The last video in our #SEO series is about securing your #WordPress website with updates for your plugins, theme, and core WordPress files. You’ll want to be certain of this task monthly because you don’t want your website to break or be hacked. This task ultimately keeps your site secure and in Google’s good graces. Check out the full, Free, SEO series and download the 30 tip worksheet here – https://askkori.com/basics-of-seo-online-course/
Updraft Plus Plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
JetPack – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
Updating a Premium or Purchased WordPress theme https://youtu.be/wSSilrI9lvc
Instructions on Updating from #WordPress themselves https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/
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It is not easy to update a premium #WordPress theme or plugin unless the authors have allowed auto-updates. If you see an error message that says the folder already exists – what’s the workaround to keep things updated? Kori Ashton shows you a simple and FREE plugin to fix the update issue.
Here’s the plugin link https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
Video Transcript –
Hi, y’all, welcome to WordPress Wednesday, my name is Kori Ashton, and I’m gonna show you a quick solution today on how you can quickly and easily update those premium plugins, or that premium theme that you’ve purchased, especially if you’re receiving that failed to update notification that looks like this. It’s probably giving you an alert, telling you that that folder already exists, and it’s not gonna let you re-upload that zipped file.
Well, there’s a quick solution, I’m gonna show you right now, and it’s all in the budget of free. Hey, y’all, this is brought to you by Liquid Web, the most helpful humans in hosting. If you are looking for better support with your WordPress website, if you’re looking for faster hosting solutions, if you’re looking for a great security setup for a WooCommerce shop, be sure to check them out and let them know that AskKori sent you their way.
All right, let’s get to it. I’m gonna show you right now the plug-in Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades. This is it you guys, this is the plugin. And I always want you to be certain that it is compatible with your version of WordPress, right? We always talk about that. We always want to be certain any plugin that you’re using has really high ratings, and the more active installs the better, right? Cause that just shows more legitimacy. It shows that it’s working. This is a great free plugin by Chris Jean. Thank you for creating such a cool solution. I’m gonna show you how to use it right now.
Let’s go into your dashboard. We’re gonna go into plugins and say add new. We’re gonna be looking for that Easy Theme. All right, we’re gonna look for that Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades, and we’re gonna go ahead and click install now and, of course, activate. For this specific example, I actually have a premium plugin in here called WS Form Pro. So they have a free version, but this pro version is what I’m running on this particular install, and I need to update it. Normally you would see a button right here that just clicks and updates, but automatic updates are not available for this plugin.
So how would you do it? You would jump back over to where you purchased the plugin from, right? So you would go over to the creator of the plugin’s website, or wherever you purchased it, and you would download the most recent version that is a zipped file. Then, normally, you would just be able to update it, right? Well, sometimes you have to go into your FTP. You don’t want to do all that. So, using the plugin that we just added, we should be able, now, to go over here and click add new. And we wanna upload plugin, right? And we’re gonna choose the file, as long as you have that most recent version of that plugin, you can come in here and you can grab it there, and now when you click install now the plugin that we just added should allow this whole thing to load perfectly. Look at this, removing the old version of the plugin. It has now been updated successfully and we can activate the plugin. Just like that. There is no more error, no more issues, no more saying it can’t be overridden, it can’t be updated, we’re now running the most recent version of this plugin.
How cool is that, you guys? I love this solution. Again, thank you, Chris Jean, for creating such a cool and free solution for the WordPress community; because people like me, who don’t know how to hack code, or write PHP, or do anything like that, we get a little intimidated whenever we jump into FTP and have to start dealing with folders, and deleting things and trying to upload things, that’s too difficult. So thank you for creating a great solution like this. It helps me, and all those out there in the WordPress community solve this problem quickly and easily.
All right, you guys, if you like stuff like this, be sure to like this video, click subscribe, and hang out with me every single Wednesday. I’m creating content just like this to help you improve your online marketing inside the world WordPress. I will see y’all next WordPress Wednesday. Bye, everyone.
Are WordPress Auto updates safe? All WordPress websites require updates – plugin updates, theme updates, and core WordPress file updates. Knowing that for security purposes we want to keep things up to date, sometimes it’s easier to just allow your Hosting company to auto-update, or set up a plugin to do it. What’s the best practice when it comes to handling this required task each month?
