Disable block widget

If you already know your way around WordPress, paste this code into your theme editor.

If you don’t have any experience with it yet, after the codes we have a simple 4 step guide with screenshots for you.

Disable block widget

With this line, you can disable the block widgets:

Disables the block editor from managing widgets.
add_filter( ‘use_widgets_block_editor’, ‘__return_false’ );

Source: WP Code US

Speaking of which, you can use this to disable the “new” Gutenberg editor.

Disable Gutenberg Editor

Disable Gutenberg Editor:

Disables the block editor from managing widgets in the Gutenberg plugin.
add_filter( ‘gutenberg_use_widgets_block_editor’, ‘__return_false’ );

Error: Before / After

Here’s a quick recap of the error you either already have on your WordPress system or will get after updating to WordPress 5.8.

Before: Widget work as always

Update: WordPress 5.8

Then comes your update to version 5.8.

After update: Error over error

After the update, depending on the plugins, error after error. With Multilingual (eg WPML) in e-commerce, it becomes quite extreme. Also, “legacy” texts attaching everywhere, for privacy. To each, individual widget. If you’re not just managing 1 site, but maybe 5, 10 or 20, you’ll want to get back to standard, fast.

What now? This is how you insert the code (above)!

Solution: Code for Theme Editor

Open the “Theme Editor” in the menu. Here you add this code to your “functions.php” as shown in the screenshot.

Podcast episode on Spotify: Lean Canvas (1/3) Special

Back to overview: Marketing Podcast.

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Lean Canvas for your business idea: find & review

You want to start your own business? You want to found your own company, your own start-up? Then you need a good business idea! Several times a year we have a very special workshop, with over 200 participants. Briefly explained, similar to Höhle der Löwen that you know from TV. Only, with the extra of a day of coaching with our experts and mentors, then comes the big day and day pitches. 200 people, 40 groups, 40 ideas, but what’s the best way to start?

What is the Lean Canvas?

What is the Lean Canvas? The Lean Canvas is a variation of the Business Canvas. It helps you to find business ideas in new simple steps and to validate them. Validation means to check and prove that a business idea is or will be profitable. In this special of our Marketing Podcast, we’re going to look at the Lean Canvas in three episodes. In each case, 3 of 9 steps.

In part 1, you’ll learn about problem, solution, and your USP. In the second part(Lean Canvas #2) we talk about metrics, target groups and the unfair advantage. Part 3(Lean Canvas #3) then deals with the big topic of marketing and the resulting costs and revenue sources.

Banks, investors… Find employees (Recruiting)

In the Marketing Podcast and this special you learn so, free of charge the first step, the design of your business idea! You need this to develop your pitch and your business plan. Both you need to convince e.g. investors and banks of you. Finally, you need both concepts in everyday life, e.g. when you want to convince customers of your product or when recruiting new employees. These steps will be discussed in detail in future episodes. Learn marketing for your own business, step by step.

A solid, well thought-out idea, demonstrably profitable is what employees, banks but also investors expect from you as a founder. That’s why we wanted to take a close look at each individual step in this Lean Canvas Special, with practical examples so that you understand how such a Lean Canvas is built up. What depth you need to go into so that your pitch is ultimately convincing.

More in the Marketing Podcast

You want more episodes from our marketing podcast? Small video snippets on the individual topics, from social media marketing to print to setting up a company, with tips and best practices from international projects. Here you can find the overview

• Marketing Podcast

Marketing Shorty: Lean Canvas

More Marketing Snippets? Follow us on Youtube, too. Topic of the week:

1. Lean Canvas Part 1: Problem, Solution & USP<

As a speaker, we show up to 200 participants in our workshop how to build a business. One part of this is the Lean Canvas. A simple way to develop business ideas and test them. On the second day, 40 groups then present their business ideas. A bit like “Höhle der Löwen”, you probably know the TV series. However, before it comes to the pitch, a solid business idea has to be in place. In this podcast episode we talk about that among other things.

