Simon Harper

@srhdesign

Freelancer - Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress & Email Marketing Email Marketing Newsletter: newsletter.allabout.email | WordPress & WooCommerce Newsletter: newsletter.loopwp.com | Technical SEO Geek | Connect with me: ❤️ ☕

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Simon Harper@srhdesign· 7d

🎉 I finally got the social media account feature in Google Search Console today. Any one else in the UK got it? More information on how to get started: support.google.com/webmasters/a... 🤔 Will you be adding you accounts?

Google Search Console property selector showing options to add a website or an Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube account.

Google Search Console announcement introducing performance reporting for Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content in Google Search.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· 11d

🎉 Over 5 years of writing "All About Email" hits 250 issues! 🎉 Issue 250 drops on Monday, August 3rd. I'm beyond excited to have hit this milestone. 💪 Feel free to subscribe below to get Issue 250 in your inbox. 👇 newsletter.allabout.email/?utm_source=...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· 20d

🚨 Google Ads are going "password-free". Google Ads email advising advertisers to create a passkey before 19 August, when it will become mandatory for sensitive actions such as adding users and linking accounts. Passkeys use device security, including fingerprints, facial recognition or a PIN. 👇

Google Ads email notifying advertisers that passkeys will be required from 19 August to perform sensitive account actions, with a button to create a passkey.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jul 8

🐝 Loving the new @beehiiv.com “Review and publish” screen showing the publish timing modal, with options for: ⚡️ - “Publish now” 🗓️ - Next usual send time 🕐 - Peak opens time 🗓️ - Or a specific scheduled time. Massive UI improvement and quick options! 🎉 ❤️

Beehiiv “Review and publish” screen showing the publish timing modal, with “Publish now” selected and options for next usual send time, peak opens time, or a specific scheduled time.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jun 26

🎉 I'm so excited to announce my first guest author for the "All About Email" summer series. I wanted this wonderful human to be a guest for a couple of years, and now it's happened. Can you guess who? ✅ Drops Monday, June 30th, feel free to subscribe: newsletter.allabout.email/?utm_source=...

Illustration of an email-cart envelope on a couch. A therapist asks, “Tell me about your abandonment issues.” Posters read “Consent is cool” and “Inbox placement is a relationship, not a right,” reinforcing email consent and engagement.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jun 23

🚨 Lighthouse now has an Agentic Browsing Score...new to me. And no, this is not my website, although my website is utterly crap, but it does score 1/2 for agentic browsing. 🤣

Screenshot showing Lighthouse audit scores: Performance 43, Accessibility 79, Best Practices 100, SEO 100, and Agentic Browsing 0 out of 2.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jun 10

🎉 "All About Email" and "Loop WP" looking good in the new Google Postmaster Tools "Deliverability Analysis" updates. 👇

Google Postmaster Tools Deliverability Analysis dashboard showing a completed checkmark next to “Users signal that they want to get your email messages.” The dashboard reports positive user signals, stating that messages are delivered to the inbox with few user complaints and that users consistently mark misclassified messages as not spam.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· May 29

💯 A few weeks ago, it was "All About Email", and now it's the turn of "Loop WP" (my second publication on @beehiiv.com) that has hit a 100-week writing streak. 🐝 This one is a little bittersweet, but more on that another time... for now, I'm going to enjoy this milestone. Subscribe in the comments

Simon Harper@srhdesign· May 20

This is too much fun! I've just added a Sec Unit... 🤭

Simon Harper@srhdesign· May 19

I may be having too much fun with the new Wapuu Studio. 🤣 And yes, I am aware Soundwave is a Decepticon and this is a play on Optimus Prime's catchphras‍e. 🤭 Check out the Studio: wapuu.studio/?utm_source=...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· May 14

🔥 "All About Email" is on a 100-week writing streak on @beehiiv.com! Feel free to subscribe to my newsletter about all things email marketing: newsletter.allabout.email/?utm_source=...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Apr 20

