Ask Me Anything About WordPress 2019

[Power Booster]

Hey @Festinger
Can you tell some Seo friendly and lite weight themes for wordpress

 

[Power Booster]

Any plugins that completely hide the fact that you are using WP?

I also want to know

 

[Maximilian P.]

To engage with the community and collect email lists I want to do a weekly competition. Everyone can take part and do their entry. its a voting contest where they upload a couple of photos and write something & then upload. most thumbs up or whatever wins. Is there a plugin or a way to do this in wordpress?

 

[Rifzan]

I wanna ask you for something that I wonder
1. We know that WP template is human-made. I ever bought the one for my website but when I installed a variety of plugin, some of them cracked or not work properly. What makes it happen? Plugin error or developer mistake?
2. I'm used to using a drop and drag tool to make automatically landing page on WP called DiVi. When I try to use it to make landing pages, it's so difficult to connect every link of the pages. I mean the link from the homepage to the inner page. How to design a landing page easily by this tool? U have tips and tricks?
3. The new WP backend feels so freak. I don't know that name of that design. How to destroy it and back to the longer beeckend appearance without making the mess?

Thanks for a chance for asking

 

[Mr Positive]

Sir is there any plugin that automatically formats the post and uploads them, as you would know in bimbed theme one can submit a guest post, then manual approval is done. So is it possible when the manual approval is done, a plugin can format the post and then it goes live?.

Also what do you advise should one make changes in child theme or directly on demo is fine, changes I mean only change category names, logo and background colour, rest keeping the default theme look.

 

[underground-rap]

Will you ever send me the key to your mega.nz WordPress achieve? lmao

 

[mrbit]

What's the best way to update products on multiple sites at the same time ?

 

[Rafael Marques]

@Festinger I already saw that you are not a developer, but maybe you can help:

Do you have some thoughts about testing and production environment for wordpress?

 

[kiriguy]

@Festinger Thank you for your help on BHW, you are always resourceful!

I am making a rental location (photo shoots and party rental in the same place) I would like to know what is the best website you recommend?
I am looking to have a calendar functionality to sync with google sheets
Websites I am trying to mimic are:

http://www.redlabstudios .com

http://www.lavishphotostudios .com

https://www.fdphotostudio .com

https://www.concretestudiosla .com

Thank you!

 

[nycdude]

WordPress is the area where I feel like a fish in the sea...

Feel free to ask me anything about WordPress. That can be, but it's limited to every question you got (plugins, themes wise), but also technical issues, and everything else.

Please do not request themes or plugins in this thread. This thread is meant to give you advice.

Go ahead!

I will answer all the questions as far as I am able to.

Hello! Thanks for the Q&A WordPress thread.

I made a post about an hour ago asking this question but there seems to be more action on your thread .

I really need an auto-tagging and category solution for an auto-blogger and everything on Codecanyon and wordpress.org are old and outdated. Can you recommend me a good and updated plugin solution to accomplish my needs? I'd buy it if I have to.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Deleted member 752298]

What hosting you recommend for blackhat site?

What kind of BlackHat website? I have used CyberBunker in the past, but it's not the most cheapest solution.

Hi @Festinger

Any thoughts about Interserver hosting? I see they are really cheap

Thanks

If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys
I don't like the 'unlimited diskspace' and other fair use policy terms. I wouldn't go for this webhosting to be honest.

@Festinger real noob question but seriously can't find the setting to do it. Get this message
Ad unit is too small, vi stories is not working on your site.

The minimum vi stories unit size is 336x280px.
Please insert the tag into a bigger unit.

But can't work out how to change the ads of size? Any help would be appreciated

What plugin are you using? Please add a screenshot to it.

what's the best theme to use with wordpress in terms of speed and phone friendly ?

I would go for Uncode:
https://themeforest.net/item/uncode-creative-multiuse-wordpress-theme/13373220

If you delete images in your media library will it also delete them on the posts you you used them on?

Yes, these images will be deleted from your posts as well, but the attachment link will still remain once a file has been deleted.

How to easily migrate blogger blog to wordpress?

Sorry, I haven't worked with Blogger in a while.
This is a nice tutorial how to achieve this result.

Is this a good plugin to enhance my site speed?
CDN Enabler – WordPress CDN Plugin
By KeyCDN

Or is there any other better alternative?

Yup, this plugin is a good one. IMO I would go for WP Rocket, as they have a fully integrated CDN solution.
I'd like to keep things in one place and not 4-5 WordPress plugins to actually increase the site speed.

Any idea of a good plugin to compress my images without losing quality?

Yes, I am using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/resmushit-image-optimizer/

@Festinger - your generosity and willingness to share is very much appreciated by me and many others. Thank you!

