WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:02.960 Alright, everyone. Let's dive right into it. 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:08.100 Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday, tips to help grow your online community. 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:10.240 It's really great to be with everyone here today. 4 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.380 As I mentioned, I hope everyone is staying safe out there. 5 00:00:13.635 --> 00:00:17.095 If this is your first time joining us for webinar Wednesday, welcome. 6 00:00:17.235 --> 00:00:21.175 I am Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by David Rocklin, 7 00:00:21.475 --> 00:00:25.235 the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories, and so much more, to be honest. 8 00:00:25.235 --> 00:00:27.895 David, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today. 9 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:29.600 - Thanks everyone for being with us. 10 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:36.340 Good to be back, and, really excited to share some of the updates our development team has pushed over the past two weeks. 11 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:40.820 - And and, David, we're we're just creeping up on it. I've been mentioning it the last few webinars. 12 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:42.980 We're we're almost to 100 13 00:00:43.305 --> 00:00:46.504 episodes of webinar Wednesday. What what number are we on right now? 14 00:00:46.504 --> 00:00:49.485 - Do you know off the top of your head? - 97. 15 00:00:49.704 --> 00:00:53.385 - 90 seven. Okay. So we're getting close. We're getting close. 16 00:00:53.385 --> 00:00:57.390 We're trying to think of some type of virtual party to have once we hit 100, 17 00:00:57.690 --> 00:01:00.190 in the Facebook group. So we'll keep you guys posted, 18 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:04.590 once we decide, what that's going to be, but hopefully it'll be fun for, 19 00:01:05.209 --> 00:01:05.710 everyone. 20 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:07.770 And, that's a perfect segue. 21 00:01:07.770 --> 00:01:13.424 If you're not already part of our Facebook group, it's a great way to keep the conversations going in between 22 00:01:13.805 --> 00:01:18.924 webinar Wednesdays. You can just head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook. 23 00:01:18.924 --> 00:01:23.325 It'll redirect you to our Facebook page, and you can click the join button there. 24 00:01:23.325 --> 00:01:27.380 I'm in there myself, and, there's so much great so many great conversations 25 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:29.140 and, participation 26 00:01:29.440 --> 00:01:32.320 from the members, and also I think we're hitting a milestone there as well. 27 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:34.580 We're close to reaching 5,000 members 28 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:40.455 in that Facebook group, so lots to celebrate here, and it's great to see everyone helping each other in that group there. 29 00:01:41.335 --> 00:01:42.855 And for those of you joining, 30 00:01:43.255 --> 00:01:45.275 us for the first time, I do see a few, 31 00:01:45.655 --> 00:01:47.835 new names and faces out there. Welcome. 32 00:01:48.295 --> 00:01:53.810 Just to let you know the format and and the reason why we created Webinar Wednesday was a way to, 33 00:01:54.110 --> 00:01:57.490 help you learn about new features that are built into the platform 34 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:00.770 and hopefully how to leverage those features to help grow, 35 00:02:01.070 --> 00:02:02.370 your online community. 36 00:02:02.430 --> 00:02:19.590 So, we'll talk about some of the new features that can help you increase or sustain traffic on your site, convert visitors to members, and one of my favorites is improving the navigation of your site to give the visitor a really quality and simple experience so you can, increase conversion rates and help them 37 00:02:19.989 --> 00:02:23.930 accomplish what you want them to do on your site, whether that's search for members, 38 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:26.410 register on your site, sign up to your newsletter, 39 00:02:26.950 --> 00:02:29.269 or whatever your unique goals are. 40 00:02:29.269 --> 00:02:32.810 So if you have questions on any of these topics or something related, 41 00:02:33.225 --> 00:02:37.485 we'll try to get to as many of them as we can, in the webinar here. 42 00:02:37.945 --> 00:02:41.945 Alright. In in the last webinar, we didn't have any new features and updates to share. 43 00:02:41.945 --> 00:02:44.925 There were just so many just right in the QA process. 44 00:02:45.385 --> 00:02:48.685 We do have a few noteworthy updates to share with you guys, 45 00:02:48.990 --> 00:02:50.110 in this week's webinar. 46 00:02:50.110 --> 00:03:00.590 So I'll go over a few of them with you, and some of the ones that are coming soon, I they're still in development, but I can show you a preview of the direction that those are headed in. 47 00:03:00.590 --> 00:03:04.635 The first one at the top of that list, published posts from the admin area. 48 00:03:04.635 --> 00:03:07.855 This is more of a quality of life update, and I'll show you exactly 49 00:03:08.155 --> 00:03:13.775 what that means. Now I'll dive into the admin area here. Let me just start from the dashboard area. 50 00:03:15.435 --> 00:03:26.880 So generally, when you wanted to publish a post to your site, and I have to agree with everyone, once you start with brilliant directories, it's probably the hardest thing to wrap your head around, but once you know what to do, it's very straightforward and simple. 51 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:33.300 So, you know, let's say you wanted to publish a photo album or classified ads as the owner or the admin of the website, 52 00:03:33.665 --> 00:03:37.685 well, what you'd normally have to do is you'd have to go to the search members area, 53 00:03:38.385 --> 00:03:43.525 and then you'd have to log in as a member who has the privilege to publish, 54 00:03:44.545 --> 00:03:47.905 a specific type of post like a classified or a blog article. 55 00:03:47.905 --> 00:03:51.070 So, you know, you'd log in as the member here. 56 00:03:53.770 --> 00:03:57.530 You could, you know, publish whatever you wanted at this this membership level. 57 00:03:57.530 --> 00:04:01.550 This happens to be a basic member, has the, the ability to publish 58 00:04:01.930 --> 00:04:06.424 on the site. So that's fine. It works well. Once you understand that concept, it's really easy. 59 00:04:06.424 --> 00:04:10.525 You just find who's gonna publish, who's gonna be the author, and then you can log in. 60 00:04:10.905 --> 00:04:13.625 We've kinda simplified that process a little bit. 61 00:04:13.625 --> 00:04:17.165 Now if you go to the content area in your admin area 62 00:04:17.470 --> 00:04:21.010 and toggle on over to manage posts where you see all your posts, 63 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:26.370 what seems natural is there should have always been a publish new post button. 64 00:04:27.710 --> 00:04:31.455 So you're gonna have a few options when you get this new pop up. 65 00:04:31.775 --> 00:04:34.595 First question, it's gonna ask you what you want to publish. 66 00:04:35.055 --> 00:04:38.115 So let's just say like a classified ad, 67 00:04:39.534 --> 00:04:51.730 and then it's gonna ask you which member will be the author because a post does need to have an author attributed to it even if it's a non searchable, you know, admin of the site, who just happens to have a member record on the site. 68 00:04:51.730 --> 00:04:56.310 So in this case, let's just search for members with the name Jason. 69 00:04:56.770 --> 00:05:00.044 There's a few of them here. This is just a demo site we have. 70 00:05:00.264 --> 00:05:06.365 So we'll just click on this one and then log in to create post, and it essentially does the same thing 71 00:05:06.665 --> 00:05:12.125 on the, the search members page, but it takes you right to the area where you can add, 72 00:05:12.580 --> 00:05:22.120 in this case, a new classifieds post and you're logged in as that sample member there, and then you could of course proceed to, add the new the new post. 73 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:27.479 Now let's say you attempted to do this, let's say that member didn't have the privilege 74 00:05:28.125 --> 00:05:32.525 to publish that post. A lot of p's in in this segment here that we're talking about. 75 00:05:32.525 --> 00:05:35.265 So let's say it's a blog article 76 00:05:36.125 --> 00:05:36.625 and 77 00:05:37.005 --> 00:05:40.785 you wanted to publish it, the author would be that same basic member, 78 00:05:41.165 --> 00:05:42.385 Jason Jenny plumbing. 79 00:05:43.939 --> 00:05:45.379 You're gonna get an error message. 80 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:52.199 It says this member is registered as a as a basic member, you know, they don't have the publishing privileges for this post type, 81 00:05:52.500 --> 00:06:01.755 so either update the basic membership level so they are allowed to publish blog articles or select another member to be the author of this post that you're trying to publish. 82 00:06:01.755 --> 00:06:02.255 Now 83 00:06:02.635 --> 00:06:04.715 generally, and 99.9% 84 00:06:04.715 --> 00:06:08.315 of the time, it's just gonna be you, the admin accounts. 85 00:06:08.315 --> 00:06:14.030 You're just gonna search for your own member record here, and you're gonna just go and publish the article. 