Your WordPress Evangelist

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Staging Your Website

On today’s show I am going to be talking about why staging your website is important. Also, we will take a look at an easy way for anyone to create a staging environment even if you didn’t opt for a hosting package that includes it.

So Why Is Staging Your Website Important?

Having a staging environment for your website allows you to perform testing of updates to plugins, themes, and other item’s without having to worry about it affecting your live site. This is highly recommended as so many peoplhttps://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-adds-customization-for-amp-pages-pushes-update-to-amp-plugine have experience the infamous “white screen of death” of a WordPress website after making changes or updates to plugins or themes. Having a staging are for your website, can help you minimize that possibility by allowing you to see what is happening and make changes as needed before executing them on your live site.

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Additional Show Notes

As talked about in today’s podcast, you heard me make reference to the updated version of the AMP plugin. I highly encourage you to read from the article below to get a better view and understanding of what is means to those who are already using it.

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-adds-customization-for-amp-pages-pushes-update-to-amp-plugin

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WordPress Page Builders

WordPress page builders recently have come under attack. Many people within the WordPress ecosphere has heard about the Twitter rant that Pippin Williamson went on about page builders. However, after having read the article, more of the frustration seems to have come from the support of many of the plugins he has developed and how they can conflict with many of the page builders that are available.

We are going to dive into the 3 WordPress page builders that we utilize and why we will continue to lean upon them. Page builders have set many industry standards and the way the freelancers are able to create a very sophisticated design in a relative short amount of time, thus reducing the outlying costs to their clients.

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Educating Yourself About WordPress Page Builders

Just as with anything else within the WordPress ecosphere, it is all about learning what your products and plugins can do. So without further waiting, go ahead and listen in to this week’s episode and see what our opinions are on WordPress page builders.

Links To Page Builders

Below you will find several links to some of the more popular WordPress page builders for you to go and review for yourself.

Divi Page Builder

Beaver Builder

Visual Composer

As indicated in our podcast today, there are many more WordPress page builders that are available. Just search for them in Google and you can review which one may be right for your next website design.

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Dealing With Search Engine Optimization

Dealing with search engine optimization is something that we all struggle with. Listen in to today’s podcast where I address some of the things that each of us can do to increase our efforts in dealing with how we optimize our pages, posts and other content to ensure that they are optimized to deal with the various search engines.

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Are you looking for an SEO expert? I want to recommend that you take time to visit with Rebecca Gill from Web Savvy Marketing.

Recently on another podcast that I enjoy listening too, I learned about Rebecca Gill and her new SEO Bootcamp. I encourage each of you to enroll now to learn all you can about SEO. Whether your a designer, a website owner, it makes no difference. If you’re looking for strategic methods to increase your impact across the web, Rebecca will be able to assist you with it.

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Your Website Content and Search Engine Optimization

On today’s podcast, we are going to be discussing your website content and search engine optimization. Why both of them should matter to you and what you can do to improve on each of them.

Take time to listen in to this informative podcast today.

As always, make sure and subscribe to us on Stitcher Radio, Google Play or TuneIn Radio.

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Let's Talk Today About WordPress Themes

Everyone's heard of them, but how do you really choose the right WordPress theme for your content? Well, listen in today as I am talking about WordPress themes. Picking them and what it means for your site.

Make sure and subscribe to our podcast either on Stitcher Radio, Google Play or TuneIn Radio.

 

WordPress Security Podcast

Today is the first episode of our new podcast. We hope that you will enjoy and learn from it. Make sure and subscribe to Your WordPress Evangelist Podcast.

Today, we are focusing on WordPress Security. We bring forth several things which you can do to increase the level of security on your website.