Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• The behind-the-scenes story on my new woodworking venture
• Why I changed my mind about the new theme on the wood site
• My speed tests are complete and what’s next on the case study test list
• Why I’m postponing all Gutenberg related stuff
• What’s in the new roadmap for Phase 2 of Gutenberg
• A webinar on page building with Gutenberg this week that all designers will want to attend
• A great guide to check your site for ADA compliance
• Whether it’s okay or not to update to Genesis 2.8.1
• How to safely update plugins with WP Rollback in play
• How to backup your plugins prior to update
• What to do while that backup is running
• What sticky bar plugins me and my clients are looking into
• When, and when not, to put ads on your site

Tips this week include:
• The surprising tester that is back in my speed test top 2
• Why your host type matters so much for speed
• An update on the social share buttons case study
• Inside scoop on my recent chat with the folks at Mediavine
• My progress on the new woodshop
• Why you might need to consider dumping sidebars from your next theme
• The firestorm on Instagram and why you must start watermarking all of your images
• My take on the recent Pinterest meltdown
• Big changes coming to Google images
• What Google pulling snippets from PDFs has to do with your robots.txt file
• Why you need to care about Dominos getting hit with a lack of ADA compliance law suit
• What’s in the new Gutenberg Blocks repository
• The premade style blocks I’m checking out
• Major security concerns over a new feature coming to WordPress 5.1
• Why you should use Chrome to surf the web
• Whether or not you can use trademarked phrases like Super Bowl in your posts

Tips this week include:
• Why better security equals a faster site and cheaper hosting
• A progress report on the Heartwood Art woodshop makeover
• Why you need to keep all of your social media accounts active and the bullet I dodged
• Why I’m taking a course on affiliate marketing
• The SEO I’ll be setting up on my new YouTube channel
• Why I’m tickled pink with the investment I made in my new video camera
• The new social sharing buttons case study is underway and what else I’m testing
• Why working with influencers is so important
• Finding new life for this podcast on Instagram
• New MediaVine research I’m doing for better speed on sites with ads
• When are we moving to Gutenberg?
• What they’re working on in Phase 2 of Gutenberg that just cranked up
• Why you need to ensure you know how to use the native Text and Image widgets we have now
• The release schedule for WordPress 5.1
• Why webmasters need to set up dedicated test sites for WordPress
• What the big Collection #1 Data Breach was all about and how to protect your online accounts
• What’s in Genesis 2.8 that promises a new theme experience for us and theme developers
• Whether it’s okay to update to Genesis 2.8 yet or not
• Proposed revision to CSS Coding Standards for WordPress sites

Tips this week include:
• What the BlogAid survey results revealed and the new classes I’ll be offering
• The plugins I’ll be testing in my social share button case study
• What caused a super delay in posting on Heartwood Art
• The big interface change in the TinyMCE Advanced plugin
• What’s in the WordPress 5.1 beta version just released
• Why I’m thrilled with Yoast’s proposal for speeding up WordPress

Tips this week include:
• New surveys are out for BlogAid groups
• An update on what I found in my play time with Gutenberg and Genesis
• An update on my theme revamp services and Gute classes
• Why I’m investing so much into my new woodworking business right up front
• What I’ll be using for client interviews and livestreaming soon
• How you can help with my new share button case study
• An update on using Google reCAPTCHA v3 with Contact Form 7
• A reminder to delete the new WP theme after updating to WP 5.x
• What’s coming in the first meeting of the new WordPress Governance project
• A peek into what’s in the new Genesis 2.8 beta theme built on Gute blocks
• Why we need to pay attention to Beyonce getting sued over what’s missing on her site
• Tips on your image Alt Text for Google and Pinterest
• How Beaver Builder is changing in the post-Gutenberg era
• How some site DIY and ignorance can cost you more in the long run
• How to avoid HTTPS gotchas down the road

This is a special edition with a peek into my crystal ball and what I believe will empower you as a DIY site owner and bring you success in the coming year.

Tips this week include:
• Bonus sessions coming for the WP 5 / Gutenberg workshop
• What’s coming in the live DIY SEO workshops that start in January
• A chance to get in on the BlogAid holiday discounts before time runs out
• Help with upgrading your PHP version before the end of the year
• Why I started a brand new email list for Heartwood Art
• Why I’m so excited about incremental backups coming to UpdraftPlus
• And what’s in store for the near future of the Genesis theme framework

Tips this week include:
• The 2 new social media places to follow Heartwood Art Creations
• Where I’ll be blogging about turning a hobby site into a business
• A status update on the WP 5 / Gutenberg Workshops
• Whether it’s okay or not to remove the Easy Updates Manager plugin or not
• My impressions of Gutenberg after playing with it for a few days
• Genesis updates 6 top themes for native Gutenberg compliance with fresh Gute themes on the way
• News about the PHP updates we have to do before year’s end
• What’s in the new speed benchmarks for PHP 7.3
• Matt’s State of the Word address is now on WP TV
• What’s in the upcoming release of WP 5.0.2 later this week
• What versions will auto update and the difference in minor vs major releases
• A new all in one analytics plugin from Google that I’m beta testing