What's scary this time of year? Goblins, Ghosts, Ghouls, and oh, WordPress Security! At the very least, please keep your Genesis Framework, the WordPress software, and all installed plugins updated. What I don't like is log into a client's dashboard and see that 13 ...
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The Gutenberg Editor is Here – And the Classic Editor Can Stay Too!
And you're saying, NO S*** Sherlock, you're a bit too late lady! Yeah, yeah, I know - but, the Holidays happened, and I was SWAMPED! So I'm doing this NOW. It's never too late! So, the Gutenberg editor is here and I said I would test Gutenberg out and write up a ...
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The WordPress Editor is Changing Soon – Please Read!
Updated: 9/28/18 So it looks like it's inevitable, WordPress is changing its Editor and it's going to happen whether we like it or not. I say, don't fix it unless it's broken. COME ON, it's not broken, it's fine the way it is. But people like change. Change is good, ...
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Brute Force Attack – WHAT THE?
Again, WHAT THE? Brute Force Attack? Sounds like we are being invaded by gigantic scary aliens (like the ones below) and we need to hide underground!!!! Although, if these were the aliens, I'd just tickle them, take them out for a nice dinner, then Starbucks.. we'd be ...
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Tip of the Day – Keeping WordPress Updated
Back in 2015 I wrote a post about the importance of keeping The Genesis Framework, WordPress, and WordPress Plugins updated and in the order in which to do them, and that still stands! I wrote that if all three areas need to be updated, plugins first, Genesis, then ...
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A Beginners Tutorial: Create a Blog Post in WordPress
While some people may think that adding a new post in WordPress is self-explanatory, newbie WordPress clients can find it a bit overwhelming. So I wanted to write an easy step-by-step DETAILED (with screenshots and everything) tutorial to show the features available of the ...
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How to Resize Images for your Blog Posts using Canva
Great quality images are a very important part of your blog posts and pages and along with that, image sizes. If you've ever looked at the size of photos straight from your camera, or even photos you can purchase and download from stock shops (or even free shops), you will ...
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Improve WordPress Security
What can I say... WordPress security is a beast and well, it just sounds scary especially if you're a beginner or even if you're not a beginner (it scares me still, LOL). But guess what? If you own a WordPress blog or website.. get over it, you have to just dive in and ...
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Genesis 2.3.1 Update
Genesis 2.3.1 was just released this morning. You may or may not already notice the update available in your dashboard; if it's not there, it will be very soon. I LOVE Genesis and WordPress.. but please, as always, wait at least 2 weeks to update (I always do). You can ...
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