Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – HTTPS, PHP, WHM, Site Upgrades To Do Now

    Tips this week include:
    • Interview with Scratch to Published client Tara Dusko and her new site
    • New BlogAid Today Livestream Recap post
    • Splitting Multiple Sites into cPanels on WHM Hosting Webinar
    • New HTTPS Content Policy Security Header for sites with ads
    • Update on Bluehost and free SSL certificates
    • Updates on the top 10 reasons not to use free HTTPS conversion
    • Update on the 2nd wave of HTTPS conversion clients underway
    • 4 non-optional site upgrades you must do right now
    • The new PHP education pages from WP.org
    • Comment from Matt Mullenweg on how the Gutenberg text editor will impact the WP ecosystem
    • Major snag with WP using Facebook’s React Code and what that means for us

  • Tips Tuesday – WHM Hosting Webinar, Image and Video Galleries, WP 4.9

    Tips this week include:
    • New WHM Hosting Webinar Series on making your multiple sites faster and safer
    • The site foundation upgrades you need to get done right away
    • Goals and release schedule for WordPress 4.9
    • The new Gutenberg Text Editor may be here in 6 months
    • How to Add Watermarks to your old and new images
    • How to create a responsive image gallery
    • How to create a video gallery with FooGallery and Envira Galler
    • How to get notifications for livestreams on Facebook

  • Tips Tuesday – Ad blocker Busters, SEO Report, Gutenberg, Woocommerce, Contact Form 7

    Tips this week include:
    • Severe DDoS Attack at A2 Hosting
    • WP Fastest Cache Tests at SiteGround
    • WHM Reseller Account Webinars coming next week
    • What’s New in Gutenberg Text Editor for this week
    • Publishers moving back to WordPress from Medium
    • Beginner’s Guide to Woocommerce REST API
    • Great ways to style Contact Form 7
    • How to get around ad-blockers
    • Why you must have a fast site if you want your links to show up on Facebook
    • How to secure your social media accounts
    • August Google Webmaster Report

  • Tips Tuesday – Photoshop Alternatives, Caching Tests, SiteLock and Patchman

    Tips this week include:
    • HTTPS Redirects update
    • SiteGround and WP Fastest Cache test update
    • Why you need to split multiple sites into their own cPanels and how to do it
    • What new tests and tutorials are rolling down the pike
    • A progress report on turning my carving site into passive income
    • What SiteLock acquiring Patchman means for you
    • The end of Adobe Flash coming
    • Whether or not Google uses Google Analytics to find new links to crawl
    • 9 free or cheap alternatives to Photoshop and tutorials on how to use them
    • Why video marketing is a big part of Facebook’s rising stock prices
    • Easy ways for you to get started with video marketing

  • Tips Tuesday – WP 4.8.1 Coming, HTTPS Gets Top Traffic, Content Funnels

    Tips this week include:
    • Live Open Q&A Chat for DIY SEO members
    • What’s happening in the Booming Bloggers Hub
    • How to migrate your site to a new host
    • How and why to switch your site to PHP 7
    • An update on HTTPS and CloudFlare settings
    • Site revamp project updates
    • Site audit project updates
    • My first look at the new Custom HTML Text Widget coming in WP 4.8.1
    • When we expect WP 4.8.1 to roll out
    • Plugins that are dropping your visitors because they can’t handle IPv6 addresses
    • What you should know about sites converted to HTTPS attracting top traffic
    • The difference in how videos rank in Google search and on YouTube
    • How to check if your content marketing efforts and strategy are working
    • How to create top-of-funnel content that works
    • Using GIFs as highlight images

  • Tips Tuesday – Secure Site Webinar, Google Crawls, Brute Force Protection

    Tips this week include:
    • The Secure Site Setup Webinar this Thursday
    • New time for the live Tips Tuesday recap
    • How to bring joy back into your business
    • Site revamp projects
    • Accelerated site creation classes
    • How to turn off the link counter in Yoast SEO
    • A super Google Crawl Bot case study
    • Google testing new Search Console design
    • New image optimization tester tool
    • Why and how to rotate your SALT keys for brute force protection
    • Why to disable XML-RPC to prevent brute force and DDoS attacks
    • What’s up with A2 Hosting partnering with Sucuri
    • New Gutenberg Boilerplate for designing your own blocks
    • The new features in Gutenberg 0.5.0
    • Dev discussion updates on PHP and WordPress
    • Why you should update your PHP version now
    • New Webmention and Annotation standards and how to get them on your site now
    • Liquid Web acquires iThemes Exchange e-commerce plugin
    • Staggering trends in video marketing adoption rates

  • Tips Tuesday – Secure Site Setup, WP Text Widget and Editor, SEO Crawler

    Tips this week include:
    • Launch of the Secure Site Setup Webinar
    • How doing new things on your site can reveal problems
    • Why same ole same ole site ways don’t cut it anymore
    • How the Millennials are doing things differently – and succeeding
    • How getting educated about your site saves you from getting ripped off
    • Progress on the WP 4.8 Rich Text Widget
    • When WP 4.8.1 might roll out
    • Why some folks are pleading for Gutenberg to not be included in core
    • When we might see Gutenberg available for all sites
    • The new link counter in Yoast SEO 5.0 and how to make use of it
    • Why you shouldn’t worry about duplicate content issues when repurposing
    • A new SEO crawler I’m checking out
    • Let’s Encrypt passing the 100 million mark with certificates and what’s coming
    • Rich Snippets basics and adding them with Google Tag Manager
    • Why nginx is a host’s best friend to speed up a site
    • Which is the best host for you