In April of this year, MemberPress announced what they called a significant enhancement of the MemberPress Courses quiz feature, including the introduction of 4 new question types. In this article I’ll describe and give examples of all 9 quiz question types and share my ideas about when to use which question types in your MemberPress courses.
Articles Archive
How to Create a Custom Member Directory for a WordPress/MemberPress Membership Site: Details
One of the questions that comes up a lot in WordPress discussion forums is how to set up a member directory. Often the question is posed as “What’s the best plugin for creating a member directory?”
Last October I published a blog post that summarized how I created a custom member directory for a WordPress membership site. When I shared links to that article in WordPress-related Facebook groups, a common response was, “How about some details, man?”
Hence this blog post.
Scam Alert: ATT/Yahoo! Phishing Scam 6/4/2024
Alert: Phishing scam purportedly from ATT/Yahoo! Mail. They’re telling you to update your account. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!
How To (and How Not To) Choose a WordPress Theme
This article is for “civilian” website owners and addresses some of the considerations that should go into choosing a website theme.
I think lots of WordPress website owners select a WordPress theme based on how the demo model looks. That could be a big mistake. A WordPress theme is much more than the superficial look & feel that its demo model conveys. This article explains why.
Adding Taxonomies to the WordPress Body Class
Sometimes it’s desirable to render WordPress posts or pages distinctively based on the categories or tags assigned to them. This post shows how that’s done.
Being the Master of your Domain (Name)
Choosing a domain name for your business (or any other enterprise) can be a daunting, stressful, protracted process. It’s a bit like naming a child. You really want to get it right. Somewhat to my surprise, the guidelines in the article I wrote in December of 2004, “What’s in a (Domain) Name?“, still represent the best advice I can give you. While I hope you go read that article, I’ll summarize and elaborate here.
What’s In a (Domain) Name
Probably the FIRST marketing decision you”ll make with respect to your Web site is its DOMAIN NAME! Sure, you want to find (and register) the right domain name. But we recommend you not sweat this too much. In this short article, we’ll discuss some common preconceptions (and their antidotes); the handful of rules that exist; and, finally, a set of considerations we think you should entertain.
WordPress Free Booking Plugins Face-Off: Amelia Lite vs. Simply Schedule Appointments
I recently evaluated and compared two free WordPress booking plugins: Amelia Lite (Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia); and Simply Schedule Appointments (Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin). Read on for the results of this face-off.
So you want to offer online courses…
People ask me if I can help them convert content they’ve developed or plan to develop — in some cases it’s a video, in other cases it’s a book, and so on — into an online course. My short answer is “yes”. But here’s a caveat:
The experience and insights I’ve gained from studying education at the graduate level, teaching elementary and high school students, and developing and delivering adult training programs compels me to stress that there’s a lot that goes into making a “course” that is a truly effective learning experience.
Make a Poster Graphic with HTML and CSS Using Grid Template Areas — and NO Graphics Program
A client asked me to create an improved version of a poster graphic to be embedded in a marketing email. The main problems with the original graphic were color contrast and readability (too much prose text where bullet lists would be better). My initial approach was to open the original PDF in Adobe Illustrator and make the modifications there. However, the file’s layer palette was a hot mess of nested groups and clipping paths. Abandoning Illustrator, I opted to create the new graphic with HTML and CSS — specifically, CSS Grid and Grid Template Areas. This blog post shows how I did it.