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Tips Tuesday – Designer Training, WP 5.2.2, Gutenberg Course Updates

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Tips this week include:
• Huge sale to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Webmaster Training site
• The new specialty block suite and theme I’m checking out for the Gutenberg course
• A new tutorial in the Gute course for putting text links on image galleries
• What I’m doing to speed up BlogAid ahead of my annual site audit
• Why not to use the Shareaholic plugin
• How I got unstuck with my hobby to money-making site and put it back on track
• What’s in the WordPress 5.2.2 release that is rolling out today
• Why XML Sitemaps coming to the WordPress core is such a big deal, and who’s involved in making it happen
• What’s being served up in the new Gutenberg Snackbar

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Tips Tuesday – SEO, Gute Course, Caching, Social Share, and Contact Form Plugins

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Tips this week include:
• Special discount celebration on the Grand Re-Opening of the BlogAid Learning Center
• Why I’m giving another free month of access on the Gutenberg Ninja course
• Where to access the Gute course during this changeover
• A HUGE thank you to my membership site revamp team
• How things are going at my new host and why I’m so damned impressed with them
• Why I switched away from Contact Form 7 to a more modern form plugin and how Formidable Forms met all of my criteria
• The two big plugins bequeathed to WordPress recently
• What’s in the Yoast SEO 11.3 update and why you may not want to use it
• The update in WP Fastest Cache that is my fault and what to do with it
• Why we’re tickled about more user requested features come to Social Pug
• A tip about what to do right after you update plugins
• What the new Google Rich Results Tester checks
• Why we’re silly happy about more diversity of domains in search
• Why that diversity is great for videos too
• What’s coming in the Genesis 3.0 release in a couple of weeks

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Contact Form 7 vs Formidable Forms: Why I Switched

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While Contact Form 7 has been the go-to contact form plugin for nearly a decade, it is not keeping up with critical site needs like speed, GDPR, and integrations for all our site form needs.

See why I chose Formidable Forms as my replacement plugin for CF7, plus tips on what you may want to consider when making the switch too.

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Tips Tuesday – Contact Forms, Facebook API, Video Stats, Member Site Changes

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Tips this week include:
• A new format for Tips Tuesday
• Report on the grand opening of the Gutenberg Ninja Course
• Big changes coming to the BlogAid Learning Center – home of the DIY SEO course
• Why I temporarily closed purchase to the Webmaster Training
• A new tour and tutorial on Formidable Forms
• A huge thank you to my business visionary coach
• The journey all site owners go through moving from a newb to a money-making mindset
• An update on the Cloudflare/Facebook issue
• An update on the new directive I found lurking in your SiteGround files
• A potential bug in the latest Scriptless Social Sharing plugin update
• A big change to the Facebook API for showing share counts
• Google is rolling out a big algorithm update right now, and where to look for changes
• A follow up from Yoast on potential auto updates coming to the plugin
• Some seriously interesting video stats that is encouraging to keep doing more of them

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Moving from a Newb to a Money Making Mindset

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There is a 1-2 year gauntlet that all new site owners go through. The goal is to survive it and avoid as many expensive pitfalls as possible in both time and money along your way to site success.

Here I’ll share a couple of examples of what that journey looks like as a newb site owner moves to a money-making mindset and how an experienced site owner does it, plus an explanation of why we all have to take that journey and how to survive it.

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