Full Transcript
Hey, y’all. Welcome to another WordPress Wednesday. My name is Kori Ashton, and every Wednesday I am hanging out right here on YouTube to help you improve your online marketing, specifically inside the world of WordPress.
And today I’ve got a question from one of my awesome subscribers, and I’m gonna share that with you right now. It’s all about automatic updates. Anna writes in,
“Hey Kori, Love your videos etc- “you make it all sound so simple. “I build websites and I often refer to your information- “so thank you! “I have tried to find it on your site, but do you have a blog or video about the pro’s and con’s of having ‘automatic updates’? Thanks, Anna”
No, thank you, Anna. I appreciate having ideas for content, and your questions, anybody sending in questions, for that matter, really helps me get an idea and a pulse on what your needs are, and kinda what level of my audience is paying attention and asking me for help. So, thank you so much for sending those in, and if you have questions, be sure to come over to askkori.com, submit those, or Tweet to me. Alright.
So, automatic updates. What are best practices? We all know that whenever we’re dealing with WordPress, we login our dashboards and we get updates like this: Notifications that your core is needing updates, your theme is needing updates, all your plugins need updating. And I don’t know about you, but sometimes my stomach starts to turn a little bit in fear of breaking something. So this is why, in the past, I have always said, you need to manually handle all of your updates, especially if you have 12 or more plugins running on your website.
You need to absolutely be methodical on how you go in here and do it. You need to be certain that there’s a backup in place. Of course, I preach that! Be certain you have a backup in place. Be sure you also know how to click and roll back the site if something does break. Better yet, test all this in the staging environment, right? Be certain it all works there, and then come over and do it in the live environment.
So, there’s definitely best practices when it comes to how to actually execute these things. But when you’re talking about setting and forgetting, kind of implementing some sort of an automatic update process, What are best practices? Should you be using something like that? Again, I would say that this really depends on the plugin that you’re using, or the service that you’re using to accomplish this.
If you’re using something like iThemes Sync, I’m kinda blown away with the safety net that they have to provide this type of service for WordPress websites.
iThemes Sync Features
So, a lot of cool features here. I’m just gonna punch through them, as a solution for handling your automatic updates inside of WordPress.
All-in-one Dashboard
They have an all-in-one dashboard where you can see all of your websites that you’re managing at one time. Which is a super-cool feature. It gives you one dashboard to log into, looks something like this, allows you to see all the different installs. You get to see very quickly what plugins are needing updating, what themes need updating, what core. And, here’s the thing, you can go into each and every one of these individually, and set it to automatically update, or set it to be locked down and do a manual update.
So that’s set individually. You can also come in here and then see those that are running the automatic updates. We’ll have alerts if there’s anything that’s concerning about the site. So, here’s what happens very quickly, kinda behind the scenes. When it knows that there’s an update that needs to run, it will go over very quickly and test it first in a staging environment of its own.
If any error messages kick out, it will pause the update from happening automatically and send you a notification asking you to check it out and be certain you want to go ahead and push that update through. But it’s gonna tell you what that error message is. This ensures that nothing goes live on your site for an update that might break. Mind blown, phenomenal safety net for you.
So, if you are using a solution like this, I’m all for it. Go for it, Anna. Click update. Click automatic update and set it and forget it type of scenario, right? But what I don’t want you to do, is run a plugin or tell your hosting service, please go ahead and update everything, and then you’re not knowing when that’s being pushed through, whether that’s on Tuesday at two o’clock, or whatever that looks like.
Monitor Uptime of Website
Some of the other features, really quickly here, with iTheme Sync, because I’m just so blown away by it. It will also monitor the uptime of the website, each individual install.
Reports
You can also send out, you can have a custom dashboard and send out reports. This one got me excited because a lot of clients wonder, well, what are you doing for me, every month? This particular system will allow you to put in their email address and set it to automatically send out at the end of every day, every week, every month, every year, whatever you set it to.
