The Complete Guide To Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

The Complete Guide to Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

Yoast SEO is possibly the most well-known SEO plugin for WordPress and it has a lot of features. But a lot of people mis-use the plugin, thinking that simply installing and activating is all that’s needed, or mis-using features like Focus Keyword.

This guide explains all of the features, which settings to use and how to use important features correctly, to optimize your content. SEO isn’t a one-step process that can be handled with the activation of a plugin. It requires your participation as well!

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Where To Find WordPress Themes – Free & Premium

Where To Find WordPress Themes – Free & Premium

Choosing the right WordPress theme is one of the hardest parts of setting up your site. The plethora of choices makes it harder, not easier, as most people are paralyzed by the options.

Not only that, but it’s like the Wild West out there, with all kinds of cowboys claiming they’ve got the best theme to beat all themes. Who can you believe?!

Here is a selection of trusted theme shops to choose from.

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How To Go Beyond WordPress Basics

How To Go Beyond WordPress Basics

If you want to become more proficient with WordPress, and develop confidence with, and understanding of, the more technical aspects, this tutorial is for you. It explains some of the skills and knowledge you need to move from a beginner’s understanding of WordPress, to an intermediate level. We’ll look behind the scenes of your WordPress site, explain the file structure and more.

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How To Set Up A Free Download With Email Capture In Your WooCommerce Shop

How To Set Up a Free Download with Email Capture in your WooCommerce Shop

I’ve had some clients in the past who wanted to set up a free download in their WooCommerce store, as an email list building strategy.

In reality it can be a little cumbersome to do a free download in exchange for an email address within a store context because it takes several more clicks on the part of the user, than it would for a typical opt-in form. The steps I provide here will significantly streamline the process. I wouldn’t recommend it as your only opt-in process, but if you really want/need to use your WooCommerce store for this, the method in this tutorial will certainly ease the main pain points.

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2 Ways To Safely Customize Your WordPress Site Without A Child Theme

2 Ways To Safely Customize Your WordPress Site Without A Child Theme

Here are 2 ways to safely make modifications to your site’s CSS and PHP functions, without creating a child theme. It’s based on my recent talk at WordCamp San Diego.

This year (2016) I gave a talk at WordCamp San Diego as part of the Beginners’ Bootcamp, entitled “Customizing Without Hacking”. It was an introduction to best practices for customizing WordPress without doing anything that will break your site or make it a nightmare to maintain.

Learning from the beginning how to customize the right way will make your future-self’s life much easier.

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Computer Skills For Bloggers

Once you start blogging you're going to find that it's a lot more than just writing and figuring out WordPress! I've found that a lot of clients are frustrated by…

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WordPress Teacher & Tutoring

Would you like to learn WordPress effectively and efficiently with the help of a real, live WordPress teacher? Someone who can answer your questions and provide guidance based on years…

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Do You Need A Child Theme?

Do You Need A Child Theme?

Creating a child theme is generally the best practice  for modifying or customizing an existing theme. However in a couple of cases there may be another, easier way, especially for…

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