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First of all – take a deep breath. This will be alright with just a couple of very simple steps. Ready? Ok, let’s get you back up and running.

1. Access your site via FTP or your admin control panel.
2. Find the folder wp-content/plugins/genesis-simple-hooks
3. Delete the entire genesis-simple-hooks directory. (If this makes you nervous, back up all your site files first by saving them to your computer)
4. Refresh your WordPress admin panel and you should be back to normal. Be se sure you run the latest Genesis update before reinstalling Simple Hooks!

If any of the above is confusing or makes you nervous, don’t hesitate to call in the pros! You can try contacting your web host, although depending on your hosting company and plan they may tell you tough cookies. You can also contact us and we’ll get you squared away asap.

MOO created Printfinity – a special printing process that allows you to print a different design on the back of every business card in your set. That may not sound like much at first – but think about the possibilities and it gets really exciting. If you’ve ever ordered business cards before you know that the good ones are far from cheap. If you have more than one product, or even more than one business, expenses for business cards for each can stack up fast.

But lets get even more creative. MOO is probably most popular for photographers – who can effectively create a portfolio of their work on the back of business cards and easily fan them out and show off their work. Apply this concept to any business with a product to sell and you’ve got a powerful and impressive way of showing off your wares.

You can purchase as few at 50 cards for $21.99 – or even get a free 10 pack to try out the product (MOO even pays the shipping for you).

We’re designing a set of 10 sample cards for an industrial insulation client – can’t wait to show you all what we come up with and how they’ll be used.

Joomla! is an open source content management system that makes Websites and online applications easier and more efficient to manage.

So what is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a system that organizes the content, templates, and style sheets of a website or online application. Using a CMS is great, because once everything is set up to run, updating and managing a Website is incredibly simple.

And what about this Joomla! thing?

Joomla! is (in my opinion) one of the best CMS’ available. First of all, its free. Many of the templates and add-ins are free. There are thousands of support forums out there that are all free. Did I mention its basically free?

It’s open source – with a great supporting community. Its also fairly low barrier to entry. For those of us who have been developing websites a while and are pretty decent code jockies, Joomla! is a cinch to drop into. There’s a standard file structure for your templates, a few proprietary tags to drop into your index file, a specific XML packaging file and that’s basically it. {and if you have no idea what I just said – make your way over to the free stuffs}

Joomla! is the preferred CMS here at Blue Steele Solutions, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. We still check in on the other CMS options out there, and occasionally develop a site or 2 on other platforms, but we keep coming back to the old standby.

But What in the World Does Joomla! Mean?

It comes from the word jumla a Swahili word meaning to come together – quite fitting, I’d say. I’m not sure though why the exclamation point {!}

My buddy Steve Caldwell and I came up with a simple work around that takes about 5 minutes to implement and doesn’t cost a dime. Rest assured, your org will still find a way to enter duplicate contacts, they always do, but this should help save some of your time and sanity.

1. Create A Unique ID Field

Create a text field (allow about 20 characters) and name it Unique ID. Make it read-only and don’t add it to any page layouts. Be sure you mark the field as a Unique ID field.

2. Create a Workflow

Now create a workflow that runs anytime a contact is created or edited. Assign a Field Update action to that workflow that combines the First Name and Last Name into one string in the Unique ID field. (John Smith unique id = johnsmith).

3. Update All Contacts

You’ll want to run the rule once to a. populate all the Unique ID fields and b. pull a list of existing duplicates. If you use the Apex Data Loader, this is really easy to do. Simply run a report that includes all of your contacts. You’ll only need to include the Contact ID column in this report. Then turn around and run an update through the Data Loader using that same list. Wa-lah! You’ve just updated all your contacts to have a Unique ID and your error report contains a list of existing duplicates you can go clean up.

4. Salesforce Administrator Triumphs

The next time a user tries to create a contact with the same first and last name as an existing contact, they’ll receive an error message that the Unique ID already exists and won’t be able to save.

This little trick should work for most objects you need to prevent dups on (leads, opportunities, custom objects, etc). If you run into multiple contacts with the same name, you may need to do something a bit more sophisticated or check the App Exchange for some paid solutions.