Send out a report and let them know, this is all the work that’s been accomplished for your website this month. And, the exciting thing is, some of those things will be automatic, and it’ll look like you are just grindin’ for that client, which is really exciting to see. You know that there’s this safety net here, though, to ensure that their website is running perfectly.
So, your hosting company might provide something like this for you, especially if you are running on Liquid Web. Because they own iThemes, right? So, whenever you’re at hosting with these guys, you actually get this included in any of your packages. iTheme Sync is included. So, if you’re looking for another hosting solution, check out Liquid Web, look at their managed WordPress pricing, get in here and see if you can partner with them to get that great service, or you can get it kinda a la carte over here. I’ll put the links to both these in the description below.
Realize, as well, that both, as of today, are running specials, discounts goin’ on. This one up here, Liquid Web, is running 33% off for the first three months, and iThemes is running 35% off site-wide. So, very exciting.
Oh! In the budget, there is a free version of iTheme Sync, so check that out. You do get free, and free is always in the budget. And then, for a little bit more, you get a whole lot more, if you’re able to jump to a premium and have a little bit in your budget to spend.
Hey, I hope this helps you guys. Every Wednesday, I’m here on YouTube, helping you improve your online marketing. And I have over 300 videos in my library to go check out here for free.
If you’re interested in joining the community that we’re talking about, improving your freelance business, improving your small agency and how to grow it, I have an entire community over on Vimeo, where you can come join me every month as we’re doing webinars, and we’re kinda working through a little bit more advanced conversation about growing your revenue, improving your process, how to find clients, all sorts of great conversation happening over there. I hope to see you next WordPress Wednesday. Bye, y’all.
Step-by-step instruction on how to update a purchased WordPress theme. It is important to be sure to have a backup in place first.
Full Video Transcript
Hey y’all, welcome to another WordPress Wednesday. My name is Kori Ashton here in San Antonio at WebTegrity where we do all things WordPress. We’re a small group of web nerds that develop custom WordPress themes. We also teach WordPress. We teach SEO fun stuff. If you’re interested in any of that, be sure to check out our website.
Today’s topic is, “How to Update a WordPress Purchased Theme.”
If you were to go out there and decide that a free option really just isn’t the solution for your WordPress website and you want to pay to purchase a premium theme, you can certainly do that.
Some of the authors are very generous to allow you to attach a license key into your dashboard that then allows you to have automated updates. That is so generous of them but that is a very rare case in this time. Now what we’re seeing is, you actually have to go back to the point of purchase, download the most recent version of that theme and then what do you do with it? That’s kind of the process here. We just had WordPress 4.5 released and a lot of people’s websites broke. Your theme might have conflicted now with that update. What do you do? How do you go in and make those changes?
Well, let’s get to it.
We’re going to actually be using FTP to do this. A couple of steps you have to do in the first place. Very first thing that I want you to do is login to your dashboard and be sure that you have a backup in place. We use UpdraftPlus. This is a free plugin to backup your current website. So you’ll see that I just did that. I backed up the current website. You’ll want to be sure to backup the files and database. See how this says that? Files and database. You always want to be sure to have a backup in place. We preach that here on our WordPress Wednesday channel. Be sure to have a backup consistently happening on your website.
This particular plugin can do that for you. You can save it to your Dropbox. You can save it to a couple of other places- You can save it directly to your server. If we have any issues as we’re updating our theme now, we know we can restore and not miss any downtime. So this is a great safety net. Once you’ve run that backup in place, you’ll want to pop over to appearance and go to themes to help you remember which theme you’re using.
For this particular website, we are using the Austin theme and that is from Themeforest. We have a child theme in place as well which is the Austin child theme. The difference with child themes is if you have made changes specifically to the PHP files in a theme, those changes could easily be overwritten as we go through this process right now to update our theme. If you’re a little confused on, “should I have a child theme in place first,” click the link below and you can go over and check out why a child theme is needed and when it is not needed. A little bit of difference there but we want to keep moving forward here with updating this theme.