86 00:06:14.030 --> 00:06:16.210 It's very rare you're gonna come here and publish 87 00:06:16.510 --> 00:06:18.770 content on behalf of your members, 88 00:06:19.070 --> 00:06:23.330 so I wouldn't worry too much about this, but it's just a fail safe to ensure that, 89 00:06:23.630 --> 00:06:25.490 only members who have the privilege 90 00:06:25.825 --> 00:06:29.525 of publishing a specific post will be logged in to do so. 91 00:06:29.745 --> 00:06:34.305 So that's now available on the site, and you guys can play around with it as you're adding new content to your site. 92 00:06:34.305 --> 00:06:36.405 You can try it out from the publish new posts 93 00:06:36.705 --> 00:06:40.650 section if you're not already logged in as a member on your site. Alright. 94 00:06:40.650 --> 00:06:47.470 The second one on this list and this is this is gonna be a few more updates coming down the line for for this, but we have, 95 00:06:47.850 --> 00:06:54.750 some new settings in the general settings area, and it's to give you a bit more control over some of, your settings, 96 00:06:55.275 --> 00:07:06.255 some things that used to be only in the advanced setting options, some of the more popular and common ones have now been moved into the general settings, and we could just briefly cover some of those. 97 00:07:06.475 --> 00:07:07.455 So most notably, 98 00:07:08.449 --> 00:07:11.991 what there used to be a single tab here called configuration. 99 00:07:11.991 --> 00:07:15.490 It was between the integrations and social media links tab. 100 00:07:15.490 --> 00:07:20.630 It was called configuration, and we pretty much dropped everything in there, but that became so many settings. 101 00:07:21.090 --> 00:07:23.110 We've now divided it into two 102 00:07:23.705 --> 00:07:25.565 new tabs. One is called localization, 103 00:07:27.465 --> 00:07:33.065 and these are things that are settings for your unique region or locale or country. 104 00:07:33.065 --> 00:07:35.884 This would be, you know, things like your date format, 105 00:07:36.710 --> 00:07:39.290 the default website language, time zone, 106 00:07:39.830 --> 00:07:42.410 you know, the primary country, the currency, 107 00:07:43.030 --> 00:07:44.090 currency format, 108 00:07:44.470 --> 00:07:45.830 and the distance format. 109 00:07:45.830 --> 00:07:50.570 So, you know, based on, you know, who your website is serving the country or region, 110 00:07:51.255 --> 00:08:01.035 these localization settings, it should be a one and done thing, but you can come here and you can easily set these things up, so, your site will be configured for your your region. 111 00:08:01.975 --> 00:08:03.914 The next tab here, search settings, 112 00:08:05.380 --> 00:08:08.840 a lot of these were only in the advanced settings and they were hard to find, 113 00:08:09.380 --> 00:08:09.880 and 114 00:08:10.260 --> 00:08:18.360 sometimes you would do a search on your site and you're seeing results that didn't make sense or members weren't included when they should be, and usually it was just a setting, 115 00:08:18.735 --> 00:08:21.695 but they were in the advanced settings and they were a bit hard to find. 116 00:08:21.695 --> 00:08:25.315 So, we've we've collected all of those and we put them here. 117 00:08:25.375 --> 00:08:27.235 I'm actually gonna start from the bottom 118 00:08:27.615 --> 00:08:28.435 section here. 119 00:08:28.895 --> 00:08:35.129 So there's something called like strict city match, strict country match, and strict postal code match. 120 00:08:35.589 --> 00:08:38.009 What this does is it's related to 121 00:08:38.470 --> 00:08:44.730 the default search radius on your site. So if I search Los Angeles as an example, 122 00:08:45.350 --> 00:08:50.250 and my radius is set to include members who are within a hundred miles 123 00:08:50.845 --> 00:08:52.065 of Los Angeles, 124 00:08:53.005 --> 00:08:55.265 if the strict search is disabled, 125 00:08:56.445 --> 00:09:01.985 it will find everyone who is literally a hundred miles from the center of Los Angeles, 126 00:09:02.445 --> 00:09:05.105 even if they happen to be in another city 127 00:09:05.490 --> 00:09:07.110 outside of Los Angeles. 128 00:09:08.290 --> 00:09:11.430 If you turn on, for example, strict city match, 129 00:09:12.930 --> 00:09:22.505 it will go up to, you know, a hundred mile radius, but it will also only box in and give you results of members who are in Los Angeles. 130 00:09:22.505 --> 00:09:26.765 So if that hundred miles happens to be areas outside of Los Angeles, 131 00:09:27.225 --> 00:09:32.750 those members will not be included in the search results on the front end of your website. 132 00:09:33.450 --> 00:09:35.390 Generally, you wanna set these to disabled, 133 00:09:35.770 --> 00:09:41.310 that will give the visitor the most results actually because it will just do a a full radius search. 134 00:09:42.170 --> 00:09:45.230 It will it will find results for the entire radius, 135 00:09:45.575 --> 00:09:50.875 It won't also just box in for the region that's being searched, and the same logic would apply to postcode 136 00:09:51.335 --> 00:09:53.515 and country and state match as well. 137 00:09:54.135 --> 00:09:58.795 Then there's something called keyword match method here, and they're strict and inclusive. 138 00:09:59.095 --> 00:10:02.480 I don't wanna get in too much detail of this, but 139 00:10:02.940 --> 00:10:05.760 inclusive would be if you're doing a keyword 140 00:10:06.220 --> 00:10:06.720 search, 141 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:09.760 let's say like, let's say immigration 142 00:10:10.220 --> 00:10:10.720 attorney. 143 00:10:11.420 --> 00:10:20.255 It will for the strict keyword search, it will only find members who have the exact phrase immigration attorney in their profiles. 144 00:10:21.115 --> 00:10:22.415 If you do the inclusive, 145 00:10:23.115 --> 00:10:26.015 it would find members who have either immigration 146 00:10:26.475 --> 00:10:27.375 or attorney 147 00:10:27.990 --> 00:10:31.290 listed in their profiles as a keyword in their profile. So 148 00:10:31.750 --> 00:10:34.970 inclusive will give you more results in your search results. 149 00:10:35.590 --> 00:10:40.390 Strict keyword search would give you more specific, more limited results in your search results. 150 00:10:40.390 --> 00:10:45.584 So I like to set this on inclusive, but if you have a a specific reason to set it to strict, 151 00:10:45.964 --> 00:10:47.985 you can certainly play around with those, 152 00:10:48.444 --> 00:10:51.504 and do some searches on your site and see which one works best, 153 00:10:52.045 --> 00:10:52.785 for you. 154 00:10:53.270 --> 00:10:56.490 This one up here I like a lot, show categories with no members. 155 00:10:57.110 --> 00:11:00.970 Basically, you have a bunch of member categories on your site here, 156 00:11:01.350 --> 00:11:07.930 and on the front end of the site, there's filters to filter for categories or search for categories or the categories are listed. 157 00:11:08.394 --> 00:11:16.735 If you set this to no, if the categories have zero members listed in them, they won't show on the front end of your website. 158 00:11:17.274 --> 00:11:18.334 That's good because 159 00:11:18.714 --> 00:11:20.815 sometimes when you have no members, 160 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:34.020 the visitors doing searches and they're gonna get results with no matches because there's no members in those results, so they're gonna just search every category and and they might stumble upon categories that have zero results, and that might create a poor visitor experience. 161 00:11:34.435 --> 00:11:36.535 It just depends how you're handling no results, 162 00:11:36.995 --> 00:11:37.715 on your site. 163 00:11:37.715 --> 00:11:44.295 Maybe you, you know, how you have a button that says no results, but add your business, be the first to list in this category. 164 00:11:44.835 --> 00:11:51.070 But generally, that will just hide categories on the public front end side of your site if there are no members associated with 165 00:11:51.450 --> 00:11:55.050 them. And then right here, require complete profiles. I really like this one. 166 00:11:55.050 --> 00:11:57.630 It's come up in the Facebook group a bunch of times. 167 00:11:58.330 --> 00:12:03.645 You know, they people say, I don't want members with no profile photos or incomplete profiles 168 00:12:04.185 --> 00:12:07.645 to show up in on my search results on my site. 169 00:12:08.105 --> 00:12:11.964 So if you set require complete profiles to yes, then 170 00:12:12.665 --> 00:12:13.165 members 171 00:12:13.625 --> 00:12:19.389 will only show up on the search results on your site who at least have all of these, at least a name, 172 00:12:19.769 --> 00:12:20.910 top level category, 173 00:12:21.449 --> 00:12:22.509 profile photo, 174 00:12:22.970 --> 00:12:24.110 and an address. 175 00:12:24.250 --> 00:12:29.709 If they don't have at least all of those things, they won't show up in the search results on your site. 176 00:12:30.005 --> 00:12:31.065 The benefit is 177 00:12:31.445 --> 00:12:37.144 when visitors come to the site, you can be sure that you're serving them with results of more so complete 178 00:12:37.445 --> 00:12:43.464 member profiles rather than just a name and a phone number, but no and no profile photo, kind of like thin 179 00:12:43.770 --> 00:12:48.510 profile pages. So again, it just depends what type of visitor experience you want to provide, 180 00:12:48.890 --> 00:13:00.204 and if you are going to be setting this up, require complete profiles, it's important to educate your members maybe in the welcome email or you wanna customize the dash member dashboard messaging, 181 00:13:00.665 --> 00:13:05.165 encouraging them to complete their profiles in order to be found in the search results 182 00:13:05.625 --> 00:13:06.925 on your website. 183 00:13:07.704 --> 00:13:10.764 So that is that feature, it's now available there. 184 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:14.160 And this is another one that, was actually 185 00:13:15.260 --> 00:13:16.960 a a a big update in the system. 