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  • 90 Days Later – August 9, 2021

    The silence in the Genealogy websites is deafening! There has not been much on Facebook in several weeks. The last website post in the Facebook Group “Genealogical Society Webmasters” was...

  • Day 8 – April 30

    This was created using the Gutenberg block editor during a show-and-tell Zoom meeting.

  • Day 7 – Membership – WP eMember

    I installed the membership plugin from Tips and Tricks HQ. mostly because I could! They currently offer a lifetime license for a 1-time price of $60. I personally recommend the...

  • Day 6 – April 25

    I installed a plugin that puts a cookie notice at the bottom of pages, and it nags the visitor until they acknowledge that the site uses them. I also updated...

  • Day 5 – Membership

    There is a lot of interest in genealogy societies for membership plugins. I compiled the list below. The number in parenthesis at the front is the number of times that...

  • Day 5 – April 25

    I ran this Google test with only the home page with posts through Day 4. Then I created this post. I’m impressed with how fast it loaded compared to the...

  • Day 4 – April 23

    I’ve discovered that I have enabled only three posts to show on the home page, and this is my fifth post! The problem this causes is that a visitor would...

  • Day 3 – Again

    I am still on the 3rd day, but instead of adding the post I wrote earlier I’m adding a new post to see how posts display on the blog page....

  • Day 3 – April 18

    Time to turn off the maintenance mode and share this site with the world! So far I am using this “Blog” page as the home page, and presenting the earliest...

  • Day 2 – April 16

    Right now I am using the “Home” page as the blog page because I don’t know what static content and images I want to show when people first arrive. I...