• You mentioned you aren't a coder, what are your thoughts and wordpress themes/tools like Divi and others (https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/best-drag-and-drop-page-builders-for-wordpress/
  • They make page building newbie friendly - are there downsides?

• If you were to build an amazon affiliate website, what WP theme and plugins would use to build the site?

You're welcome @ZeroDefects.

1) Page builders... If you ask my humble opinion, I really dislike page builders, especially the Visual Composer one. I'd like to keep things simple and efficient without too many bloatware (like importing unneeded page templates, and other paid 'add-on suggestions'. That's why I keep things simple and use Beaver Builder or the Elementor Pro plugin. Another downside of using page builders: they are not compatible with every theme, so the included features of a page builder will always remain custom css changes.

Hello,

I am trying to build my wordpress site for renting bouncy castles. Could you recommend a theme for that kind of business?

Should the renting part also be done through WordPress? Like the amount of days, date, location?

Hey @Festinger, I have a couple questions...

1) I am using one of your themes from the private storage. Was thinking whether it's better to purchase the exact same theme from the developers (basically pay for it on themeforest)? Would it be faster/more secure? What are the percs of paying when there are tons of nulled premium themes? Want to know that you are thinking...

2) Can't open the menu in my website mobile version for some reason, could it be because of the theme itself or because of it been nulled? When I tap on it on my phone, literally nothing happens. Other themes work fine...

By the way it's Brixton Theme that I am using!

Thank you for your help, sir, helping the community out a ton!

Sure, I am happy to answer them to you.

1) I encourage users to buy the actual theme or plugin if they like it to support the original developer. None of my plugins or themes are nulled. They are an exact copy of the original developer, no files are touched. So in terms of percs, there are none.

2) Again, my themes are not nulled. What version are you running of the Brixton theme? Maybe it's an outdated version which is not compatible with the newest version of WP?
Please let me know and I have updated the theme on the private storage

as i people who work for me in my wordpress blog. is there a way or any plugin that i can use to monitor and count their daily post?

Sorry, I am not aware of such plugin.

best way to keep wordpress secured and clean

This question has been asked and answered a couple of times in this thread.

 

[fullwall3t]

Yup, this plugin is a good one. IMO I would go for WP Rocket, as they have a fully integrated CDN solution.
I'd like to keep things in one place and not 4-5 WordPress plugins to actually increase the site speed.

Ok, I am only using w3 total catche, because I have found great set up few months ago which did wonders for me and I wanted to get even better results with implementing this plugin..
Do you have any recomended article or website for which I could grt idea how to set up properly wp rocket?

 

[Mr Positive]

Hi I wanted to know if one uses premium plugins without license (actually buying it), will the plugin owner penalise the site or, will google take objection if the site is using Adsense. Is there any risk in doing it especially if it’s a main money site?.

 

[BlueBuzzy]

Sure, I am happy to answer them to you.

1) I encourage users to buy the actual theme or plugin if they like it to support the original developer. None of my plugins or themes are nulled. They are an exact copy of the original developer, no files are touched. So in terms of percs, there are none.

2) Again, my themes are not nulled. What version are you running of the Brixton theme? Maybe it's an outdated version which is not compatible with the newest version of WP?
Please let me know and I have updated the theme on the private storage

It's brixton 4.0.4. Is it outdated yet? Do you have the newer version in your storage?

 

[mpikxfx]

Hi OP, you mentioned that you don't like to use page builders like visual composers.

1) If that's the case, how are you going to present your info, embed animated boxes, incorporate certain elements etc into the page?

2) Currently, once I completed the website for my client, my client can update the contents easily as with visual composer, everything is structured in orderly manner that even my client who is a newbie able to update contents with ease. But without a page builder, I guess it will be more difficult for my client to do so.

 

[raunak978]

thnx for this AMA, I have few questions
1. Best plugin or theme to display posts in Grid-style
2. Best theme or plugin for News aggregator website

Thanks

 

[ther3frigerator]

Thanks for that AMA.
Just one simple question.

How do you keep track of all your Wordpress pages?

 

[virasex]

Thanks

What is the difference between Meta tags and tags on wordpress blog?
And how does the above contribute in SEO for that related site?
Should these tags be Page/ post or content specific?
Can apply same tags to all blog posts?

 

[Frozen Phoenix]

Wow, what a great post. Bookmarked this.

Do you think site builders are worth using it (if so, which one is the best), or would it be a better idea to use Gutenberg (I do like it, and it's implemented in WP) + learn a bit of coding pages etc.. Right now I use Gutenberg + Elementor.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

is the new 5 as stable as the old version yet , are all bugs gone and very safe to use?