186 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:21.840 As all of us know, when you're doing a member search on a BD website, 187 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:26.960 the URL is forward slash search results, 188 00:13:27.315 --> 00:13:28.295 and it's fine. 189 00:13:48.370 --> 00:13:52.470 You can come here. It's the default member search result search URL. 190 00:13:52.785 --> 00:13:56.004 So by default for everyone right now, it's search results, 191 00:13:56.384 --> 00:14:00.644 but if you wanted to change it to something else, as long as it's not, 192 00:14:01.185 --> 00:14:07.204 the same URL as like a member category or another page on your site, you can certainly use it. 193 00:14:07.850 --> 00:14:10.190 So you can maybe you wanna do attorney 194 00:14:11.290 --> 00:14:14.430 listings or or whatever makes sense for your site. 195 00:14:14.649 --> 00:14:17.949 Personally, I think search results is fine, but you can now 196 00:14:18.329 --> 00:14:24.265 change it to whatever you want, just search or whatever you feel like, you could play around with that, 197 00:14:24.885 --> 00:14:27.045 and that is available to you now. 198 00:14:27.045 --> 00:14:35.525 So, these new tabs are available probably as a one time set it and forget it kinda thing, but it's good to know that these options are here now. 199 00:14:35.525 --> 00:14:36.985 And if you are having 200 00:14:37.380 --> 00:14:44.920 member results where members aren't included or or should or should not be included in the results, you may wanna play around with some of these settings here first. 201 00:14:46.660 --> 00:14:47.140 Alright. 202 00:14:47.140 --> 00:14:52.065 And that actually ties us to the third one here, being able to define the member search results URL. 203 00:14:52.065 --> 00:14:56.305 We just, went over that. Let me actually show you an example of what that would, look like. 204 00:14:56.305 --> 00:14:58.005 Let me just set this to directory 205 00:14:59.025 --> 00:15:02.405 instead of search underscore results, and we'll save the changes. 206 00:15:04.540 --> 00:15:07.920 - Okay. - And I'll just do a refresh of this page here. 207 00:15:09.260 --> 00:15:12.160 See. And now it's using the URL directory 208 00:15:12.540 --> 00:15:14.240 rather than search underscore 209 00:15:14.860 --> 00:15:18.560 results. So I know a lot of people are gonna wanna take advantage of that. 210 00:15:19.065 --> 00:15:21.805 Okay. A big one that we mentioned in, 211 00:15:22.265 --> 00:15:27.145 the Facebook group, so it's very simple to start, but I think very powerful and helpful for you guys. 212 00:15:27.145 --> 00:15:29.725 The ability to have draggable content blocks 213 00:15:30.105 --> 00:15:36.800 when you're building your web pages, and I'll show you a couple of examples of how you can take advantage of this right now. 214 00:15:37.420 --> 00:15:39.520 If you've been with us in previous webinars, 215 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:46.080 we've talked about how you can use tables to kind of create nice landing pages, with images and text. 216 00:15:46.205 --> 00:15:50.465 So this kinda just helps you a little bit extra by having predefined blocks 217 00:15:50.845 --> 00:15:54.125 when you're creating pages. So let me show you where you can, 218 00:15:54.925 --> 00:15:55.825 set this up. 219 00:15:57.005 --> 00:15:58.945 If you go to edit web pages, 220 00:16:00.045 --> 00:16:00.545 and 221 00:16:01.060 --> 00:16:04.100 I'll actually scroll down, I have a sample page here I created. 222 00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:06.920 Well let's just start from scratch, we'll do a new web page, 223 00:16:08.660 --> 00:16:11.640 and we'll call the URL content blocks. 224 00:16:13.745 --> 00:16:14.485 That's fine. 225 00:16:15.745 --> 00:16:19.524 And we'll just put a title sample content blocks. So, 226 00:16:19.904 --> 00:16:25.045 what you all have in your sidebar here are draggable content blocks here. 227 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:29.380 And there's just five of them to start, and they're probably the most common ones 228 00:16:29.760 --> 00:16:34.020 used when you're building out or stacking up a a web page with content. 229 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:42.055 I'll start with one of my favorites is the three column feature list, and all you do is is take it from the sidebar and drag it into the editor. 230 00:16:42.995 --> 00:16:50.355 And what we've done with all the blocks is each section will include four main items to make it easier for you to modify them. 231 00:16:50.355 --> 00:16:52.055 So it will include an image, 232 00:16:52.515 --> 00:16:53.255 a title, 233 00:16:54.089 --> 00:17:01.949 some kind of dummy text here that you can certainly remove or edit, and then an action link which is the same, you can edit or, 234 00:17:02.329 --> 00:17:04.669 remove it. So let's start with the images. 235 00:17:04.970 --> 00:17:07.390 Let's say I wanted to have a benefits list, 236 00:17:08.169 --> 00:17:08.890 on a page. 237 00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:13.345 So I'll click on an image, and this is good just so you guys know how to use the editor a bit. 238 00:17:13.345 --> 00:17:15.524 This is a quick tutorial for you guys. 239 00:17:15.984 --> 00:17:19.444 So I wanna just swap out this image with something else I have on the site. 240 00:17:20.065 --> 00:17:25.649 I'll go to the media manager folder here, and I have some three images that I'm gonna replace 241 00:17:26.349 --> 00:17:27.649 these images with. 242 00:17:29.549 --> 00:17:38.529 And what I've done is they're square images and I've made sure they're the same width and height, just so I can make sure I have a uniform look on the page. 243 00:17:39.665 --> 00:17:44.245 So I have those there, and of course, you know, this could be feature one, 244 00:17:44.785 --> 00:17:45.765 make it bold, 245 00:17:48.385 --> 00:17:49.365 let's do this, 246 00:17:50.545 --> 00:17:55.350 feature two, or these could be testimonials, whatever you want, you could have it here, 247 00:17:55.809 --> 00:17:56.789 change the text. 248 00:17:57.010 --> 00:18:02.130 Another thing you can do, on this image while we're here actually is you can make it a circle. 249 00:18:02.130 --> 00:18:07.385 So if they're if you're uploading square images, what's nice is you can change them to be circles. 250 00:18:10.644 --> 00:18:18.585 And then of course, you don't need to have the links or it depends on on the section or what you're promoting here, but we've talked about this in previous webinars. 251 00:18:18.725 --> 00:18:22.870 You can now, one, you can edit the link, so maybe you want this to go to your 252 00:18:23.330 --> 00:18:24.150 join page, 253 00:18:25.490 --> 00:18:31.830 and then you can change click on this style here, and the button colors that you've set up in your design settings, 254 00:18:32.155 --> 00:18:35.455 you can select them here. So let's say we wanted to use the danger 255 00:18:35.995 --> 00:18:38.095 button style, you can change that to red. 256 00:18:39.035 --> 00:18:42.095 Let's say this page you wanted to go to your about section, 257 00:18:43.675 --> 00:18:46.255 and we can change the button style to primary 258 00:18:46.780 --> 00:18:49.440 and so on. And if we save the changes here, 259 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:55.040 we can then view the page. 260 00:18:57.740 --> 00:18:58.240 And, 261 00:18:58.635 --> 00:19:06.815 you know, we've very quickly just using those premade content blocks, we swapped out the the images with our own, you know, we updated the title, 262 00:19:08.395 --> 00:19:12.095 the, the links a bit. So let's add another content block here. 263 00:19:12.630 --> 00:19:18.250 So here it is, you can just toggle this open, and in this case, let's add a text with image right. 264 00:19:20.310 --> 00:19:23.290 And let's do another swap out here with this image. 265 00:19:24.710 --> 00:19:26.330 We'll use this one here. 266 00:19:27.115 --> 00:19:29.774 And same thing, you have an image, a title, 267 00:19:30.154 --> 00:19:34.495 some description text, and if you wanna keep the link, you can certainly do so. 268 00:19:34.955 --> 00:19:41.680 If you wanna unlink it, you can just have plain text, or you could just delete the section by highlighting it and clicking back. 269 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:46.020 So let's just save this now. We'll just build out a little a page here together. 270 00:19:47.600 --> 00:19:51.460 Pretty self explanatory. Again, very simple what we've what we've created here. 271 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.140 So this is a 272 00:19:53.695 --> 00:19:55.795 image on the right with text on the left, 273 00:19:56.735 --> 00:19:58.835 and then another one if you wanted, 274 00:19:59.295 --> 00:20:03.635 another list of features, we do have the four column feature list. 275 00:20:04.335 --> 00:20:06.755 I'll add that here. I'll add it without any modification. 276 00:20:07.080 --> 00:20:09.580 And then the last one is an FAQ module. 277 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:12.620 It doesn't need to be used as an FAQ module. 278 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.840 It could really be for for anything. 279 00:20:14.840 --> 00:20:23.875 It could be what benefits come with the membership level, and you can certainly change these with the title text for the benefit and and a more detailed description. 280 00:20:24.575 --> 00:20:26.115 I'll go ahead and save this. 281 00:20:30.975 --> 00:20:36.570 And you can see here we have these these sections here, these action links, just swap out the images, the titles. 282 00:20:36.570 --> 00:20:40.570 If you don't need one of these four elements, of course, you can remove them. 283 00:20:40.570 --> 00:20:43.950 And here's something else pretty cool. So this this is using 284 00:20:44.250 --> 00:20:48.669 the table functionality, so you can create your own table if if you want, 285 00:20:49.424 --> 00:20:53.024 with columns and rows, but what's really nice is this is with three. 