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Links Roundup for August 2021

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Questions about GDPR. GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation, their privacy guidelines for the acquisition, usage, storage and deletion of personal data for EU users) can be a confusing beast. I get questions about it from clients mostly concerned about privacy policies. Here is a post from MailerLite about 99 common GDPR questions for email marketers that you may find helpful.

AI-powered copywriting. Does the idea of writing a blog post make you feel _____ (insert your favorite anxious feeling here)? It can be hard coming up with interesting things to write about week after week, there’s no way around it. But have you considered one of the many AI-powered copywriting tools that are now available? There are a good many to choose from; some focus more on short content like headlines and ads, while others work with longer content like blog posts or product descriptions. Here’s a review of some of the top AI-powered writing tools.

Roundup of content generators. Here’s another post on content generators, but this one covers a lot more ground. In addition to AI copywriting tools, it includes others for generating headlines, names, ad copy, audio and video content, blog ideas and more.

Redirects. Removing (or sometimes moving or renaming) old website content can cause big problems for search engines. Redirection is the process of sending search bots and human visitors to the correct new content when they try to go to deleted or moved content. It’s easy to do with WordPress plugins like Redirection and 301 Redirects, but the reasoning behind it may seem confusing. Learn 6 redirection best practices for your WordPress site.

Friday Link Wrapup: Beer, SEO, and Commercial Plugin Directory

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Craft beer fan, or brewing your own? Here’s a plugin for you: Beer Directory. This plugin allows you to enter details about beers, create categories and control how listings are displayed.

There’s a new directory of commercial WordPress plugins in the works. While the plugin repository on wordpress.org has over 30,000 offerings, to date there’s been no similar resource for commercial plugins.  This new directory is just getting started but should become more useful as it grows.

Are you using an SEO plugin for your site or blog? If not, you should be. These 5 SEO plugins can really make a difference in your search engine rankings. WordPress SEO by Yoast is my weapon of choice.

Is the admin menu on your site out of control? This new plugin can help you tame it by allowing you to re-order the items in the admin menu in a way that works best for you. Check out Admin Menu Manager.

Learn about local WordPress communities around the world in this guide. WordPress is powering around 24% of the world’s websites and these groups are part of the reason why.

Friday Link Wrapup – Bounce Rate, ROT, and Search Plugins for WordPress

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Is your site’s bounce rate averaging 60% or higher? Here are 10 ways to increase pageviews and reduce bounce rates on your WordPress site.

How to turn off those email notifications when WordPress auto-updates core files.

Do you have tons of old content on your site? This post on dealing with ROT content might help.

Finally, some useful search plugins for WordPress. Simple Exclude looks very useful, if you want to keep certain content out of the search results. Another great search replacement is Relevanssi.

Friday Link Wrapup: User Switching, Blogging, Caching Plugins

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A few weeks ago I found a great plugin called User Switching. If you run a membership site or forum or other website with lots of users, you’ll love this. It allows you to switch between user accounts in a single click, so you can see what your subscribers or authors or customers see without having to create test users.

How to write a killer blog post that people will actually share… a concise guide from Jacob Cass of Just Creative.

Speed up your WordPress usage by using some (or all) of these 12 built-in or plugin-supplied features.

Finally, here’s a report on the fastest WordPress caching plugins written by Philip Blomsterberg (the winners were WP Rocket – which I’ve not tried but will check out – WP Super Cache and WP Total Cache).

Friday Link Wrapup – Gravity Forms, Wishlist Member and Android

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I’m a big fan of Gravity Forms and lately a lot of my clients have been using it to sell products. Find out how here – it’s really very easy to set up. When you only have a small number of products to sell, a full cart plugin doesn’t make sense. Gravity Forms will do the trick well.

If you’re using Wishlist Member, you know that its checkout process leaves a lot to be desired. Today I found a plugin, Gravity Member, that integrates Gravity Forms and Wishlist Member. My particular client is using it for user registration to view a demo product; the user fills out a registration form (a Gravity Form) and is instantly registered as a Wishlist Member (any level you choose) as well as a WordPress registered user (also, any role you choose). It works well and the developer offers speedy support.

And finally – using WordPress on an Android phone? There’s a new version with a different navigation menu – do you love or hate the hamburger?

Friday Link Wrapup: Online Courses, Job Boards, Repurposing Content

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If you’re interested in selling courses through your WordPress site, Lifter LMS is a really interesting-looking new plugin. It includes:

  • Ability to build multiple courses
  • Enrollment and student management
  • Drip content
  • Paypal integration built in for payments, or you can buy a Stripe addon or integrate with third-party plugins like WooCommerce
  • Quizzes
  • Badges and certificates
  • Grading

You’ve likely seen a lot of scary news lately about WordPress security. Is WordPress safe? I agree with the author that the answer is yes, as long as you’re on a reasonable host and doing your part to keep your site updated, etc. Read the post to learn more.

If you’re interested in running a job board in your WordPress site here are eight plugins that may be just what you need.

And finally…. do you have a ton of blog posts? Looking to repurpose all that work? Consider turning them into an ebook! This is one way to turn blog posts into an ebook (the hard way). There are a few plugins out there for this purpose, but I’ve not tried them. If you do, please comment and let me know what worked for you.