Tips Tuesday

This week we’ll have a little fireside chat, just you and me.

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 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

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 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 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

Tips this week include:
• I’m moving to a new host this week
• The new Gutenberg course is well underway and what’s in it
• Is there really an online course frenzy happening? I think so, and what I’m doing about it
• Links to my speed test posts and the new ones on the way
• A new Pinterest pinning methods post and podcast in the works
• The latest post in my hobby to money-making site series on how my time in the music biz taught me to write posts
• The new Block Manager and better column support coming in WP 5.2
• What you need to know about the new PHP version in the works
• A super post for designers on the difference in font icons and SVG icons and why they matter for speed
• 5 easy steps to increase your blog traffic and which ones may not be so easy