Hey y'all, it's Kori Ashton
and it is another WordPress Wednesday.
You have found a YouTube channel
dedicated to all things WordPress
and today I have five tips that
are gonna make your life amazing.
You might say, well I might know one or two
but I wonder if you know all five.
If you do be sure to comment in the thread below
and tell me, Kori I already knew all five
or tell me hey, I learned two or three new things.
I hope this helps you and if you love this
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Alright, let's check it out. Tip number one.
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Alright, the very first tip has to do with Gravity Forms.
If you've ever used a form, specifically Gravity Forms
you've probably experienced something like this.
I've got this form, actually, at the bottom
of a page right now but it functions anywhere
you put this form on any page for that matter.
If I were to fill out the form and click submit,
see how it jumps me back to the top of the page?
So if I had a thank you message there
which I actually do have a thank you message right here.
I'd have to scroll again right back down
and actually see what the message said.
It's kind of annoying.
But did you know that Gravity has a feature inside of it
known as Ajax and you can enable it
and it's super, super, super easy to do.
So you actually do it when you go to embed the forms.
You've already created the form.
You can give it as many fields
whatever you want it to have as usual.
Like you'd normally use Gravity Forms
but when you come in here to embed the code
I'm gonna delete what I currently had
and I'm gonna go ahead and click Add Form
You're gonna go ahead and choose the form
that you wanna choose.
Display the title, don't display the title.
What I want you to do is enable Ajax.
Just click that little box right there and insert form.
It's gonna add Ajax true to your short code.
We're gonna click update and I'm gonna show you now
what it looks like whenever somebody fills out that form
and how cool it's gonna look and how simple
it's gonna look in the process of a user experience, right?
So same form, same page, same placement, right?
Askkori.com and where are gonna go here
testing again Ajax, right? So that we know the difference.
I'm gonna click submit and watch this.
Stayed right where it was.
Gave me a little timer showing it was submitting
and then there is my thank you message.
Super cool, quick tip that you should be using
on all of your Gravity Forms.
Second tip has to do with Google specifically.
Did you know that you can do a site search for
all of the pages, all of the files,
that google has indexed on your website.
Super cool, quick, easy.
What I want you to do is type in the word site
S-I-T-E, do a colon and you can do your own if you want
Askkori.com
click enter and it's gonna spit out every
single page that it has indexed.
This is a super important thing for you to do.
Let me zoom in a little bit so you can see what the code is.
Site, S-I-T-E, colon, Askkori.com is my URL.
You'll put in whatever domain name you have, your clients,
whatever that looks like.
This is so important to do because you can
very quickly see if Google has been indexing
or been able to crawl your website.
Also, it's a very quick overview of all your snippets
so you can check out and see how Google
is displaying every single one
of your pages for people to click on.
Cool, huh?
Tip number three.
This one has to do again back specifically with WordPress.
Did you know that up in your menu
you can actually have a link sitting
up there that is not clickable.
It can just kinda be a placeholder.
See this one currently, if I click
on it, it actually does take me
to my whole blog landing page.
But what if I wanted to create just kind of a
placeholder here and then allow to have
drop down options underneath.
You really don't want this one to be clickable.
How is that done?
I'm gonna show you right now.
Let's head into your dashboard.
We're gonna go over to Appearance and go to Menus.
Right, Appearance, Menus.
I want you to get to whatever menu you want to edit.
Right now I want to edit that top menu
up there and my primary menu.
And I want to add in just another placeholder
and then maybe just put my WordPress topics from my blog.
Those categories underneath that.
So you're gonna come over here to custom links.
And instead of a URL, I just want you to put in a hashtag
for now and I'm gonna say WordPress Topics
and click add to menu.
Now it'll add it and I can take these other
things and drop them underneath here
which are, as you can tell, categories inside of my blog.
And this just becomes kind of
a placeholder sitting up there.
So I can click Save Menu.
Go back to the front of my website
so I can see this easily and clearly.
WordPress topics.
Now this is not clickable.
If it is clickable, it just kind of resets the page
and then WordPress Hacks takes me into
my individual categories.
Pretty cool, huh?
Once you actually get here, you could if you
wanted to remove that hashtag completely.
And then it's in no way shape or form clickable.
It just becomes that placeholder living up there.
So, I'll refresh so you can see it again.
See how my cursor turned to that I?
It's not clickable at all.
Kind of cool, huh?
Tip number four.
So this ones all about images because there's
nothing more frustrating than trying
to build out a website but you have to go search
for hours to find available free to use stock imagery.
So frustrating.
Did you know there's a plugin that can
remedy that for you with just a couple clicks.
You can embed, install, and activate
this plugin called Instant Images that references
images from Unsplash.com if you guys are familiar
with that really great resource.
Those are free stock images for you to use
but this actually embeds them into your media library.
Check this out.
When you go onto your plugins, you can go-click Add New
you're gonna go do a search for instant images.
Once you've done that, install it now, and then activate it.
Then, inside of your media area
over here lives instant images.
You can come in here and it's basically sourcing
all those images into your dashboard.
You can come here and do a search, let's see, for coffee.
Just to get a really cool coffee cup
and you see all these different ideas.
And this, of course, is also available whenever
you're inside of a page.
So you can go in and embed any of these images
inside of a page, inside a post.
For your featured image, even.
It's just gonna be something that saves
you a little bit of extra time, extra steps.
And makes the user experience really great.
Especially if you're handing this off
to one of your clients, right?
You want them to be able to use
images that are safe for them to use.
So now you got this Instant Images up here.
I can click on that.
Come over here again.
Do our same search for coffee.
Enter.
Find the one you wanna use and embed it right away.
It's gonna go ahead and do everything it needs to do
to resize the image, allow it to be used,
and a safe mode inside your website.
And then all you do is click insert into post.
Kinda nice, huh?
Slick, sleek, easy to use and you know for a fact
that you're not gonna get in trouble
for infringement on an image that isn't available
to be used legally.
Alright final tip of the day, number five.
If you have ever done nay searching whatsoever
for WordPress Themes, you have probably found yourself
over here at themeforest.net.
But did you know they have as of today at least,
they have had this for considerable years I believe.
As of today they still allow free stuff.
Every week, every month, they're giving away free stuff.
You can come over here and grab themes,
templates, audio files, all of these things
that are normally products that they sell.
They're giving you totally for free
whenever you sign up which is a free account
and be a part of the community.
So get over here, be sure to check out this website
every single month and pick up some
of these really cool images.
Video pieces that they're letting you use.
Especially if you're trying to figure out
how to use a specific software.
You can come over here and grab some of these templates
and play around with 'em.
This specific once is an After Effects template,
super cool, all for free and free is always in the budget.
Alright you guys, I hope this helps you today
I hope you're having a great week.
Be safe tonight, if you're going out trick-or-treating,
alright way to go I just dated this whole video
but that's okay.
And I'll see y'all next WordPress Wednesday.
Bye everybody.
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