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Plugins to examine

Image size breakdown – MUST READ AND IMPLEMENT ON ALL SITES – SET UP SPECIFIX TOOL YO BE REUSED https://rudrastyh.com/wordpress/image-sizes.html Alternative take: https://wpshout.com/wordpress-custom-image-sizes/
https://rankmath.com/ https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-setup/ https://www.kasareviews.com/rank-math-vs-yoast-seo-vs-all-in-one-seo-best-free-wordpress-seo-plugin/ Amp site pages https://kinsta.com/blog/google-amp/ Also: https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/ The plugin can be configured to follow one of three different template modes: Standard, Transitional, and Reader. In Standard mode you use AMP as the framework for your site, and there need not be any separate AMP and non-AMP versions. When configured to operate in Reader and Transitional modes, a given page will have a canonical URL as well as a corresponding (paired) AMP URL. The AMP plugin is not serving as a mobile theme; it does not redirect mobile devices to the AMP version. Instead, the AMP version is served to mobile visitors when they find the content on platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest, Google Search, and others. Reader mode only supports serving AMP for singular posts, pages, and other post types, whereas Standard and Transitional mode support serving the entire site as AMP. With the official AMP plugin for WordPress, the WordPress ecosystem is provided with the capabilities and tools it needs to build world-class AMP experiences without deviating from its standard, flexible, and well-known content creation workflow. W3total cache – set up guide – https://mythemeshop.com/blog/w3-total-cache-tutorial/ Sumo email capture Here is what you can do with Sumo. Create high converting popups, welcome mats, and popups Create share buttons and embed them in various sections of your website Use smart bars to attract email subscribers Also Specific feeds
RSS Feeds for WordPress – Setup and Configuration
Push Notifications Push Notifications are a new way to get people to “subscribe” to your content. They are similar to having email lists as once a user is subscribed, you can send them your content. The only difference is that instead of an email, they will receive a notification, similar to the ones you get from apps. To enable push notifications on your website, I recommend that you use OneSignal. It’s a fantastic free plugin (and product) that lets you send unlimited notifications to unlimited people. Here is what you can do with OneSignal.
Image optimization While you can use WP Smush or one of the WP Smush alternatives, you will not get as good results as tools like Photoshop, GIMP, JPEGMini, and TinyPNG.
How To Optimize Your Images For WordPress
ShortPixel and wpsmush https://wpbuffs.com/optimize-images-wordpress/ Issues with how manh images we upload limits our choices – ewww optimizer may work – but wpengine only allows cloud version – whixh would cost €. https://wpengine.com/resources/how-to-optimize-images-wordpress/ IMAGIFY FREE? You can optimize for free 25MB of images (about 250 images) every month. Converting to WebP is free. Need more? Have a look at our plans: https://imagify.io/pricing CDN SUPPORT WP Offload Media is the officially supported (and recommended) plugin for uploads to Amazon S3 and Digital Ocean Spaces. We also support the Azure Storage and Cloudinary plugins. All pull mode CDNs like Cloudflare, KeyCDN, MaxCDN, and Sucuri CloudProxy work automatically, but will require you to purge the cache after a bulk optimization.

great breakdown of all factors

Steps 1 0. Test Your Website’s Speed – Creating a ControlGoogle PagespeedPingdom ToolsGTMetrix1. Choose a Fast Web Host 2. Choose The Right WordPress Theme 3. Update Your WordPress, Themes, and Plugins 4. Use PHP 7 and Above 5. Use SSL/HTTPS and HTTP/2 6. Choose The Right WordPress Plugins 7. Using Caching to Speed Up WordPress 8. Image Optimization https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/speed-wordpress-save-images-optimized-web/ Choosing the Right Image Format Use Image Compression https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/imagify-vs-wp-smush-vs-shortpixel/?gclid=CjwKCAjwlovtBRBrEiwAG3XJ–5NvUtbKCe9HGuJEb_SjOhbxfPh37IYocRmwhyRWrA0oEHD_qAKtRoC1csQAvD_BwE 9. Setup Cloudflare and it’s CDNInstall CloudflareHome PageSettings PageSettings in Cloudflare10. Lazy Loading YouTube Videos and Images1. Install the Plugin2. Configure the Plugin11. Specify Image Dimensions12. Serve Scaled Images13. Gravatar Optimization14. Lazy-Load Disqus15. Limit Post Revisions16. Use AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)Setting up AMP with CloudflareSetting up AMP with PluginsTesting your AMP PAges 17. Limit Spiders and Crawlers18. Use Javascript Free Social Sharing Buttons steps 2 19. Disable Emojis 20. Disable Embeds in WordPress 21. Remove Query Strings 22. Disable XML-RPCDisabling PingbacksBlock Access to xmlrpc.php 23. Remove RSD Links 24. Remove jQuery Migrate 25. Hide WordPress version26. Remove wlwmanifest Link27. Remove RSD Link Tag28. Remove the Shortlink Tag29. Disable RSS Feeds30. Disable Self Pingbacks31. Remove REST API Links32. Disable Dashicons33. Disable Google Maps34. Disable Contact Form 7 JS/CSS35. Disable Heartbeat36. Disable WooCommerce Style Sheets37. Disable Cart Fragmentation38. Disable WooCommerce Widgets39. Remove WooCommerce Meta Boxes40. Avoid Google Fonts and Server Fonts Locally41. Use WOFF2 Fonts Instead of WOFF 42. Optimize Font Awesome Icons 43. Concetrate css and jquery Steps 3 44. Fix Render Blocking Scripts and CSS 44.1 Use the Async Javascript PluginEnable Async JavascriptQuick SettingsAsync Javascript MethodjQueryScripts to Async, Scripts to Defer, and Script ExclusionFinding Scripts to OptimizePlugin ExclusionsTheme ExclusionsAsync Javascript for Plugins 44.2 Optimize using W3 Total Cache 45. Reduce Redirects and Force SSLFor www versionFor non-www versionForce SSLUpdating old URLsUpdating using CodeUpdating using a Plugin 46. Disable HotlinkingDisabling Hotlinking with Cloudflare 47. Add Expires Header To Static ResourcesConfiguring Expires with W3 Total Cache 48. Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect48.1 Preload 48.2 Prefetch 48.2.1 Link Prefetch 48.2.2 DNS Prefetch48.2.3 Prerender48.3 Preconnect49. Disable Scripts on a Per-page and Per-post Basis50. Switch to Nginx or Litespeed51.1 Configure Nginx Reverse Proxy51. Enabling CompressionApache ServerNginx Server52. Improve WordPress SearchFreemium SolutionOpen Source Solution53. Use MariaDB Instead of PostgreSQL 54. Convert all MyISAM to InnoDB Tables in your Database 55. Add a MySQL Index to WordPress wp_options Table 56. Tuning Your MySQL DatabaseTuning ScriptsResources 57. Configure Redis58. Use InstaClick 59. Find Your Slowest Pages and Fix Them 60. Find Bottlenecks by Deep-diving Into WordPressTesting the Results of the OptimizationsConclusion https://mythemeshop.com/blog/wordpress-speed-optimization/ Cloudflare Resize for page – Ideally, you should change to a theme that does this automatically, but if you can’t, then you can use the Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to recreate your thumbnails. Make sure to set the correct sizes for your thumbnails before using the plugin. The best way to ensure that you are uploading the correct sizes for your images is to use a cheat-sheet. Go to your WordPress Settings > Media and make a note of the image sizes that your theme uses. Comments edits To get rid of the bloat introduced by Gravatar, there are a few options that you can use: Disable Gravatar on your websites Delete spam and excessive comments from posts Configure WordPress to show only a few comments at a time Use a caching plugin for Gravatar like FV Gravatar Cache Limit Post Revisions By default, WordPress will save revisions of a post as often as you make even the smallest change. On a frequently edited/updated post, this might lead to tens of copies of the post being created. Eventually, this will fill your database with a lot of unwanted data which will cause server slowdowns. To avoid this problem, it’s a wise idea to limit the number of revisions of a post. The exact number will depend on your preferences, but we think 3-5 should be sufficient. define (‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 3); Paste the above code inside the wp-config.php file. Place it before the code require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’); appears. This will change the maximum number of revisions to 3. You can also change the number in the code above to adjust the number of revisions. To disable post revisions completely, you can use the following code: define (‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false); Paste the above code inside the wp-config.php file to disable revisions altogether. Please note that both these codes will limit revisions for new posts, and the revisions of existing posts will remain the same. To remove excess revisions of old posts, we recommend that you use a database cleanup plugin. There are several useful plugins out there, and here are a few recommendations. WP-Optimize Advanced Database Cleaner After you’ve used any of the plugins above to remove revisions of your old posts, you can delete the plugin from your website. Another plugin which we highly recommend using is Perfmatters. The Perfmatters WordPress plugin is a lightweight WordPress performance plugin that makes it easy to properly set & optimize a number of important settings. The plugin truly is great and we highly recommend giving it a try anyway but here are some features we really like: You can easily disable comment URLs which significantly reduces the number of spam submissions. Use AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) Having a mobile-friendly website is a must. AMP helps you with that. AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open-source web standard designed to speed up delivery of content and advertisements on mobile devices. The project was announced by Google in October 2015 with partnerships with many publications around the world. Since 2016, millions of pages have been served using the AMP standard, and major publications have reported that AMP pages load up to 75% faster and consume ten times less bandwidth. With such amazing improvements in speed and bandwidth, it’s obvious that you should also opt-in for AMP. We will show you two ways to set up AMP for your website. SETTING UP AMP WITH CLOUDFLARE If you have set Cloudflare up, then you can enable the use of AMP on your website in a single click. Log into your Cloudflare account, go the Speed Settings, and scroll to the section which says ‘Enable Accelerated Mobile Links.’ You can also set AMP up on your website using plugins. WordPress has made an official AMP plugin which you can use, but there are some other plugins out there as well. Here is one example of another AMP Plugin. Once you install the plugin, you can then visit Appearance > AMP on your website to open the AMP version for editing. Since AMP uses a barebone page, you will not have many options to configure the page, so configure all the available options and hit save. An AMP version of the page will be saved and be accessed at the AMP URL. If the regular URL for the page was http://example.com/post1/ Then the AMP URL will be http://example.com/post1/amp/ Limit Spiders and Crawlers Spiders and web crawlers are resource hungry, sometimes even more than your users. Apart from search engine spiders, there are many other types of bots like scrapers, email scrapers, spambots, that crawl your website with malicious intentions. Not only do they not provide any value to your website, but your server also has to expend resources to serve them. It is wise to manage bots activities on your website so that the crawling process (or even legit bots) does not affect your users. GoogleBot is one of the most resource-hungry bots, and for a good reason. You can control GoogleBot’s crawl rate from right inside your Google Search Console Account. limit-crawl-rate However, you should do that only if GoogleBot is slowing down your website. Slowing down crawl rate otherwise will limit Google’s ability to index your website, which will affect your search engine rankings and traffic. You can do the same for Bing Bot inside Bing Webmaster Tools. If your site is slowing down because of malicious bot activity, then there are a few steps you can follow to prevent those bots. First, you can refer to the Bad Bot .htcacess file from HackRepair.com. It’s a .htaccess file which will block most of the known bad bots from your site. Second, you can refer to the Bad Bot Report from BotReports.com. They have listed out a comprehensive list of bad bots which crawl websites with less than ideal intentions. You can use this data to block these bots from your website. Third, you can use the rate-limiting features of the popular security plugin WordFence. It has plenty of features to throttle visitors and bots, and you can also block IP addresses manually.

