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
Translate your Business Directory You asked, we answered! The Chamber Dashboard Business Directory is now fully compatible with WPML, the WordPress Multilingual Translation Plugin. This is good news especially for multi-cultural chambers and membership sites. Your can now make your Directory more accessible to large sections of your target audience who may speak and write … Read more Business Directory plugin for WordPress now fully compatible with WPML
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
How to improve SEO for your membership site & get more visitors by creating quality business directory listings, including robust descriptions, interactive media, outbound links, engaging titles and more. Read more
Getting ready to make the switch to Gutenberg? Want to be ahead of the game? The good news is that you can download the Gutenberg plugin for free and try it out. Then, if you decide that you are not quite ready to make the switch full time, you can simply deactivate the plugin to … Read more WordPress Gutenberg and Chamber Dashboard
Give Gutenberg a Try! In the next few days, WordPress 4.9.8 is scheduled to be released. It will include the option to ‘Give Gutenberg a Try’, which will automatically install the Gutenberg plugin. Gutenberg refers to big changes to the WordPress editor. These changes currently exist as a plugin, however based on Matt Mullenwig’s … Read more How to prep your site for Gutenberg
