You might have seen this when you tried to visit your website: If you have an SSL certificate already installed and you’re still getting the little yellow warning triangle by your URL, you may be wondering why. A good way to find out it by using https://www.whynopadlock.com Testing your URL here will give you the…
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2020 State of the Word
Mark your calendars for the 2020 State of the Word – the annual keynote address of WordPress given by project co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. The event will be streamed on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on Thursday, December 2020, at 16:00 UTC and will have live captioning in multiple languages. Meetup groups around the world are encouraged to host watch parties to celebrate this year’s …
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FEATURED WORDPRESS MEETUP
Several WordPress Meetup Groups in the U.S. are joining hands to organize the: WordPress “Mega Meetup”: The “Plugin Draft” Episode event on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 6:30 PM EST. The event aims to highlight several useful plugins and demystify them for participants, and will also feature a host of talks and sessions. The organizers promise a fun event…
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Scheduling WordPress Posts
If you want to prepare your blog posts in advance, but want them to come out at regular intervals rather than all at once, you can easily schedule your posts. Simply go where you would normally click Publish and click Edit to schedule instead. This works great, especially when implemented with a social media plan…
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Email Links Not Working on Websites? Here’s How to Fix It
I noticed a while ago that when I clicked the email icon or link on a website that it was just opening to a blank page instead of opening my email client, like it used to. I ignored it for a while but finally figured it was time to fix it. Then I found this…
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If You’re a Nonprofit, You Should Know About This
Google Grants Imagine what you could do with $10,000 USD of in-kind advertising every month from Google Ads, an online advertising solution from Google. You could recruit more volunteers. Attract more donations. And share your story with audiences all over the globe. It’s all possible with Google Ad Grants. Find out more here: https://www.google.com/grants/
Happy 17th Birthday, WordPress!
Today WordPress celebrates its 17th birthday. It’s been 17 years since the first release of WordPress. That’s right, it’s been 17 years since a 19-year-old freshman, Matt Mullenweg, and British web developer, Mike Little launched the initial version of what would become the Web’s most popular Content Management System (CMS). Read this article for some history….
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Technology 101
Have you ever been on the phone with tech support and had no idea what they were talking about? Don’t know a modem from a router? Then this presentation is for you. Before you purchase a website, learn all the basic terminology you need to know.
Add Images to Your RSS Feed for Your MailChimp Campaign
If you don’t already have a subscription option for your posts to get emailed out, you should. I use Mailchimp because it’s free for my number of subscribers and has great features. Speaking of which, if you haven’t already signed up for my newsletter, you should! I have Mailchimp set up with automation so every…
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