WP-Engine – staging error

WP Engine has confirmed this is an error in staging for php version 7.2 they are trying to troubleshoot. They don’t have a timeline to resolution just yet, so if anyone out there is on WP Engine and seeing this, then it’s a known issue and there is a resolution sight. I’m assuming that I can work in staging with the issue present and push to live and it will disappear organically, or some I’m hoping!

speed up wordpress

https://www.isitwp.com/free-website-speed-test-tool-for-wordpress/ https://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-performance-speed/ https://wpengine.com/support/tips-optimize-site/

image optimizers

https://docs.ewww.io/article/5-pagespeed-says-my-images-need-more-work

Bad plugins

Slow Loading WordPress Plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include social sharing, statistic (analytics), sliders, portfolios, page builders, calendars, chat, contact forms, related post, sitemap, Wordfence, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoing scans or processes. These can be identified using Query Monitor or GTmetrix Waterfall. AddThis AdSense Click Fraud Monitoring All-In-One Event Calendar Backup Buddy Beaver Builder Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps Broken Link checker (use Dr. Link Check) Constant Contact for WordPress Contact Form 7 Contextual Related Posts Digi Auto Links Disqus Comment System Divi Builder Essential Grid Facebook Chat Fancy Gallery Fuzzy SEO Booster Google Analytics Google Language Translator Google Translate Google XML Sitemaps Jetpack Leaflet Maps Marker MyReview NextGEN Gallery NewStatPress Real Estate Website Builder Really Simple Share Reveal IDs Revolution Slider Sharebar ShareThis S2 member SEO Auto Links & Related Posts Share Buttons by AddToAny Share Buttons by E-MAILiT ShareThis Social Discussions Socialable Similar Posts Slimstat Analytics SumoMe Talk.To Tribulent Slideshow Gallery Ultimate Social Media & Share VaultPress WooCommerce Customer History Wordfence (disable live traffic reports) WordPress Facebook WordPress Related Posts WordPress Popular Posts WordPress Social Ring WP Bakey (formerly Visual Composer) WP Facebook Like Plugin WP Jump Menu WP Social Bookmarking Lite WP Social Share WP Statistics WP Power Stats WP-PostViews WPML (if you use too many extensions) wpCloaker WPML Yet Another Related Post Plugin Yuzo Related Posts
If you’re using slow hosting like EIG or GoDaddy, I would seriously reconsider. I use SiteGround who is also used by Yoast, recommended by WordPress, and was #1 in 20+ Facebook polls. I’m on their semi-dedicated GoGeek plan and not only are my server response times well under 200ms, but my GTmetrix report is pretty much unbeatable. They will also migrate you for free. How To Reduce CPU Usage In WordPress Check CPU Usage In AWStats Eliminate High CPU Plugins Remove Bloat With Clearfy Disable WP-Cron Clean Your Database Upgrade To PHP 7+ Offload Resources To CDNs Enable Hotlink Protection Block Bad Bots Optimize Images Common Fixes In WP Rocket Common Fixes In W3 Total Cache Configure Optimal Cache Plugin Settings Delete Unused Plugins + Themes Disable Unused Settings In Plugins Block Comment Spam Protect Your WP-Admin Minimize External Requests Limit Google + Bing Crawl Rate Avoid Resource-Hungry Themes Disable Resource-Hungry WooCommerce Features Host Download Files On External Websites Disable AWStats + cPanel Statistics Turn Off SiteGround’s Site Scanner Use A Hosting Plan With Sufficient Server Resources Upgrade CPU/RAM SiteGround (Recommended Host) Hire My Developer To Reduce Your CPU Usage

