Social Warfare Hacked: What to Do Next
The popular social share plugin, Social Warfare, has been hacked.Don’t panic, though!!! Here are the steps you need to take next.
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Tips Tuesday – Genesis Themes, Gutenberg Class, Theme Speed Tests
Tips this week include:
• Heartwood Art is in full production mode
• How long it takes most site owners to get into their production groove and why
• Completion of the Genesis Theme Speed Tests
• Why I need your help for my fully loaded site speed tests
• My upcoming session with Kate Ahl on different pinning methods
• How my new host interviews are coming
• An update on the timeline of the release of the new Gutenberg course
• Cloudflare fixed the bug their plugin was having with PHP 7.2
• Why you should never let any plugin developer change your site security
• What’s up with Google’s recent change to how they pick up dates to show in snippets
• Genesis releases version 2.9 and whether it’s safe to update
• StudioPress releases a whole gaggle of 3rd party themes that have been updated to take full advantage of Gutenberg and find out which top seller is not among them -
Finding Your Production Groove with a New Site
It takes a while to find your blogging voice. But even if you have been blogging for a while, it can take even more time to find your production groove for the best layout on posts, images, videos, podcasts, and any other media you produce for your site.
Discover the hoops I’ve jumped through to find my groove on my woodworking site, and how it is radically different from BlogAid.
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Tips Tuesday – Money Making Sites, Social Share Plugins, Host Security Issues
Tips this week include:
• How site audits pay for themselves, big time
• The best paid social share button plugins to use
• The big changes coming to the Webmaster Training program
• Why I’ll be focusing on the new design block suites for my upcoming Gutenberg course
• 2 new posts in the Hobby to Money-Making Site Series on how to create an editorial calendar and all about branding
• Whether or not you want to do basic tips posts on your site
• Why I’m seeking advice and tips about Amazon affiliate links
• Why you need to update Chrome immediately
• The conflicting replies SiteGround gave folks about rebuilding their resource meters
• A super scary hosting security issue that very likely affected you
• What’s up with a lack of, or delayed emails for comment notification from your site
• A check on how many plugins you have -
How to Make Your Brand Instantly Recognizable
Can folks immediately identify that a post came from you when they are browsing social media or watching your video?
See how I developed an instant hit with branding both me and my woodworking site.
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Best Paid Social Share Button Plugins
See the results of my deep tests on the paid versions of Social Pug and Social Warfare for speed, page weight, features and overall performance.
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How I Develop an Editorial Calendar for a New Blog
Figuring out what blog posts to make to bring traffic to your site can be a bewildering task. See how I developed my editorial calendar for a whole year’s worth of posts that would bring targeted traffic and followers to my site fast.
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Tips Tuesday – Hosting, Pinterest Sharing, Solving Problems with Blog Posts
Tips this week include:
• Update on the paid social share buttons case study and why I’m not releasing it yet
• The new Pinterest share case study has begun
• Why I’m researching new hosts
• An update and new posts for my hobby to money-making site
• Why I have to get theme performance testing done and what’s coming for the Webmaster Training
• Why it’s time to delete one of my long-standing recommended plugins
• What country is getting massive bad bots through and if these are probes for a DDoS attack
• Why SiteGround dropped showing IP addresses in AWStats
• Why you need to log out when you’re not using WordPress and the toll it takes on your site if you don’t
• A new site and property verification in Google Search Console
• Hard proof of why we all need to scream for SiteGround to give us our resource meters back
• What’s coming in the next two Genesis releases
• How to find your audience’s biggest pain points and why you should