Scar Media Group

13/01/2026

Still doing admin at night or on weekends? Follow-ups, reminders, copying info from one place to another.

None of that grows your business. It just eats time.

Automation handles repeat work so you don’t have to. That’s usually where the biggest time savings are.

If time is the main pressure right now, DM me TIME and I’ll point out where it helps first.

06/01/2026

Automation gets thrown around a lot, and a lot of the time it sounds like something only big businesses use.

In reality, it’s about stopping leads, follow-ups, reviews, and admin from slipping through the cracks.

We’ve put together a plain-English post on what automation actually does, where it fits, and a few myths worth clearing up.

Have a read here 🔻
https://scarmediagroup.com/what-business-automation-really-is-and-what-it-isnt.

A plain-English look at business automation, what it actually does, common myths, and how it helps small businesses save time and avoid missed follow-ups.

07/12/2025

One for my techie friends.🧑‍💻 Ever spent hours chasing down why conversions aren't tracking? Just had one of those. ⏳

HubSpot forms were submitting fine, looked good, but Google Ads showed nothing. Zero. Zip. Zitch. ❌

Turned out to be two things...

1. An old GTM container buried, and I mean BURIED 🪦... that was messing with the current setup.

2. The forms weren't pushing the right callback event to .

Once I finally found the rogue container code and added the proper dataLayer push to the form embed ... BOOM 💥, conversions started tracking. YAY... 👏

Sometimes it's not about the big stuff. It's the little things hiding in plain sight that'll get you. 🔍 Good fun tho! 😅

01/12/2025

Just wrapped up a challenging job for a client today… one of those jobs that starts off sounding simple but then turns into a full-on puzzle. That’s my kind of thing, just quietly… 😉

Give me something that needs digging into, and I’m in my element. 🔧💻

They wanted a way to keep track of confidential reports coming in, with a new internal ID system, and a proper layout where everything shows up in one spot.

So I added a hidden ID generator to their setup, built two separate tracking tables, cleaned out a heap of old junk code, fixed the formatting, then placed both tables onto a private admin page so they don’t have to click around twenty places just to see what’s going on.

The UX is as important as the actual workflow, because if it’s clunky, no one wants to touch it. And these are busy people too. ⚡

It actually looks and functions great now. Nice and tidy. Loads fast. Works exactly how they needed it to.

Client’s happy, and now that it’s all dialled in on their main site, I can roll the same setup onto their other site without the same amount of back-and-forth. 💬

If you need something done that's causing you a meltdown... DM me and let's see if I can lighten the stress, or hit the Live Chat button at https://scarmediagroup.com/live-chat/. Help is only a click away... 🖱️

28/10/2025

Real story: how one hidden script broke a site… and what it taught us.

Webflow’s reliable, but even solid platforms can be tripped up by one bad line of code.

Here’s what happened, how we fixed it, and what to watch for. 👇

Even Webflow sites can be hit by malicious code. See how a hidden embed triggered fake virus popups and the steps we used to fix and secure it.

07/10/2025

Ever had Stripe sending you 404 error emails after you’ve removed a WordPress plugin?

That’s exactly what happened to a client recently. Stripe was still trying to hit an old MemberPress webhook … even though MemberPress had been removed for months.

Long story short: Stripe doesn’t forget. It keeps retrying old webhook calls until they time out. A bit of cleanup (and deleting some leftover code) stopped the noise for good.

If you’re getting random Stripe errors after changing plugins or switching payment setups, it’s probably the same issue.

Read the full post here, as fix. ⬇️

If Stripe keeps emailing 404 error alerts for an old webhook, here’s why it happens and how to stop it. A simple cleanup can fix those constant notifications.

03/10/2025

"WOW... What an improvement..." - actual client feedback after we fixed their checkout process. Their sales page was sending people through 6 different steps just to buy something. We put the checkout form right on the sales page instead. Now it's just scroll down and buy.

Full breakdown in our latest blog post. 👇
https://scarmediagroup.com/reduce-cart-abandonment-adding-checkout-to-your-woocommerce-sales-page/

It's a bit of a techno read, but at the end of the day, if your checkout feels overly complicated, this might give you some ideas to stop so many abandoned cart issues.

Stop losing sales to complicated checkout flows. Learn how to integrate WooCommerce checkout into your sales page and cut unnecessary steps that lose customers.

30/09/2025

A client called us: "People are signing up but nobody's getting emails, and they can't find their course." We checked notifications. All looked fine.

Tested it... no emails going out. Checked again... still broken.

Sometimes the "it should just work" feature doesn't... so I had to build a custom solution.

If you're running LearnDash and hitting the same wall, read how we fixed it... 👇

A client was getting phone calls from course participants, even late at night, because they couldn't access the course they had just enrolled in. LearnDash, the Learning Management System (LMS), was not sending emails when people registered for their courses? We had just dealt with this exact proble...

29/09/2025

Just installed a dedicated Live Chat page over on livechat.scarmediagroup.com (👈tap that link to see it).

There are live chat buttons all over the website but this dedicated link can be put on social media profiles that gives people direct access to talk to you if they have a problem they need fixed urgently. 😉

I’m installing it on a clients website and social media profiles during the course of this week, which will help drive enquiries for them too.

Let me know what you think. 🤔 🙏

29/09/2025

🚨 WordPress emails disappearing? 🔑 Password resets not arriving. 📩 Contact form enquiries lost. 🛒 orders vanishing.

The default PHP mailer in is unreliable, and webmail accounts often hit storage limits… so emails just vanish.

That’s why we install on every WordPress site that isn’t already running Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. It keeps emails delivered reliably with proper authentication in place.

👓 Read the full breakdown: https://scarmediagroup.com/wordpress-email-deliverability-and-why-we-use-smtp2go

✉️ If you're still on the default mailer... it’s time to switch. DM us or hit the Live Chat link in our bio.

24/09/2025

🛠️ Today’s fix: A client was getting “Invalid link” errors in their page Safe Portal login, where their users would log in to resume a previous session.

At first glance, nothing obvious was wrong in the settings … so by reverse-engineering the form flow step by step, we found the wrong form field IDs were in the redirection code string. The IDs were from a completely different form.

Looking at it now, it seems as if one form was duplicated and edited, but the Unique Key and Reference ID were not changed to reflect those in the new form.

Once corrected, everything clicked back into place. Took a screen recording 🎥 showing the log-in and redirect to the right page & sent it to the client to confirm it's now working.

Users can now log in, check report status, and update reports without a hitch.

Read the full post at https://scarmediagroup.com/fixing-wordpress-invalid-link-errors-in-formidable-forms

If you’re stuck chasing errors that don’t make sense, that’s the kind of digging 🪏 we do... and fix. 👨‍🔧

Get in touch and we’ll sort it > ScarMediaGroup.com/technical 👨‍💻 or flick us a DM.

Learn how we fixed a WordPress “Invalid Link” error in Formidable Forms by tracing mismatched form field IDs. Simple steps, working login restored fast.

23/09/2025

Hit publish in and get smacked with “Publishing Failed”? 😑 That’s what we fixed on a Kadence + Gutenberg site chewing through 600 MB (that's a lot) just to load a page. We cleaned out the bloat, cut plugins, and got it saving again.

» Read the full case study...👇
https://scarmediagroup.com/wordpress-publishing-failed-fixing-a-kadence-theme-error/

A case study on solving the WordPress “Publishing failed. The post could not be updated in the database” error with Gutenberg and Kadence. Steps to diagnose and fix.