WP Engine Edits

The first things we’ll try: 1) Fixing related posts: You talked about removing the related posts. There’s also a plug-in you could look into that may be helpful (link). https://www.relatedpostsforwp.com/ – $5.99 month 2) Improving site cacheability: I’ll open a ticket with the support team – they’re WordPress experts, they can help you find some ways to improve the caching. They’re available 24/7 on phone/chat but you’ll get the initial support ticket into your email in just a few minutes. And some additional info per your request: 1) Server graphs (screenshot attached): CPU Utilization: Attached is what we’re looking at with your server – the blue essentially is CPU utilization. The other screenshots are graphs of the usage of the account cubikmedia and then utilization on theswordlive – which drives a very large majority of the utilization. 2) Logs (screenshot attached): We do not have AW logs, but we do have JW logs. To access those, when you log-in, click on the Monthly Reports links on the bottom right corner (screenshot attached). Let us know if you have any questions over the next week. We’re happy to help. And if you make any major changes, do let us know so we can track the impacts on our end.

Lightweight Plugins

Social Sharing – WP Rocket’s test showed Social Media Feather, Monarch, Simple Shared Buttons Adder, and MashShare had the least amount of requests and fastest load times. Backup – UpdraftPlus. Sliders – Soliloquy, LayerSlider, or Meteor Sliders. Comments – Disqus Conditional Load. Portfolio – Envira Gallery, FooGallery, or The Grid. Analytics – Google Analytics and Search Console should be plenty. Just make sure you’re hosting Google Analytics locally (using WP Rocket or WP Disable). Page Builders – WordPress Page Builder by MotoPress, but no page builder runs faster than the native WordPress Editor. Combine this with the Duplicator plugin and you shouldn’t need a page builder (including page builders built-in to WordPress themes). Unless your team absolutely refuses to learn a little HTML (the easiest coding language), avoid page builders. StudioPress Plugins – lightweight plugins for the Genesis Framework.

Turn Off Unused Plugin Settings

Go through each of your plugins and decide which settings you can turn off (this will lower CPU). For example, in Yoast under Settings > General > Features I disabled the following…
*****New Plugin ****** ######## br sure to run gtmex on site before installation to be able to check https://wordpress.org/plugins/clearfy/ https://mythemeshop.com/blog/wordpress-speed-optimization/ Our plugin can work with Autoptimize, but you should not use Minify and Combine components and html minify, so that there are no conflicts with Autoptimize. Autoptimize differs from our plugin only cdn and several functions that optimize google fonts. Example settings https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/clearfy-wordpress-optimization-plugin-overview-and-review https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-disable/ Tips On Using WP Disable Disable EVERYTHING you don’t use Scheduling spam deletion is a good idea Emojis, Google Maps, and Gravatars take a long time to load Pingbacks and trackbacks aren’t usually worth the extra resources Set post revisions to 3-5 so you have backups, but you don’t need hundreds Miscellaneous options in the “request” tab can further your improve load times WP-Disable-Requests WP-Disable-Tags-Settings WP-Disable-Admin /WP-Disable-SEO. WP-Disable-Others

check server cpu usage

https://wpengine.com/support-video/reducing-server-requests/ http://www.awstats.org/ AWStats Helps Identify Sources Of High CPU/Bandwidth AWStats is a tool built-in to most hosting cPanels that provides statistics on CPU usage. It tells you whether certain bots, images, downloaded files, and even IP addresses are consuming a lot of CPU. You can also use the WP Server Stats plugin but I think AWStats does an awesome job. AWStats helps you find: High bandwidth crawlers High bandwidth IP addresses High bandwidth download files High bandwidth files (eg. images) Total bandwidth usage (for monitoring) Monthly-Bandwidth Search engine crawlers/spiders usually consume the most CPU (bandwidth)… Robots-Spiders-Bandwidth My WordPress speed guide has more tips on reducing crawler CPU plus tons of other tips. What If You Absolutely Need Resource-Hungry Plugins? Your hosting plan has a limited amount of server resources (#1 factor in the WordPress optimization guide). If a plugin is consuming too much CPU your only option (other than deleting or replacing it) is to upgrade your plan to include more server resources. Some of you know I recommend SiteGround for many reasons as their speed technology is extremely fast. And if you’re currently hosted with someone like Bluehost, Godaddy, InMotion or any of those other crappy hosts, this will be a huge upgrade for your server hardware which should improve both your scores and page load times in GTmetrix, Pingdom, and Google PageSpeed Insights.
PROMO toby@ragingstallion.com 69Porn*FSGns I understand – Mike and I were chatting yesterday – he said “it’s too bad we can’t get them to have a universal registration into the store – or get the users into the store from the blog” – Then you comment came in – if we are giving them something – why not try to make them go to one of our sites where it is possible for them to spend money – that might be a good thing – I am not sure what the store needs info wise – just spit ballin – CAN I GET THE LYRIS LOGIN (the one I have doesn’t work – and I can at least see if my memory of the validation emails is correct? –

