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Has anyone used the new widget blocks yet as I am confused as to how they work. I am trying to create a navigation menu for my side bar as I have too many categories to put the

I think the best thing to do with new updated things like this is to just go into it and have a muck around checking everything out. It's quite simple once you know where everything is

Hi Chezbrown. What you need to do is:

1. Create a menu for the side bar.
Go to Appearance
> Menu
> Create a menu
> add pages and posts you wish to have on this menu

2. Add this menu to the side bar:
Go to Widgets
> Make sure you are on Main Sidebar
> Click '+' to add a widget
> Add Navigation Menu widget
> Position it where you would like it to be on the side bar
> Select the menu you have created in Step 1

Remember to save each time you are done. Save after you created the new menu. Save after you add it to the side bar.

Hope this helps? :)

Thank you so much for this as I have been tearing my hair out

You're welcome 😄👍

At least you still have hair.

I'm bald from fighting these widget blocks.😊

Do you know how I can make it a drop down menu?

With the given interface, you can only do dropdown for Categories and Archives. For the other widgets, you can set the number of posts or pages to show.

Thanks

Hi

Please review below resource

https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-widgets/

Thanks I will check it out

So very welcome.

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How do you use the new widget blocks?

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Has anyone used the new widget blocks yet as I am confused as to how they work. I am trying to create a navigation menu for my side bar as I have too many categories to put the

I think the best thing to do with new updated things like this is to just go into it and have a muck around checking everything out. It's quite simple once you know where everything is

Hi Chezbrown. What you need to do is:

1. Create a menu for the side bar.
Go to Appearance
> Menu
> Create a menu
> add pages and posts you wish to have on this menu

2. Add this menu to the side bar:
Go to Widgets
> Make sure you are on Main Sidebar
> Click '+' to add a widget
> Add Navigation Menu widget
> Position it where you would like it to be on the side bar
> Select the menu you have created in Step 1

Remember to save each time you are done. Save after you created the new menu. Save after you add it to the side bar.

Hope this helps? :)

Thank you so much for this as I have been tearing my hair out

You're welcome 😄👍

At least you still have hair.

I'm bald from fighting these widget blocks.😊

Do you know how I can make it a drop down menu?

With the given interface, you can only do dropdown for Categories and Archives. For the other widgets, you can set the number of posts or pages to show.

Thanks

Hi

Please review below resource

https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-widgets/

Thanks I will check it out

So very welcome.

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I have created a video with Side.ly/Promo but I cannot afford to buy the video but want to know if there is any way at all that I can download it to you tube and elsewhere usin

No sorry, I haven't really looked at video yet.
Mary

Still on my list Cheryl!

Hey Cheryl,

Though Tim is no longer with us, his training still definitely applies... and this one may interest and help you: Hope you find this helpful.

Hi Trish

Thank you and I will certainly have a read at it and see.

Did we ever hear what happened to Tim, that was such a shame as he was such a nice guy and the last I had heard was that he was in hospital.

Thank you again xxxx

He sure was Cheryl. I was led to believe he is really... gone. :-(

Have you asked Promo if they have a resolution for this?

Now how silly of me, I never gave that a thought but I will go back and see if they can help. xxx

Good luck and let me know what Promo has to say about this issue. I would suspect others have experienced this issue as well at Promo

Below I found the steps to upload a video to youtube let me know if this helps.

1. Save the video to your computer.
2. Sign into YouTube.
3. Click the Upload button.
4. Select a video file.
5. Click Open.
6. Enter a title and description.
7. Adjust additional settings.
8. Click Save Changes.

Thank you Juan, I will certainly give it a try and let you know.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. xxx

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I have created a video with Side.ly/Promo but I cannot afford to buy the video but want to know if there is any way at all that I can download it to you tube and elsewhere usin

No sorry, I haven't really looked at video yet.
Mary

Still on my list Cheryl!

