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I'm moving my site. I assume that if I cancel my membership my site is deleted at the end of the billing cycle? Does it ever happen that something goes wrong while moving a sit
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What happens to my site if I cancel my membership?
I'm moving my site. I assume that if I cancel my membership my site is deleted at the end of the billing cycle? Does it ever happen that something goes wrong while moving a sit
Migrating a website can sometimes be a bit tricky. I have DIY instructions on my website MarionBlackOnline dot com/move What if I Leave WA and Come Back Later?
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What's the best plugin to use to download my entire site? Thanks.
WP Clone works for smaller websites (under around 2GB). Full Backup With a Plugin You may also like Updraft Plus.
But you'll need FTP if you have any loose files in the root folder. Backup Your Website With FTP
I download all the backups to my 2nd internal harddrive and once a month I copy them across to an external drive. It's marked on my calendar as a task to do on the 1st day of the month. If you don't want to backup every day, at least do it once a week.
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What's the best plugin to use to download my entire site?
What's the best plugin to use to download my entire site? Thanks.
WP Clone works for smaller websites (under around 2GB). Full Backup With a Plugin You may also like Updraft Plus.
But you'll need FTP if you have any loose files in the root folder. Backup Your Website With FTP
I download all the backups to my 2nd internal harddrive and once a month I copy them across to an external drive. It's marked on my calendar as a task to do on the 1st day of the month. If you don't want to backup every day, at least do it once a week.
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Usually, when you click a link, a page loads and you end up at the top of the page. I was posting comments on sites and on one site there were links that would take you to spec
Hello Peter, if you want a visitor on your post to go to another post or an affiliate link, what you do is to highlight where you want to place your link, then look for the link icon at the top of the page. If you are in Site Content it will be on the same level as the “Save,” button. Click on that and it will walk you through what you have to do. The highlighted text should be there.
Doing that will take you to the top of the page when you click the link. This is the default which I mentioned in my post:
"Usually, when you click a link, a page loads and you end up at the top of the page"
That wasn't the question.
You can do it yourself without a plugin, Peter. Anchor Text, Jump Link, Link to Content on the Same Page, FAQ Links
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How do you link to a specific place or content in a page?
Usually, when you click a link, a page loads and you end up at the top of the page. I was posting comments on sites and on one site there were links that would take you to spec
Hello Peter, if you want a visitor on your post to go to another post or an affiliate link, what you do is to highlight where you want to place your link, then look for the link icon at the top of the page. If you are in Site Content it will be on the same level as the “Save,” button. Click on that and it will walk you through what you have to do. The highlighted text should be there.
Doing that will take you to the top of the page when you click the link. This is the default which I mentioned in my post:
"Usually, when you click a link, a page loads and you end up at the top of the page"
That wasn't the question.
You can do it yourself without a plugin, Peter. Anchor Text, Jump Link, Link to Content on the Same Page, FAQ Links
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Is it possible to have a horizontal sub-menu that appears under the primary menu when you point to a certain item on the primary menu? So it would work exactly the same way sub
I do not believe thar horizontal submenus are possible. You can, however, have multiple levels of submenus, which will, by default, extend more horizontally on the page as"
Main item
submenu1
submenu A
submenu2
submenu B
submenu i
In other words, groupings under groupings. (Unfortunately, it's removing my indentations)
Yeah, that's the default and it's fine for 1 sub-level. I have that now. I could easily do it with drop-down menus but I would end up with sub-sub-items. Everything would expand to the right or left and it would be ugly. I know because I've tried it.
Yes, but unfortunately, those are your only options - there is no 'horizontal submenu' option with Wordpress, only hard-coded websites.
Just because it's not a Wordpress default, doesn't mean it's impossible. There are plugins that do many things and there is CSS. Mega menu might give me what I want.
Kyle has a lesson in Bootcamp on utilizing multiple menus - one he uses for navigation and the other he used for things like the privacy policy, about me, etc. I have also seen people use secondary menus for social sharing.
This can be done with a child theme and custom css.
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp
No, that's what I already have. A drop-down menu is vertical, not horizontal. Look at the example they give. That's what i have now.
There seem to be many versions of Mega Menu. I've looked at Max Mega Menu and WP Mega Menu. They both seem to display all sub-items under all submenu headings all at once. Can this be changed so it's more like the default primary menu where you only see a menu's sub items when you point to the menu heading? The submenu's headings are also too far apart. Can they be moved closer together?
This requires adding a .css class but it should do what you want. Basically, you will add float left and display inline to your submenus by adding the class to the menu display.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/make-second-tier-horizontal-navigation-wordpress-48098.html
On the site you referred me to, it says "Open your CSS file...in the editor of your WordPress dashboard." Is that the editor under Appearance? If I go to Appearance...Editor I see a list of "Theme Files" on the right. According to the site you referred me to I need to find the lines for "#navigation" and ".sub-menu". How do I find those lines?
control-f will open a search box where you enter the search term. (command -f on a mac).
Changes to your theme code will be overwritten when the theme updates so you will need to set up a child theme to prevent loss of changes. How To Create A Child Theme in Wealthy Affiliate
I am not sure about this one. But I do know Marion Black has does some great training on the pull down menus, so she may have something about this as well.
With the default wordpress, I don't thin that is possible. You need a plugin to accomplish that and I would recommend look at Mega Menu plugin.
I tried mega menu but the colors are horrible. My primary menu ended up with a black background.
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How can I make a horizontal sub-menu?
