BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• Site and page SEO Workshop this week

• Odd stuff still happening on sites and hosting

• Video SEO course update

• Theme testing update and the one we dropped from our list

• The perfect course for designers who need to know more about speed

• What I’m testing in the WP 5.7 Release Candidate this week

• Gutenberg changes coming to WP 5.7

• Why SiteGround turned on Super Cacher for every account, and how to turn it off

• Ready to move to better hosting? Get your request in now

• Divi theme has ModSecurity issues and why my head blew up with their support replies

• Why not to let any host, theme, or plugin compromise your site security

• How to monetize your expertise and why you should

Tips this week include:

• Site and page SEO Workshop this week

• Odd stuff still happening on sites and hosting

• Video SEO course update

• Theme testing update and the one we dropped from our list

• The perfect course for designers who need to know more about speed

• What I’m testing in the WP 5.7 Release Candidate this week

• Gutenberg changes coming to WP 5.7

• Why SiteGround turned on Super Cacher for every account, and how to turn it off

• Ready to move to better hosting? Get your request in now

• Divi theme has ModSecurity issues and why my head blew up with their support replies

• Why not to let any host, theme, or plugin compromise your site security

• How to monetize your expertise and why you should

Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters!

Tips this week include:

Core Web Vitals workshop this week in the DIY SEO courseWhat’s in WordPress 5.6.2 that rolled out MondayWhy I’m concerned about lazy load of iframes coming in WP 5.7Why I think WP has no business including any type of lazy loadingHow the statistics of WordPress’ market share are misleadingUpdate on progress with the Video SEO courseUpdate on meeting with designers for theme speed tweaksWhy I’m looking at theme frameworks beyond Astra and Genesis

Listen to the Podcast

Join me Live to Discuss Tips Tuesday

I hope you’ll join for tonight’s livestream at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on the BlogAid Facebook Page. It’s a great way to get the deeper story on what’s reported in Tips Tuesday. And, I almost always have breaking news for the day too. So come join us live for the party.

Replay

Who I Help

All tips, advice, and suggestions in this, and all BlogAid posts and tutorials, are intended to empower business-minded, hands-on bloggers who are serious about making money with their sites and who are on hosts I can work on.

BlogAid Happenings

It’s going to be a super short Tips Tuesday today as there isn’t a lot of site news to share with you. And some weeks that’s a good thing as we can use the break, right?

But I will give you another peek into my crystal ball of what’s coming around the bend for us.

Video SEO course update

I’m still plugging away on the upcoming Video SEO course.

I’m in the slow part of it with gathering screenshots and such for all of the examples.

And if you’re in one of my courses, you know how real-world I make all of the examples.

There are 4 major sections to the course and I’m more than halfway finished with the 2nd section, which is by far the biggest one.

I’ve been doing livestreams to keep my site audit clients, who are our private testers group, updated and their feedback has been so helpful.

I’ll be featuring some of their videos and such as examples in the course too.

Theme Speed Tweaks for Core Web Vitals

This past week I was delighted to meet with my top 2 webmaster designers to go over tests I had taken to help us identify theme issues that are contributing to less than stellar Core Web Vitals metrics.

One of the biggest culprits is the mobile navigation. It will often be loaded as a bullet list of linked text prior to the CSS styling that collapses it down to the little hamburger icon you see when viewing on mobile.

We chatted about ways to mitigate that issue. One is to fix the load order with a good optimization plugin, like WP Fastest Cache premium, which has a combo of caching and optimization.

The other is to fix the load order of the theme, and that’s not as easy as it sounds, especially on older Genesis 3rd party themes that are bloated messes anyway.

So, if you’re in the market this year for a theme revamp, you need a designer who is also a webmaster and understands all about Core Web Vitals and elements in the theme that affect those metrics.

You also need to let that designer choose your new theme base if you want to stick with Genesis. Just forget all about StudioPress themes or getting one from a 3rd party child theme designer.

Looking Beyond Astra and Genesis

Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters!

Tips this week include:

Core Web Vitals workshop this week in the DIY SEO courseWhat’s in WordPress 5.6.2 that rolled out MondayWhy I’m concerned about lazy load of iframes coming in WP 5.7Why I think WP has no business including any type of lazy loadingHow the statistics of WordPress’ market share are misleadingUpdate on progress with the Video SEO courseUpdate on meeting with designers for theme speed tweaksWhy I’m looking at theme frameworks beyond Astra and Genesis

Listen to the Podcast

Join me Live to Discuss Tips Tuesday

I hope you’ll join for tonight’s livestream at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on the BlogAid Facebook Page. It’s a great way to get the deeper story on what’s reported in Tips Tuesday. And, I almost always have breaking news for the day too. So come join us live for the party.

Replay

Who I Help

All tips, advice, and suggestions in this, and all BlogAid posts and tutorials, are intended to empower business-minded, hands-on bloggers who are serious about making money with their sites and who are on hosts I can work on.

BlogAid Happenings

It’s going to be a super short Tips Tuesday today as there isn’t a lot of site news to share with you. And some weeks that’s a good thing as we can use the break, right?

But I will give you another peek into my crystal ball of what’s coming around the bend for us.

Video SEO course update

I’m still plugging away on the upcoming Video SEO course.

I’m in the slow part of it with gathering screenshots and such for all of the examples.

