WP Edge Issues from 2024
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49 issues from 2024
- #510Dec 23, 2024
2024 Year In Review
This Week In Concierge · 2025: The Year Matt Needs To Be Bypassed
- #509Dec 16, 2024
When Selling Feels Too Hard
When Selling Feels Hard · Don’t Make Them Think
- #508Dec 9, 2024
Why You NEED Stats
This Week In Concierge · 5 WordPress Mistakes I See FAR Too Often
- #507Dec 2, 2024
Why I Don’t Do SEO
Why I Don’t Teach (Or Really Do) SEO · Conversion Bridge (This Plugin Rocks)
- #506Nov 25, 2024
Black Friday Hoopla
Split Testing On WordPress – New Tool! · Should You Do A Black Friday Offer?
- #505Nov 18, 2024
FluentCommunity – And Goodbye RankMath
SEO Plugins – And Goodbye Rankmath · Saving Money Using WooCommerce
- #504Nov 11, 2024
Alternative To BuddyBoss?
In This Issue… · WordPress vs WebFlow
- #503Nov 4, 2024
CommandUI Launch, Membership Site Shortcut
In This Issue… · Beware The Hidden Standard
- #502Oct 28, 2024
Why WooCommerce?
In This Issue… · Do I Hate Awesome Motive?
- #501Oct 21, 2024
Starting From Scratch
Featured This Week · Still Running Thrive Themes? Plan An Exit.
- #500Oct 14, 2024
Matt Takes Over ACF + Is WordPress Future Threatened?
In This Issue… · Is The Future Of WordPress Threatened?
- #498Sep 30, 2024
Oh, The Drama!
In This Issue… · Optin Forms on A Membership Site
- #497Sep 23, 2024
WordCamp Drama: Is WP Engine A “Cancer”?
In This Issue… · WordPress And The Open Source Religion
- #496Sep 16, 2024
Removed This Plugin. Site Got Faster.
In This Issue… · Customizing Your WordPress Admin (To Make Life Simpler)
- #495Sep 9, 2024
Productivity Systems
In This Issue… · Business Systems… And Your Website
- #494Sep 2, 2024
A Duct-Taped Mess Of Tech?
In This Issue… · Building An After Optin Survey
- #493Aug 26, 2024
Course Building Mistakes
In This Issue… · Let’s Talk About Your Videos
- #492Aug 19, 2024
New Video Library (and how it was built)
In This Issue… · How My New Unified Video Library Was Built (Tool Time!)
- #491Aug 12, 2024
5 WordPress Admin Hacks
In This Issue… · 5 Useful Customizations To Your WordPress Admin
- #490Aug 5, 2024
Web Hosts To Avoid
In This Issue… · Avoiding The Crowdstrike Moment With WordPress
- #489Jul 29, 2024
Too Much Data
In This Issue… · Creating A Video Library On Your Site
- #488Jul 22, 2024
Is Selling Content Dead?
Be Careful When Installing Awesome Motive WordPress Plugins. Here’s Why… · Creating Customized Post Grids With WP Grid Builder
- #487Jul 15, 2024
How To Make More Per Hour
In This Issue… · Spam Proofing Your Forms
- #486Jul 8, 2024
Your Effective Hourly Rate?
What’s your effective hourly rate? · Why You Should Separate Your Registrar From Your DNS
- #485Jul 1, 2024
Other Uses For WordPress?
This Week In Concierge · The Way To Build Your Site’s Forms (And What To Avoid)
- #484Jun 24, 2024
Best Business Model?
The Best Business Model? · Speeding Up The WordPress Admin Dashboard
- #483Jun 17, 2024
Having Money. Can You?
Can you HAVE money? · Avoiding A Membership Site Plugin
- #482Jun 10, 2024
The Need For Speed
This Week In Concierge · Site Simplicity = Speed = Conversions
- #481Jun 3, 2024
Defeating Spam Bots
This Week In Concierge · Why You NEED An SMTP Email Service For Your Website
- #480May 27, 2024
Defeating Perfectionism
In This Issue… · Going LIVE With Changes Without Overwriting Your Whole Site
- #479May 20, 2024
Instant Lead Magnets (Easy Peasy)
Creating “Instant” Lead Magnets · How To Easily Manage Your Calls To Action Across Your Whole Site Using Patterns
- #478May 13, 2024
Info Marketing Is Dead
Information Marketing Is Dead (Really) · How Not To Get Stuck With Your Email List Host
- #477May 6, 2024
Stop Overcomplicating
Don’t Overcomplicate Your Business · WP Cron: What Is It And Why It Matters
- #476Apr 29, 2024
X Marks The Spot
X TV, X Payments… Pay Attention To X · Finding Out Which Plugins Are Causing The Slowdown
- #475Apr 22, 2024
Google Is Killing Sites?
In This Issue… · Membership Sites For Local Businesses?
- #474Apr 15, 2024
When Gamification Backfires
WordPress Quick Bits… · Taming The Notifications Inside WordPress
- #473Apr 8, 2024
That ONE Plugin
The Danger Of “All In One” Web Hosting · One Plugin That Replaces Many
- #472Apr 1, 2024
April Fools 🤪
FluentCRM: Install on Separate Site? · Vultr Wants Your Data?
- #471Mar 25, 2024
Are Sidebars Dumb?
Blog Sidebar: Right, Left or… None? · 4 Advantages To Email Marketing Inside WordPress
- #470Mar 18, 2024
The TikTok Ban
The TikTok Ban – And What It Means · What Version of PHP Are You Using?
- #469Mar 11, 2024
The Forgotten Page Of Your Site
The Website Page We All Have, But Ignore · How To Migrate A Website To New Hosting
- #468Mar 4, 2024
Productizing A Service?
Offering A Productized Service · WP Options 101
- #467Feb 26, 2024
Images Make Your Site Fat
Let Somebody Else Deal With The “Tech Stuff” · Conversations Matter (And Make Money)
- #466Feb 19, 2024
Infobesity
Infobesity… And Why I Don’t Create Courses Anymore · Factors That Impact Your Site’s Speed
- #465Feb 12, 2024
A Code Of Monetization?
The Blogger Code Of Monetization · WordPress Quick Bits…
- #464Feb 5, 2024
Giving It All Away?
Featured This Week · WordPress Quick Bits…
- #463Jan 29, 2024
Plugins I Always Avoid
The Take-Away From The Shock Of My Dog’s Vet Bill · WordPress Quick Bits…
- #462Jan 22, 2024
Productivity + Email Deliverability
The Reason Why You Work All Day And Nothing Gets Done · WordPress Quick Bits…
- #460Jan 8, 2024
While Others Zig in 2024, You Zag
Let Somebody Else Deal With The “Tech Stuff” · WordPress Quick Bits…