Whenever you update a theme, you are updating always the parent theme. You’ll go back to point of purchase (which for us was Themeforest for this particular theme.) We are coming here to Austin. To know whether or not you need to do this, you can click on this and see that it says version 1.8. If you’re seeing some breaks happen on your website (if something went a little wonky after you’ve updated something) it could be that this particular version is now out of date and you need to update. We came over here to Austin to take a look to see if the theme had recently been updated and in fact, it had been. Just last week it’s been updated. If you scroll down a little bit further typically in this area, you can find that this theme is compatible with 4.5 and that they are now on version 2.1 of the Austin theme. Ours is definitely out of date and we need to update it.
You’ll come here to the downloads area. When you click on this (specifically inside of Themeforest) you would click on installable WordPress files only. This is what we want to download. This will download our most recent version of this theme. If you’re purchasing your theme from somewhere else, (a different website or a different author) you’re more than welcome to just kind of engage with them. See what their support forms say. Sometimes documentation inside of these themes will help you with this process as well (step by step) giving you very clear instruction. If you haven’t been able to find that, that’s probably why you’re watching this video.
Once you have all that in place, you will need to have access to FTP. FTP can be something that you use for free. It can also be something that your hosting provider gives you (a dashboard where you get access to your files.) What we’re trying to do is (once we’ve downloaded that theme now) is go into your websites server area. That’s what this site is over here. We’ve dialed into the server area for this one particular website and this left side over here is my computer. This is my download here where I’ve downloaded the Austin theme. In order to get to the right spot inside of FTP you’re going to drill into a couple of different folders. You’re going to go to WP content. We’re going to drill into themes. You should see whatever themes that you have installed on your dashboard- you should see those here. We do have one called Austin and this is the one we want to overwrite. I’m just going click on this and go ahead and upload it. It should give me an alert here. Let’s see, there it is. Are you sure you want to overwrite everything because you’ve got something already named that over here. We want to say, overwrite. For now, we’re going to say, overwrite everything.
Here it goes.
You see here that the Austin theme is over here and the transfer is successful. Let’s take a look at our website and make sure (I’m going to click refresh)- I just want to make sure that our break that we saw happening is now functioning correctly. What we also want to do is just be sure that everything looks correct still on the theme. This little hover over effect was what was broken on this theme and was not functioning correctly with 4.5 WordPress. Everything else looks correct- our customization to our colors are still here, of course, all of our content is still here. Now that one little thing that was a little wonky (not functioning correctly) is working perfectly.
That’s kind of the process. First things first, be sure you have a backup in place. Second thing, be sure that you even need to do this. Make sure that the author’s already created a new updated version of the theme. Jump over there. See if there’s documentation specifically from that author to kind of help you walk through this process. A better case scenario is if that author was generous enough to give you a license that you can just apply to your dashboard and automatically have those updates in place so you don’t have to do the whole FTP process.
I hope that helps you. If you have questions about this (and some of you might) go ahead and put them in the comments below and I’ll try to answer them as soon as I can. I hope you’re having a great WordPress Wednesday.
Stick around because next week (be sure to subscribe) I am finally going to put together my list of “Top 10 Favorite Free Responsive WordPress Themes for 2016.”
Hey y’all! Welcome to another WordPress Wednesday! My name is Kori Ashton here at WebTegrity in San Antonio, Texas. This is a show every single week that I get to “nerd out” with you on all things WordPress.
So today I know that this topic is something that I talk about quite often and if you’re doing a Google search on watching this video it’s probably because you’ve questioned yourself about this very often. And you should be! So the question is, when should I update WordPress? A more important question is, how should I update my WordPress website?
So, I talk about this. I’ve done other tutorials; Step-by step on exactly how to do this. Some people have asked, “Should I update my plug-ins first then update my cores?” “Should I ever update my theme?” “How do I deal with a child theme?” There are so many questions when it comes to the frustrating moment of, what do I do when I have a little icon on my desktop (or on my dashboard-rather) that says, “I have an update due?”
All right you guys. This is it. I’m going to walk you just briefly through what it looks like to update. I’m getting ready to update to 4.4. All right. This is a live, working website that I’m getting ready to do this on. When should I update? So there are questions specifically about, when should I update my core? When should I update a plug-in? To that question I want to say, you always want to be actively updating. Does that mean that you should update the exact moment- the exact day that and update is released? Not necessarily. One of my reasoning’s behind that is, sometimes there are little glitches that haven’t been caught yet. Once they roll out an update and they blasted out and let’s say ten thousand people update their plug-in or update their theme. Unfortunately, the bug is finally caught at that point and then they quickly release another update and you’re going to have to go update again.
