Question 1

How to Clear Website Cache (if saved changes aren’t updating)

Accepted Answer

Caching is when your website stores a saved version of the web page to speed up loading times. If you make changes to that page, sometimes you’ll still see the cached version. When updating a page or post, it’s best to always clear the cache. If you're experiencing issues with updates, always try clearing the cache first to see if that fixes the problem.

How to Clear a Page or Post Cache in WP Rocket

Q: How to hide pages or posts from Google

Navigate to the specific page or post, and find the Post SEO Settings window Select the Visibility tab and change the settings to the following: Indexing: noindex

From the WordPress Page or Post:

While logged in to WordPress, mouse over 'WP Rocket' on the admin bar across the top of the page or post.
Select 'Clear this page' or 'Clear this post.'

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From the All Pages or All Posts List:

Mouse over the page title and click 'Clear this cache.'

Still experiencing issues?

Clear the Entire Website Cache:

From any page, click WP Rocket in the admin bar across the top, then click 'Clear cache.'

Question 2

How to Open the Beaver Builder Editor

Accepted Answer

If your site is built on the Beaver Builder framework, you’ll need to launch it to use it.

How to Open the Beaver Builder Editor

From the WordPress Page or Post:

While logged in to WordPress, create a new page or open an existing page and click the Beaver Builder tab.

From the All Pages List:

Mouse over a page in the Pages > All Pages list, then click the Beaver Builder link.

Tip: When a Beaver Builder layout already exists for a page, the Beaver Builder link is followed by a green button, as you can see in the screenshot. When a Beaver Builder layout hasn't been created yet, it's followed by a pale gray or white button.

From the WordPress Admin Bar:

If you're viewing a page or post and you're logged in, the WordPress admin bar appears across the top. Click the Beaver Builder link to edit the page.

When a Beaver Builder layout already exists for the page, the Beaver Builder link is followed by a green button, as you can see in the screenshot. When a Beaver Builder layout hasn't been created yet, it's followed by a pale gray button.

Watch a Beaver Builder Video: After the page is open for editing in Beaver Builder, you can watch a video with tips on how to create a layout. Click the down arrow in the title bar in the upper left corner of the editing page to expose the Tools menu. Choose Help and then start the video that's displayed.

Question 3

How to Create a Fusion Slider (Avada)

Accepted Answer

The Avada theme has a built in slider (Fusion Slider). Here’s the difference between a “slider” and a “slide” and how to edit or set one up. To read Avada's full documentation on all the specific slide/slider settings, click here.

Slider: this is the collection of slides that you assign to a specific location. You must create the slider first.Slide: this is one panel that you assign to a specific slider (can be assigned to more than one slider).

Create a Fusion Slider

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Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
Navigate to Fusion Slider > Add or Edit Sliders tab on the left sidebar.
Give your slider a name by entering it in the ‘Name’ field (Example: Product Testimonials).
Shortcode is usually the same as the name and allows the slider to be used as a shortcode in a page or post. (Example: product-testimonials).
Under the ‘Slider Size’ option, enter your slider’s width and height (default settings will result in average slider dimensions).
Check the ‘Full Screen Slider’ checkbox if you want it to fill the entire screen (before scrolling).
Customize other options as desired (parallax, navigation options, autoplay, slide loop, animation, etc.)
Click ‘Add Slider’ button at the very bottom to save your slider.

Create a Fusion Slide

Once you’ve created a Slider, you can now create Slides to assign to any existing Slider. Slides are where you create your and upload your content to be displayed on the Slider.

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Navigate to Fusion Slider > Add or Edit Slides tab on the left sidebar.
Click the ‘Add New Slide’ button at the top of the page.
Give the slide a descriptive name (Example: John Doe Testimonial).
Enter your heading (large text), and/or captions (small text).
Choose heading/caption background color, if any (helpful if you have a busy background image).
Choose to link a button, or full slide if you want the user to click anywhere.
In the Button #1 or Button #2 box, paste the link the the slider button should go to between the quotation marks after 'fusionbutton link=.
On the right, click Featured Image and upload or choose the background image.
To assign the slide to a slider, check the box next to the slider name in the Fusion Sliders option box in the right sidebar. Any slide you create can be assigned to any slider.
Click the ‘Publish’ button to save the slide.

Edit Fusion Slider

If you want to slow down the slide time or adjust the color of the pagination circles on an existing slider, you'll click Edit underneath the slider name.

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Navigate to Fusion Slider > Add or Edit Slides tab on the left sidebar.
Find the slider you want to edit on the right, and click Edit underneath.
Make your changes to the height, slide time, etc. then scroll down and click Save.

