[AMA] Ask Me Anything About WordPress 2020

[abdssss]

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.

i'm curious about wordpress, is it a pleace that if you registered to and website the infos will go to wordpress? I want learn more about making website and add wordpress, what you suggest?

 

[Starblazer]

Thanks for taking time to reply to all the questions. I couldn't find an answer to the following question on internet, so I'm asking you.

Adsense (auto ads) is not able to insert in-article ads in Elementor post content. I've checked all the options and searched on Google but couldn't find an answer. I'm sure that there must be workaround as many people here are using Elementor with adsense.

 

[raawow]

Best plugin to get multilingual WP and why?

Also can you get MultilingualPress 3.3 in the Vault?

 

[plateau]

Best plugin for whatsapp? Is there one that can function like a live chat feature for whatsapp? Or no because of whatsapps limitations...

 

[Deleted member 752298]

Thank you for your reply. One last question, have you finished or published the guide on how to set up hosting on vps? We have talked about it few months ago.

Not yet buddy. It has been a time consuming period in the past few months and I haven't found a gap to write the actual guide.
If you need it urgent, I would recommend to visit YouTube to checkout some hosting VPS guides, there are many of them and aren't much different of my tutorial.

Thanks @Festinger

You're welcome man.

Do you have experience using Thrive Themes? Is it any good for blogging? In terms of site speed, functionality and the rest.

Yes, Thrive Themes are ok. I wouldn't choose for Thrive Themes personally, as StudioPress is more optimized.

1) What are the best plugins for local business websites like WhatsApp Messenger etc
2) Can you share resources on how to design good looking optimised websites for local businesses using elementor or divi etc

Thanks for your questions.

1. You can install a plugin which allows you to connect WA or FB messenger. Also, use the Yoast Local SEO plugin (shared on the forums) to optimize your local SERP's. Do you already have a Google My Business Listing? There are plenty plugins to integrate that too (such like sharing new information about your company).
2. I don't have particular samples - but try to Google your local restaurant or car shop - which is highly located in the SERP's and checkout their design.

who i can remove login from wpLms Theme?

Can you send me the link by PM please - I can have a look.

hii,
I wordpress website.. if i am posting one blog or post and after that down i want to add some faq so how can i add ,, shall i take some plugin for this or without pulgin how to do so tht it should look and should come in featured snippet.

It depends on the WordPress theme you're using. If it comes with a visual builder, it might have a FAQ element build in. If you haven't - you can try to install a plugin like this:
https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-faqs/

Is this plugin safe to use with adsense http://www.clickfraud-monitoring.com/ I’m not sure because it says something to with iframes and all can you help whether it’s safe or not

Sorry I cannot advice you in this matter as I don't have experience with this plugin. Once I have a little spare time, I will buy the plugin and check it out.

I checked it and installed it on my Wordpress. Still the same issue. Are there any recommended settings for it? please let us know.

Thanks!

Send me a PM and I will have a look. For free of course.

Do You know how to make a website more "Accessible" for disabled people...?!

Yes, by installing one of these plugins, depending on the sort handicap:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/

Hi bro, what common plugin to make government website in wordpress?
I have the concept but don't know how to create it in wordpress

This can be build with every basic theme - have a look at Salient Theme for example.

Hubspot AIO vs Elementor pop-ups
Which one is better for collecting leads?

I would go for Elementor popups as you can design it using the visual editor by the looks of your website.

Hey @Festinger this is kind of an offtopic question and is not actually related to WordPress
it's based on hosting.
May I know Which DMCA ignored hosting you use? or any best hosting provider you recommend.??

@stromind has served my hosting before. I have currently switched to not a specific DMCA-igored hosting company, but guru.co.uk is doing a great job.

1. What are the best Themes to use? Both Paid and Free?
2. Is it worth to learn how to code or pagebuilder works like a charm?
3. What are to most common plugins that we need to get for WP?

Thanks for your questions.

1. It depends on your niche. I like the themes which are not bloated with features that I don't use. For example, for a simple blog website, you can use TheGem theme, which come with SO MANY features, it's having an impact on your loading speeds.
   I would rather choose for a simple theme like Divi or Uncode.
2. It's wise to learn the basics of coding. HTML and CSS is easy to learn and will help you developing WP websites. PHP and other languages are more required if you're building more complex websites.
3. Elementor Pro, YOAST, WP Rocket, a good backup plugin, and the required plugins that comes with the theme.

Hi, i have a question about wordpress when i use the theme bimber ( minimal demo), i allways get blurry thumbnails in the header ( the featured entries).i tried ajax thumbnail rebuild and other thumbnail resize plugins but no results.
your help will be appreciated.

Have you regenerated all your thumbnails before?

https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

This will most likely solve the problem.

Hi,

Thank you for all the information you are giving for free. I know that you are getting a lot of messages/questions, but i was wondering if you can help me. I am new in this domain and I am currently building/developping my own website (a long term project) and I want to know if you can suggest me ideas/videos... on how to convert my html website into wordpress. I really appreciate the work you are doing.

