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 in WordPress. Tracking member engagement gives you valuable insight into how your members are using … Read more
Update permalink for a WordPress page or post Every page, post or custom post type on your website has it’s own unique URL. This URL is referred to as the permalink for the page. Think of it as the exact address of the page. If you share the link with someone, they can go directly … Read more
Ever have an issue getting the right image to show up when you share your blog posts to Facebook or other social media sites? It’s happened to me…I am using a lovely image in my blog post, but when I share the post, the wrong image is posted to Facebook and all that shows is … Read more
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
This tutorial will teach you the basics of how to create a new WordPress page, how to add a menu in WordPress and how to add a page to your menu. Linking pages to the site menu creates a great user experience (UX) for your members! Whether you are building a site for a professional … Read more
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
Merchant’s Associations benefit local business owners in a variety of ways, from strengthening the voice of business owners, to opportunities to collaborate on local city issues, to increasing visibility of its members within the community. A Business Directory is a proactive way to increase visitors to your association’s site, boost your SEO position, strengthen business … Read more
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
Translate 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 in … Read more
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
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
Depending on the look you are creating for your membership site, you may want to hide sidebars from Business Directory listings pages for a cleaner look. 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 sidebars on … Read more
