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
What is GDPR and how does it affect my WordPress website? Hopefully by now, you are aware that on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently enacted by the EU will come into effect. This new law applies to all companies collecting data belonging to EU citizens, even if this is done … Read more Chamber Dashboard and GDPR
Did you know that there are thousands of plugins in the WordPress ecosystem? This is great news for you because it means tons of new features that you can add to your website without even having to learn any code! More good news, the Chamber Dashboard themes and plugins are designed to work with as … Read more Chamber Dashboard Friendly Plugins
What is Gutenberg for WordPress? You may be a WordPress developer building WordPress websites for a living or a Chamber or membership organization focused on building your numbers and engaging your members. Either way, if you are using WordPress, you should be aware that Gutenberg is on its way. Depending on who you talk to, … Read more What is Gutenberg Anyway?
Need to hide the WordPress page title for your page or post? By default, WordPress displays the title of every page. Page titles can be useful for drawing your user’s attention, as well, they provide a definite SEO benefit. However, there are times when you might not want to use a page title. For example … Read more How to Hide WordPress Page Title