Lean Canvas Part 1: Problem, Solution & USP

Lean Canvas Special: All Parts

Here you can find all parts of the Lean Canvas Special at a glance:

Part: Key figures, unfair advantage and target group

Part 2: Key figures, unfair advantage and target group

Part: Marketing and Finances

Part 3: Marketing and finance

Exclude, remove and block referral spam

What is actual referral spam? I love the internet! There are new ideas everywhere, this brilliant idea is from Russia: Referral Spam. Resourceful developers create landing pages. Every small webmaster is of course happy about every backlink, look at it, lands on a landing page. Not a valuable link. No valuable visitor. Only a landing page and a bot that crawls the pages. The principle behind it is as simple as it is amazing: By cleverly linking pages, you as a website operator will of course become aware of the new, visitor sources. And of course you will risk a look at them. In the end you will end up on a simple sales page, landing page, etc. There you will find the typical affiliate offers: travel, medication, etc. So the whole trick is to get you as a webmaster on the sites and sell something. Chapeau! Great idea, really.

Whoever then wants to analyze his visitors will get falsified data, no matter if visitors, duration of visit, origin, etc. Therefore we want to exclude this spam!

Google Analytics, general filters against referral spam

Open Google Analytics Dashboard. Here we go. First open your Google Analytics account. Click on Manage > ‘Select account

Add filter and enter data

Here you now add all lines of code. After each filter you have to add it to the individual website views (next but one picture):

• Filter type: User defined

<Exclude: campaign source

Current list of spam pages

You can find the latest list at Ben Travis from Viget. Meanwhile there are three small lists, because Google Analytics limits the input to 255 characters in the filters.

#1

.*((darodar|priceg|buttons-for(-your)?-website|makemoneyonline|blackhatworth|hulfingtonpost|o-o-6-o-o|(social|(simple|free|floating)-share)-buttons).com|econom.co|ilovevitaly(.co(m)?)|(ilovevitaly(.ru))|(humanorightswatch|guardlink).org).*

#2 - UPDATE

.*((best(websitesawards|-seo-(solution|offer))|get-free(-social)?-traffic(-now)?|googlsucks).com|(domination|torture).ml|((rapidgator-)?(general) ?porn(hub(-) ?forum) ?|4webmasters).(ga|tk|org|uni)|(buy-cheap-online).info).*

#3 - UPDATE

.*((event-tracking|semalt(media)?|(100dollars|success)-seo|chinese-amezon|e-buyeasy|theguardlan|webmaster-traffic).com|traffic(monetize(r)?|2money).(org|com)|pops.foundation|erot.co).*

Add all filters, collect

Now you have created all filters and added them to the individual website views. Perfect.

Extra tip: Google Analytics: remove referral spam retroactively

Whoever has now fixed everything to avoid being disturbed by link spam has taken the biggest step. In 30 days the standard records of the target group and visitors of the website will be ‘clean’ again. If you still want to take a look back, e.g. to analyze the current page, you can apply the filter to the current data view. You can see how to do this here. First step, click Target Group > Overview. There you add a + New Segment.

Add filter and enter data

Look at the screenshot of my Anaylitcs Accout. You exclude, as before, exactly the spam sources. This will ‘reduce’ your number of visitors (in the example on the right) to a real level, without bots.

Here you do not create three individual filters, but connect all three lines of code (point 2) with an AND. Afterwards you save your filter. You can add it as a segment in every website view. For example, if you have several pages.

Extra tip! Exclude the own IP (office, home, etc.)

You still make up a large part of your visitors yourself? Your own traffic also influences the Google Analytics data. There is a great solution for this as well, you can remove your own IP (of course others as well) from the website data view. To do this, you create a general filter in Google Anayltics > Manage, just like in point 1. You assign these new filters to the individual records of the account.

Now you have a small first season of great filters and much cleaner data to analyze your own website.

Exclude referral spam via .htaccess – The current list 12/2015

Unfortunately the wrong visits falsify your statistics. Therefore it is time to do something. How you can “protect” your website from this, also on pages and shops of your customers, is explained here:

1. Open / create your .htaccess<
   Tip: No idea about .htaccess & Co? A free .htaccess generator is available here www.htaccesseditor.com/gr.shtml
   <Enter or add the following lines:

# block Russian referrer spam
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly..ru/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly.info/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*iloveitaly.ru/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*econom.co/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*savetubevideo.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*kambasoft.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.* buttons-for-website.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*semalt.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*darodar.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*best-seo-software.xyz/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*adf.ly/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.* get-your-social-buttons.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*rankings-analytics.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*alibestsale.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*o-o-8-o-o.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*traffic2cash.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*cyber-monday.ga/ [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

Done! Either way, you’re spam-free now (for now)!

The following pages are the best known:

em>ilovevitaly.com/ru/…
<{a6}buttons-for-websites.com
• >em>semalt.com/li><
  darodar.com

You can always find updates on new spam here.
We are looking forward to new pages!