Banners hanging off right edge

2nd to last line – in email “I will look again and try to see if I can change the NON-banner columns proportions – but I could not before – the builders made all the percents work together in a way I can’t really change (with like 12 decimal points after the whole number for percent)” Your monitor size is POPULAR – but it is still only the most popular desktop size (and only 23% of desktops at that) – other viewports don’t have issues – and we would create one – and break it from working inside the framework – – really changing the max width – IS resizing the non-banner columns – since there really are only 2 columns and the banners are fixed – the only one that will change IS the post info one – – messing with the sizing of the posts template – to fix it for 1 viewport – could make it wacky for a large number of other ones (that’s why the % that make these frameworks are so long and made at M.I.T. yep it’s that nerdy) – we can’t keep only seeing it on whatever machine we happen to be on – (OR let’s set EVERYTHING to andy’s iphone 8 – that’ll be fun!!!!!) – it could be good for you – but tim hates it because there is too much space on his etc. or the stacking doesn’t work correctly on a mobile viewport – so have to do some compromising – or figure out how to fix the site OVERALL – to handle having that fixed banner column on the right (I did it on the homepage – but that internal pages aren’t as easy) THEN don’t forget – everything stacks / resizes for mobile devices etc. we know there is an easy fix (make max width smaller) – but I will poke around over the weekend to see if there is a better one – it will make the site screwbally if I start changing individual pages – and it is just data flowing into containers so changing it outside of the overall site % could mess with other parts in a strange way – and the right side will be shrinking and growing – but YES that would be a great option. obviously not life or death – but I’ve learned that doing that can make it things REALLY confusing in 3 months when we want to change it and it doesn’t act like anything else – when it goes live we will get it to where it needs to be – I just don’t want to lock it – so that if we DO want to do something new / cool there is a built in bug already – I should have started harping earlier – but I was silly and fell into the trap of seeing on a number of odd sized – wider than normal machines as well – and only saw it working – AND – I wasn’t poking around the lower level pages as much as I should have – but it’s fine. It’s a 10 second fix if that is the best option after more poking around. COMPARE TO STATS – http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide – these are the most common view points – OVERALL STATS – 360×640 – 16.87% | 1366×768 – 9.09% | 1920×1080 – 7.62% | 375×667 – 4.77% | 360×720 – 3.15% | 768×1024 – 2.55% DESKTOP STATS – 1366×768 – 23.86% | 1920×1080 – 19.59% | 1440×900 – 6.69% | 1536×864 – 6.04% | 1600×900 – 4.92% | 1024×768 – 3.77% MOBILE STATS – 60×640 – 28.39 | 375×667 – 8.28% | 360×720 – 5.1% | 414×736 – 4.07% | 412×846 – 4.02% | 720×1280 – 3.31% From: “Toby Morris” To: “Shawn Palmer” Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 2:06:35 PM Subject: RE: wide monitors / fixed column sizes – Re: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – Other question…is there a way to make the post area just a little bit narrower? Maybe if it’s around 900 now then make it 850? From: Shawn Palmer Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 1:56 PM To: Toby Morris ; Shawn Palmer Subject: wide monitors / fixed column sizes – Re: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – I appreciate you taking the time! I really do try not to be confusing – my emails with all those links etc. are the best way I can explain it (because someone else explained it better AND the explanations are long – but not necessarily complex. – but once the concepts get clear (viewport size / responsive breakpoints) – all this crap will make much more sense and not seem as out of control and WRONG – – it made me relax about sizing of pieces – because they just don’t have a size anymore – and you need to look at them in a million different viewers – it’s just not straightforward and drives me crazy often. ======================================= To fix the ad banner issue – we just have to change the max size of the site – and everything should scale down proportionally. (the banner column will slide over – and not get smaller – since it is a fixed size) Here’s the dealio (as I see it). Roma / Tim / the conference room machine (that one is the WORST) are all MASSIVELY WIDE MONITORS – and since they won’t use browserstack or see it on differnt size monitokrs – and look at it other viewports they think that is how the sites look – The theme is responsive – BUT I had to break it a bit so that all the banners would lay out the way we wanted – so that column isn’t really doing the thing it should – I am forcing it to stay a fixed width that eventually is wider – than it would proportionally be to keep the banners next to each other not shrink If they did shrink / restack – that column would be inside the browser window as it should. The theme has a max size setting of 1366px wide in my mind too large – but it was the best option to keep them from harping on how it doesn’t look good – on the giant monitors they review them on. BUT – your monitor is the “popular resultion” – so fixing it would make sense – if you / others are seeing that the banner column is being cut off – then we should just reduce the “max size” and that will make the center column smaller (since we can’t affect the banner column) – and get those banners inside the browser window – In my tests I did not notice it (BUT I WAS MOSTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE HOMEPAGE) – my laptop is an odd size and is WIDER and SHORTER than yours – so that issue was no there – https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1366&height=768 I can see what you saw – SO I just changed the max width of the site to be : 1240px (down from 1366px) (I know the banners are still hanging of the right edge a little) – going to try to find a better solution. But other parts of the page are resizing – https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/spencer-gray-guzzles-august-alexanders-gargantuan-meat-pole.html BUT – that “post featured image” – appears smaller – it is 992px – instead of 1094px – that is was before – when it was 1366 wide. https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/spencerguzzles.jpg – still 745×470 – +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I will look again and try to see if I can change the NON-banner columns proportions – but I could not before – the builders made all the percents work together in a way I can’t really change (with like 12 decimal points after the whole number for percent) so we can fix the over banner issue – but might mess with the look and feel in a way that is unacceptable – eh? blah! shawn From: “Toby Morris” To: “Shawn Palmer” Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 1:16:25 PM Subject: RE: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – I saw that here https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/aspen-tries-to-haze-lance-weber-takes-it-in-the-ass-instead.html My screen is 1366×768 and in Chrome the site is cut off on the banner column. I will review the stuff you wrote below in a little while, because I do want to have an understanding…but maybe we make the main image not as wide. What happens if the images the bloggers receive are not that wide? From: Shawn Palmer Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 1:10 PM To: Toby Morris ; Shawn Palmer Cc: andyfair99 ; Tim Valenti ; Mike Sijacic ; Roma Subject: Re: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – where did you find that 1370px wide image? I can’t track it down where the wpengine.com version is showing that size (does you laptop have a retina display?) I *think what you want is already happening (it won’t be blurry moving forward)? – we just have not uploaded large images into the new site – we are still seeing old sizes from the previous site – that started out too small – 745×470 800px max for affiliate images? There was an issue with the writers where they were uploading images that were like 5000px across (every images was way OVERSIZED) – so they are getting images that are very large – we made the writers resize images for the current sword that were small because they were slapping in HUGE ones. (If not – they will need to learn to uprez / sharpen the SINGLE ASSET they want to user for the featured image so it can be used.) FOR THIS SITE – We want the bloggers to upload images that are 2000px wide (72 dpi)( and let wordpress make sml / med / large from that. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hopefully this won’t bore you too much Current Live Site a) we had to make them that specific width to fit in the slider on the homepage in the last version – 745×470 == This version (wpengine) doesn’t care about the size (as long as they are normal-ish photo sizes (4:3 / 16:9) – hopefully they will be 2000px across. (If not there are some sharpening / resizing tricks that can uprez the SINGLE ASSET THEY WANT FOR FEATURED IMAGES that they should learn – its a farily common blog problem) also – they can’t be a completely odd size like this one – http://www.thesword.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dawson.jpg NEW SITE (wpengine) SIZING BREAKDOWN:: I “topped out” the width of the site at 1366px (based off the screen resolution test data I sent out) – & the site requires a max size – The largest presented image is the Feature Image on a Posts Page – it is “pushed up” to 1094 px. https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/spencer-gray-guzzles-august-alexanders-gargantuan-meat-pole.html (images is presented at 1094 px width) https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/spencerguzzles.jpg – it is only 745 – due to the restrictions on the current site. Wordpress likes to make “sizes” for images like we do in forge (it’s important for SEO / user experience etc.) – they work proportionally – These can be changed – but I was seeing where the big breakpoints are for our users and woking from there – thumb width – 320px – Medium – 768px Large – 1224px – little oversized but should be OK – so we can make sure it uses the large version on the posts page and all will be well – no blurry etc. From: “Toby Morris” To: “Shawn Palmer” Cc: “andyfair99” , “Tim Valenti” , “Mike Sijacic” , “Roma” Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 11:48:09 AM Subject: RE: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – I was just bopping around in swordstaging and noticed you had the recent content in there…everything is looking really great, but I found one thing I think we need to address. When I was on the live site earlier, I noticed that a lot of images provided from Affiliate Programs are sent at 72 dpi and around 800 Wide, but we’re stretching that image to 1150×750 on the slider on the home page…this creates a situation where the image is fuzzy. See featured hp.jpg I looked at the same story on the staging site and the image is even fuzzier because it appears that it’s being stretched to 1370 wide, plus I think it may be pushing the banners off the page when I have it on my lap top monitor. I’m losing about 30 pixels of the banner column or so. How do we all feel about making the featured image actual size and constrained to a specific width if the image is wider? From: Shawn Palmer Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 6:00 PM To: Toby Morris ; Shawn Palmer Cc: andyfair99 ; Tim Valenti ; Mike Sijacic ; Roma Subject: Re: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – for sure – mike and I thought that as well – I want to run through a couple pages I discovered we never utilized before when they are signing up for commenting – we might be able to get some $ out of those as well – I’ll see when mike is free tomorrow for a meeting – shawn From: “Toby Morris” To: “Shawn Palmer” , “andyfair99” , “Tim Valenti” , “Mike Sijacic” , “Roma” Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 4:45:33 PM Subject: RE: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – Can we go through these notes and address any outstanding question in the review meeting? I feel many of the outstanding questions need to be addressed by the group. From: Shawn Palmer Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 9:25 AM To: Toby Morris ; andyfair99 ; Tim Valenti ; Mike Sijacic ; Roma Cc: Shawn Palmer Subject: lower level – round up – Re: responsive site tester – 2nd banner scroll or not – On my way – here’s the notes – I tried to refresh the content in the staging area with the current data in the live site – there was a 504 error/timeout – I think I just have to break the updates up in to smaller pieces – I can so that today as well – so hopefully it will be pretty seamless when we swap it over – As far as the views / “favorites” buttons – let’s chat more about expectations of what we want those to function as – and then I can go from there – MAIN NAV – 1. why are we featuring the “stall wall” – it just sends them away – and does not generally give us any payout – I like they way the Page Six used to do it – where you HAD to come that day or it was gone – it keeps people coming back to check and hopefully pulls them into the site – 2. Twitter – the symbol is