286 00:20:53.024 --> 00:20:57.044 If you wanted to get rid of one, you could just click on the cell 287 00:20:57.664 --> 00:21:01.765 and you can delete this column as an example. Let's go ahead and do that. 288 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:05.630 So now we have two side by side, and let's save the web page. 289 00:21:08.410 --> 00:21:10.590 And we'll refresh the page. 290 00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:14.410 So we can see here now, 291 00:21:14.810 --> 00:21:16.635 you know, we have side by side content. 292 00:21:16.635 --> 00:21:23.135 So just with a little bit of modification, I do recommend playing around with the text editor, you know, adding columns, adding rows, 293 00:21:23.675 --> 00:21:25.215 dropping in blocks now. 294 00:21:25.275 --> 00:21:29.615 This can help familiarize you so you can, you know, create your own landing pages 295 00:21:30.059 --> 00:21:35.919 and really get the message across with both both quality imagery and good titles, 296 00:21:36.299 --> 00:21:40.080 and text, and also action links of things that you want people, 297 00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:43.659 to do on the site. So we can see here the frequently asked questions. 298 00:21:43.659 --> 00:21:48.095 Again, this could be used for anything. Just swap out the the premade text 299 00:21:48.475 --> 00:21:49.695 that's listed here. 300 00:21:49.995 --> 00:21:53.034 David, did I leave out anything that we should be mentioning about this, 301 00:21:53.755 --> 00:21:55.294 draggable content here? 302 00:21:55.835 --> 00:22:00.650 - I think you covered most of it. We did get really good question that Vincent sent in. 303 00:22:00.650 --> 00:22:08.830 He wanted to know if we could use these draggable content blocks on the homepage as well, and we could do that by using the custom homepage content 304 00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:11.310 - functionality. Right? - Yes. So 305 00:22:11.935 --> 00:22:12.595 you can. 306 00:22:13.055 --> 00:22:16.275 It was just overlooked in this push. It should have been included. 307 00:22:16.815 --> 00:22:19.795 You'll still notice here it's not available here in the homepage. 308 00:22:20.255 --> 00:22:20.755 However, 309 00:22:21.055 --> 00:22:29.090 it was just overlooked in this recent push and, probably by the end of this week, you'll have this draggable content block section 310 00:22:29.550 --> 00:22:31.090 when you're editing your homepage, 311 00:22:31.470 --> 00:22:33.890 and he is correct. In the design settings, 312 00:22:34.590 --> 00:22:37.810 you can select to display custom homepage content 313 00:22:38.375 --> 00:22:39.675 Under homepage layout, 314 00:22:40.295 --> 00:22:41.755 homepage section orders, 315 00:22:42.135 --> 00:22:44.955 you can certainly select custom homepage content. 316 00:22:45.255 --> 00:22:49.755 And when you select this, guys, what this is gonna do on your homepage is 317 00:22:50.135 --> 00:22:51.675 it's going to correspond 318 00:22:52.330 --> 00:22:58.110 from what you've put in your edit web pages for your homepage content here in this block here. 319 00:22:58.330 --> 00:23:04.990 Because generally the homepage information is all by these the homepage search settings up here, but you can certainly stream 320 00:23:05.404 --> 00:23:07.245 custom homepage content on your site. 321 00:23:07.245 --> 00:23:11.505 So, yes, Vincent, the draggable content will be available for the homepage 322 00:23:11.885 --> 00:23:14.784 probably by the end of this week or early next week at the latest. 323 00:23:15.885 --> 00:23:18.284 - Excellent. And then Ariane asked another good question. 324 00:23:18.284 --> 00:23:23.559 She wanted to know if these draggable content blocks will be available when you're editing newsletters as well. 325 00:23:24.100 --> 00:23:26.040 - Yeah. Great question. That's actually 326 00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:30.840 if we look at the coming soon section here, draggable content blocks, 327 00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:32.200 for emails, 328 00:23:32.804 --> 00:23:37.845 is is something on our that's been green lighted, for a future update coming down the line soon. 329 00:23:37.845 --> 00:23:42.264 I know that's gonna make it a lot easier to kinda set up your email newsletters as well. 330 00:23:42.725 --> 00:23:45.870 Alright. So that is those are the draggable content blocks. 331 00:23:45.870 --> 00:23:53.650 And let me just take it one step further and just as a refresher for everyone, you also have the ability to create a hero section on your pages. 332 00:23:53.790 --> 00:23:57.410 Let me just do one real quick, enable hero section, yes, 333 00:23:57.870 --> 00:24:00.050 and we'll do, white font, 334 00:24:01.205 --> 00:24:03.305 and we'll choose an image here. 335 00:24:05.365 --> 00:24:08.585 Alright. I'll just use this one background image I have on the site, 336 00:24:08.885 --> 00:24:11.065 and I'll just do this is 337 00:24:11.925 --> 00:24:12.825 title text, 338 00:24:13.850 --> 00:24:15.150 and we'll say 339 00:24:16.250 --> 00:24:17.550 you're going to love 340 00:24:18.330 --> 00:24:19.230 what you 341 00:24:19.610 --> 00:24:21.870 seek. And we'll just save the changes 342 00:24:23.610 --> 00:24:26.110 just real quick here, and we'll refresh. 343 00:24:28.295 --> 00:24:29.015 Okay. Great. 344 00:24:29.015 --> 00:24:34.554 So now you can have, you know, with that hero section, it's available on all the web pages, so you can have this, 345 00:24:35.015 --> 00:24:36.315 and then also your, 346 00:24:37.015 --> 00:24:38.855 draggable content blocks as well. 347 00:24:39.415 --> 00:24:42.635 Trying to give you guys enough tools, just enough to be dangerous without overcomplicating 348 00:24:43.015 --> 00:24:49.090 things, for everyone, and hopefully this will, make it real easy, so can't wait to see what you guys create out there. 349 00:24:49.090 --> 00:24:50.790 Please share it in the Facebook group. 350 00:24:51.170 --> 00:24:54.550 Alright. Let's go down to the coming soon list here. 351 00:24:54.610 --> 00:25:00.855 So this is a quality of life update, the ability to easily and I mean really easily add buttons, 352 00:25:01.475 --> 00:25:03.155 to your homepage hero section. 353 00:25:03.155 --> 00:25:16.530 Sometimes you don't wanna start off your site with the search module, you wanna give them a nice welcome title and then maybe have one or two or three buttons there to kind of direct them on their on the visitor on the path as to where they can go on your site. 354 00:25:16.830 --> 00:25:20.930 So let me show you guys what that's gonna look like. I do have a sample I can show you. 355 00:25:21.230 --> 00:25:24.850 Let me start with a a finished sample here. 356 00:25:25.815 --> 00:25:30.554 So you can have your title text and then, you can have buttons. 357 00:25:31.095 --> 00:25:33.275 We did have something similar to this. 358 00:25:34.054 --> 00:25:36.554 Currently in your design settings right now, 359 00:25:37.735 --> 00:25:39.255 you do have something called 360 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:48.419 let me show you what that is, it's called, I think right now it's called hero message with buttons, we're going to change it to hero message with HTML 361 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:51.779 because right now if you want buttons on your home page, 362 00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:55.779 you have to insert it, some of you have it, you have to put the HTML 363 00:25:56.455 --> 00:25:59.595 in here. It's not that user friendly, great for developers. 364 00:25:59.895 --> 00:26:03.515 We did have button code example here that we were linking people to, 365 00:26:03.815 --> 00:26:09.755 but again it's really not conducive for, you know, a beginner or someone who's just trying to easily have buttons on their site. 366 00:26:10.260 --> 00:26:15.560 So once this update is pushed, you'll have under the search types, you'll be able to choose 367 00:26:15.940 --> 00:26:17.960 hero message with button links, 368 00:26:18.580 --> 00:26:22.440 and you can have one right here, you'll have your button link options. 369 00:26:22.835 --> 00:26:28.615 It'll display a button if there's button text and a button URL, and then that button will display 370 00:26:29.075 --> 00:26:36.455 on the home page, and then you can choose your button class based on the design setting button colors, default, primary, success, warning, danger. 371 00:26:37.150 --> 00:26:41.890 So let me show you. Let's remove one of these, because right now I just showed you this one, 372 00:26:42.590 --> 00:26:44.770 with button one, button two, button three. 373 00:26:45.230 --> 00:26:49.170 Let's remove the the information from button three and save the changes, 374 00:26:50.885 --> 00:26:52.505 and I'll do a refresh here. 375 00:26:54.965 --> 00:26:58.585 So now we can see two nice buttons. It's a really nice way to create a portal 376 00:26:58.965 --> 00:27:11.110 or, you know, welcome people to your site and, you know, ask them to either log in or register to join or search or, you know, add a listing or, you know, whatever it might be or learn more about your organization's mission, 377 00:27:11.650 --> 00:27:14.150 and I'll just show you with one button here. 378 00:27:16.850 --> 00:27:21.675 And here's the button one, and we'll change the the class from success to danger. 379 00:27:21.675 --> 00:27:25.035 That's that's what we have as the red. And even let's do something else. 380 00:27:25.035 --> 00:27:27.215 The search background, let's have no visibility, 381 00:27:27.915 --> 00:27:32.015 and, let's see what that looks like. So that'll get rid of the blue background here, 382 00:27:32.790 --> 00:27:34.730 and let's refresh the page. 383 00:27:35.670 --> 00:27:37.690 It'll get rid of that rectangle there. 