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See the new features and caveats in WordPress 3.9, which is due to be released April 16th. It has several significant changes, including to the TinyMCE text editor and how media is handled. There’s also a new widget previewer and support for audio/video playlists. In this video I give you a quick tour of these changes and best practices when using some of them.
The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast had a major update released on March 11. This quick video shows you all of the changes and settings you’ll want to check. They include settings in the Social section for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. And, new Bulk Editors have been added as well. Watch now.
Schema markup for authorship – it’s time for you to get serious about adding the proper tags to your site or face a Google penalty. Google now considers any page tagged with authorship code as rich snippet spam. There is a simple way for you to get right with Google. And I’ll show you how in this quick video.
If your site is on the Genesis framework, it’s easy to verify your site on Pinterest without a plugin. Doing it the way I’ll show you in this video and written tutorial will also decrease the resource load on your site, and remove any potential security risks too.
In this quick video, you’ll see all the new features in WordPress 3.8, plus tips on how to use them.
In this quick video you’ll see how to hide your content from search bots and keep it out of both your sitemaps using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. There are several combinations of settings and I’ll tell you about the different options and which ones are best to use to suit your content goals.
Get a better text editor for WordPress called TinyMCE Advanced. It will stop WordPress from removing your special coding and give you all sorts of extra features. In this quick video I’ll take you through how to set it up properly. That’s important because there are things in it that could override your theme style…
The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast has a new setting that was turned on by default a couple of updates ago that affects your permalinks. It’s a little thing. But it could have a big impact on your SEO and whether your post gets the click in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). In this quick video I’ll show you exactly what the change is, how your permalinks will appear, plus a couple of caveats with using this, or any plugin, that removes stop words from permalinks.
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