pretty commonplace – the handle is L O N G – we always end up with other nav elements – this one is ALREADY very full it wraps sometimes before we get to the mobile size – it just seems like we are tying to fill it up when we don’t have to – and really the twitter is ONLY the posts from the site correct – so again – why not keep them where we can make the $ 3. MOST POPULAR – apologies – I completely forgot about that page – will put it together this morning – ++++++++++++++++++++++ What is the Select Category drop down thing in the middle of the banners on the Post page banner column? – working on it still – will remove before launch – CHECK MOBILE – browserstack.com user: mike@falconstudios.com pass: iloveporn n – Final breakpoint piece on homepage – FIX THE MID POINT BREAKPOINT – in the custom area – – changed out carrots in menu bar with utf-8 versions – Main Banner – look at “height” in different browsers – https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1366&height=768 – Carrots replaced with html – not a font – should not have load issues – Please remove the Above Post Banners. – Toby will send js – I can’t seem to get it to give me correct permissions Sign Up – “SUBSCRIBE TO THE SWORD UPDATES: Subscribe to TheSword.com Update to get the hottest GAY.SEX.LIFE. content delivered to your inbox!” – We should try to get both users who want the newsletter and those who sign up to comment (the comment people we actually have even more of a change to reach out to – with the – Register – – https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/wp-login.php?action=register Page that we can put the upsell onto – – https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/welcome-to-the-sword POST ADDITIONS / CHANGES TO INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS::: Do we want to and are we able to add a view count in the Title header? “Favorties (hearts)” – Remove Ratings? POSTS:: https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/pagearticle1 – test post page let’s consider keeping the development moving – REGULAR POSTS – 1. comments moved above related stories – 2. Title font larger on posts – page – 3. SHARE AND LIKE OR RATE BUTTONS – just curious if we can go to a LIKE/HEART instead of rating system since all our content has this at this time. 4. POST FOOTER BANNER – 5. REMOVE ABOUT THE AUTHOR 6. COMMENTS – Listing of current comments on the story. 7. LEAVE A COMMENT – The text for leaving comments currently says LEAVE A REPLY, Should it say Comment on This Article? (both work – they are HOPEFULLY replying to each other – that does make better comments) – I changed it more – just to be sure we can change it a bunch – let’s figure out what it should be – 8. PREVIOUS / NEXT BUTTONS 9. RELATED POSTS 10. ROS FOOTER BANNER
I know I keep bringing this up – but is is really obvious on my machine at home – I was just looking at Toby’s edit about the 2nd banner (below header ad – TheSword.com – ROS HEADER – 1015×125) – and how it was sliding up when he was scrolling and to him it seems like it should stay. On my laptop that banner comes almost half way down the page – the majority of the site is nav and banners on the home machine – so I had not even considered it not scrolling – just want to make sure we are all seeing it the same – this tool is pretty useful – 1366×768 is the most popular resolution worldwide currently – should that banner scroll or remain where it is? https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1366&height=768 ++++++++++++++ TEST YOUR MACHINE – http://viewportsizes.mattstow.com/mine/ My machine is – 1440 x 789 – it’s a little short – but still fairly normal – and I can’t really see anything more than the first headline – COMPARE TO STATS – http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide – these are the most common view points – OVERALL STATS – 360×640 – 16.87% | 1366×768 – 9.09% | 1920×1080 – 7.62% | 375×667 – 4.77% | 360×720 – 3.15% | 768×1024 – 2.55% DESKTOP STATS – 1366×768 – 23.86% | 1920×1080 – 19.59% | 1440×900 – 6.69% | 1536×864 – 6.04% | 1600×900 – 4.92% | 1024×768 – 3.77% MOBILE STATS – 60×640 – 28.39 | 375×667 – 8.28% | 360×720 – 5.1% | 414×736 – 4.07% | 412×846 – 4.02% | 720×1280 – 3.31% https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1400&height=700
I’ve heard some varying opinions about the banner UNDER the nav – is it in or out? I guess leave it in and we can just remove it after we all discuss it. The only other requests I have are can you add some more space under the Top Stories section right before the category headers to they pop out more. I’ve attached screen shots of the area I’m talking about. The other thing I noticed is on the Post page. We had talked about moving the comments section closer to the actual story. It is possible to move “Related Stories” under the comment section? Roma From: “andyfair99” To: “Shawn Palmer” , “Roma” , “Mike Sijacic” , “Tim Valenti” , “Toby Morris” Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 9:46:47 AM Subject: Re: sword staging – 97% there? Hey Shawn, Are you holding off on the mobile version to develop next? Right now there are no banners showing on the mobile pages, not the home page and not the posts pages. Thanks, Andy On 7/30/19 12:31 PM, Shawn Palmer wrote: https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/ OK – take a look – there is 1 last breakpoint on the homepage top area that I have to track down – I put it aside on friday because I wanted to get to everything else first – but am going at it today – Let me know what else I missed – ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Going to finish up the set up for the category sorter – AND – I discovered a different way to spread the banners around the site – I will get a test page for that up and running since that will be easier than trying to explain it – will have that hopefully this morning as well –
COMMENTS / SEO Content – the content is moved – but the “featured images” are buggy – I am fixing it (just takes a while to break up the HUGE files into chunks wordpress won’t bomb out on) – so if you see missing featured images they are under way ALSO -I was thinking about the comment form stuff (why it isn’t matching the current sword) and Toby’s info about the traffic falling – 1. Comment Form – I did a bunch of customization to the comment for on the current sword – somehow that stuff didn’t make it over – so I will redo today (and try to improve it) – I am guessing that since it is a “core” wordpress feature that the copy of it did not go correctly – not hard and I am sure I can do it better 2nd time around (there are some NEW plugins to replace the ones I used before as well) PLACEMENT – we could put it even lower – like directly above the falcon dvd slider banner – and put a background on it – really make it stand out – I will see if there is a way to make it SUPER easy for users to get to it when I am re-fixing the form – 2. SEO – The writers have to do more stuff for our seo – Basics / Ratings / Yoast / Schema BASICS – there is lots of advice about it (some conflicts eachother) – I can run through and see that we are on the up and up with what we have – this theme is more optimized as well than the last one – https://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-seo/
WordPress Simple SEO Guide: First Steps
RATINGS – https://www.ianbrodie.com/get-star-ratings-google-search-results/ This is sort of convoluted – BUT WE NEED INTERACTION WITH THE USERS for google to like us – and google likes star ratings – I need to research this more – but this is why you see those ratings everywhere – and other parts have fallen off – it’s not about articles but being counted as an actual living functioning website – I have to understand this more – but we may have to use the “ratings” more heavily than we thought YOAST – When Harlan started – we met a couple times about what was required in the “YOAST” seo plugin area on the posts – I just went back and spot checked a bunch of his – it looks like he was doing it pretty religiously – Did you guys talk to the new writers about what they need to do? For Seo – it doesn’t look like they are doing the minimum? Really the “full version” of the Yoast Plugin is only $89 – we should get it – it will do a bunch of stuff automatically –
Rank for all relevant keywords and keyphrases
BASIC STEPS::
10 tips for an awesome and SEO-friendly blog post
SCHEMA – Next version of SEO ranking tech. I touched on it with the writers when I was teaching them about the video stuff – BUT – not is the perfect time to get it initialize it – this could really be affecting us –
How to Add Schema Markup to WordPress and WooCommerce Sites (SEO Plugins vs Manually)
This is from the “makers” of the theme we are using –
A Simple Guide To Rich Snippets For WordPress
How to Add Schema Markup to WordPress
Divi Schema Child Theme
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schema-with-extra-theme/ – I will look at this and sort out what’s crap and what is useful – YOAST PLUGIN CAN HELP ($89)
Rank for all relevant keywords and keyphrases
Structured data with Schema.org: the ultimate guide
https://yoast.com/schema-org-is-hard-were-making-it-easy/ AND A SITE PLUGIN ($77) https://codecanyon.net/item/snip-structured-data-plugin-for-wordpress/
SITE SIZING where did you find that 1370px wide image? I can’t track it down where the wpengine.com version is showing that size (does you laptop have a retina display?) I *think what you want is already happening (it won’t be blurry moving forward)? – we just have not uploaded large images into the new site – we are still seeing old sizes from the previous site – that started out too small – 745×470 800px max for affiliate images? There was an issue with the writers where they were uploading images that were like 5000px across (every images was way OVERSIZED) – so they are getting images that are very large – we made the writers resize images for the current sword that were small because they were slapping in HUGE ones. (If not – they will need to learn to uprez / sharpen the SINGLE ASSET they want to user for the featured image so it can be used.) FOR THIS SITE – We want the bloggers to upload images that are 2000px wide (72 dpi)( and let wordpress make sml / med / large from that. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hopefully this won’t bore you too much Current Live Site a) we had to make them that specific width to fit in the slider on the homepage in the last version – 745×470 == This version (wpengine) doesn’t care about the size (as long as they are normal-ish photo sizes (4:3 / 16:9) – hopefully they will be 2000px across. (If not there are some sharpening / resizing tricks that can uprez the SINGLE ASSET THEY WANT FOR FEATURED IMAGES that they should learn – its a farily common blog problem) also – they can’t be a completely odd size like this one – http://www.thesword.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dawson.jpg NEW SITE (wpengine) SIZING BREAKDOWN:: I “topped out” the width of the site at 1366px (based off the screen resolution test data I sent out) – & the site requires a max size – The largest presented image is the Feature Image on a Posts Page – it is “pushed up” to 1094 px. https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/spencer-gray-guzzles-august-alexanders-gargantuan-meat-pole.html (images is presented at 1094 px width) https://swordstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/spencerguzzles.jpg – it is only 745 – due to the restrictions on the current site. Wordpress likes to make “sizes” for images like we do in forge (it’s important for SEO / user experience etc.) – they work proportionally – These can be changed – but I was seeing where the big breakpoints are for our users and woking from there – thumb width – 320px – Medium – 768px Large – 1224px – little oversized but should be OK – so we can make sure it uses the large version on the posts page and all will be well – no blurry etc.
I know I keep bringing this up – but is is really obvious on my machine at home – I was just looking at Toby’s edit about the 2nd banner (below header ad – TheSword.com – ROS HEADER – 1015×125) – and how it was sliding up when he was scrolling and to him it seems like it should stay. On my laptop that banner comes almost half way down the page – the majority of the site is nav and banners on the home machine – so I had not even considered it not scrolling – just want to make sure we are all seeing it the same – this tool is pretty useful – 1366×768 is the most popular resolution worldwide currently – should that banner scroll or remain where it is? https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1366&height=768 ++++++++++++++ TEST YOUR MACHINE – http://viewportsizes.mattstow.com/mine/ My machine is – 1440 x 789 – it’s a little short – but still fairly normal – and I can’t really see anything more than the first headline – COMPARE TO STATS – http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide – these are the most common view points – OVERALL STATS – 360×640 – 16.87% | 1366×768 – 9.09% | 1920×1080 – 7.62% | 375×667 – 4.77% | 360×720 – 3.15% | 768×1024 – 2.55% DESKTOP STATS – 1366×768 – 23.86% | 1920×1080 – 19.59% | 1440×900 – 6.69% | 1536×864 – 6.04% | 1600×900 – 4.92% | 1024×768 – 3.77% MOBILE STATS – 60×640 – 28.39 | 375×667 – 8.28% | 360×720 – 5.1% | 414×736 – 4.07% | 412×846 – 4.02% | 720×1280 – 3.31% https://www.responsivedesignchecker.com/checker.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswordstaging.wpengine.com&width=1400&height=700