384 00:27:38.710 --> 00:27:42.010 So it simplifies it a little bit more, a little sleeker, a little modern. 385 00:27:42.070 --> 00:27:45.350 Again, just depends on what you're trying to achieve with your taste. 386 00:27:45.350 --> 00:27:52.005 So, I'm excited for this one because I see a lot of people moving away from having the search module directly on their homepage. 387 00:27:52.465 --> 00:27:56.485 You can have that inside bars and other areas or on a landing page on your site, 388 00:27:57.024 --> 00:28:05.250 and giving them a portal or way to, you know, click into the site because maybe they don't know what to search for right from the homepage, not in every case but in some cases. 389 00:28:06.830 --> 00:28:09.470 Alright. We went over this one in previous webinars. 390 00:28:09.470 --> 00:28:12.925 It's still going through the QA process, but still coming down the pipeline. 391 00:28:12.925 --> 00:28:26.730 The ability to include images with reviews, it will be an add on so you can have reviews closer and more similar like Yelp where users can, for example, leave a review of a restaurant and upload the photos of the food that they just ate with their review. 392 00:28:26.730 --> 00:28:33.950 So again, that should create a nice interactive experience both for the person posting the review, the people viewing the reviews, and also for the member, 393 00:28:34.330 --> 00:28:42.695 to have more photos associated with their profile, and that's actually good for your SEO because those photos will be found in Google images as well. 394 00:28:42.695 --> 00:28:46.395 So just another way that your website is gonna add more unique content, 395 00:28:46.855 --> 00:28:49.195 to the Internet which is what Google loves. 396 00:28:49.735 --> 00:28:56.110 This next one select font families in the text editor, so a lot of things we're talking about the text editors here today. 397 00:28:56.649 --> 00:29:02.190 So by default, the text editor uses the fonts that you've defined in your design settings. 398 00:29:02.570 --> 00:29:04.669 Let me show you where those are. So 399 00:29:05.210 --> 00:29:16.895 under your design settings, main website design, you have your body font family, those are like your paragraphs and regular text, and then you have your headings which is like the section titles and things like that. 400 00:29:17.115 --> 00:29:26.060 And right now, the text editor will just fall back to these whatever you've defined for these two fonts here, for titles basically and the general body font. 401 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:29.900 With this update, you'll be able to select, 402 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:31.660 you know, if you had different, 403 00:29:32.840 --> 00:29:38.140 fonts enabled in your design settings, I'll just choose a few different things here. So Puritan, 404 00:29:38.695 --> 00:29:41.915 Quicksand, and Quantico. Go ahead and save the changes. 405 00:29:43.575 --> 00:29:44.075 Okay. 406 00:29:44.295 --> 00:29:50.715 So any of the specific fonts you've defined in your design settings, now let's go to edit web pages and look at the text editor. 407 00:29:55.470 --> 00:30:01.410 What you'll have is you'll have a the ability to select the font family, and it will be whatever 408 00:30:01.870 --> 00:30:05.635 there's like five or six areas where you can select fonts for different areas, 409 00:30:06.035 --> 00:30:08.775 in your design settings. Those will be available here 410 00:30:09.235 --> 00:30:11.815 as well as, we have five or six 411 00:30:12.355 --> 00:30:16.355 web safe fonts that work on they're safe for any web browser. 412 00:30:16.355 --> 00:30:21.550 It's also it's a limited list, but we know that they're gonna work, on every web browser for visitors. 413 00:30:21.770 --> 00:30:28.510 This is a safe list of font families that you can also choose from in addition to the custom ones that you have enabled 414 00:30:28.810 --> 00:30:30.190 in your design settings. 415 00:30:30.330 --> 00:30:45.015 We're gonna launch it here first in the admin area for web pages and then we're going to once we know it's working fine, we're gonna open it up so you can also use this when you're publishing your blog articles, when you're logged in into the member dashboard, publishing blog articles, 416 00:30:45.315 --> 00:30:47.095 and other content on, 417 00:30:47.475 --> 00:30:48.295 your site. 418 00:30:48.910 --> 00:30:50.530 So that's coming down the line. 419 00:30:51.070 --> 00:30:54.350 Dragable content blocks for emails, mentioned that. That's coming soon. 420 00:30:54.350 --> 00:30:56.830 And this one is on the cusp of being released. 421 00:30:56.990 --> 00:31:00.210 We talked about being able to create smart lists of your members, 422 00:31:00.990 --> 00:31:03.570 highly segmented lists of specific members. 423 00:31:03.925 --> 00:31:05.065 You'll soon be able 424 00:31:05.525 --> 00:31:09.125 to select and include those smart lists when you're scheduling a newsletter. 425 00:31:09.125 --> 00:31:16.905 Right now with newsletters, you could just choose which membership levels and if the member's active or inactive on the site when you're scheduling newsletters. 426 00:31:17.285 --> 00:31:20.820 Now you can create smart lists like California 427 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:21.780 lawyers 428 00:31:22.320 --> 00:31:23.620 who joined in July. 429 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:31.755 You can schedule you can save that as a smart list and then schedule a newsletter specifically for that group of people, so I'm excited for that one. 430 00:31:32.075 --> 00:31:35.455 And one more thing, this has come up over the last five years 431 00:31:35.835 --> 00:31:37.055 with Brilliant Directories, 432 00:31:37.595 --> 00:31:40.715 being able to edit the profile URL format. 433 00:31:40.715 --> 00:31:45.775 So as you know, when your members join the site, and I can show you an example of this, 434 00:31:46.549 --> 00:31:49.770 By default, their URL is always the country, 435 00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:57.429 the city, the top level category, and then their name, and there has been no way to change that, up until now. 436 00:31:57.429 --> 00:32:02.365 You could go to an individual member 1 x 1 and set a custom URL 437 00:32:02.904 --> 00:32:07.085 before their profile. This really isn't something you wanna allow your members to do. 438 00:32:07.225 --> 00:32:10.044 However, now you as the website owner, 439 00:32:10.505 --> 00:32:13.085 you'll be able to choose if you wanna 440 00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:17.620 include any of these elements and also what order you want them to be in. 441 00:32:17.620 --> 00:32:19.800 I have a small sample I can show you. 442 00:32:20.900 --> 00:32:24.040 This will be in the advanced settings when it's released, 443 00:32:26.525 --> 00:32:28.785 and I think it's gonna be called member 444 00:32:30.365 --> 00:32:30.865 profile 445 00:32:32.445 --> 00:32:32.945 URL. 446 00:32:34.765 --> 00:32:43.090 So in your advanced settings, again this is also one time set it and forget it kind of thing, but you'll be able to include any one of these elements 447 00:32:43.710 --> 00:32:45.570 as the general structure 448 00:32:45.870 --> 00:32:47.570 for the member profile URLs. 449 00:32:48.270 --> 00:32:51.730 By default, it'll be country name, city name, top level category, 450 00:32:52.715 --> 00:32:57.995 state name, postal code won't be enabled by default, and then the member name, has to be included. 451 00:32:57.995 --> 00:33:00.655 There's some some way because that's the kind of the unique 452 00:33:01.035 --> 00:33:02.495 identifier for the members. 453 00:33:02.795 --> 00:33:07.855 But with this update, couple couple things. One, you can now include the postal code, 454 00:33:08.340 --> 00:33:17.140 the member's postal code if they have one as part of the URL, so it gets a little bit more specific and granular in that way, and you can also remove things. 455 00:33:17.140 --> 00:33:18.679 Maybe you don't need the country 456 00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:21.000 or the state or the city 457 00:33:21.544 --> 00:33:27.405 or the postcode, just top level category and the member's name or company name, and you could really, 458 00:33:27.785 --> 00:33:33.485 make it a lot smaller like that if you wanted to. So that's coming down the line as well. 459 00:33:33.679 --> 00:33:45.380 We're gonna have to look at a couple things there for example how three zero one redirects work if you have existing profiles, but we're gonna make sure all of that is taken care of before this is released because we don't want anyone to lose any 460 00:33:45.895 --> 00:33:49.434 link juice as they call it, from Google search results for existing 461 00:33:49.975 --> 00:33:52.775 pages that are ranking in the Google search results. 462 00:33:52.775 --> 00:34:02.490 So, this is coming down the line, we're doing some troubleshooting and we're gonna ensure redirects are set up properly if you do modify this, so you don't lose any value in your Google results. 463 00:34:03.750 --> 00:34:07.270 So that was that was a mouthful. That's a lot coming down the line. 464 00:34:07.270 --> 00:34:12.489 There was more guys, but we just wanted to limit it to some of the key noteworthy items there. 465 00:34:12.710 --> 00:34:17.535 Lots to look forward to, and, with that, I will move on over to our next segment. 466 00:34:19.435 --> 00:34:23.835 So just recently, we've released the new global website search add on. 467 00:34:24.075 --> 00:34:28.895 We did make an announcement in the Facebook group, and now it has been officially 468 00:34:29.310 --> 00:34:29.810 released. 469 00:34:29.949 --> 00:34:37.810 David, if if it's okay with you, you put together a short list here of some of the features and benefits of what this add on, can include, 470 00:34:38.270 --> 00:34:41.969 and, maybe we can do a quick demo of how it works, right after. 