So, what I want you to do is look at the reasoning behind the update. If you get an opportunity go to the developers website that talks about what sort of fixes they have made in this particular update. This is specifically talking about a theme specifically talking about a plug-in. You’ll want to just go take a look and see if it was in fact a security update. That there’s something that happened maybe there’s some sort of a robot out there that is specifically targeting a certain plug-in and they have found the breach and they have locked it down and they have released a secure update that requires that you very quickly go update your plug-in. If that is the scenario, I suggest you immediately update your plug-in. All right?
You obviously want to be sure that you have a backup of your entire website in place. You can do that through your hosting company. You can also do that through a plug-in. I will put a link right here, actually, to another video that I’ve done on how to backup your WordPress website. You always want to be sure that you have
a backup in place. That backup needs to be the moment before you click “update.”
So you want to be sure that you have a very recent backup. You don’t want it to be a backup from thirty days ago because you might have made some changes that you’ve forgotten about. So be sure that you have a recent backup. Be sure that you understand how to implement that backup. If you were to click “update” right now and all of a sudden things break- you get the “white screen of death.” What can you do to very quickly set your website back so that nobody sees that break happen? You’ll want to connect with your hosting company if you’re relying on them to make those backups. You’ll want to see if they have something like a “one-click restore” option or if they’re going to charge you to roll your website back and reset it back to a prior version. Please be sure that you understand that (exactly what I’m saying right now,) you have a very tangible, easy, step-by-step plan in place to do that (if and when) the occasion arises. Okay? If you have a backup in place, if you know how to do a restore then go ahead and do your updates. And again, I’ve already done a video that kind of walks you through how I suggest you do your updates. I’ll put that link in the description box below for you.
This particular update that I’m dealing with right now is updating my WordPress core. As you all know; themes require updates, plug-ins require updates, and your core requires updates (which is WordPress, itself.) Now when WordPress releases an update, I very, very rarely go the first day and click, “update.” I typically wait to see what the response is around the WordPress world. We’re seeing a couple of glitches right now on 4.4. We’re seeing a couple of alerts with people using SSL’s on their website. (Secure Server Layers.) Security tied into their website- we’re seeing some sort of issues of images breaking, some sort of issues of other things kind of conflicting. So, this is one of the reasons why I hesitate. It’s been a few days now. It’s actually been almost over week and they’ve already kind of done some things that they’re going to be rolling out soon to kind of upgrade and to speak to some of those issues- some of those glitches that we’re seeing. But, because we haven’t seen massive issues- we haven’t seen a whole lot of people complaining about major things. Then now I’m ready. I would’ve updated it immediately had this been a security breach.
Really great hosting companies will actually push your update through automatically bypassing you if it is in fact a security breach. So, I want you to be sure. You see my alert here because I host with WP Engine. It’s saying, “Before updating please back up your database and files.” There are two different things you have to backup. WP Engine allows me to do that with one click. I know for a fact that I have an update in place. I’ve already done that process. If you do not have a hosting company that automatically does that for you, there is a link to WordPress Codex that will help you better understand how to do updates. And of course like I mentioned earlier, I’ve got another video in the description box below that will walk you through how to use a free plug-in to have backups in place. Once you know you have that, you can go ahead and click update now. Again, WP engine gives me a very quick heads up. Hey are you sure you want to do this? Do you have a backup or restore point in place? Yes I do. I’m going to go ahead and click refresh. (I’m sorry) update.
So while that’s processing through, there are a few things you need to do immediately following you clicking that button. My browser is restoring right now so now that that’s done it shows you right away that WordPress updated successfully. Fantastic! Now, as I go into… well if you wanted to… You could stay here on the dashboard and kind of see whats new in 4.4. One of the most obvious things that’s going to be here now is twenty-sixteen (the latest theme coming out for 2016.) It talks you through all the different new features of twenty-sixteen. It also talks about the changes that came out here in “Clifford,” which is the 4.4. You can watch this video and better understand the different things that were done with
4.4 upgrade.