Hey Cheryl,

Though Tim is no longer with us, his training still definitely applies... and this one may interest and help you: Hope you find this helpful.

Hi Trish

Thank you and I will certainly have a read at it and see.

Did we ever hear what happened to Tim, that was such a shame as he was such a nice guy and the last I had heard was that he was in hospital.

Thank you again xxxx

He sure was Cheryl. I was led to believe he is really... gone. :-(

Have you asked Promo if they have a resolution for this?

Now how silly of me, I never gave that a thought but I will go back and see if they can help. xxx

Good luck and let me know what Promo has to say about this issue. I would suspect others have experienced this issue as well at Promo

Below I found the steps to upload a video to youtube let me know if this helps.

1. Save the video to your computer.
2. Sign into YouTube.
3. Click the Upload button.
4. Select a video file.
5. Click Open.
6. Enter a title and description.
7. Adjust additional settings.
8. Click Save Changes.

Thank you Juan, I will certainly give it a try and let you know.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. xxx

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I was recently asked the question below and I don't know an answer to it and decided I would put it in here and see if anyone maybe has any idea to how to sort it?

i nee

Cheryl, I am also looking forward to the answer of your question.

The person that asked the question never came back to me but I did notice him saying that he had got it sorted out and that he didn't need an app url after all so he was quite happy. I passed him the link that David left but don't know if it helped at all. xxxx

Thanks for the reminder

I'm thinking they want to know if you're mobile friendly. If you check the site speed under under Site Manager. There is a box near the bottom right that says details. Click on that and scroll down until you see the site speeds for each page you have posted. That will at least tell you if you have an issue with mobile. If no issues than I believe your URL would be the same. Hope this helps!

Hi, thank you and this isn't for me, it was someone who left the information on a training I did about putting in verification codes easily. I really am not actually sure at all what they are trying to do and that is why I said I would share it. xxx

Thank you very much David, I will pass this on to the person who asked the question and see if it helps him. I will let you know what happens. xxxxx

Perhaps they want to know if your website is capable to run on mobile phones. My theme got upgraded with AMP and it is twice as fast as loading your normal theme on a mobile device, it cuts out all that is not needed on a mobile device, making the experience for the customer great and fast.

My 2 chocolates to it. :))

Stefan xx

Hello Mr, how are you and what you been up to?

Thanks Stefan, this was for a guy who had left the question on my training for verification codes as he was about tearing his hair out trying to get it to work. I had Amp on both sites but took it off again as I really don't like it.

I have some very nice looking chocolates that I found this morning and instantly thought about you and how you would like them.

Have a great weekend and hope you are up to something nice. xxxx

Busy working on my website and building out my Twitter account. :))

Those chocolates are delicious, thank you Cheryl. :)) xxx

You are very welcome Stefan, I thought they looked lovely lol.

I know what you mean, I have been busy trying to sort out my own sites and have done what I wanted so happy again about them both. xxxx

Same here. Perhaps try the question on the live chat. You might get a faster response. Hope this helps.

Xav

Thanks and I will give it a try. xxxx

Sorry but I don’t have the answer to this one. Will keep watching as I am sure someone here does, Best Regards, Hudson

Thank you Hudson, no problem. xxx

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I was recently asked the question below and I don't know an answer to it and decided I would put it in here and see if anyone maybe has any idea to how to sort it?

i nee

Cheryl, I am also looking forward to the answer of your question.

The person that asked the question never came back to me but I did notice him saying that he had got it sorted out and that he didn't need an app url after all so he was quite happy. I passed him the link that David left but don't know if it helped at all. xxxx

Thanks for the reminder

I'm thinking they want to know if you're mobile friendly. If you check the site speed under under Site Manager. There is a box near the bottom right that says details. Click on that and scroll down until you see the site speeds for each page you have posted. That will at least tell you if you have an issue with mobile. If no issues than I believe your URL would be the same. Hope this helps!