471 00:34:42.455 --> 00:34:44.554 - So the global website search 472 00:34:44.855 --> 00:34:46.614 add on is a pretty powerful add on. 473 00:34:46.614 --> 00:34:59.289 What it will allow your users to do is to search your entire website with a single keyword search field, and they'll be able to receive all the search results, whether it's members, 474 00:34:59.589 --> 00:35:04.250 blog articles, classifieds, any other post types, all within one search result. 475 00:35:04.390 --> 00:35:11.905 And all of those different types of results, members and and the various post types, will all be categorized into, 476 00:35:12.285 --> 00:35:17.985 different tabs. So it's all a very neat and organized layout on, search result pages. 477 00:35:18.365 --> 00:35:28.840 Again, these are only for keyword search fields, but they do allow your users to see all of the relevant search results related to that search regardless of the content type. 478 00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:31.060 So it's a pretty powerful add on. 479 00:35:31.060 --> 00:35:43.075 It allows your visitors to discover a lot more content on your website rather than the default search fields, which would only typically allow them to search one content type at a time, whether it's a member, 480 00:35:43.395 --> 00:35:46.775 search or a blog article search or a classified search, 481 00:35:47.235 --> 00:35:48.835 - or anything else like that. - Yeah. 482 00:35:48.835 --> 00:35:54.780 - I think one - of the key benefits here, it provides greater visibility for all the content that's available on the site, 483 00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:57.500 specifically for a keyword search. 484 00:35:58.040 --> 00:36:03.740 Let's let's show you guys what we're all familiar with if we go to, like, our demo site, like demo bootstrap. 485 00:36:06.145 --> 00:36:10.565 And we know that if you wanna search events, you're only searching for, 486 00:36:11.184 --> 00:36:11.684 events. 487 00:36:12.385 --> 00:36:14.785 And there's a there's a sidebar search here. 488 00:36:14.785 --> 00:36:19.910 There's obviously specific criteria that you can search for for events, but if you did a keyword 489 00:36:20.770 --> 00:36:21.910 search, you know, like musical, 490 00:36:23.809 --> 00:36:26.150 you're you're just gonna get the results here, 491 00:36:26.530 --> 00:36:29.990 for musical. And that's the same for all the different types of posts, 492 00:36:30.530 --> 00:36:31.830 and members as well. 493 00:36:31.830 --> 00:36:41.552 And it and it's fine, especially when it's in if you're in the job listing section and you wanna search job listings, it makes perfect sense, to have that on this specific page. 494 00:36:41.815 --> 00:36:46.807 But let me show you guys what, you can do with the global website search, real quick. 495 00:36:46.807 --> 00:36:49.010 So couple things I wanna show you is 496 00:36:49.550 --> 00:36:52.370 first how you can enable it on your site. 497 00:36:53.310 --> 00:37:00.450 So there's two ways that you can get the search module to show one in the header, and this will be the global website search 498 00:37:00.815 --> 00:37:06.435 module, or on your home page, and let's enable it on the home page, and then let's see what it does exactly. 499 00:37:07.055 --> 00:37:07.555 So, 500 00:37:08.335 --> 00:37:11.075 when you have this add on, you can go to your 501 00:37:11.535 --> 00:37:12.515 design settings, 502 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:16.260 And 503 00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:19.520 I I really like it on the on the header. It really makes sense there. 504 00:37:19.520 --> 00:37:28.355 It's like I wanna do a quick search for the site for, you know, everything that's Los Angeles or everything that's doctor, everything that's basketball or volleyball or green Mustangs, 505 00:37:28.815 --> 00:37:31.555 you know, whatever it is. So in the header design, 506 00:37:32.175 --> 00:37:34.595 you can under show header search, 507 00:37:34.975 --> 00:37:39.395 the last option here is is for the add on, you can select global website search, 508 00:37:39.730 --> 00:37:54.770 and it's just a keyword input field because all the different post types events, jobs, members, they all have a lot of different metadata that could be searched but really doesn't match up, between each specific post, but we know for sure you can search all of them with a single keyword field. 509 00:37:54.770 --> 00:37:56.565 So that's why that's there. 510 00:37:56.705 --> 00:38:02.245 So this is one area where you can enable, the keyword search field, and it will search the entire website. 511 00:38:03.425 --> 00:38:05.365 The next is in the homepage layout 512 00:38:05.985 --> 00:38:07.925 under your homepage search settings. 513 00:38:08.465 --> 00:38:14.460 Now at the bottom here, you'll also have the global website search. So that's under the search type, 514 00:38:14.839 --> 00:38:18.760 and the homepage layout tab, you can select global website search. 515 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:20.700 And I'll just go ahead and save those changes. 516 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:24.619 And I'll refresh the homepage here. 517 00:38:27.565 --> 00:38:29.325 Cool. Let's just do an open search. 518 00:38:29.325 --> 00:38:34.545 So if I click search now, we have some sample content on here like our demo bootstrap site. 519 00:38:34.845 --> 00:38:38.125 So here's a search for all the content on the site. 520 00:38:38.125 --> 00:38:43.000 So all the member profiles, all the articles, whatever post types have content, 521 00:38:43.540 --> 00:38:45.320 we'll see it all here. 522 00:38:45.780 --> 00:38:47.720 When you're on the global, 523 00:38:48.100 --> 00:38:53.025 website search search results page, it's not gonna show all 6,000 members here. 524 00:38:53.265 --> 00:39:02.085 It'll show the first ten members that best match the result if you did it like a regular keyword search, with the normal search module, and it'll say view more results, 525 00:39:03.664 --> 00:39:06.645 and it'll take you to the search results page 526 00:39:06.950 --> 00:39:09.050 for that post type or for the members. 527 00:39:09.110 --> 00:39:13.770 So there was no keyword specified here, so it's just taking us to view all 6,000 528 00:39:13.990 --> 00:39:16.010 members here. But let's go back a bit, 529 00:39:17.030 --> 00:39:21.510 and there's also a sidebar search here as well. So now we could have it on three pages. 530 00:39:21.510 --> 00:39:24.425 The the, the results page for the global, 531 00:39:24.825 --> 00:39:27.565 website search, the header, and on the home page. 532 00:39:28.025 --> 00:39:29.885 So let's do a search for golf. 533 00:39:30.425 --> 00:39:33.245 I think we just have member results for golf, actually. 534 00:39:34.520 --> 00:39:39.420 Yep. So in this case, there's 50 results for members that match the keyword golf. 535 00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:41.820 Let's search for tips. 536 00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:51.915 So here we can see that we have one member that has the word tips in their profile somewhere, and five articles that have the word, 537 00:39:52.395 --> 00:39:52.895 tips 538 00:39:53.275 --> 00:39:54.255 here as well. 539 00:39:54.315 --> 00:40:03.349 So let's search let's say chicken fingers for example, everyone loves chicken fingers, so it will find all the restaurants that have that somewhere in their profile, all the coupons, 540 00:40:03.650 --> 00:40:07.829 it will find the chicken fingers eating competitions if there's there's an event. 541 00:40:07.970 --> 00:40:13.270 So it just makes it really easy to find content on your site. It's pretty straightforward here. 542 00:40:13.410 --> 00:40:14.549 Now by default, 543 00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:16.230 and this is really cool, 544 00:40:17.055 --> 00:40:19.635 the URL will be site search, 545 00:40:20.095 --> 00:40:23.315 but you do have the ability to change this URL 546 00:40:23.615 --> 00:40:29.714 that will be the URL used when a global website search is conducted, and let me show you where you can do that as well. 547 00:40:30.470 --> 00:40:34.089 If you go to content and you go to SEO templates, 548 00:40:36.230 --> 00:40:38.650 and I'm just gonna do a filter here for global. 549 00:40:39.829 --> 00:40:43.849 And when you have the add on, you'll have this available. You can click on edit, 550 00:40:45.455 --> 00:40:49.155 and you can change this URL here, site search. 551 00:40:49.455 --> 00:40:51.635 You know, I'll just put global search, 552 00:40:53.055 --> 00:40:53.935 you know, or whatever. 553 00:40:53.935 --> 00:41:00.960 Again, something SEO friendly for your site or more user friendly for for for you guys, but site search is is a good default here. 554 00:41:01.180 --> 00:41:08.240 It just can't be anything that's already being used in another web page or as a member category URL, it just needs to be something 555 00:41:08.619 --> 00:41:11.119 unique. So I'll just do a global 556 00:41:11.500 --> 00:41:12.000 search, 557 00:41:12.924 --> 00:41:17.265 and I'll show you the fourth way that you can get to this page on your site 558 00:41:19.404 --> 00:41:22.144 or the third way actually. So this is global search. 559 00:41:22.204 --> 00:41:26.080 So now if we go to the site and we go to global search, 560 00:41:28.700 --> 00:41:31.120 this will be the new landing page 561 00:41:31.580 --> 00:41:33.360 for the global website search. 562 00:41:33.740 --> 00:41:37.360 So the next way you can get people to this page 563 00:41:37.740 --> 00:41:40.245 is, let's just backtrack for just a moment, 564 00:41:41.105 --> 00:41:42.885 so we can have it on the home page, 565 00:41:43.265 --> 00:41:44.645 we can have it in the header, 566 00:41:45.025 --> 00:41:50.165 so the third way, sorry I said four before, the third way you can have it is if you go to, for example, 567 00:41:50.785 --> 00:41:51.925 your menu manager, 568 00:41:52.545 --> 00:41:54.495 and let's say we wanted to edit the main menu of the site. Let me just delete one of these. 