To read Avada's full documentation on all the specific slide/slider settings, click here.

Question 4

How to Add and Remove Pages from WordPress Menu

Accepted Answer

The menu is the collection of navigation links in your website header, footer, or sidebars. You can have multiple menus (Main Menu in the header, Services Menu in the sidebar, for example). Here’s how to add and remove pages from your menus.

Please note: removing a page from the menu only removes it from the navigation. It does not delete or unpublish the page itself. If someone has a direct link, they can still access the page.

Example Menus:

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How to Access Menus:

Log in to the WordPress Dashboard
Navigate to Appearance > Menus
Select the menu from the dropdown (if you have more than one)

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How to Add a Page to the Menu:

Under Pages, select the checkbox of the page(s) you want to add to the menu
Click Add to Menu
Under Menu Structure on the right, click and drag to reorder the pages
If you want a page to be a submenu dropdown, nest it underneath one of the upper level pages

How to Remove a Page from the Menu:

Under Menu Structure on the right, click the arrow on the page you want to remove
Click Remove on the bottom left

Removing a page from the menu only removes it from the navigation. It does not delete or unpublish the page itself. If someone has a direct link, they can still access the page.

Question 5

How to hide pages or posts from Google

Accepted Answer

Navigate to the specific page or post, and find the Post SEO Settings window
Select the Visibility tab and change the settings to the following:

Indexing: noindex

Question 6

How to log in to your WordPress website

Accepted Answer

In your browser bar, type yourbusiness.com/dashboard. We recommend bookmarking this page so you don’t have to remember the link.
Enter your username, which is generally your full name (unless you’ve requested something different). If you can’t remember, use your business email.
Enter your password and click Log In. (if you can’t remember your password, click “Lost your password?” underneath the login box, and a new password will be emailed to you).
Once you’ve been logged in, you’ll see the WordPress Dashboard. This area is an overview of your website, and generally shows recent activity, forms, and analytics or other stats. All boxes here are customizable.

Click one of the tabs on the left sidebar to access your blog Posts, Portfolio posts, or edit one of your Pages.

Question 7

How to add a Meta Title/Description for Google

Accepted Answer

We use SEO Framework on all websites, which shows a little category box next to every post and page. It should be completely green if everything is set up properly:

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T = Title

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Meta Title: The page or post title will automatically be assigned as the meta title, which is usually fine. If it’s not green, you might need to check the box to remove the blog name (if it’s too long), or add keywords to the title (if it’s too short).

Meta Description: It’s best to copy the first couple sentences of your page and post, then paste it into the meta description and rewrite to be as short and descriptive as possible. This is the blurb that shows under the Meta Title when your page shows up on Google.

This is really all you need to do for most pages/posts.

If you want to assign different titles or a fallback image for social media, you can do that in the Social tab:

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The Visibility tab is where you hide pages or posts from search results. See this help article for more on hiding pages.

Question 8

How to track link clicks with Google Analytics (UTM Parameters)

Accepted Answer

These are tags you add to a link (URL) so you can see where traffic is coming from in your Google Analytics dashboard. You could use this for seeing how many website views you’re getting from your email signature, for example. It’s easy (and free) with Google’s URL Builder tool.

Navigate to Google’s URL Builder
Open the page you're linking to, and copy the full URL with prefix (https://www.yourwebsite.com).
Paste in that Website URL.
Type in the campaign source, This is the origin or platform, such as newsletter or linkedin.
Type in the campaign medium. This is the category or type of source, such as email or qr-code.
Type in the specific campaign name. This is the current promotion, such as event or sale.
You can ignore the optional Term and Content fields. Those are generally for paid ads.
Scroll down to the Share box and click Copy URL. It will look something like this: https://example.com?utm_source=news4&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spring-summer (Optional: click Convert URL to a Short Link if you have a Bit.ly account and you'll end up with bit.ly/link that tracks clicks).
Paste the copied URL in your email newsletter, LinkedIn post, or wherever you're using it.

Important Note: when adding a link in most services, you have the option to use custom anchor text. This means you can type "mywebsite.com", select that text, add link, and paste in the long trackable link, then save. It looks like your base URL, short and clean, but it still uses the UTM parameters.

A few best practices:

Use lowercase. Case matters (linkedin and LinkedIn will create two different tracking categories).
Use dashes.
Use the same source/medium consistently (facebook and facebook-post will create two different tracking categories).

See Google's help article for more information.