Hi, thank you and this isn't for me, it was someone who left the information on a training I did about putting in verification codes easily. I really am not actually sure at all what they are trying to do and that is why I said I would share it. xxx

Thank you very much David, I will pass this on to the person who asked the question and see if it helps him. I will let you know what happens. xxxxx

Perhaps they want to know if your website is capable to run on mobile phones. My theme got upgraded with AMP and it is twice as fast as loading your normal theme on a mobile device, it cuts out all that is not needed on a mobile device, making the experience for the customer great and fast.

My 2 chocolates to it. :))

Stefan xx

Hello Mr, how are you and what you been up to?

Thanks Stefan, this was for a guy who had left the question on my training for verification codes as he was about tearing his hair out trying to get it to work. I had Amp on both sites but took it off again as I really don't like it.

I have some very nice looking chocolates that I found this morning and instantly thought about you and how you would like them.

Have a great weekend and hope you are up to something nice. xxxx

Busy working on my website and building out my Twitter account. :))

Those chocolates are delicious, thank you Cheryl. :)) xxx

You are very welcome Stefan, I thought they looked lovely lol.

I know what you mean, I have been busy trying to sort out my own sites and have done what I wanted so happy again about them both. xxxx

Same here. Perhaps try the question on the live chat. You might get a faster response. Hope this helps.

Xav

Thanks and I will give it a try. xxxx

Sorry but I don’t have the answer to this one. Will keep watching as I am sure someone here does, Best Regards, Hudson

Thank you Hudson, no problem. xxx

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Does anyone

Will learn from this.

Cheryl, Loes has the answer to your question.

Hi, thank you I got it and fixed it as well so happy now. xxxx

Loes is very knowledgeable in this subject so I would take her advice.

Tried and true

Elaine

Thanks Elaine, I knew Loes would help me thanks. xxxx

Pjgermain has a training about this
No image displayed on fb
Find it in the search bar
I am on gsm now

Back on base again:)

Thank you Loes, the funny thing is I had this starred and had forgotten all about it. xxxx

Thank you, Loes. This always drives me crazy but I never thought to ask the question.

Facebook has a minimum size of 250x250. So I would look at the size of the image. Also a featured image of the minimum size helps

Ey Cheryl, this has been my experience also... too large of files for the image!

Hello, how are you tonight?

I am going to try the training that Loes gave me the link for and will let you know how you get on. xxxx

Doing good kiddo! Bit better of a day! Yah, let us know how the training turned out. Mine was just an image size that was too big but I'd love to know what your problem stems from!!!

Glad to hear that friend, thanks for accepting the FB request and I will let you know what happens. I hate when these things happen as I have to get it sorted or I can't move on lol.

Speak to you soon. xxxx

Well I managed to finally get it to work, not sure what I did but I really think it was because I hadn't changed the website address. Try following this and see if it helps at all. .

Well that is one thing fixed just to see now what I did wrong with my other site and the Amazon images. This is driving me nuts too lol.

xxxx

Thanks Scotti!!!

Just bookmarked PJ's stuff for further reading. That 'ol boy is kinda long winded... but durn is he good!!!

You are very welcome Randy. xxxx

Yes he does go on and on but it did the trick for me and hopefully you will get something out of it too. xxxx

In Yoast, it is automatically taken cared off. Sometimes, in All In One SEO, when the post is already old, that's no longer a problem, the social media thumbnail automatically corrects.

But new posts done with All In One SEO, I find that sometimes you need to aid the SEO plugin show the correct social media featured photo for your post.

To correct problems like that, you have to copy your post' URL, then debug that thing using this Facebook debugging tool:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Oftentimes, it may require several attempts or scraping. Try two or three times of scraping, and you will be surprised the correct photo will show up.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for your help, it was most appreciated. xxxxx

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How can I get rid of the grey box?

How can I get rid of the grey box?

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Does anyone

Will learn from this.