Is it possible to have a horizontal sub-menu that appears under the primary menu when you point to a certain item on the primary menu? So it would work exactly the same way sub
I do not believe thar horizontal submenus are possible. You can, however, have multiple levels of submenus, which will, by default, extend more horizontally on the page as"
Main item
submenu1
submenu A
submenu2
submenu B
submenu i
In other words, groupings under groupings. (Unfortunately, it's removing my indentations)
Yeah, that's the default and it's fine for 1 sub-level. I have that now. I could easily do it with drop-down menus but I would end up with sub-sub-items. Everything would expand to the right or left and it would be ugly. I know because I've tried it.
Yes, but unfortunately, those are your only options - there is no 'horizontal submenu' option with Wordpress, only hard-coded websites.
Just because it's not a Wordpress default, doesn't mean it's impossible. There are plugins that do many things and there is CSS. Mega menu might give me what I want.
Kyle has a lesson in Bootcamp on utilizing multiple menus - one he uses for navigation and the other he used for things like the privacy policy, about me, etc. I have also seen people use secondary menus for social sharing.
This can be done with a child theme and custom css.
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp
No, that's what I already have. A drop-down menu is vertical, not horizontal. Look at the example they give. That's what i have now.
There seem to be many versions of Mega Menu. I've looked at Max Mega Menu and WP Mega Menu. They both seem to display all sub-items under all submenu headings all at once. Can this be changed so it's more like the default primary menu where you only see a menu's sub items when you point to the menu heading? The submenu's headings are also too far apart. Can they be moved closer together?
This requires adding a .css class but it should do what you want. Basically, you will add float left and display inline to your submenus by adding the class to the menu display.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/make-second-tier-horizontal-navigation-wordpress-48098.html
On the site you referred me to, it says "Open your CSS file...in the editor of your WordPress dashboard." Is that the editor under Appearance? If I go to Appearance...Editor I see a list of "Theme Files" on the right. According to the site you referred me to I need to find the lines for "#navigation" and ".sub-menu". How do I find those lines?
control-f will open a search box where you enter the search term. (command -f on a mac).
Changes to your theme code will be overwritten when the theme updates so you will need to set up a child theme to prevent loss of changes. How To Create A Child Theme in Wealthy Affiliate
I am not sure about this one. But I do know Marion Black has does some great training on the pull down menus, so she may have something about this as well.
With the default wordpress, I don't thin that is possible. You need a plugin to accomplish that and I would recommend look at Mega Menu plugin.
I tried mega menu but the colors are horrible. My primary menu ended up with a black background.
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My Search Console is missing some stuff. Under "Search Console" I have "Home", "All Messages" and "Web Tools". That's it. I have signed up with Google Analytics but to get to i
Hi Peter,
the link to search console is now in the Google Dashboard. Go to this link
https://myaccount.google.com
and sign in with your google sign in. Then bookmark the
Google Dashboard
and log in to the Webmaster Tool (called search console now) from there.
There is no link from Google Analytics. At least I couldn't find one.
John
Found something
In Analytics click on ADMIN (left side menu - Last item
Look at images
When I go to https://myaccount.google.com, I'm already signed in. I don't see dashboard but Webmaster tools is at the bottom of the list of apps in the Google apps window (click the icon of 3x3 black squares). I linked Adsense and Search Console to Google Analytics. The other products you can link have not been part of WA training. I'll see in 24 hours if it has worked. Thanks.
Now I see what you are talking about. Click on the
MANAGE YOUR SITES (not the 3 black dots)
this opens up the Search console, then click on the sitename you want to visit (all your sites are listed)
i have no idea where you are right now. When I'm on google.com I see in the top-right corner "Gmail", "Images", my pic, the notifications icon and the 3x3 black squares. There is no "Manage your sites". I thought you might mean on https://myaccount.google.com but it's not there either. I then went to google analytics. "All Web Site Data" is at the top left. I don't see "Manage your sites".
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How do I add missing parts to webmaster tools?
My Search Console is missing some stuff. Under "Search Console" I have "Home", "All Messages" and "Web Tools". That's it. I have signed up with Google Analytics but to get to i
Hi Peter,
the link to search console is now in the Google Dashboard. Go to this link
https://myaccount.google.com
and sign in with your google sign in. Then bookmark the
Google Dashboard
and log in to the Webmaster Tool (called search console now) from there.
There is no link from Google Analytics. At least I couldn't find one.
John
Found something
In Analytics click on ADMIN (left side menu - Last item
Look at images
When I go to https://myaccount.google.com, I'm already signed in. I don't see dashboard but Webmaster tools is at the bottom of the list of apps in the Google apps window (click the icon of 3x3 black squares). I linked Adsense and Search Console to Google Analytics. The other products you can link have not been part of WA training. I'll see in 24 hours if it has worked. Thanks.
Now I see what you are talking about. Click on the
MANAGE YOUR SITES (not the 3 black dots)
this opens up the Search console, then click on the sitename you want to visit (all your sites are listed)
i have no idea where you are right now. When I'm on google.com I see in the top-right corner "Gmail", "Images", my pic, the notifications icon and the 3x3 black squares. There is no "Manage your sites". I thought you might mean on https://myaccount.google.com but it's not there either. I then went to google analytics. "All Web Site Data" is at the top left. I don't see "Manage your sites".
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Migrating a website can sometimes be a bit tricky. I have DIY instructions on my website MarionBlackOnline dot com/move What if I Leave WA and Come Back Later?
The host I'm moving to says they'll move it for me but thanks.