So you’ve setup member login and members-only content on your site. How will you know if your members are actually logging in to your site to access this content? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to track member logins on your WordPress website. Tracking member engagement gives you valuable insight into how your members … Read more How to track member logins in WordPress
If you are not using comments on your site, disabling comments can be a good way to reduce spam and speed up your WordPress website. There are a variety of ways to turn off WordPress comments, keep reading to get started with the simplest options. By default, WordPress gives you the ability to either disable comments on … Read more Reduce Spam – Disable WordPress Comments
Whether you are building a site for a professional association or a neighborhood association, a chamber of commerce or an arts council, an important first step is to add pages and content to your site. Once you have created your new page, you’ll want to link your page to your site’s navigation menu so that … Read more How to link pages to site menu in WordPress
Your website should have a favicon. A favicon or site icon is the small but powerful branding tool that appears in the browser tab next to your site title and it’s a great visual to both strengthen your brand and improve user experience. These powerful little images are not limited to the browser tab either, … Read more How to set your site icon (Favicon) for WordPress
WordPress 5.0+, aka Gutenberg blocks, makes it super easy to add buttons to your website! The new version of WordPress post editor (5.0 and above) now includes the option to add a button to your post or page without having to know any code at all. Just add a new button block, change the colors … Read more Add button to WordPress – no coding required
What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system (CMS). A CMS is a tool you can use to create web pages, store images, organize navigation ( a.k.a. manage your content ), so that you can focus on the customer facing parts of your site. Using WordPress, a theme and perhaps a few plugins, you … Read more Getting started with WordPress for DIY users
As you hopefully know by now, WordPress 5.0 brought some exciting new changes to the WordPress editor. Gutenberg or the new block editor for WordPress introduced us to a new way to create and edit WordPress pages, offering a lot more flexibility in page layouts especially. If you haven’t seen them yet… Check out Gutenberg … Read more What’s new in WordPress 5.1
Depending on the look you are creating for your membership site, you may or may not want to display your site’s sidebars on each individual Business Directory listing. In this tutorial will demonstrate how to use the free version of a very powerful WordPress plugin called ‘Content Aware Sidebars‘ to hide the content from the … Read more Hide sidebars from Business Directory Listings
Ever made an update to your WordPress website, but it didn’t show up right away? You may be looking at a “cached” version of the page. A cache is data that is temporarily stored in order to deliver the information faster the next time it is requested. Utilizing a cache on a website helps increase … Read more Clear WordPress Cache
WordPress 5.0 is here! This new version of WP brings BIG changes to the WordPress editor. A new editor, Gutenberg, which was released as a plugin earlier this year, will now be part of WordPress core. This will make writing, editing and building simple layouts much easier. As always with new changes and improvements come … Read more WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg Block Editor
Choosing the Best Free Theme for your Membership Site This is a challenging task! There are thousands of free themes online these days. How will you narrow down the choices, avoid pitfalls and choose the theme that will make your membership site successful? Plan Your Site Layout Make some notes. Visualize what you want your … Read more Find Best Free WordPress Themes
Photo by: Ellyot Increase Traffic to Chamber of Commerce Websites Your website is the key to positioning your chamber or membership organization as THE GO-TO RESOURCE for information about your local community. As you build awareness of your organization, your website and the resources you offer, your goal is to make your website the hub … Read more 6 Ideas to Increase Local Website Traffic