SSL Warning from promo videos

shit – have to 2x check An image with an insecure url of “http://promovideos.nakedsword.com/content/promos/dc_naked_fivebrothersDuranRyder/dc_naked_fivebrothersDuranRyder.jpg” was loaded on line: 1541 of https://www.thesword.com/brotherly-love-blake-ryder-fucks-facials-big-bro-sean-duran.html.
MovingInternal

Moving wordpess Internal

  1. Getting our stuff into our own CDN – seems pretty important –
  2. should we finally do a multi site – will make it easier – allow us to share – posts etc. – may bring bill down as well –
NOTES FROM WPENGINE – what they are doing Security https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engines-security-environment/ Staging / Production https://wpengine.com/support/staging-development-environments-wp-engine/ WP overview docs https://wpengine.com/support-categories/learn-about-our-platform/ Ad Issues

Revive Ad Server

admin F$13N$porn**

Affiliate Ad Issues

Here you go. The campaign is called “shawntestgpb” under affiliate tiffernore if you are ever looking for it. https://join.nakedsword.com/track/MTAzNDE4LjIuMS4xLjc5LjAuMC4wLjA
ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager – is this a better plugin to manage the affilaite stuf?

https://affiliatewp.com/

– PAID BUT REALLY SEEMS WORTH IT – Romas example – there is no central place to fix links – trying to change those links that other writer had – Why You Should Cloak Affiliate Links In WordPress Beyond just plain offering cleaner, more user-friendly URL structures, cloaking your links has some practical benefits as well. First off, it makes it a lot easier to manage your affiliate links. Picture this…you’ve been linking to this one great product in all of your content. You’ve probably linked to it, say, 25 different times. But now, for some reason, that company is switching affiliate programs and suddenly you have to update all of your links. This is a major pain. But if you’ve cloaked your links, you can just update to the new affiliate link structure one time and those changes will automatically apply to every single spot where you used the link. Second, most link cloaking tools make it easy to add the rel=”nofollow” tag to affiliate links. This ensures that you don’t get on Google’s bad side or pass your hard-earned SEO juice off to affiliate products. Finally, cloaking affiliate links makes it harder for malicious actors to overwrite your affiliate links (if they ever got a foothold in your site). How To Cloak Affiliate Links In WordPress Below, I’ll show you how to cloak links using three different methods: ThirstyAffiliates – this popular link cloaking plugin is what we actually use here at WPLift. Pretty Links – this is another popular link cloaking plugin. Manual code – it’s actually not too difficult to do this yourself, but you will lose out on some of the advanced features that the plugins offer.