The other thing you want to do is immediately go to the front side of your website. You want to go through this whole thing and make sure that everything is still working. You want to do a “hard refresh”- clearing your cache completely and making sure that you’re seeing your website in the most recent version. You’ll want to check it on a device and make sure that everything on your cell phone reads correctly. You’ll want to go look at it on a different browser. Make sure again everything kind of looks correctly. If you’re using major plug-ins; for instance, on our “classes” page we are using a major plug-in to highlight our classes. So I want to make sure that plug-in is still working and nothing looks “wonky” or broken. So you’ll want to look at all that. You’ll want to make sure of course that your major point of contact, your CTA (call to action) is still in place-whether that’s a phone number or whether that’s an email form. You’ll want to be sure that all that is functioning properly still. So those are just a couple of things that you want to do as soon as you do an update. So, when should you update? (If it’s a security breech) Immediately.
How should you update? You always want to have a backup in place first then walk through the step-by-step instructions that I’ll put in another video that I’ve done for you. You know what? I’m going to put it right here for you. Click on this – go see how to step-by-step.
I hope you’re having a great WordPress Wednesday. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. Send us some love over on Facebook or send us a tweet and we’ll try to do a video tutorial for you on the next WordPress Wednesday. Y’all have a great one! Bye y’all!
My name is Kori Ashton here at WebTegrity in San Antonio, Texas [USA].
Today, We’re going to talk about how to update the Revolution Slider plug-in inside of your theme.
It’s always important that you keep your plug-ins up-to-date to basically for security purposes you need to keep them up to date. And for all-around functionality of your website you always want to be sure that you’re running the latest and greatest version of any plug-in theme or core files of WordPress.
If you’re not sure how to make those updates happen, I’ll put a link in the description box below to another video that we’ve created on how to update your WordPress website. But for today we’re talking specifically about the Rev Slider (or the Revolution Slide).
I want to give a quick shout-out to our awesome, awesome sponsors and partners that you see along the side here.
We’ve got WPEngine who offers really phenomenal WordPress hosting for your websites. They also offer staging sites. So, if you need to go in and play around you can do a one-click up and down. If you’ve got a website here, you can click “clone it” or “copy it,” click that one button. Boom! It gives you a duplicate sandbox version of your website. In other words, it duplicates your website and puts is somewhere else on the server that you can play around with, just like you would on the live environment. It’s so cool! Whenever you do all the updates, or when you play around and you create a new page that you love, you just click one button and it takes the playground site, if you will, live. Really, really cool!
WPElevation. If you’re a part of using WordPress as an entrepreneur, you’ve go to go check out their tracks. They’re incredible.
And WP101. If you like WordPress tutorials like you’re watching now, go to check them out. They do it even better than I do. They’re pretty spectacular. They have a lot of free and some paid versions. All right. So.
That being said, let’s talk about the Rev Slider. How do we update our Rev Slider? I’m going to show you right here that I’m running a pretty old version of the Rev Slider. As a matter of fact, down here at the bottom you can see that it’s 4.0.4.
If you want to know, “Has the author issued an update?” you can always go back to your point of purchase. So, for us, it was, of course, codecanyon. Their sister site is themeforest. Codecanyon. I’m going to scroll down. Well, first of all right here you can see that it says that it’s 4.6 but actually if we go down in the change log, down toward the bottom of the page, you’ll see that they’re running— they’re now on 4.6.93! So, they just did an update this past week [May 8, 2015]. It’s pretty important, again, that you do all these updates consistently.
So, how do you make that happen?
If you have purchased this plug-in separately here on codecanyon, you can just come back here and click download. That’s going to go grab the author’s most recent version of this plug-in. It’s going to download to your hard drive or to your computer right now. I’ve already done that.
And, let’s see. Here it is. So I’ve already downloaded the file. It is already unzipped. And then inside of it, this is the file right here that I’m looking for– this revslider.zip file is exactly what I’m looking for. I’m going to go back over here.
Down here in the right-hand corner you’ve got a purple button that says Update Plugin. [click it] Now it’s going to ask me to go browse for the file. I’ve already showed you that I have it in my downloads area.
