Day 6 Screen Options in WP
Screen options are a handy tool on the WordPress dashboard/admin area. This help you locate missing options.
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Day 5 The Blog Feed
WordPress has a feed which is connected to the blog’s main query. What this means is that you can share a map of your blog posts, including by category, with external services. This makes it handy for other websites to curate and display your blog posts, or choose from them when pulling in data. I’ll
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Day 4 Notifying Other Services
In day 4 we are looking at a powerful capability of WordPress. And that is the ability to notify other websites of an update. These websistes are specialised websites. You may have heard names like pingomatic etc… However, notification services is different to pings nad trackbacks to other WordPress websites. If you go to settings->writing
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Day 3 Changing the Category Base
In WordPress you can change the word ‘category’ or ‘tag’ to something else. These are known as taxonomies and ways of classifying blog posts on your site. Let’s suppose you had a site which was a slightly different flavour. Maybe it was about WordPress Meetup Events. Then you may want to change category to event.
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Day 2 Gutenberg & Ordered Lists
When I first came up against Gutenberg, I didn’t feel confident or satisfied. Then I realised its potential.
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Day 1 URL Guessing
Did you know that WordPress will try and guess the url before it throws a 404 error? A 404 error is simply a page not found. But if you type a partial URL, WordPress will guess the rest based on what you’ve typed so far. Try this on for size: https://markofapproval.com/about Not there is no
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30 Days of WordPress
Given that we are just in December and the holiday season has begun, I’d like to share 30 things you may not know about WP, over the next 30 days.
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Career After Sport
After completing her other site, SC Career Transition, Julie returned to me to have her second site updated. Just like SC, this site had two langauges: English & French. This meant we had to produce each page twice and tie them together using a multi-lingual plugin. We used Beaver Builder for the page builder so
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Adding Coaching to Your Membership Site
I remember taking a training from a well known marketer. In this training he said membership sites have 3 important functions. Training. Community. Coaching. Maybe you don’t have all these components in your membership. In your defence, there is no one rule on how you should structure your membership site. But in my experience, the
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How to save yourself from entrepreneurial burnout
If you are a service provider and selling time for money; you’ll most likely come up against a ceiling. You will eventually be fully booked, out of time, and the only way forward is to raise your rates.
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