Stephen Burge's Blog, page 20
March 1, 2019
Reviewing the Best WordPress Editorial Calendar Plugins
If you're writing a lot of content on your WordPress site, you will need an easy way to plan your posts.
An Editorial Calendar provides a single screen where you can see all the content you're going to publish. Ideally, the Editorial Calendar will help keep you organized in a busy schedule.
Think of an Editorial Calendar as a timetable for your content.
If you're a WordPress user, there are several Editorial Calendars that integrate directly into WordPress. These calendars will show your planned WordPress posts and allow you to schedule new content.
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An Editorial Calendar provides a single screen where you can see all the content you're going to publish. Ideally, the Editorial Calendar will help keep you organized in a busy schedule.
Think of an Editorial Calendar as a timetable for your content.
If you're a WordPress user, there are several Editorial Calendars that integrate directly into WordPress. These calendars will show your planned WordPress posts and allow you to schedule new content.
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February 21, 2019
How to Allow WordPress Users to Delete Images and Files
By default, WordPress is very, very careful about who can delete files in your site's Media Library.
Only users in the "Administrator" role are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is a in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not allowed to delete images.
However, on some sites you may want to allow other users to clean your Media Library. Perhaps you have private files, or just have a cluttered Media Library with too many files.
The solution to deleting files is to install two plugins, Capability Manager Enhanced and Press Permit. Working together, these plugins will give you the permissions you need.
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Only users in the "Administrator" role are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is a in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not allowed to delete images.
However, on some sites you may want to allow other users to clean your Media Library. Perhaps you have private files, or just have a cluttered Media Library with too many files.
The solution to deleting files is to install two plugins, Capability Manager Enhanced and Press Permit. Working together, these plugins will give you the permissions you need.
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How to Moderate and Schedule Revisions in WordPress
WordPress has one of the most powerful revision systems available on any blogging platform.
When you start writing in WordPress, your changes will be automatically and safely saved. And, if you want to compare your current version of a post to an old version, WordPress gives you an easy side-by-side comparison. In the image below, the old content is marked in red and the new content is in green.
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When you start writing in WordPress, your changes will be automatically and safely saved. And, if you want to compare your current version of a post to an old version, WordPress gives you an easy side-by-side comparison. In the image below, the old content is marked in red and the new content is in green.
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February 20, 2019
The OSTraining Podcast #36: Ben Pines and Elementor
In this episode, we welcome Ben Pines, the Chief Marketing Officer at Elementor.
Elementor is a page builder which is technically in the same space as Gutenberg, but does approximately 1,001 extra things.
Ben is doing pretty well at his job, because Elementor is probably the fastest growing WordPress plugin around. In the last two and a half years, Elementor has grown from zero installs to close to two million, and Ben has led many of the efforts to get the word out about Elementor and its growth.
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Elementor is a page builder which is technically in the same space as Gutenberg, but does approximately 1,001 extra things.
Ben is doing pretty well at his job, because Elementor is probably the fastest growing WordPress plugin around. In the last two and a half years, Elementor has grown from zero installs to close to two million, and Ben has led many of the efforts to get the word out about Elementor and its growth.
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February 19, 2019
CSS Flexbox #2. How to Use the justify-content Property
The justify-content property specifies how flex-items are distributed along the main axis of their parent flex-container. This property has 5 different possible values:
flex-start (default)
flex-end
center
space-around
space-between
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flex-start (default)
flex-end
center
space-around
space-between
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February 15, 2019
How to Fix a Hacked WordPress Site With Wordfence
Having your website hacked can be very stressful but here are some guidelines on how to fix a hacked site with help from the Wordfence plugin.
Often the first sign that your site has been hacked is an email from your hosting company or Google. Hacks are often ‘invisible’ to most users as they insert hidden links into the content of the site.
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Often the first sign that your site has been hacked is an email from your hosting company or Google. Hacks are often ‘invisible’ to most users as they insert hidden links into the content of the site.
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February 12, 2019
How to Use .htaccess to Move Your Site to SSL
A few years ago, setting up an SSL certificate was a slow and costly painful process.
At one point, we were paying over $500 per year for a top-of-the-line SSL certificate on this site. Plus, many platforms had poor support for SSLs.
All that has changed. You can get free SSL certificates now, and web software almost always has great support for your SSLs.
The tricky part of using an SSL certificate is now making sure you aren't loading images or files over http. This will cause your SSL certificate to show an error. Here's the code we used in our .htaccess to push all our site's assets to https.
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At one point, we were paying over $500 per year for a top-of-the-line SSL certificate on this site. Plus, many platforms had poor support for SSLs.
All that has changed. You can get free SSL certificates now, and web software almost always has great support for your SSLs.
The tricky part of using an SSL certificate is now making sure you aren't loading images or files over http. This will cause your SSL certificate to show an error. Here's the code we used in our .htaccess to push all our site's assets to https.
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February 11, 2019
The OSTraining Podcast #35: Amanda Gonser and DrupalCon 2019
In this episode, we welcome Amanda and Karlyanna from the DrupalCon team.
DrupalCon is probably the biggest open-source event that happens in North America every year. And for about the last 10 years, it's been pretty much the same event with pretty much about the same number of attendees.
It's been about 3,000 people every year, moving around to different cities. This time, the DrupalCon team are taking a different approach. It's in Seattle in April, but they're changing up the format adding all sorts of new twists and interesting changes to it. So I sat down with the team to talk about what's new with DrupalCon this year. (Spoiler alert: one addition this year will be puppies and bunnies)
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DrupalCon is probably the biggest open-source event that happens in North America every year. And for about the last 10 years, it's been pretty much the same event with pretty much about the same number of attendees.
It's been about 3,000 people every year, moving around to different cities. This time, the DrupalCon team are taking a different approach. It's in Seattle in April, but they're changing up the format adding all sorts of new twists and interesting changes to it. So I sat down with the team to talk about what's new with DrupalCon this year. (Spoiler alert: one addition this year will be puppies and bunnies)
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February 9, 2019
The Beginners Guide to Github Pages
All developers know Github as service that enables code sharing and also helps you improve your code by using version control.
However, did you know that Github also offers Github Pages, a completely free hosting service?
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to host a simple HTML website for free using Github.
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However, did you know that Github also offers Github Pages, a completely free hosting service?
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to host a simple HTML website for free using Github.
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February 8, 2019
How to Use the New Pre-Publish Checks in WordPress
It's amazing how much has been written about the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress.
But many people haven't really started to the use Gutenberg in the daily publishing workflow. As a result, Gutenberg is still full of semi-secret features.
One such feature is the "Pre-Publish Checks" screen in Gutenberg. When you click "Publish" on a post, you'll now see the sidebar shown below. WordPress asks "Are you ready to publish?" and encourages you to double-check your settings:
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But many people haven't really started to the use Gutenberg in the daily publishing workflow. As a result, Gutenberg is still full of semi-secret features.
One such feature is the "Pre-Publish Checks" screen in Gutenberg. When you click "Publish" on a post, you'll now see the sidebar shown below. WordPress asks "Are you ready to publish?" and encourages you to double-check your settings:
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