Gmail now has a conversation history for Gemini. 👀 Learn more: support.google.com/a/users/answ...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Mar 20

When you are a total geek who writes your emails in Markdown, and they work perfectly in @beehiiv.com. 🐝 The next issue of "All About Email", my newsletter about email marketing, drops on Monday. Feel free to subscribe: newsletter.allabout.email/?utm_source=...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Mar 19

🎉 My newsletter, "All About Email", has just unlocked the @beehiiv.com "Connnector" badge. 🐝 The Beehiiv Connector Badge means I've sent 100+ subscriber "organic" referrals across the network.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Feb 17

Google Workspace Studio has finally rolled out for me, and it's available in Gmail (and much more). Do you have it? Rollout began on December 3rd, 2025, and is now available to most Google users this month!

Gmail Studio interface open to the “Discover” tab displaying “Email boosters” templates including “Notify me about emails from key people,” “Label emails with action items,” “Notify me about urgent emails,” and “Auto-add email attachments to Drive,” with Gmail and Google Drive icons shown.

Gmail Studio interface open to the “Activity” tab showing a filter dropdown expanded with options “All types,” “Complete,” “In progress,” and “Had issues,” and a “No activity” message displayed below.

Gmail Studio interface open to the “My flows” tab showing an empty state message reading “No flows created” with a “See templates” button below and an abstract illustration above.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Feb 11

🎉 "Loop WP", Issue 194 is out now! This week - Part two of Beau Lebens’ Do the Woo interview: agentic commerce, fees, decoupled Woo, commerce mode, smarter defaults, and what’s next. Read the full newsletter below. 👇 newsletter.loopwp.com/p/issue-194-...

Screenshot of a Do the Woo YouTube video embed featuring Beau Lebens, with hosts Katie Keith and James Kemp, titled “Your Questions, Answered by the People Shaping WooCommerce,” promoting a live broadcast on January 28, 2026.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Feb 9

🎉 "All About Email", Issue 226 is out now! Build emails in Figma, not your ESP. Email Love streamlines QA, dark mode, and clipping checks and exports to any major platform in Figma, not your ESP. Read the full newsletter below. 👇 newsletter.allabout.email/p/issue-226-...

Screenshot of the Email Love Figma plugin showing an HTML email design preview side-by-side with the Figma canvas, including dark mode preview, mobile viewport selection, and export options.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Feb 3

🚨 Breaking - May 5th, Yahoo Mail storage sizes change. If you are at your limit on that date, you cannot send or receive emails unless you: - Free up space - Or, add more storage 👀 Yahoo says, "Stay tuned - more details coming soon."

Screenshot of a Yahoo Mail email announcing upcoming changes to the service. The email features a purple “yahoo! mail” header and informs members that Yahoo Mail storage limits are changing, with a new limit of 15 GB taking effect on 05/05/2026. It explains that accounts exceeding the limit will be unable to send or receive emails until space is freed or additional storage is added.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jan 30

🚨 Shopify know exactly what some Partners (not me 😃) and other shady peeps are going to try and do. Here's a little snippet from the new Partner T&Cs. 👇

“Screenshot of a document summarising key updates effective Friday, February 27, 2026. It highlights the launch of agentic commerce with expanded definitions in terms and partner roles, and outlines protections for merchant and customer data, including prohibitions on excessive data collection and using merchant or customer data for AI or machine learning training.”

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Jan 27

💡 Changes be coming to the free Slack plan on March 28th, 2026. - Content older than one year will be deleted from free Slack workspaces starting March 28, 2026. - Files older than one year will be removed unless the free workspace upgrades to a paid plan.

