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So you've uploaded a new featured image and published your awesome blog post, but there's one small problem, right?  The beautiful featured image you've loaded in isn't showing on your blog page. In fact, some other, older image you posted as a featured image in a different blog post is showing in it's place!  What's up with that?  This is not random. There is a simple explanation for it. As I show in this video, you have named both images the same thing, resulting in an identical image URL in the media gallery.   Your WordPress website is simply confused and is defaulting to the old one.  1. Fix it easily by simply renaming your original image to something different, preferably SEO friendly, and re-upload it in the featured image slot.  2. Delete the first one with the duplicate name. Keeping unnecessary, unused images in your media gallery will slow down your site speed load time, and over time, could negatively affect SEO.  For more free WordPress tips, visit https://datadriven.design​ or https://thewordpressshow.com​.  To do business with me, email me directly at paul@datadriven.design   Thanks and have a great day!

There are many ways to customize the search functionality on your WordPress website. There are plug-ins that help you control what's shown and what's not shown in the results. There are also easy changes you can make to your functions.php files.  But most of these methods focus on global changes, like what categories or custom post types to include or exclude from your search results. Or what the global settings of the search results pages should say or look like.  The Search Exclude plug-in, however, gives users an easy way to - on a page-by-page or post-by-post basis - decide which pages or posts you want to exclude from search results.

Oh no! I just made a HUGE mistake on one of my WordPress pages! My content is gone!  I know there's something called Revisions, but after the update to Gutenberg (anything after WP 5.0), it's NOT THERE ANYMORE!  Help! What do I do?????  No worries.

How do I export my all of the files from my WordPress website? That's a question you may be asking yourself if you're redesigning your site into a new WordPress theme/install.  Export Media Gallery is a great plug-in that I recommend using. This video shows you the ins and outs and considerations, as well as the step-by-step process.

Are you using BuddyPress (a free version of BuddyBoss, basically) to build a social media type community site using WordPress? If so, you're pretty smart.  But you may be getting discouraged on your "Activity Feed" page by the actually community activity feed not loading.  Are you just stuck on a screen that says "Loading Community Updates?"  But you are seeing them on the Member Profile Page Activity Tab!  What gives?  This shows you how to fix it and keep those community updates flowing on the Activity Feed page.

How Can You Customize Your WooCommerce Store's Email Messages?  Don't worry, it's not as complicated as you might think. Yes, you can get a developer to do it for you, but there's also a way to get it done with virtually no technical knowledge required - and that's the way I prefer for small business owners to handle things.  There's one easy way in WordPress to go into WooCommerce Settings and click the Email tab. This helps you both style the global settings of your emails, including the header design, footer message, and from name and email address.  You can also easily manage who receives what type of email message, as you may have one person handling failed others, another handling completed orders, etc.  But, you may also be struggling to find how to customize the body text and product grid of your WooCommerce email messages and customer notifications.  My recommendation for this is to use the Email Customizer Pro Plug-in for WooCommerce. I do not get paid or compensated in any way for these recommendations - https://woocommerce.com/products/emai... For more WooCommerce help, dedicated support and tutorials on how to build and design your own eCommerce site in WordPress with no technical knowledge required, please visit https://WooCommerceUniversity.com.

SHOW LESSThe proof is in the data. All WooCommerce store owners need to be thinking about how they can optimize their eCommerce store for mobile experience and mobile marketing.  Mobile web traffic share continues to climb across the board (in all verticals) by about 5-10% annually.  When Gary Vaynerchuk launched WineText.com in 2020 (a sophisticated yet easy way to sign up and authorize your Credit Card to purchase wine via iMessage and SMS), I immediately thought that What's App (far more used across the world than SMS), would be next.  Sure enough, FME Add-ons launched Order on What's App for WooCommerce - https://woocommerce.com/products/order-on-whatsapp-for-woocommerce/ This WooCommerce Add-on does the following:  Takes orders directly from your WhatsApp account Allows WhatsApp orders on various pages Applies the facility on specific products or categories Adds custom text to your WhatsApp button Allows store owners to enter their business WhatsApp number Enables an extension on simple & variable products Enables Whatsapp option on checkout page Has an option to hide Add to cart button on product & shop page Has a "Customize order on Whats App" button Has an option to hide Whats App button on desktop  I review it more in this video and at https://WooCommerceUniversity.com

This solves a decade old question by WordPress website owners and bloggers. How do I change my website's primary domain name without affecting my Google Search Engine Ranking?  Many bloggers and content creators have hundreds and even thousands of blogs that they'd completely lose backlinks for and SEO value for if they don't do this properly.  In my video, I give a couple different examples of websitea.com wanting to change to websiteb.com but implement proper 301 redirects.  Things you'll need:  1. WPEngine webhosting. 2. The WPEngine Redirect Rules - https://wpengine.com/support/regex/#R...3. The ability to change your A Record and CNAME for both domains 4. Google Search Console Access

Recently I've published WordPress shows about how to use Yoast SEO to optimize your WordPress Website, and how to implement Schema on your WooCommerce Product pages.  Well, now I'm taking it another step further and explaining how to further optimize your WooCommerce Products for SEO using Yoast.  Yoast has a plug-in specifically for WooCommerce SEO that adds valuable product information and rich snippets such as price and stock, and sends it to the search engines and even social media posts.  This video explains more.

I've long told Small Business Owners that they are subject matter experts at various areas of their own business. I've elaborated saying that they need to make content 365 days a year about their subject matter expertise.  When they roll their eyes at me and tell me that what they know about isn't interesting enough to make content out of, I reply "well, if people are paying for your services and keeping you in business, it must be interesting enough."  Business owners who don't create content on a daily basis expect immediate return on investment from their posts, and that's just not how it works.  Case in point, when you think of your blog and content creation strategy like a PR person, you will win. I've recently experienced multiple examples of this, one with a client getting on CNBC after a website redesign, SEO overhaul and content posting frequency increase by 10x over 9 months, and another, just recently when I was featured in Fast Company and on CBS 10 Tampa for an article I wrote THREE YEARS EARLIER!