Cheryl, Loes has the answer to your question.

Hi, thank you I got it and fixed it as well so happy now. xxxx

Loes is very knowledgeable in this subject so I would take her advice.

Tried and true

Elaine

Thanks Elaine, I knew Loes would help me thanks. xxxx

Pjgermain has a training about this
No image displayed on fb
Find it in the search bar
I am on gsm now

Back on base again:)

Thank you Loes, the funny thing is I had this starred and had forgotten all about it. xxxx

Thank you, Loes. This always drives me crazy but I never thought to ask the question.

Facebook has a minimum size of 250x250. So I would look at the size of the image. Also a featured image of the minimum size helps

Ey Cheryl, this has been my experience also... too large of files for the image!

Hello, how are you tonight?

I am going to try the training that Loes gave me the link for and will let you know how you get on. xxxx

Doing good kiddo! Bit better of a day! Yah, let us know how the training turned out. Mine was just an image size that was too big but I'd love to know what your problem stems from!!!

Glad to hear that friend, thanks for accepting the FB request and I will let you know what happens. I hate when these things happen as I have to get it sorted or I can't move on lol.

Speak to you soon. xxxx

Well I managed to finally get it to work, not sure what I did but I really think it was because I hadn't changed the website address. Try following this and see if it helps at all. .

Well that is one thing fixed just to see now what I did wrong with my other site and the Amazon images. This is driving me nuts too lol.

xxxx

Thanks Scotti!!!

Just bookmarked PJ's stuff for further reading. That 'ol boy is kinda long winded... but durn is he good!!!

You are very welcome Randy. xxxx

Yes he does go on and on but it did the trick for me and hopefully you will get something out of it too. xxxx

In Yoast, it is automatically taken cared off. Sometimes, in All In One SEO, when the post is already old, that's no longer a problem, the social media thumbnail automatically corrects.

But new posts done with All In One SEO, I find that sometimes you need to aid the SEO plugin show the correct social media featured photo for your post.

To correct problems like that, you have to copy your post' URL, then debug that thing using this Facebook debugging tool:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Oftentimes, it may require several attempts or scraping. Try two or three times of scraping, and you will be surprised the correct photo will show up.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for your help, it was most appreciated. xxxxx

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I have changed my site and I am using Twenty Seventeen now but I cannot get my blogs to go to summary so they only show a part and you can press read more rather than showing t

Sounds like a theme issue to me. My first theme was restricted in some things so I had to pick a new one.
Grant

Ey there Scotti... I got your code... I'll pm ya'!

Are you going to keep that theme Cheryl?

Yes I am Mike, don't you like it? xxxx

Ey there Scotti, check with ShaneWelcher and see if he can write ya' a code for it. I'm sure someone here writes php and CSS and can write ya' a code to put in the Custom CSS!

Thank you Randy, might be quicker than having to go through them all individually. How are you tonight?

Have you heard any more from TB. I put my logo up on a blog and everyone has come back saying they like it so I am happy about that. xxxx

Doing pretty great here. Going to an interview with Rusty Young from Poco tonight in LA... should be incredible. I don't think I've ever heard anyone play the steel guitar better than this guy.

Naw... I reckon he's got the hammer down trying to get ready for the launch!

Yah, your site is gonna look sweet when you're done building it. I just sent ya' the code for excerpts in Twenty Seventeen... should be a cake walk for ya'. It worked awesome for me!

Say howdy to Davie for me!!!

Good, glad to hear that and have a great night. I thought I had misread this and that you were going for a new job lol.

What is it he is actually going to launch, a rocket by any chance lol.

I know, looking forward to seeing it take shape. Thank you and I will do. xxxx

Way funny partner, naw... Rusty Young is the steal guitarist for Poco with ties to Buffalo Springfield and the Eagles. He was just sharing with us about his life and his experiences. Then he did some Poco tunes and some tunes off of his new album. I sat about 15 feet straight in front of him... the most awesome seat, indeed. His music bypasses your heart and goes right to your soul!