Slack email notice announcing that content older than one year will be deleted from free Slack workspaces starting March 28, 2026, explaining that messages and files older than one year will be removed unless the workspace upgrades to a paid plan, with a brief summary of the free workspace message and file storage policy.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Dec 23

These seem fair from ChatGPT...🤣 If 2025 gave out awards, you'd get: 🔮 "The Inbox Alchemist" "Turns every newsletter into gold. Part strategist, part mad scientist, fully obsessed with open rates, subject lines, and pixel-perfect deliverability."

A glossy 3D trophy featuring a transparent email envelope topped with a gold “@” symbol, surrounded by floating icons like a paper plane, heart, and envelope, titled “The Inbox Alchemist”.

A colourful 3D illustration of a friendly blue dolphin wearing a cap, holding a paintbrush and a smartphone, with music notes and an open book floating nearby, labelled “The Producer – Your Archetype 2025”.

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Dec 15

@beehiiv.com has dropped their 2025 Wrapped. This was a joy last year, and it's awesome to see the changes this year. 👇 "Loop WP" in numbers... ✍️ 52.7k Words written 📄 50 Issues 👀 25.4k Impressions 📭 Avg. Open Rate 57.3% 📈 17% Audience Growth ⏩ Avg. CTR 18%

“Colourful gradient background in pink, purple, blue, and red with bold white text reading ‘2025 Beehiiv Rewind’.”

“Beehiiv Rewind slide showing ‘You showed up in 2025’ for Loop WP, with stats including 52.7K words written and 25.4K total impressions on a dark gradient background.”

“Beehiiv Rewind performance slide stating ‘And your readers couldn’t get enough,’ showing 50 posts, 57.3% average open rate, and 18.0% average click-through rate.”

“Beehiiv Rewind growth summary slide reading ‘That’s not just growth, that’s momentum,’ showing subscriber growth from 259 to 304, a 17% increase over the year.”

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Dec 12

@beehiiv.com has dropped their 2025 Wrapped. This was a joy last year, and it's awesome to see the changes this year. 👇 "All About Email" in numbers... ✍️ 55.0k Words written 📄 51 Issues 👀 52.7k Impressions 📭 Avg. Open Rate 59.8% 📈 57% Audience Growth ⏩ Avg. CTR 12.7%

Beehiiv Rewind title slide with large text reading “2025 Beehiiv Rewind” on a colourful pink, purple, and blue gradient background.

Beehiiv Rewind slide displaying engagement metrics with the headline “And your readers couldn’t get enough,” showing 51 posts, a 59.8 percent average open rate, and a 12.7 percent average click-through rate.

Beehiiv Rewind graphic showing subscriber growth, increasing from 366 at the start of the year to 573 at the end, a 57 percent increase, with the headline “That’s not just growth, that’s momentum.”

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Nov 20

🥳 How many companies would do this! Massive thanks to @beehiiv.com & @tylerdenk.bsky.social 🐝 Want to lock in a discount for this year? My link gets you: - 30-day Free Trial - 20% off for three months 🚨 Or sign up by November 21st and get 20% off annual pricing www.beehiiv.com/?via=simon-h...

“Email from beehiiv informing Simon that a 20% Black Friday discount will automatically apply to his upcoming annual renewal. The message explains no action is needed, links to the help page and subscription management, and is signed by Tyler Denk, CEO of beehiiv, with small social media icons below.”

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Nov 6

The story of my life so far in WordPress this morning. 🫠 I've lost count of how many different plugins have something similar to this in their changelogs across all my client sites. And immediately after updating, the WordPress Admin area becomes utter garbage. 😭

“Screenshot showing a changelog entry for version 3.2.18 dated 03.11.2025, noting the addition of Black Friday upsells and notification updates.”

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Oct 31

38m A reminder of how it was done: www.actionrocket.co/blog/how-we-...

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Oct 31

I can only do one GIF at a time on here, so one is all you get, the rest in the comments. 🔥 @actionrocket.co

Simon Harper@srhdesign· Oct 10

🎉 A big thank you to the very kind Lee Munroe from One Signal for the personalised note and stickers! I do love the email community. ❤️