WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

This week on WPwatercooler we're recapping WordCamp Orange County with the organizers of the event.

00:05 What works, what doesn't work

00:06 We tested some fun things at this WordCamp

00:07 How to increase your attendance on Sunday

00:08 How to return your badges to get more people to attend on Sunday

00:09 Sunday Social

00:10 Unofficial events the day before WordCamp

00:11 Golf Tournament & K1 Racing

00:12 Hallway Track & Bid for 2019 WordCamp US in Orange County

00:14 Favorite Interviews of Hallway Track

00:15 Speakers

00:16 Tracks

00:17 Venue

00:18 Happiness Bar

00:20 Discussions

00:21 speaker selection?

00:22 Tips for getting selected to speak

00:24 Slide Templates

00:26 Design

00:27 Venue Highlights

00:28 Diesel Brew

00:28 Tips for making your sponsors happy

00:29 Volunteers

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can create, sell tickets to, and managed an event using WordPress.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can manage your WordPress website(s) using external services making easy work to update multiple websites. * Manage Multiple WordPress Sites * ManageWP–Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard * InfiniteWP-Multiple WordPress site management solution * ServerPilot|PHP and WordPress Hosting on DigitalOcean * Home-StagingPilot * MainWP WordPress Manager-Manage Multiple WordPress Sites * Best Plugins to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites in 2017 * WP Time Capsule * WP Time Capsule – Free Incremental Daily Backups for WordPress * Maintainn Tools * Jetpack Manage — Jetpack for WordPress

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can manage your WordPress website(s) using external services making easy work to update multiple websites.

* Manage Multiple WordPress Sites
* ManageWP–Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard
* InfiniteWP-Multiple WordPress site management solution
* ServerPilot|PHP and WordPress Hosting on DigitalOcean
* Home-StagingPilot
* MainWP WordPress Manager-Manage Multiple WordPress Sites
* Best Plugins to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites in 2017
* WP Time Capsule
* WP Time Capsule – Free Incremental Daily Backups for WordPress
* Maintainn Tools
* Jetpack Manage — Jetpack for WordPress

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This week on WPblab Bridget Willard and Jason Tucker will be discussing the ways in which you can manage social media using 3rd party tools to help you the WordPress freelancer spend less time doing more. * Sharing buttons on your blog/site are super important – not everyone is going to have or install extensions to help them share your posts * Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ * Twitter https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator * Mashshare https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ — social media share buttons * Social Warfare https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/ * Yoast SEO Plugin — Allow Open Graph Data (Social Settings — Enable Facebook) * Don’t install with another SEO plugin, just use it by itself! * Make sure to use and update your metadata!! * Don’t forget your feature images * Use iOS to grab the featured image on a iPhone or iPad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imagedrain-download-all-images-from-safari/id932866396?mt=8 * Buffer.com — Social sharing and scheduling for Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus * Even the free account will allow you to set a schedule * shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day so that your followers and fans see your updates more often * Can choose to share posts immediately or save it to your queue * 10 social profiles in the Awesome Plan for $10/mo * https://buffer.com/awesome?utm_campaign=footer * Supports campaign tracking and analytics * ReBuffer – find what’s performing well and reschedule it for posting again! * Using the right tools for the right reasons is how you optimize your time * Automation vs. Scheduling – automation does not involve human interaction, scheduling is a human carefully crafting posts and setting them up for optimal times * https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/session/smarter-social-sharing-for-killer-content-marketing/ * Hootsuite.com / Hootsuite Pro is $14.99 * (Bridget’s affiliate link: http://signup.hootsuite.com/signup-upgrade/?utm_campaign=partner_commission_junction&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_medium=partner ) * Will either automatically schedule posts or you can choose a time * Link Shortening: Bitly.com * Branded short domains from Bitly – https://bitly.com/pages/landing/branded-short-domains-powered-by-bitly? * Question: Scheduling Tweets, why do them at different times? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0e3tsZeBw0&autoplay=1 “Dispatch Content with Intention #GuruMinute” * How to Post to Instagram and Twitter https://ifttt.com/applets/aVxGRrtD-tweet-your-instagrams-as-native-photos-on-twitter * Keep social media content relative to the network your own – be aware of your venue * i.e.

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This week on WPblab Bridget Willard and Jason Tucker will be discussing the ways in which you can manage social media using 3rd party tools to help you the WordPress freelancer spend less time doing more.

* Sharing buttons on your blog/site are super important – not everyone is going to have or install extensions to help them share your posts


* Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
* Twitter https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
* Mashshare https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ — social media share buttons
* Social Warfare https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/


* Yoast SEO Plugin — Allow Open Graph Data (Social Settings — Enable Facebook)

* Don’t install with another SEO plugin, just use it by itself!


* Make sure to use and update your metadata!!
* Don’t forget your feature images

* Use iOS to grab the featured image on a iPhone or iPad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imagedrain-download-all-images-from-safari/id932866396?mt=8


* Buffer.com — Social sharing and scheduling for Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus

* Even the free account will allow you to set a schedule
* shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day so that your followers and fans see your updates more often
* Can choose to share posts immediately or save it to your queue
* 10 social profiles in the Awesome Plan for $10/mo
* https://buffer.com/awesome?utm_campaign=footer
* Supports campaign tracking and analytics
* ReBuffer – find what’s performing well and reschedule it for posting again!


* Using the right tools for the right reasons is how you optimize your time
* Automation vs. Scheduling – automation does not involve human interaction, scheduling is a human carefully crafting posts and setting them up for optimal times

* https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/session/smarter-social-sharing-for-killer-content-marketing/


* Hootsuite.com / Hootsuite Pro is $14.99

* (Bridget’s affiliate link: http://signup.hootsuite.com/signup-upgrade/?utm_campaign=partner_commission_junction&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_medium=partner )
* Will either automatically schedule posts or you can choose a time


* Link Shortening: Bitly.com

* Branded short domains from Bitly – https://bitly.com/pages/landing/branded-short-domains-powered-by-bitly?




* Question: Scheduling Tweets, why do them at different times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0e3tsZeBw0&autoplay=1

“Dispatch Content with Intention #GuruMinute”
* How to Post to Instagram and Twitter

https://ifttt.com/applets/aVxGRrtD-tweet-your-instagrams-as-native-photos-on-twitter
* Keep social media content relative to the network your own – be aware of your venue

* i.e.

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This week on WPwatercooler – Optimizing your WooCommcerce so you can sell more using your WordPress website.

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This week on WPwatercooler – Optimizing your WooCommcerce so you can sell more using your WordPress website.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to go about documenting a WordPress project. If you are wanting to provide docs for your clients or you just want to remember what you did with that conditional last week. How do you go about documenting your WordPress projects?

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