Keep it up

Thanks @Badeek - when it comes to converting your HTML website to a theme, you should ask yourself: do I start with a theme or do I hire a developer and make a custom theme of your current HTML website. The first option is quite cheap if you compare it with the costs of a developer. If you got the budget, hiring a developer might be able to create something more that fits your expectations then using a pre-made theme, which comes with limitations too.

Does this answers your question?

Already found some answers just by reading this excellent thread. Brilliant job. Thank you Festinger

You're welcome.

@Festinger thanks so much for this thread, a lot of very useful information!

I would have one question as well:

Would you recommend any specific theme for an affiliate review website? Or a specific plugin for product ranking / comparison?

Thanks so much

Check out the Valenti or Gauge theme. It's a really nice and optimized review theme.

Tell me best plugin for facebook pixel and google adwords for retargeting pls

Facebook has it's own FB Pixel plugin - which I use a lot.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/official-facebook-pixel/

Hey @Festinger, Thanks for the AMA!

I Have a wp site with paginated content, so I want the pagination to be viewed only by visitors coming from Facebook. And visitors coming from otherwise to view the full page content.

Is there a plugin/way available to achieve this?

Yes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-so/

What is the best plugin for autoblogging? It would be cool to automatically import certain subreddits, twitter, instagram, RSS feeds. The few I have tried import reddit post in a weird way that doesn't look great. Would love to import a nice clean title, pic, and description. Thanks.

I love WP Robot.

It's needy to upload child theme along with main theme?

Only if you plan to change the theme files or add custom functions to the functions.php.

I am researching for a Calendar/Events/Directory at a responsible cost, NO monthly fee (except support), without hundreds of dollars of add-ons required. - I would like to create a niche Events Calendar with reoccurring events, front-end submission and be able to charge a fee for submissions. - I've probably looked at 40, can't decide, and many are missing a key feature that I need. - It will be a US national guide to various company's events and webinars, of which there are a HUGE number and no organization I can find. People need to be able to search by dates, for when they have time to grab a quick webinar, and categories for specific subjects, and a map for live events. I have 2 directory themes/plugins, but they lack the calendar aspect. Thanks!

I have many good experience with EventON: https://www.myeventon.com/
They have a large add-ons base and it has loads of settings.

Are there any actually proper decent themes to use for a review site that are available for FREE on bhw or is it all futile if it's outside your site, Festinger?

Feel free to drop your request in the request a download section of the forum and I might provide you the file.

Dear Helper! First thanks to help us on some questions... I think people should be more specific instead of have general questions some times....

My question is:
I have a site using LearnDash. Some people tryed to register but WP "never" send an email back with the credentials for only some emails. Which is the first main problem that not allowed WP send emails to people just have registered? I am not using any external senders neither any autoresponder... only the WP internal email from LearnDash. Thanks in advance!

Hmm, that might be a problem related to your SMTP settings and/or LearnDash configuration. Do they have to respond to their signup email to receive their login credentials?
Have you checked your sender's IP on blacklists? It might be that your emails are ending up in spam or junk.

Which is the best membership plugin?
memberpress or wishList member?

MemberPress - but Restrict Content Pro is my personal favorite.

Although my website had a quite unique and SEO friendly name, I couldn't rank at all on Google, even when typing the exact name. However, when I tried with Squarespace I ranked #1 within a month. What are the best plugins or techniques to rank a WP website?

That's a very wide question. A good domain name is important, filled with unique content, a good optimized site structure, fast hosting, SEO optimized. Plugins you can use are WP Rocket, Yoast, WP Optimize, and so on... it also depends on the theme you're using.

Hello!

I'm converting my theme from bootstrap (I'm using Advanced custom fields) for the most part, I have two contact forms that I can't figure out a way to convert them I love the bootstrap design, I don't want to switch to the wordpress plugins how do I do it

Thanks.

Converting contact forms is a pain in the ass. I would recommend to use WPForms or Contact Form 7.

Hi Festinger, can you tell me the best comments plugin, where users can set up rank factors (like desing, good properties, give stars, etc)...Thank you guy !

Sorry, but I didn't understand your question. You are trying to build a website where users can submit for different factors? In order to do what?

Thanks for doing this AMA. We have a Cannabis plugin built for WooCommerce that will be published soon. Since this is our first release, I was wondering where is the best place to sell the plugin which will get the most exposure?

Open a BST on BHW and start selling.

Hello,

I have a question about the Media Library.
If you switch to list view, you have the file name, Author, Uploaded to, Date, etc.

Why under the "Uploaded to" section some files are attached to something (Mainly the post it is in) and some do not have anything attached to. Listed as (Unattached)
I'm not sure if it's a half and half thing, but many images are attached to a post, and many are not.

Why is this?

And does every image have to be attached to something?

Personally I like to have an imaged attached to something so I can easily see if I have images not being used.

Is there an easy way to use a plugin or something to have the images attached to where they are being used, or is this a manual thing I have to do on each site?

Thanks for doing this,
J

I have been struggling with this too - but I never found the logic behind this. I have fixed the issue by using this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/upgrade-for-unattach-re-attach-media-attachments/

Hi, what is the best backup (restore and clone) based on your experience?