569 00:42:08.120 --> 00:42:11.055 Search website. If you just want to take it to the global search page. 570 00:42:11.055 --> 00:42:14.195 Just put the URL here, forward slash global search 571 00:42:14.655 --> 00:42:15.474 search website, 572 00:42:16.175 --> 00:42:17.635 and just save the changes. 573 00:42:20.734 --> 00:42:23.155 And if we go back here, we'll see here. 574 00:42:24.630 --> 00:42:25.930 It says search website. 575 00:42:26.869 --> 00:42:28.549 - You can jazz it - up a bit more if you like. 576 00:42:28.549 --> 00:42:33.030 - I'm just - doing a quick way here to show you that you can do a direct link to this page also. 577 00:42:33.030 --> 00:42:36.890 You don't necessarily have to have it in the header or on the homepage. 578 00:42:37.109 --> 00:42:39.724 You can put a quick link somewhere on your site in the footer, 579 00:42:40.505 --> 00:42:48.204 or or in a main menu or somewhere else on your site, and it will bring people to all the results on your site here, for everything. 580 00:42:48.505 --> 00:42:53.165 Now what's really cool is if you wanted to link people to something, maybe you have hot topics, 581 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:55.620 so maybe you wanted to do cars. 582 00:42:56.160 --> 00:42:58.740 So let me just let me do a search here for cars. 583 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:00.340 You could create 584 00:43:00.720 --> 00:43:05.520 direct links to some of these more popular searches, you know, people are doing on your site. 585 00:43:05.520 --> 00:43:08.165 So if you wanted to do something, 586 00:43:08.705 --> 00:43:14.645 you can you can do the keyword search here, and and here's just a pro tip, copy the URL here, 587 00:43:15.505 --> 00:43:17.445 and let's add another link here, 588 00:43:19.040 --> 00:43:20.740 and we'll do car search. 589 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.980 And let's just nest it under here, 590 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:28.660 the website search, and save the changes. 591 00:43:32.585 --> 00:43:34.285 And let's go back to the homepage. 592 00:43:37.385 --> 00:43:45.885 So now if we hover over search website, we have a car search drop down, and essentially what that's doing is it's just gonna search the entire site for the word cars, 593 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:47.940 post and members that is, 594 00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:52.260 and you can see here we don't have any other content, but we have member profiles, 595 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.300 that have the word cars in them, somewhere. 596 00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.000 So just something fun for you guys to think about to kinda expand what you can do with this. 597 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:09.877 You can link directly to results pages, you can make it available in the header, or you can start them off kinda like a Google search for your site, you know, what are you looking for today? 598 00:44:09.877 --> 00:44:20.580 Let's say you're a a city website, you know, generally we have them search for members and they have to, you know, enter the keyword and the and the location, you know, if you're if you're a city website, I'll stick with the Los Angeles example. 599 00:44:20.580 --> 00:44:22.440 What are you looking for in Los Angeles? 600 00:44:22.660 --> 00:44:28.040 And they type in baseball, just like a Google search, and it will search your whole site for baseball. 601 00:44:28.339 --> 00:44:30.675 But if your site is really focused on 602 00:44:31.075 --> 00:44:33.895 a certain industry or topic or certain location, 603 00:44:34.595 --> 00:44:37.655 you can definitely present your visitors with a lot more results. 604 00:44:38.195 --> 00:44:51.110 Not only will they find potentially what they were looking for, but what's really cool is they'll discover new things and continue clicking around your site, which is again good for SEO to keep people on your site, keep people clicking on your site, 605 00:44:51.410 --> 00:44:52.050 and reducing, 606 00:44:52.370 --> 00:44:56.210 that bounce rate that Google looks at, for how quickly people are leaving your site. 607 00:44:56.210 --> 00:45:00.150 So really the key is keeping people on your site and giving them a good experience. 608 00:45:02.635 --> 00:45:10.415 And we've got another goodie, it is another add on that has been in production for a few months now, the ability to have your 609 00:45:10.715 --> 00:45:12.495 streaming content on the homepage, 610 00:45:13.115 --> 00:45:15.535 be presented in a carousel slider. 611 00:45:16.390 --> 00:45:22.570 So it's the streaming post carousel slider add on, and I think the name is pretty much self explanatory. 612 00:45:22.790 --> 00:45:33.625 And before we demo it for you guys and show you guys how you can set it up, and this is already released for those of you that have VIP add ons club, But let's dive into some of the, features and benefits of this here. 613 00:45:33.685 --> 00:45:38.505 - Yeah. So one of the great features with this add on is that it is fully mobile friendly 614 00:45:38.805 --> 00:45:39.925 and touch screen friendly. 615 00:45:39.925 --> 00:45:52.740 So on your computer, even maybe a a tablet with a large screen, you'll have those directional arrows so you can scroll through more posts within that carousel slider for that specific post type on, on your homepage. 616 00:45:53.119 --> 00:46:00.605 But if you're on something like a smartphone with a much narrower screen, you can actually just swipe through that carousel slider with your finger. 617 00:46:00.605 --> 00:46:05.425 So, it works really well on mobile devices as well as on normal computers. 618 00:46:05.885 --> 00:46:10.765 It is compatible with all of your post types that you might be streaming on your home page. 619 00:46:10.765 --> 00:46:13.520 And what's really great is that you can actually enable or disable 620 00:46:14.140 --> 00:46:20.000 the carousel slider for each of these individual sections. So maybe for blog articles, 621 00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:23.280 you wanna have a grid of eight articles. 622 00:46:23.785 --> 00:46:26.765 That way, it takes up a little bit more real estate on your 623 00:46:27.065 --> 00:46:29.565 home page, whereas maybe your classifieds 624 00:46:29.865 --> 00:46:34.265 or your coupons, you don't necessarily wanna take up as much space as your blog article. 625 00:46:34.265 --> 00:46:38.790 So for that individual post type, you can enable the slider to take up a little less space there. 626 00:46:39.110 --> 00:46:41.530 It does also respect all of the other settings, 627 00:46:41.990 --> 00:46:42.490 that 628 00:46:42.790 --> 00:46:51.850 are available for these streaming sections on your home page because there are quite a few other settings that you can configure for for these different sections here on the home page. 629 00:46:51.990 --> 00:46:55.164 But overall, it really just simplifies the home page by, 630 00:46:55.644 --> 00:46:56.144 replacing 631 00:46:56.525 --> 00:47:00.144 what could be a large grid of streaming elements 632 00:47:00.605 --> 00:47:06.444 with just a simple one row slider, and it creates a nice interactive experience for your visitors on your home page. 633 00:47:06.684 --> 00:47:09.424 And, again, it works really well on mobile devices. 634 00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:10.580 - Yeah. 635 00:47:10.580 --> 00:47:18.600 So let's, take a look at where these settings are and how you can enable them on your site to, update the way your home page looks. 636 00:47:19.380 --> 00:47:22.920 So we can stick with, this demo site that we have here, 637 00:47:23.255 --> 00:47:25.595 and I'll just scroll down a bit. And, 638 00:47:25.975 --> 00:47:31.835 what we're all used to is, you know, streaming content and if you're showing, let's say, 12 results 639 00:47:32.375 --> 00:47:35.335 and three on a row, it's gonna show four four rows. 640 00:47:35.335 --> 00:47:38.075 So you can see here it's showing member articles, 641 00:47:38.730 --> 00:47:39.390 two rows, 642 00:47:39.850 --> 00:47:43.310 and it's perfectly fine. It's always worked like this, and it and it works great still. 643 00:47:43.610 --> 00:47:48.910 Now let's enable this and see a side by side difference of, what you can do with this add on. 644 00:47:48.970 --> 00:47:51.630 So I'm gonna start back at the dashboard area here. 645 00:47:52.925 --> 00:47:57.585 Alright. So now we're in the dashboard area. We wanna head on over to the design settings, 646 00:47:58.205 --> 00:48:02.365 and, of course, we're gonna wanna go to the, the homepage streaming section option. 647 00:48:02.365 --> 00:48:04.465 So we'll go to the homepage layout tab 648 00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:05.960 and, 649 00:48:06.340 --> 00:48:09.320 the homepage section order here for the streaming content. 650 00:48:10.260 --> 00:48:18.600 And what's really cool here actually is just a side note, if you guys remember, we had a different module for the, this homepage section order options. 651 00:48:19.135 --> 00:48:24.115 We've moved that here. You can now just click on the blue button to edit the specific settings, 652 00:48:24.735 --> 00:48:25.535 for different, 653 00:48:25.855 --> 00:48:31.955 streaming module here. So right now we're streaming coupons on the home page and member articles. 654 00:48:32.335 --> 00:48:33.875 Actually, let's look at the coupons. 