And if you’re in one of my courses, you know how real-world I make all of the examples.

There are 4 major sections to the course and I’m more than halfway finished with the 2nd section, which is by far the biggest one.

I’ve been doing livestreams to keep my site audit clients, who are our private testers group, updated and their feedback has been so helpful.

I’ll be featuring some of their videos and such as examples in the course too.

Theme Speed Tweaks for Core Web Vitals

This past week I was delighted to meet with my top 2 webmaster designers to go over tests I had taken to help us identify theme issues that are contributing to less than stellar Core Web Vitals metrics.

One of the biggest culprits is the mobile navigation. It will often be loaded as a bullet list of linked text prior to the CSS styling that collapses it down to the little hamburger icon you see when viewing on mobile.

We chatted about ways to mitigate that issue. One is to fix the load order with a good optimization plugin, like WP Fastest Cache premium, which has a combo of caching and optimization.

The other is to fix the load order of the theme, and that’s not as easy as it sounds, especially on older Genesis 3rd party themes that are bloated messes anyway.

So, if you’re in the market this year for a theme revamp, you need a designer who is also a webmaster and understands all about Core Web Vitals and elements in the theme that affect those metrics.

You also need to let that designer choose your new theme base if you want to stick with Genesis. Just forget all about StudioPress themes or getting one from a 3rd party child theme designer.

Looking Beyond Astra and Genesis

Tips this week include:

• Tips for writing blog drafts in Google Docs

• Whether having a blogging schedule helps or hurts your productivity

• Why I’m glad to hear WP is scaling back on planned releases for this year

• What I’m testing with lazy load for iframes coming in WP 5.7

• Finally, enhancements and stability improvements are coming for Reusable Blocks

• When Full Site Editing will become a minimal viable product

• The future of all WordPress themes

• ADA and UX live workshop in the DIY SEO course this week

• Update on progress with the Video SEO course

• Update on my deep speed test case study

• How I’m letting my own clients write the messaging on BlogAid

• Status of my site service wait list and who’s on it and who’s not

Tips this week include:

• Tips for writing blog drafts in Google Docs

• Whether having a blogging schedule helps or hurts your productivity

• Why I’m glad to hear WP is scaling back on planned releases for this year

• What I’m testing with lazy load for iframes coming in WP 5.7

• Finally, enhancements and stability improvements are coming for Reusable Blocks

• When Full Site Editing will become a minimal viable product

• The future of all WordPress themes

• ADA and UX live workshop in the DIY SEO course this week

• Update on progress with the Video SEO course

• Update on my deep speed test case study

• How I’m letting my own clients write the messaging on BlogAid

• Status of my site service wait list and who’s on it and who’s not

Tips this week include:

• Schema Markup live DIY SEO workshop this week

• HTTPS changes coming in WordPress 5.7

• Why you need to get a real and full HTTPS conversion

• Why I’m revamping the Webmaster tutorial section for Performance and postponing the HTTPS tutorial revamp

• What’s up with the letter you may have received from Amazon S3

• Why you may need to reclaim your site on Pinterest and a better place to put that code

• Why you need to check your HTTP3/QUIC setting at Cloudflare

• Changes to the Squoosh online image optimizer and why it is my fave tool

• A list of the best niche YouTube channels to follow

• What was in the email I sent to all of my site audit clients

• Details on the new speed tests I’m doing with plugin devs and designers

Tips this week include:

• Schema Markup live DIY SEO workshop this week

• HTTPS changes coming in WordPress 5.7

• Why you need to get a real and full HTTPS conversion

• Why I’m revamping the Webmaster tutorial section for Performance and postponing the HTTPS tutorial revamp

• What’s up with the letter you may have received from Amazon S3

• Why you may need to reclaim your site on Pinterest and a better place to put that code

• Why you need to check your HTTP3/QUIC setting at Cloudflare

• Changes to the Squoosh online image optimizer and why it is my fave tool

• A list of the best niche YouTube channels to follow

• What was in the email I sent to all of my site audit clients

• Details on the new speed tests I’m doing with plugin devs and designers

Tips this week include:

• DIY SEO Workshop for Tracking SEO Performance is this week

• The Video SEO course creation is underway

• BlogAid’s phoenix journey and the big changes I’m making and why

• What hosts have to do to protect against sophisticated hack attacks and how it impacts speed

• ModSecurity is blocking certain words

• More Full Site Editing features are coming in WP 5.7

• The plan for Full Site Editing to be a reality by the WP 5.8 release

• Why WP had to draw a line in the sand with plugins controlling their own updates

• Mediavine’s take on Web Stories

• How Gutenberg’s faster performance is eroding page builder dominance

• Where to get real-world, up-to-date tutorials for Gutenberg

Tips this week include:

• DIY SEO Workshop for Tracking SEO Performance is this week

• The Video SEO course creation is underway

• BlogAid’s phoenix journey and the big changes I’m making and why

• What hosts have to do to protect against sophisticated hack attacks and how it impacts speed

• ModSecurity is blocking certain words

• More Full Site Editing features are coming in WP 5.7

• The plan for Full Site Editing to be a reality by the WP 5.8 release

• Why WP had to draw a line in the sand with plugins controlling their own updates

• Mediavine’s take on Web Stories

• How Gutenberg’s faster performance is eroding page builder dominance

• Where to get real-world, up-to-date tutorials for Gutenberg