Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

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

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed Improvements, WP 5.2.1 Rollout, Dropped Support of Old PHP and WP, cPanel Changes

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg, WP 5.2, Hosting, Search Console, SEO

    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 Tuesday – Video Promo, WP 5.2, Genesis 2.10, Search Console, Gutenberg

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Yoast SEO 11, Gutenberg, WP 5.2, HTTPS Redirects

    Tips this week include:
    • How and why to update to Yoast SEO 11 for better schema markup
    • A Content Revamp How-To Workshop this week for the DIY SEO course
    • A tutorial coming on how to export Yoast premium redirects to the Redirection plugin
    • An update on the Gutenberg course progress, and it’s a big milestone!
    • What I discovered about Yoast and Gutenberg
    • Why I’m staying narrowly focused on video creation for my hobby to money-making site
    • What’s in the re-introduction of the Genesis Authority Pro theme
    • Why the release date for WordPress 5.2 was pushed back a week
    • What’s up with cPanel offering forced HTTPS redirects

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Course, Genesis 2.10, Chrome Lazy Load

    Tips this week include:
    • An Update on the Gutenberg Course progress you’ll really like
    • A request to tell me your special post/page creation needs for Gutenberg
    • The new videos I made for Heartwood Art and what I’ve learned from that
    • The ongoing tests for the Yoast SEO 11 update
    • What’s coming in Genesis 2.10
    • The Group Block I’m very excited about coming in Gutenberg Phase 2
    • Whether Chrome’s new lazy load function will knock ads stupid
    • A 2019 WP Site Maintenance Survey results post everyone should read

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO, Caching, Images, WP API, Gutenberg

    Tips this week include:
    • Upcoming DIY SEO Workshop series for doing a content revamp
    • WordPress API connection issues
    • Tutorial for how to whitelist your IP address in Cloudflare and why you need it
    • How my move to a new host went and where my sites call home now
    • My final SEO test for lazy loading images with 2 plugins
    • How I achieved a dramatic speed increase on one of my sites
    • What I’m working on now for the Gutenberg course
    • New posts on my woodworking site and how my first storyboarded video went
    • An update on the photo processing tool I’ll be using
    • A tutorial on a new image compression tool I tried that’s fantastic
    • Why I’m switching to a new image file format
    • How my final speed tests are going on my wood site for WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket
    • What’s in the new Discover report in Google Search Console
    • Why the Google de-indexing bug is being compared to a virus and how it may affect your Search Console reports
    • 7 tools to create better researched content