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Did you know that SiteGround considers itself a managed hosting provider? Me either. Sure wasn’t that way when I initially got an account there.
But, that description now gives them the right to slip in any code or directives into your hosting account without even letting you know.
See what’s really going on behind the scenes and why I’m concerned about the direction they are taking.
This week we’ll have a little fireside chat, just you and me.
If you are having trouble sharing your posts to Facebook, you have 2 choices for fixing it.
You can wait out a potential temporary glitch or you can whitelist Facebook’s range of IPs in Cloudflare.
Discover what’s happening and steps to remedy the situation.
A video does not have to be a talking head type thing. Still shots and quick video clips of you demonstrating what you’re talking about work fine too.
Learn more about my latest video experiment and why I’ll be making more of these.
Tips this week include:
• The Gutenberg Course is available to all with a grand opening discount
• Live session this week in the DIY SEO course for Yoast and Search Console changes
• Why I’m so tickled with my 2 latest video experiments for Heartwood Art
• Why I’ve taken to deleting cache after updates and the 3 places you need to do that
• WordPress 5.2.1 is scheduled to roll out today – see what’s in it
• More on the huge new feature in WP 5.2 of a signature key security code
• Why Yoast is dropping support for pre-Gutenberg WP versions and why I’m delighted about it
• Why cPanel is removing PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0 and what you need to do now
• What’s up with cPanel changing the way our SSL certificates renew and why it’s making me crazy
• Changes to your heartbeat and revision control code coming
• Why you need to get an annual site checkup
• Nginx is coming to cPanel and what I’m watching closely for that will impact our site speed
• Huge speed boost from Cloudflare with their new HTTP/2 Prioritization feature
Real-world tutorials for DIY site owners who are serious about their success and don’t have time to waste. This is NOT just an intro course. It’s the real training you need.
Tips this week include:
• Gutenberg course launching this week
• Where to get a discount on the Gutenberg course
• Whether it’s safe to update to WP 5.2 or not
• How to ensure you have a complete backup solution
• What’s up with GoDaddy purchasing CoBlocks
• Why you need to get on the Gutenberg train
• 2019 Hosting Benchmark report is out
• Testing results for speed and SEO on the GeneratePress theme
• New features and SEO in WP Tasty and WP Recipe Maker plugins
• New speed reports in Google Search Console
• Updates and sessions coming to the DIY SEO course
Tips this week include:
• What the cause was for my site email issues that cropped up after the host move
• An update on how things are going at the new host
• The new quick video blog promotion experiment I ran over the weekend
• Who reached out with an offer because of that experiment
• How my deep dive into the Teachable platform is going
• What’s in WordPress 5.2 that releases today and why we’ll wait to update
• The results of a massive Accessibility Audit on Gutenberg
• Whether Chrome is really delivering a death blow to cookie tracking
• New image and video schema markup in Yoast SEO
• A primer for you to learn more about Structured Data and schema markup
• Why we don’t care that Google shut off slivers of info from Search Console
• More on the 3 new reports in Search Console that will help us with our schema markup and more
• What’s in the release of Genesis 2.10
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