I’m going to open this up. Here’s the file right here that I’m looking for (this zipped file). We do not want to unzip it. It must be zipped. See what it says here? These are the instructions that sometimes – sometimes it’s very interesting.
I have a lot of people email me and say, -Kori, can you do a tutorial on this, this, or that. -And, truthfully, if we just slow down for a second and read through the pop-ups that the author may have presented to us (just like this little pop-up) -To update the slider, please show the slider install package. -So, you’re just got to go get the install package. The files will be overwritten.
Here we go. We’ve got the file here. And we’re going to click “Update Slider.” Now, obviously, before you do anything like this, you should have already had a back-up. I’m going to put an alert before all of this to please back-up your website. It’s highly important that you have a back-up of it. But, I’ve done this many, many times.
The guys over at ThemePunch (the authors of this particular plug-in) have got this updating down perfectly. It’s very, very simple to do. And now you don’t lose any of your slideshows.
That’s the incredible thing. All of your customizations, all of your slides, all of the images, everything will still be sitting here after you’ve clicked this update. And now you can see that I am running the most recent version of Rev Slider. And it still has my one slideshow that I had going on in here.
The other thing that I want to show you is now in the most updated version of the Rev Slider they’ve got this really cool panel here that says what version you’re running and that you can check to see if there’s a more updated version. And, a little birdie shared with me that they are looking to do an automatic update push alert, just like all the other plug-ins. More than likely happening in Rev Slider 5.0 that should be coming out shortly. So, very exciting stuff happening right down the pipeline for ThemePunch. And we’re excited to be a part of that in whatever aspect we can help them with, right?
One other thing then. What if your slideshow came inside of a pre-packaged theme that you purchased. You did not go and buy the slideshow separately over on codecanyon? It came inside of the Theme you purchased maybe here on ThemeForest. Well. That’s a little more complex.
I’m actually going to put the link in the description box below to a tutorial that ThemePunch created for anybody whose Rev Slider came inside of a pre-packaged Theme. You’re not at a loss.
Do you have an alert in your WordPress dashboard letting you know that you have updates that need some attention? Here’s a quick video to help you better understand how to Update your WordPress website safely.
Step 1 Back it up!
Step 2 Update your plugins first – one at a time
Check to see if there were any breaks after each plugin is updated
Step 3 Update your theme – either in the dashboard or via FTP
Check to see if there were any breaks
Step 4 Update your core WordPress files
Check to see if there were any breaks
Be sure your Google Analytics code is still working (if that was something you were using)
Check your website across all browsers and all devices
Clicking the update button can be quite scary. You cross your fingers and click – holding your breath to see if your WordPress website breaks. With one eye open you reload your web browser to see – the white screen of death. AHHH! Now what?
If this scenario sounds familiar, you’re not alone. If there’s one down side to WordPress it’s that it requires these types of updates consistently. But this really isn’t a bad thing. You see updates are required to keep your website running smoothly, believe that or not LOL! (more…)
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Hey y’all I’ve got a 30% off a lifetime license on the 10Web Booster. Just a few weeks ago, I showed you a really cool case study about how I plugged in this solution to boost my page speed on my WordPress website. If you’re running on a WordPress website it’s very likely that that site is slow and we know that Google wants it to be super fast. So let’s get that resolved today by plugging in the 10Web Booster. Hey y’all, my name is Kori Ashton and welcome to a bonus video this week. With all the deals going on I wanted to bring you this 30% off lifetime license coupon for 10Web Booster. If you don’t know what that is I’m gonna tell you all about it right now. This of course is the tool that I’m talking about, the 10Web Booster. If you visit 10web.io, you will be able to find it here. I’ll also put the link in the description box below. Did I mention there’s even a free option for this tool? You can find it in the repository. Again, I’ll put the link to that free version in the description box below but when you’re ready to go pro be sure to jump over here and grab that license. The exciting thing about this solution is that they’ve partnered with CloudFlare that great content delivery network system that’s gonna add in that site performance, that boost of speed that you need to keep your customers happy and excited about visiting your content especially on mobile devices. So let me show you how to set up that CDN side now that you’re already running your 10Web Booster. If you haven’t already done that step please be sure to click the link below and I will show you step by step how to activate your own website. Super straightforward, simple plugin and if you wanna get started you can get started with that free version. But let me show you now moving forward what it looks like to go ahead and activate that second step, that CDN through CloudFlare that’s really gonna make this thing fly.
