Good News! The shortest podcast you will ever hear is back! 2 Minute Tuesdays is back! I want to start with an introduction to the complicated and often times confusing world of Lead Capture - and guess what? 2 minutes is just scratching the surface. Well, to be clear, this 2 minutes is going …
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How To Stop “Form Spammers” (better)
A few weeks ago I showed you how to stop the spammers from swamping you with bogus emails from your comment and IDX system. You can read more about that: "How to Reduce SPAM". I also dabbled a bit for your website forms and discussed the idea of Akismet, the Honeypot, and CAPTCHA. One of the …
How to Embed a Video
A better title would be "How to Embed a YouTube Video in Gutenberg Properly" I'll bet if you been using Gutenberg (WordPress 5.0+) for any length of time you've embedded a video. It seems easy enough as there's a handy dandy block for YouTube video right on your dashboard. BUT... If …
Don’t justify an image
Yes I'm going to do a video to show you something about an image and why you should never justify an image. Of course what we're talking about here is putting an image to the right or the left side of a block of text and having that text 'wrap' around the image. In this I'm going to assume 1 …
How to (properly) add an Image
Images are everything when it comes to a good blog post. Images add visual interest, add to the story or compliment the story you are trying to tell. Images can break up the "wall of text" and help the reader actually read all the way through your post. Images are good! Here's how to properly …
How to write a “basic” post in Gutenberg
In this post I’m going to show you how to write what I see as a “basic” post using the Gutenberg editor found in WordPress 5.0+. I’ll cover from start to finish what you’ll need to do using just the simplest of techniques. What is a “Basic” post? Good question. I’ll suggest that most of …
How to do EVERYTHING in Gutenberg
I'll keep saying it - there's a HUGE change coming to WordPress. If you have a site that I built, I've also included a section in the backend titled "Need Help?" In it you'll find a variety of helpful videos that will walk you through most anything you need to do on your site. Here's what that …
Plugins: When to update and why
When it comes to WordPress, I generally see two different kinds of site owners... The ones that never (ever) update their site. We're not talking about updates like posts or pages, we're talking about the updates to WordPress core, Themes and Plugins. I've logged into existing sites (not …
350 Words
All to often I'm asked the simple question. How many words should I write? I guess I buried the lede with the title on that one, eh? Well, actually I didn't. Because 350 words isn't always correct. If you want a quotable snippet, Your post should be the minimal amount of words …
Making your site “SECURE”
And by secure, what we're talking about is that little S in https:// It starts with obtaining what is called a SSL Certificate. There are a few different kinds including "Domain Validated", "Company Validated", and "Wildcard" just to name a few. [qa cat=ssl] They can cost anywhere …
Website Management and Subscription (for Non HTTPS)
Thanks! This is the ongoing subscription portion for Website Management. You'll just need to do this once. This includes Weekly backup of all your posts, pages, images and comments. Monthly backup of Databases, Themes, Plugins and all Core files. Hardening of site to prevent …
Secure or Not Secure?
When you are building a new site these days all the cool kids are building their sites "Secure". What does SECURE mean? Should you build your site SECURE too? That's a great question for today! Record a Better Intro than Lesley! Back when, all sites were not secure. Everyone had …