Summary of discussions
What’s Been Happening in the WordPress World Last Month
- Make sure you’re using Google Analytics on your website – https://analytics.google.com – It’s free and awesome. Once you’ve set this up, install a Google Analytics plugin and configure the settings accordingly. Simple
- A handy plugin that may websites use is JetPack which comes with a bunch of features that many websites use – https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ – Take a look, it’s not always right for every site as it can be overkill if you aren’t using most of the features
- Details mentioned about automating email marketing campaigns with content from blog posts – https://www.contradodigital.com/2016/09/22/automating-your-email-marketing-campaigns-with-wordpress-and-mailchimp/
- Live demo of how quickly you can build websites using front end editing technology – https://www.creopressto.com/websites/barbers-websites/
- Understanding different email technologies mentioned – https://www.contradodigital.com/really-simple-guide-business-email-addresses/
- How to debug email deliverability issues from your WordPress website – https://www.contradodigital.com/2016/04/04/debugging-email-deliverability-issues-cpanel-whm-imap-exchange/
- Handy tool to check how responsive your website is when people are accessing it from different devices – https://www.responsinator.com/
- Handy Membership plugins, https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/members/ and https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership/
- Good Appointments plugins, https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/appointments-plus/ and https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/
- A few good quality Themes and resources added to the list – https://beewug.uk/resources/
- WordPress Glossary added to Resources page above
- WordPress 4.7 has launched which is awesome – https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/vaughan/
- WordPress to only recommend hosting companies who use SSL in 2017 – https://wptavern.com/wordpress-will-only-recommend-hosting-companies-offering-ssl-by-default-in-2017 so make sure you’re using an SSL certificate on your websites, lots of technical details at the bottom of this blog post – https://www.contradodigital.com/2016/09/01/claim-your-free-ssl-certificates-for-https/
- Take the WordPress 2016 survey to let people know how you use WordPress – https://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/wordpress-2016-survey
- Make sure to sign up to the BeeWUG newsletter on this page so you can keep up to date with what is happening.
The next meetup is on Wednesday 4th Jan, full details here, https://www.meetup.com/Blackburn-WordPress-Meetup/events/236100017/
Have a good Xmas & New Year everyone!