Yup, whatever the bear is launching, it's gonna be a whopper. He doesn't do anything small... (-;

Hopin' you guys are well over there. Good luck on that spring cleaning... been doing a bit of that myself!!!

Glad someone was able to answer your question. I use Hiero and my posts all show just summaries. I thought all themes did that but I guess not.

Tried and true

Elaine

No problem Elaine, I was off the same opinion so was surprised when it didn't change. Shawn's training was good though. xxxx

I tried that theme and had several problems I am sorry

Hi it is fine thanks as Shawn Martin left me a link to his training on how to add the continue reading button. Thanks very much though. xxxx

I used to use that theme and couldn't work out how to change it so I changed theme.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

Hi Karen, Shawn Martin left this training for me which is very easy but you need to do each post individually unfortunately. Here is the link in case you want to use it.

Thank you and I will remember it for the future but I am happy to stick with my second choice now. I really could do without extra work at the Mo !
Glad you found a soliton though.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

Here you go

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How can I change to using summary rather than full text?

How can I change to using summary rather than full text?

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I have changed my site and I am using Twenty Seventeen now but I cannot get my blogs to go to summary so they only show a part and you can press read more rather than showing t

Sounds like a theme issue to me. My first theme was restricted in some things so I had to pick a new one.
Grant

Ey there Scotti... I got your code... I'll pm ya'!

Are you going to keep that theme Cheryl?

Yes I am Mike, don't you like it? xxxx

Ey there Scotti, check with ShaneWelcher and see if he can write ya' a code for it. I'm sure someone here writes php and CSS and can write ya' a code to put in the Custom CSS!

Thank you Randy, might be quicker than having to go through them all individually. How are you tonight?

Have you heard any more from TB. I put my logo up on a blog and everyone has come back saying they like it so I am happy about that. xxxx

Doing pretty great here. Going to an interview with Rusty Young from Poco tonight in LA... should be incredible. I don't think I've ever heard anyone play the steel guitar better than this guy.

Naw... I reckon he's got the hammer down trying to get ready for the launch!

Yah, your site is gonna look sweet when you're done building it. I just sent ya' the code for excerpts in Twenty Seventeen... should be a cake walk for ya'. It worked awesome for me!

Say howdy to Davie for me!!!

Good, glad to hear that and have a great night. I thought I had misread this and that you were going for a new job lol.

What is it he is actually going to launch, a rocket by any chance lol.

I know, looking forward to seeing it take shape. Thank you and I will do. xxxx

Way funny partner, naw... Rusty Young is the steal guitarist for Poco with ties to Buffalo Springfield and the Eagles. He was just sharing with us about his life and his experiences. Then he did some Poco tunes and some tunes off of his new album. I sat about 15 feet straight in front of him... the most awesome seat, indeed. His music bypasses your heart and goes right to your soul!

Yup, whatever the bear is launching, it's gonna be a whopper. He doesn't do anything small... (-;

Hopin' you guys are well over there. Good luck on that spring cleaning... been doing a bit of that myself!!!

Glad someone was able to answer your question. I use Hiero and my posts all show just summaries. I thought all themes did that but I guess not.

Tried and true

Elaine

No problem Elaine, I was off the same opinion so was surprised when it didn't change. Shawn's training was good though. xxxx

I tried that theme and had several problems I am sorry

Hi it is fine thanks as Shawn Martin left me a link to his training on how to add the continue reading button. Thanks very much though. xxxx

I used to use that theme and couldn't work out how to change it so I changed theme.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

Hi Karen, Shawn Martin left this training for me which is very easy but you need to do each post individually unfortunately. Here is the link in case you want to use it.

Thank you and I will remember it for the future but I am happy to stick with my second choice now. I really could do without extra work at the Mo !
Glad you found a soliton though.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

Here you go

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