This is a special edition of Tips Tuesday with a report on my adventures at WordCampUS this past weekend, You’ll see and hear about all the super folks I finally got to meet in person and all the site success tips and news I picked up over the weekend.

Plus, you’ll discover why I’ve come to agree that Gutenberg is truly the future of WordPress and the web.

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid Holiday Specials Continue

• Why you need to watch the updated DIY SEO tutorials

• The big traffic changes coming in 2018

• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 4.9 yet

• Which page builder plugin is calling it quits and why

• A peek at SEO for 2018

• Workarounds for a page template bug in WP 4.9

• What I found while searching in the new WP 4.9 code editor

• New features at the GTMetrix online tester

• Which host has been doing emergency maintenance for days

• Why WordFence is rebranding as Defiant

• The fun way CloudFlare creates truly random encryption

Tips this week include:

• The BlogAid Holiday Specials are here!

• The end of the Tips Tuesday live recap

• Bugs in the new FireFox Quantum browser that will affect webmasters

• Details on WordCampUS coming up in December

• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 4.9 or not

• What’s up with all the internet connection issues

• What popular theme builder doesn’t convert to HTTPS

• Why the Really Simple SSL Pro plugin is a rip off

• An open survey on what you want to learn most about SEO

Tips this week include:

• A fun video tour of what’s new in WordPress 4.9

• DIY SEO course updates

• A preview of what will be included in the next SEO Workshop

• An update on the new Google Analytics and Search Console Courses

• What’s up with SSL certificates that can’t auto renew

• Why WP-Spamshield was pulled from the WP plugin repository

• A new jpg compression tool in the works

• Why designers hate Gutenberg but shouldn’t and what site owners need to know about this

• A new guide on local SEO ranking factors for 2018

• 4 ways to shift your thinking to focus on your audience

• 12 types of awesome visual content for your blog posts

• How shopping on Instagram will dominate this holiday season and why Pinterest folks need to care

Tips this week include:

• What’s up with all the internet and site outages

• Best comment reply notification plugins results are in

• Revamp of the DIY SEO course underway

• What I discovered while making the WP Rocket tutorials

• Scary security issues with one ad network

• What’s going into and coming out of core in WordPress 4.9

• A serious discussion about WP core using iFrames going forward

• The top 5 link building methods for 2018 that everyone should read

• Tips for how to show up better in local search results

• How to target different generations on social media and why you should

Tips this week include:

• Why there’s new music on Tips Tuesday

• More of what I’m finding in After HTTPS checks and the big thing missing from the all

• Why I decided to use Buffer instead of CoSchedule for now

• Wrapping up the Comment Reply Notification plugin tests

• Update on my new WP Rocket plugin tests

• WordPress 4.9 beta 4 released and what’s not in it, thankfully

• Confirmation on whether TinyMCE Advanced will work with Gutenberg

• Results of 40 end users trying out Gutenberg – a case study from Yoast

• Why you need to add your 2 cents on the new WordPress survey

• What’s in the PHP 7.2 release coming soon

• Why the new EU plugin standard will be of interest to those who run ads

• The Postman SMTP plugin is now under new management

• How to get your site ready for Google’s Mobile First Index

• A new single optin default at MailChimp

• My results with the new Sonar testing tool from Microsoft

• Why you get radically different results with different online testers

• The retirement of FireFox Firebug

Tips this week include:

• What me and a client found in our After HTTPS Conversion check

• Why we’re having a redo on a comment reply notification plugin test

• What happens to your old comments when you change to a new User in WordPress

• Stopping bots from running end around CloudFlare

• WP Rocket tests are starting

• New mini courses, workshops, and boot camp in the works

• WordPress 4.9 Beta 3 released, and the dog doo doo in it

• Google’s take on whether comments are really better on your site than on social media

• How links in headers, footers, content, and navigation impact your SEO

• The trick to finding the balance with titles that work for SEO, social media, and site visitors

• Facebook ditches authorship

• Whether Google bots support the HTTP/2 protocol and why we care

• Do you know if your site is ADA compliant?

• The 3 attributes of great content

Tips this week include:

• New After HTTPS Services launched

• 5 Ways to Create Image Widgets: That Won’t Slow Down Your Site

• Update on our Comment Reply Notification Plugin tests

• What’s up with the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability

• Why I’m keeping a close eye on BuzzSumo being acquired by Brandwatch

• Cool image gallery layouts in the MaxGallery plugin

• What Gutenberg Means to the Future of WordPress

• WordPress 4.9 Beta 2 Released

• How to Make Time for Social Media

• Why I’m Checking Out CoSchedule

• Why an argument for using AMP falls short for most of us bloggers

• How to Deal with Scope Creep on a Web Design Project

• 7 Secrets For Getting Traffic To Your Blog

• Whether You Should Add Push Notifications to Your WordPress Website

Tips this week include:

• Update on the Comment Reply Notification plugin tests

• A video to see just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your site

• Why we won’t be using the Gutenberg text editor when it rolls out

• A new Gutenberg test feedback link

• New SEO courses underway

• Changes to the Webmaster Training courses

• New services for after HTTPS switch help

• What’s in the WP 4.9 Beta release

• Major data breach at the Disqus comment service

• How to protect your accounts and site from attacks like this

• An epic must read post on the three marks of great content

• A beginner’s look at UX and SEO

• Why webmasters want to learn how to manage their sites from the command line

• The big news with the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin

• The best free and paid stock photo sites

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid posts syndicated in The Daily Bolt

• Live chats this week with DIY SEO and Webmaster Level 6 members

• Comment reply notification plugin tests underway

• Why you must switch away from the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin

• A super beginner’s guide to Regular Expressions

• How staying logged into your site is causing performance issues

• Why there is no such thing as 3 top ranking factors for SEO and what to focus on instead

• What’s new in Yoast 5.5

• 5 easy steps for lead generation that every site owner should read

• Cloudflare releases a new video streaming platform

• How even 2 seconds of video watch time can radically increase your revenue

• A super speed comparison of popular page builders