So you’re in your dashboard and you’re in the exact website that you want to activate this CDN. Check this out. You see this right here, enable CloudFlare Enterprise CDN. So let’s go ahead and click enable. Because your website is already connected to the 10Web Booster. It automatically can detect your IP address but you’ll wanna go ahead and double check this. You would find that with your hosting provider. I’m gonna go ahead and click proceed. This might take just a few minutes but you can see it analyzing in the background and then it is done. That’s it. Now what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna copy and paste these TXT files, we’re gonna take these and point them over inside of our dashboard of our DNS. Now, don’t get confused on this. Super simple to do. Think about where you purchased your domain name. A lot of people do it through GoDaddy. That’s where you’re gonna go back into, grab these things and add them into your dashboard with your domain name. When you do that, you’re completely done. It is that simple, copy and paste. I’m also gonna show you an article step by step how to do this so that you can just easily and quickly kind of work through these steps. Easy instructions to go ahead and get this done. Pointing the TXT records or the A records over on your domain name’s registrar. So I’m just gonna click on these right here. Copy these, and I’m gonna jump over to GoDaddy which is where my domain name’s been registered and I’m gonna add this in there. For the sake of security I’m gonna do that just kind of off camera. Once you click next, it’s then gonna give you your A record and we’ll do this in the exact same dashboard of your domain name’s registrar. We’re doing this just for that extra level of security to confirm that you own the domain name that we’re attaching this service to. You’ll copy those values on your clipboard and paste them in. Once those steps are done, you’ll click done. I’ve updated DNS. And depending upon your hosting provider it could take a little while, up to 24 hours for it to verify that the two have connected.
So you might see this little popup but no worries if you’ve plugged it right in. Come back and check this in the next eight to 12 to 24 hours and you should very quickly be able to see all great report that these services are connected. Six of the key features I’ll highlight for you in this quick video. Enterprise CDN, super important for you to have that. A free SSL certificate, that’s great for security and added performance there. Full page cache, this is so important. Again, for that just great content being delivered so quickly to your visitors, a web application firewall for that added bit of security as well. If you’re tired of seeing malicious attacks happening on your WordPress website they’re gonna add in more protection for you right here. And I already mentioned mobile optimization. That’s gonna be really key going into 2023 for us. So you certainly want to have a boost of mobile optimization. All of that happens with this one tool. You’re gonna have fast speed, higher security and better results overall with how your WordPress website is performing.
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KORI ASHTON IS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER, YOUTUBER & BUSINESS COACH.
From freelancer to entrepreneur to c-suite, Kori Ashton has spent over twenty years in the digital marketing space. She built up a WordPress agency that sold in 2017 and spends most of her time now growing her new company Press Happi and consulting with industry brands and agencies on improving customer retention with persona-driven development.
Annoyed by having to always update your website’s copyright date? Check out this free tutorial on keeping your copyright year up to date – dynamically (automatically). If you’re running on Divi you can use conditional logic. If you’re on a different WordPress theme there’s a simple shortcode to fix the issue.
Divi Users – follow this free tutorial to use Conditional Logic to update your Copyright Date.
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Hey Y’all – Thanks for watching. Each week I’m creating videos just like this one to help you improve your online marketing. Be sure to subscribe so that you get access to each video. If you have questions about a process, product, or service that I’ve mentioned in a video, please reach out directly to the authors of that item first. If there’s a question about something specific I’ve shared, comment in the thread and I’ll reply within a day or two.
To get my attention more quickly Tweet me @KoriAshton
KORI ASHTON IS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER, YOUTUBER & BUSINESS COACH.
From freelancer to entrepreneur to c-suite, Kori Ashton has spent over twenty years in the digital marketing space. She built up a WordPress agency that sold in 2017 and spends most of her time now growing her new company Press Happi and consulting with industry brands and agencies on improving customer retention with persona-driven development.
