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See what’s coming in WordPress 5.6, including new features in the Gutenberg editor, and if the new jQuery changes will break your site.
Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Sales are still running
• Free Gutenberg Webinar this Thursday, Dec 3 and everyone is welcome to attend live
• New tutorial for Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks Migration
• Update on the BlogAid SEO issue
• Why not to be a Yoast hater here
• WordPress 5.6 releases on Dec 8 and why we won’t be updating right away
• Who will get my special update instructions for WP 5.6
• When the new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials with the WP 5.6 features will be released
• Has SiteGround moved you to the new custom control panel?
• ModSecurity at our hosting has tightened the rule set
• The issue with UpdraftPlus that ModSecurity change made happen
• A blip of a security issue with cPanel
• Why you need separate accounts for hosting, domain, and email
• Why you need to upgrade to PHP 7.4 right now
• Why we won’t be using PHP 8.0 yet
Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Sales are LIVE!
• Where the link to my Helpful Posts page is hiding
• A holiday fundraiser I may be setting up
• Why I’m once again modifying my office hours
• A surprising update on what my video SEO research revealed
• The schema markup the Astra theme uses
• Why case studies are so incredibly important
• WordPress 5.6 Release Candidates are out and what I’ll be testing
• What to look for when you migrate from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks
• What’s up with that email you got from Amazon S3
• Why the AS3 interface changes are making me crazy
• Big news about YouTube inserting ads into all videos
• Mediavine creates a mid-roll video ad placement and why you might not want to use it
• What I think about the Yoast Zapier integration
The Gutenberg WordPress editor is super powerful now and can radically extend your layout and styling options.
Join us live to see the power of Gutenberg and why you will be excited to switch to it.
Tips this week include:
• Free Gutenberg webinar coming in a few weeks
• How I’m splitting up the niche site metrics I’m watching
• Why you need to jump super fast on the holiday sales post coming soon
• What I found on my client sites during my recent video SEO research
• The SEO issue I found on BlogAid
• Why I may hire a schema markup expert from Team Yoast
• The schema checks and fixes coming to the DIY SEO course
• Why I have to check out new schema markup validators
• What the WordPress 5.6 Beta 4 signals to me
• Why I’m not crazy about the release of PHP 8.0 at SiteGround
• The very serious concerns I have about Microsoft Clarity
• Why Google is dropping the word Webmaster and changing its blog domain
• A fix for the Edge browser’s issue with lazy load on iFrames
• The speed challenge when using iFrames for video embed when you run ads
Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters! Tips this week include: The deep dive I’m doing into extra video SEO Why I have to make time to do woodworking posts The price of success The caveats and rewards of mixing pleasure and business Why I don’t monetize my passions Finding your creative balance What’s up with…
See how to select what gets included in a manual backup when using UpdraftPlus because sometimes you just need a partial backup.
Tips this week include:
• The scary updates I did over the Halloween weekend
• Why you need to focus only on what makes you money
• How are you investing in your online business?
• Does a try this, try that blog strategy work?
• What to check for with Cloudflare having a few API connection issues
• Why seeing trackbacks and pingbacks suddenly appear has me concerned
• What’s up with 2 WordPress security releases back to back
• WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 just rolled out
• A call to take the WP 2020 survey
• Why you need to put migrating from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks on your calendar now
• The difference in Atomic Blocks and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugins
• An official Block Patterns Directory is in the works
• And the Block Directory project gets a new team lead
• An update on an issue with the Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugin that got fixed
• Google’s ironic recommendation for your holiday sales pages
• Why HTTPS is table stakes in 2020
• Why HTTPS alone is not enough to please Google
• Do you even know what’s going on with your site? And why you need to know
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