WEBp image format

https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/ +++++++++++++++++++

use this login moving forward

TheSword.com thesword.com/wp-admin user: siteowner pass: Sit3-Own3r! email – siteowner@thesword.com – group email to: shawn@cubik.com / it@cubik.com / toby@nakedsword.com / roma@nakedsword.com Wordpress / Jetpack login https://wordpress.com/ user: siteownerthesword email: siteowner@thesword.com pass: Sit3-Own3r!

specific feeds

1. so new email sign up box on site – 2. below this is the “out of the box” email you get through that “specific feed” (it literally just showed up in my mailbox) 3. attached is the OPTIONS PAGE – where you can tell it what you want to know about – you can pick any tag / category and get an email about that specifically – when it is updated / you can set you timing – https://www.specificfeeds.com/thesword-com to me it seems like a good way to do this even if it was a lower level option to the regular email –

comments – we have a lot of options for users

Getting other writers up to speed

Updates to blog / rss feeds / posts on 3rd party sites (ns or where ever)

https://themeisle.com/plugins/feedzy-rss-feeds/ – automatically pulls in multiple feeds (from affiliate content sites) adds our affiliate code to links – – can set as draft – so all 3rd party content is there – but can be MORE easily rewritten and reworked – – just cuts out the step of them having to go to affiliate site to grab it – https://wpengine.com/resources/wordpress-rss-feeds/ – tools to update the rss feed so that it is MORE usable on nakedsword.com – – adds images in a better way – https://grapesjs.com/demo.html – should be possible to use the updated rss feed to create a more stylized posts section on nakedsword (especially making it responsive) – also make a more dynamic newsletter – – have to work out a plan https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/issues/717 – grapes and cms plan

Custom Affiliate Linking Code Doc

swordblogger@thesword.com toby / tiffany / roma / shawn – writers: Blogger Linker: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N8Jlsom28OISQTG8z9wd8IKZsY_JNPh49pZRmvtcfq4/edit?usp=sharing Private Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuw1rHzdh6ZAXHyiiKvojR2vZIU-BYwu0bQO8XkOBhQ/edit?usp=sharing – master doc (not for bloggers)
PRIVATE DOC – INTERNAL ONLY – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuw1rHzdh6ZAXHyiiKvojR2vZIU-BYwu0bQO8XkOBhQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuw1rHzdh6ZAXHyiiKvojR2vZIU-BYwu0bQO8XkOBhQ/edit?usp=sharing
– asset needs – posting breakdown we may want to set up a dedicated person to pull the “$ money maker” affiliate content from all the affiliate programs – so it’s all there and ready – we have 4 other writers already working? (let me know their user names etc. – so I can 2x check their info) LOGINS TO AFFILIATE PROGRAMS – he must have been logging into different affiliate programs to get videos / images / copy – much like our affiliates do to get into our nats – is there a list of those? I am guessing he was using that to fulfill a bunch of his articles – do we have those logins somewhere? INCLUDING FALCON / RAGING / HOT HOUSE (INTERNAL affiliate program logins) Ad Trades – did Harlan have any ad trades etc. set up we should be aware of? Banner Ads – shoot those over to me when it’s time to update them – I can get them into AdRotate easily Fake Posts – are we still using those “fake posts” to push sales over to NS? Tim said we should be doing those weekly – I willl dig up the instructions for setting those up – https://www.thesword.com/got-cum.html this is an example of one of those – featured image / special affilaite link / use: “Ads_Posts” as the category – it keeps it in the grid below – but out of the main slider – AND click “page links to: custom url” – and add the affilaite link there at the bottom of the post page – ========================================

Jetpack info

TheSword.com thesword.com/wp-admin user: siteowner pass: Sit3-Own3r! email – siteowner@thesword.com – group email to: shawn@cubik.com / it@cubik.com / toby@nakedsword.com / roma@nakedsword.com Wordpress / Jetpack login https://wordpress.com/ user: siteownerthesword email: siteowner@thesword.com pass: Sit3-Own3r!

posts by email

default category: is post by mail

NEW WAY TO DO THIS – default category is post by email this plugin excludes it from the loop https://www.thesword.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=ultimate-category-excluder.php so it won’t show up anywhere also have to stop it from publicizing content as well – https://red-beret.com/jetpack-publicize-only-certain-categories/ 2nd example https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-select-categories/ and remove from rss feeds https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-exclude-specific-categories-from-wordpress-rss-feed/
Control if a post can publish or not – https://wpshout.com/stop-post-publishing-php/ postbyemail@thesword.com that forwards to: rebi843celu@post.wordpress.com (OLD ADDRESS: wajo060veye@post.wordpress.com) Posts by email – with these email addresses you can send an email to the sites and get a post into the site – makes it easier to get info into it – Post by Email [category postsbyemail] – 2x check that the category goes to post by email –

AD ISSUES::

