December 12, 2020 — This tutorial offers an entry level guide to setting up your own self hosted WordPress site from the very beginning through your site going live with content!

December 6, 2020 — In this workshop, participants will learn the core concepts of block editor and its basic blocks, the anatomy of advanced block layout, and how to construct more complex and attractive layouts by just using blocks – no custom code or plugins.

December 5, 2020 — The site performance workshop on Learn WordPress goes into detail explaining why site performance is important for WordPress and explains tips on how to improve the performance of a WordPress site. The workshop also covers several techniques that allow users to improve the performance of their WordPress sites.

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December 3, 2020 — My blog traffic was growing at a very slow pace. I wanted that to change without spending money on advertising. After searching for solutions, I made a few shocking discoveries which I quickly, and easily implemented. As a result, my blog traffic has increased by 75% over the past 12 months, and that percentage continues to skyrocket!

December 3, 2020 — This Learn WordPress workshop will explain the features of the Theme Customizer in WordPress. The customizer provides a centralized place to change options that control the look of your WordPress site. This workshop covers how to locate and use the Customizer and the options that it includes.

December 1, 2020 — The workshop covers the differences between categories and tags and how to apply them to posts in WordPress. You will learn how to group posts into categories and subcategories according to topic areas. You’ll also learn how to use tags to label posts with keywords. You’ll understand how WordPress organizes posts using categories and tags, providing a means of taxonomy.

December 1, 2020 — Why would a hacker hack YOUR website? For fun, for glory? Not anymore! Hacking websites is now a monetized criminal enterprise. They don’t care about your website, they care about your website computing resources.

Come see what the hacker actually sees. Witness real accounts of your website password being guessed 1000’s of times per minute. See how that guy across from you at Starbucks is watching your web traffic as it floats through the Wi-Fi. See what happens when one of your employees gets tricked into opening that phishing email.

December 1, 2020 — This is a story about life. And how life can lead to crippling anxiety and depression at work and work can compound that with interest. This is about how everything came crashing down and how my WordPress agency is being rebuilt for a better future.

December 1, 2020 — As creators and marketers, bloggers and website owners face challenges when it comes to creating content plans. Aligning on a scope of work to feature on a blog and set of social media channels can be equally frustrating to the client as well as the creator.
-Creating Influencer Marketing Plans
—Who is your target demographic?
—Types of Influencer Marketing Content
—-Blog Content
—-Instagram Posts and Stories
—-YouTube Videos
—-Podcast Episodes
Basics of determining an effective plan and creating a scope of work.

November 30, 2020 — In the scheme of things, you probably don’t want to get as picky as I am.
Still:
You want to make sure your type is easy to read.
You want to make sure it speaks in the same voice as your site — it looks like it belongs.
Those things matter—a lot.
(Would you choose a swirly script for Jiffy Lube? Didn’t think so.)
But you don’t have to spend decades to learn the basics. Just come spend a few minutes learning a few basics that won’t change with the tech — at least as long as people still have eyes!