPress.

Wouldn’t it be nice if they worked together?

With a bit of PHP magic, here’s how to create a MailChimp opt-in field for Contact Form 7 which automatically adds an email address to a MailChimp list.

Changing the cPanel Default Website Page on a VPS

When setting up a new VPS you are likely going to want to make changes to the default set up.

That will likely mean changing the default website page from defaultwebpage.cgi to your own page.

Here’s a quick guide to help you on your way.

Speed Up Your Website using Caching and .htaccess

You’ve optimised your images, consolidated plugins, minified CSS and JavaScript files and cut down the number of external links your site goes to but it’s not enough is it?

You want more!  More speed….

Did you know that you can further dramatically improve the page-load times and speed up your website using caching?  And you don’t need to install any specialised plugins.

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