Duplicator Pro

Have any experience with Workflow automation and not to handle posting messages to social networks? Any such plugins for WP to consider?

https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-auto-publish/ - this will do the job.

Personally tried most and like updraftplus. For managing multiple sites from a single dashboard, MainWP that can also handle such tasks.

Thanks for your contribution @smetch

What’s the best way to increase a blog DA/PA?

I find it difficult to get organic traffic to my blog and even rank on google SERP. So, What does it take to rank on google SERP and how do I get organic traffic to my blog?

I replied to this question earlier in the reply - please check it out

Hello, Thanks for doing this AMA.
I want to know how to use AAWP with Thrive Architect.
Thanks

They are not optimized unfortunately. They can work together though but a lot of custom tweaks are required.

Best Theme for blog or ad sense Sites ?

Ad-sense from MTS & NewsPaper theme for blogging.

i'm curious about wordpress, is it a pleace that if you registered to and website the infos will go to wordpress? I want learn more about making website and add wordpress, what you suggest?

WordPress is a CMS that allowed you to easily create content and manage the stuff. You can have WordPress as CMS and choose a theme which fit your business / niche.

Thanks for taking time to reply to all the questions. I couldn't find an answer to the following question on internet, so I'm asking you.

Adsense (auto ads) is not able to insert in-article ads in Elementor post content. I've checked all the options and searched on Google but couldn't find an answer. I'm sure that there must be workaround as many people here are using Elementor with adsense.

Yup, a common problem. I have fixed this using a custom widget using Elementor Pro and use the auto insert it from a Widget using a plugin. It's a workaround which works pretty well

Best plugin to get multilingual WP and why?

Also can you get MultilingualPress 3.3 in the Vault?

WPML is my personal favorite.

 

[venee]

Hello,

1. What is your top 10 must-have plugins for 2020, for a person who converts from a static site to WordPress?
2. How do I export content from advanced custom field plugin

 

[Deleted member 752298]

Hello,

1. What is your top 10 must-have plugins for 2020, for a person who converts from a static site to WordPress?
2. How do I export content from advanced custom field plugin

1. A good theme, good hosting, for plugins: Yoast SEO, Akismet, WordFence, XML Sitemap, WP Rocket, Minify CSS, Google Sitekit.
2. Using this plugin: http://www.wpallimport.com/export/

i have the same question

Did I answer your question?

 

[Robcio]

Hey Festinger thanks for your AMA and your free Downloads.

Do you think AMP makes sense for a site that want to rank in a local market?

 

[Catman4]

Dear Sir, I am new to BHW and I love the amount of information I get from here. So that being said I move onto my questions. I bought a plugin and theme for a car rental business and worked on it for a couple of years. Recently I got an SSL certificate from Sectigo and when I put it in the WordPress site, all my photos stopped showing in the front end but are in the resources of the site. When checking the settings of the theme it shows https so there is no conflict there. I had a slider on the main page which is also gone and last but not least when trying to view each cars page with details, the button is grayed and the link seems broken. Could it be that the registration key of my website isn’t valid and it went kind of default mode or could it be something else? My question probably needs more details, any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated

 

[David719]

I think something like that (look at the picture) .....the customers can comment and can rate your webiste (design, etc) Can you help me with it? Thank you so much !

 

[nadhull]

Thanks for this AMA.
What is your take on YOAST readability score? Do you always aim for green score? I have a problem understanding what to do with the "consecutive sentence".

 

[seowarrior008]

Hi man, thanks for open this thread.
not sure if answered before, but curious of how you silo your WordPress?
Thanks a lot

 

[SmittySahn75]

I have been struggling with this too - but I never found the logic behind this. I have fixed the issue by using this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/upgrade-for-unattach-re-attach-media-attachments/

Apparently the theme I have already has this built into it.
I have the attach feature and unattach on there.

I was hoping for something that would see where the image was and just reattach it for me.. lol

I can't seem to find anything either if this should be done or if it just doesn't matter for anything.

 

[venee]

1. A good theme, good hosting, for plugins: Yoast SEO, Akismet, WordFence, XML Sitemap, WP Rocket, Minify CSS, Google Sitekit.
2. Using this plugin: http://www.wpallimport.com/export/

Did I answer your question?

Thanks, Cheers

 

[venee]

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.

What is the best Aspect Ratio for a Carousel Image for a business Website

 

[Zedcov]

Hi, did you pointed a link to other post from your cornerstone content ?

 

[Nesh47]

Which is the best page builder for WP?
Elementor pro
Elegant themes
Brizy Page Builder
Beaver Builder
WpBakery

 

[sergeyev.onli]

Best theme Vlog site? newbie here!

 

[esketit]

Found the BeTheme upload, I think this will work just fine for me. Can you recommend any YT videos, or courses or any other sources material that would help someone who's unfamiliar with WP and want to setup their website?

 

[Jyeshtha]

@Festinger or anyone else.

I downloaded betheme from your share and installed prebuilt website Agency 3.

I didn't notice and done with adding content and everything, but there is a "Buy Now" button that I don't know how to remove, I searched all over and the solution is only in their support forum and asking to signup by providing purchase code.

Can you please help me remove it?

Thanks in advance.