1. Create new gallery pages – with what they want – naked guys on it – that we keep updating – based by studio 2. Look at mobile nav – see if it can be updated 3. slim down site – seems like the pages are getting bigger and so is our bounce rate (even though traffic actually seems to be sort of stable) – we should all try NOT LOOKING AT ON DESKTOP – and see what how mobile can be made better – 4. use a tool to control affil codes (if that is still an issue) 5. try to make site more mobile friendly – not big graphics – but lots of info – maybe even a “best of (studio name)” navigation right at top of site – that just links to galleries from studios? (those types of pages seem to be the most viewed) – AND using tag pages (also a very popular page – for tag: bigcocks) – https://www.thesword.com/tag-cloud-page – these pages are sort of self created – as long as we use the same tags ove rand over –
if we are concerned about the correct links going in for affiliate posts – then we can install this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/ then we set up the affiliate once – and the writers can get the code out of the list – we can control what they are doing a little bit more – – what is the target – 80 sales a week – – traffic and sales declining – how are they connected – See the attached to get a sense of what we’re doing revenue wise on TheSword.com Below are traffic and revenue reports for the last 5 months. Plan on analyzing the amount of content vs the traffic, but the numbers are on the decline for sure and we need to come up with things to try and pass on to contributors to try to boost things up. New Sales are down considerably Only 21 new Sales this month so far Boy Profits and Kinky Dollars have not made a sale in the past two months. Are we promoting them? Who are they?
TRAFFIC FOR THOSE MONTHS – AnalyticsAllWebSiteDataAudienceOverviewFeb1April23.pdf COMPARE THIS TIME TO LAST YEAR: it looks like our bounce rate is getting bigger – I wonder if it is because the site is larger? TOP PAGES Jan1 – April23:: toppagebypageviewjan10-april2319.pdf TOP PAGES Jan1 – April23 – ARE HEAVY PAGES
BLOG LIST http://blog.falconstudios.com/ that forwards to: foce789novo@post.wordpress.com; postbyemail@falconstudios.com https://fsg-ns-comingsoon.com/ that forwards to: higo197nuhu@post.wordpress.com; postbyemail@fsg-ns-comingsoon.com GayPornBlog.com that forwards to: cuyo755zawe@post.wordpress.com; postbyemail@gaypornblog.com huntezine.com that forwards to: weli414rare@post.wordpress.com; postbyemail@huntezine.com THESWORD postbyemail@thesword.com that forwards to: rebi843celu@post.wordpress.com (OLD ADDRESS: wajo060veye@post.wordpress.com) http://projects.nakedsword.com/ that forwards to: sizi042pone@post.wordpress.com; postbyemail@cubik.com or postbyemail@nakedsword.com +++++++++++++++++++ Fsgcomingsoon.com may need to be forwarded by Mike when he gets back, I’m unsure if I have the permissions to change this, but I’ll check. ====================================== 1. Login https://www.thesword.com/wp-admin/ backend login page – user your email and password 2. EDITOR Wordpress is eventually going to change over the editor to the new “block editor” – we should all start to get familiar with it – but for now if you aren’t comfortable with it – make sure you choose the “classic editor” to keep the confusion down – but maybe try using the “block editor” for some posts to start to get used to it – https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-the-new-wordpress-block-editor/ I don’t think wp likes it when you try to switch between the 2 editors though – so once you start a post with 1 of them – keep using that one – 3. STALL WALL POSTS a) Find a 3rd party link – b) Find an image – try to create one that is basically square – to rectangle ish c) Hit “New Post” d) Give it a short funny title e) add the image as a “featured image” f) scroll to bottom of – posts page – to the “page links to” area – select “A custom url” – paste in link – click “open this link in a new tab” g) Right Column – “categories” – select “stall wall” h) Hit publish – will go to first position in stall wall 4. Regular Posts – a) Figure out what to write about – b) Find an image -the current ones I see are 745w x 470h – c) Hit “New Post” d) Create Title e) add the image as a “featured image” f) Right Column – “categories” – select “sword says” – this will put it in the hp grid and into the main slider on the hp – make this the primary category g) Other categories – it looks like he was also creating categories with model names / studios etc. – if you do this – it’s good – because it allows the site itself to automatically create dynamic pages based off those tags – you can also create one for you as an author if you want – https://www.thesword.com/author/johntegan this is an example of the type of dynamic page it can create – h) Tags – these are smaller than categories – but also create dynamic pages – you can choose appropriate ones in the tags area – https://www.thesword.com/tag/bodybuilders g) create article – h) if you want to create a “gallery” of images in the article – see #5 below – g) Hit publish will show up in slider and in the “sword says” category – as well as in any of the other tags / category dynamic pages you tag it with 5. Galleries a) you can add images individually to each post – “add media” b) or you can make a gallery – click ad media – on left side click ‘create gallery” – select a bunch of images – click “create new gallery” bottom right – Link to: Media File Columns – you can choose how many you want horizontally across for you images Size – select – Medium Type – I ususally use thumbnail grid – but you can experiment – click insert gallery 6. Fake Posts (Ads_Posts) – we are suppose to be doing these fake posts weekly – https://www.thesword.com/got-cum.html this is an example of one of those – Title – featured image – small amount of copy with link that has the price break and link to ns in it – category: use: “Ads_Posts” as the category – it keeps it in the grid below – but out of the main slider – – Bottom of Posts Page – click “page links to: custom url” – and add the affilaite link there at the bottom of the post page –



OK – so before we get to hung up on the look of the site – I really want to focus a little bit on what we want the site to do – there are a lot of new templates out that you can really build out and build on – I feel like last time we went for a lot of bells and whistles that we turned off – AND made the site harder to change etc. REALLY if we can come up with something simple and straightforward – content based – then we can dress it up – it would be great if we could update the look more easily and keep the trends in mind when we do it by building it on a flexible platform that we can change easily! SHINY IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT – ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is from our host (may help sort of focus): https://wpengine.com/blog/10-must-have-features-for-a-wordpress-website-in-2018/ They also have a number of templates (they don’t really support them any more than they do now – but could still help us out) https://wpengine.com/resources/mobile-friendly-wordpress-themes/ +++++++++++++++++++++++ https://foundationpress.olefredrik.com/ this would be the same framework that nakedsword.com is built in (it is very flexible) +++++++++++++++++++++++ https://jetpack.com/features/design/themes/showcase/ OK – so jetpack has a lot of features we are looking for – it is more than a plugin at this point – so checking through their themes first can make your life easier (I am using jetpack for features on the blogs now) – the easier to implement jetpack the better – https://wordpress.org/themes/ then wordpess themes – some are good some not etc. then there is all the commercial sites https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes.php https://www.elegantthemes.com/ https://www.studiopress.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++ AND there is a huge market in “foundation” style sites that use tools that allow you to create different dynamic pages – without having to write scripts anymore – https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/best-drag-and-drop-page-builders-for-wordpress/ https://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/divi/ https://elementor.com https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/
Some of these are off what the sword really focuses on – but the tempaltes are modern and make use of a lot of the new backend tools that allow us to create more functional sites – the examples below show how different you can make wordpress sites – the tools can help us make sub sections and page layouts better – but obviously we still need the writing to be there! TOOLS ::
WordPress Popup Builder
Drag and Drop WordPress Page Builder
WP Page Builder
ADVERTISING :: – we could start with advertising ideas this time – and work a template that would allow us to have more spaces / pieces / ways to slip in ads so that the users might not notice – https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/insert-ads-wordpress/ SITES / TEMPLATES :: – I feel like we are always shying away from letting people get right to the articles – str8up – doesn’t get in between the reader and the articles – maybe we could try focusing on that more – and less on being a video site – there are some hybrids that could help – but really they are there to get informed / entertained – we have so much junk spread on the it – https://themeisle.com/demo/?theme=Hestia https://demo.tagdiv.com/select_demo/select_demo_newspaper https://www.elegantthemes.com/demo/?theme=Divi – template style theme http://preview.themeforest.net/item/smartmag-responsive-retina-wordpress-magazine/full_screen_preview/6652608?ref=cirvitis the issue is that a lot of the magazine style templates look sort of similiar – but really that’s what people are looking for at the same time – tricky to stand out – +++++++++++++++++++ WORDPRESS EXAMPLES::
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/ https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/
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Look at the things from wpengine and slap together a basic layout with what features they want ++++!
Blogs vs. Online Magazines: Differences in Design and User Experience
Create different dynamic emailers. Could we do same thing for falconnstc. Use the blog tech to build dynamic emails +++++++ https://www.float.com/?utm_source=Smashing%20Magazine&utm_medium=advertorial&utm_campaign=5_reasons_spreadsheets_are_killing_your_creative_agency Better organizer +++++++ http://time.com Can user change.layout depending on what they want to see? ++++++ https://www.theverge.com Cool desktop hp ++++ https://www.gq.com ===============
25 Outstanding Magazine Style Website Designs
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+++++++ Mag.newsweek.com large images ++++++++++ http://www.esquire.co.uk/ Large logo ++++++++ http://ugsmag.com/ Like the mosaic layout – gets you to content right away +++++++ http://www.brides.com/ ============= http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2010/4081/why-you-should-run-your-website-like-a-magazine http://nymag.com https://www.vogue.com Love opening video segment http://www.dazeddigital.com Like content layout ++++++++ https://thealpinereview.com More video hp like – is it possible to move the image around for stuff – still image that moves ____________________ Shawn PalmerDirector Of Enterprise Production _____________________ Shawn Palmer Director Of Enterprise Production
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