655 00:48:34.470 --> 00:48:37.369 You know, there's one missing here simply because we don't have 656 00:48:37.670 --> 00:48:38.730 six coupons 657 00:48:39.190 --> 00:48:44.250 published on the website, so it looks a little empty here. But let's edit the settings here, 658 00:48:44.790 --> 00:48:49.770 and what we can do now is enable the carousel slider, and I'll set this to yes, 659 00:48:50.675 --> 00:48:51.815 and I'll save it. 660 00:48:52.435 --> 00:48:55.655 And I'll do the same thing for the member articles as well. 661 00:48:56.595 --> 00:48:57.575 Edit the settings, 662 00:48:59.155 --> 00:49:00.295 enable the slider. 663 00:49:02.195 --> 00:49:04.695 Great. And let's refresh the homepage here. 664 00:49:08.390 --> 00:49:11.609 So if we scroll down, we now have these arrows here, 665 00:49:11.990 --> 00:49:12.490 and 666 00:49:12.790 --> 00:49:14.089 you can slide left. 667 00:49:14.390 --> 00:49:16.890 It's an infinite loop, so it'll just continue 668 00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:20.730 going through the available options you have, or you can slide right. 669 00:49:22.845 --> 00:49:26.545 And same thing with the member articles, if you remember there were two rows 670 00:49:27.005 --> 00:49:27.985 of eight articles, 671 00:49:28.365 --> 00:49:31.425 now the eight articles are in the slider here, 672 00:49:31.805 --> 00:49:32.305 which 673 00:49:32.605 --> 00:49:33.565 is a little more, 674 00:49:34.125 --> 00:49:34.945 low profile, 675 00:49:35.245 --> 00:49:40.200 takes up a little less space, and again it really just depends on what the what the aesthetic look, 676 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:49.500 you want on your website, maybe you wanna list everything out so it looks like you have a huge bank of content on your site, or you can go with this more, low profile 677 00:49:49.994 --> 00:49:55.055 slim look, with the slider. Let's actually take a look at what it looks like on mobile view as well. 678 00:49:56.234 --> 00:49:59.055 Okay. So this is like a tablet view here, 679 00:49:59.434 --> 00:50:00.654 so it's still maintaining, 680 00:50:01.434 --> 00:50:02.575 three and four, 681 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:07.680 as I've requested to show four in a row at a time at this and three in a row at this. 682 00:50:07.680 --> 00:50:15.220 You can also do two if you want, and when you select two, the images will, of course, be bigger because they need to fill, more space here. 683 00:50:15.520 --> 00:50:17.220 Let's get a little smaller here. 684 00:50:19.484 --> 00:50:20.145 Okay. Great. 685 00:50:20.685 --> 00:50:28.045 So if we come down here so on mobile, really there's no room for the arrows, but this is what everyone is used to, are these dots down here. 686 00:50:28.045 --> 00:50:35.010 And when you're on mobile, you can use your finger to slide left and slide swipe right and swipe left, 687 00:50:35.550 --> 00:50:39.550 for these. So, it does create a little, nicer experience on mobile. 688 00:50:39.550 --> 00:50:41.810 Before on mobile, it would stack everything 689 00:50:42.190 --> 00:50:43.150 on top of each other. 690 00:50:43.150 --> 00:50:50.165 So for the member articles we were showing eight, it would stack eight articles, so the person would need to scroll down the page, 691 00:50:50.704 --> 00:50:51.365 to view, 692 00:50:51.825 --> 00:50:56.805 all the member articles on a mobile device. So just a little nicer and cleaner here, 693 00:50:57.345 --> 00:50:58.885 for that view. 694 00:51:00.980 --> 00:51:05.800 And this is now available for all your post types like coupons, member articles. 695 00:51:06.339 --> 00:51:10.440 We are pushing a phase two, so you can do this when you're streaming recent members 696 00:51:10.820 --> 00:51:14.525 or featured members on your home page, as well as your, 697 00:51:14.845 --> 00:51:20.224 top level or sub level categories. So those are coming into phase two of this, this release. 698 00:51:22.444 --> 00:51:24.924 Alright, so lots of updates this this week. 699 00:51:24.924 --> 00:51:29.529 We'd love to take some of your questions, help you guys out with your sites. Alright. 700 00:51:29.690 --> 00:51:33.609 - Peter, I'm gonna unmute your mic. It looks like you're self muted there. Peter? - Hey. 701 00:51:33.609 --> 00:51:37.049 - How are you going? You in? Very good. Yep. How's it - going, Peter? Where are you calling in from? 702 00:51:37.049 --> 00:51:41.150 - From Sydney in Australia. - Okay. Good morning to you there. - Hey. Thanks. 703 00:51:41.770 --> 00:51:43.390 Just on the homepage slider, 704 00:51:44.115 --> 00:51:45.315 I've got I've got a, 705 00:51:46.355 --> 00:51:50.115 cost a custom post type called podcast because we've got a podcast. 706 00:51:50.115 --> 00:51:55.575 I'd really like to be able to feature those podcasts on the home page much like you would feature, 707 00:51:56.210 --> 00:51:59.690 you know, just a member article or other type of generic post type. 708 00:51:59.690 --> 00:52:02.150 I think from memory, I had duplicated, 709 00:52:02.930 --> 00:52:06.450 - like, the post type of blogs or something like that. - So what's your site? 710 00:52:06.450 --> 00:52:07.970 Let's take a look at it real quick. 711 00:52:08.130 --> 00:52:12.565 We'll see if we can get that just real quick on the webinar, if we can get that working on your site. 712 00:52:12.785 --> 00:52:14.005 - Yeah. Talking HealthTech. 713 00:52:14.305 --> 00:52:18.165 - So let's head on over to your, design settings here. 714 00:52:20.785 --> 00:52:22.805 So let's go to homepage layout. 715 00:52:23.540 --> 00:52:28.580 - Yeah. Yeah. - So, okay. I'll I'll just use the last one, section 15, just so it's out of the way here. 716 00:52:28.580 --> 00:52:32.660 - Let's so let's do streaming member articles - Okay. - And click on edit settings. 717 00:52:32.660 --> 00:52:37.640 And what's what's nice here is you can link it to one of your post types. So you said it's podcasts? 718 00:52:38.545 --> 00:52:39.285 - Oh, cool. 719 00:52:39.585 --> 00:52:42.165 - Yeah. - Or is it podcast plus or podcast? 720 00:52:42.865 --> 00:52:45.825 - Yeah. That one. That one. Yeah. That one. Okay. Just - podcast. Yeah. - So, 721 00:52:46.225 --> 00:52:50.805 only show post with photos. You all so there's some settings here. Let's let's just, 722 00:52:51.930 --> 00:52:55.390 three results per row show a maximum of, let's just say, 12. 723 00:52:56.010 --> 00:52:57.849 And, don't have the slider here, but that's okay. 724 00:52:57.849 --> 00:53:00.670 Let's just see if we can get these streaming on the home page for you. 725 00:53:01.930 --> 00:53:03.069 - Okay. Yeah. Cool. 726 00:53:03.369 --> 00:53:06.109 - Let's refresh. Oh, and then, of course, we want to 727 00:53:06.684 --> 00:53:11.904 update the title here to podcasts. That that'll be the podcast. Cool. 728 00:53:13.885 --> 00:53:16.545 - I'm crossing my fingers. - I hope it works. Let's see. 729 00:53:19.890 --> 00:53:21.910 - Okay. Latest review. Here's podcast. 730 00:53:22.770 --> 00:53:23.670 Is this it? 731 00:53:25.890 --> 00:53:30.230 - Oh, yeah. There we go. Cool. - That looks fantastic. I love these Yeah. Cover photos here. 732 00:53:31.725 --> 00:53:32.225 Great. 733 00:53:32.525 --> 00:53:33.025 Okay. 734 00:53:33.565 --> 00:53:38.065 So Cool. Yeah. You're all set. I I put 12:00 in there, and you can modify it. Okay. Great. 735 00:53:38.765 --> 00:53:42.225 - Alright. I'll get I'll get I'll get on that right away. Thank you. - Cheers. You're welcome. 736 00:53:42.845 --> 00:53:44.380 Alright. Good stuff there. Yeah. 737 00:53:44.380 --> 00:53:54.800 What's really cool about when you're selecting the streaming widgets, you can maybe pin it to a different post type you've maybe cloned or or created, and it'll, and most times it'll it'll grab that content perfectly fine. 738 00:53:55.660 --> 00:53:56.140 Alright. 739 00:53:56.700 --> 00:53:59.835 Let's see here. Wendy has her hand up here. How are you, Wendy? 740 00:54:00.535 --> 00:54:05.275 - Yes. I'm here. Can you hear me? - We can hear you, Wendy. How do you like the webinar so far today? 741 00:54:05.575 --> 00:54:08.635 - Oh, it's great. It's it's always great though. 742 00:54:09.095 --> 00:54:11.310 - Thank you. Thank you. What's your question for us today? 743 00:54:11.710 --> 00:54:13.490 - Yes. On my website, 744 00:54:13.950 --> 00:54:15.730 Elegant Living Directory, 745 00:54:16.350 --> 00:54:17.570 the form 746 00:54:18.030 --> 00:54:19.330 on the home page 747 00:54:19.950 --> 00:54:21.170 is so long, 748 00:54:21.950 --> 00:54:23.410 and the images, 749 00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:25.170 it it's just 750 00:54:25.615 --> 00:54:26.995 absolutely too big. 751 00:54:27.775 --> 00:54:32.195 I really need to have the form, and I think the the images 752 00:54:32.815 --> 00:54:36.355 are coming out that big because the form won't, 753 00:54:37.135 --> 00:54:37.795 you know, 754 00:54:38.175 --> 00:54:41.350 scale down. So how do I scale the 755 00:54:41.810 --> 00:54:43.270 form down? It's 756 00:54:43.570 --> 00:54:45.990 absolutely too big for the home page. 757 00:54:46.450 --> 00:54:49.830 - I hear you. We do have a simple solution for that actually. 758 00:54:50.850 --> 00:54:52.130 What what it does is, 759 00:54:52.545 --> 00:54:57.684 it'll just show the input fields because the input fields already tell you kinda what to enter. 760 00:54:58.385 --> 00:55:03.684 I would I would Yeah. You can update these. It says select an option. They are text labels. You can, 761 00:55:04.065 --> 00:55:08.830 edit them so it says select top category just like here and select subcategory. 762 00:55:09.770 --> 00:55:12.750 And let me get let me show you how how we can do this. Okay? 763 00:55:13.370 --> 00:55:16.510 Under that's the lead form, so under lead settings, 764 00:55:18.665 --> 00:55:20.605 And let me toggle this open. 765 00:55:21.625 --> 00:55:24.925 This is good for everyone. I I I prefer it this way, myself. 766 00:55:24.985 --> 00:55:27.805 Let me see if I can find this setting here. 767 00:55:28.585 --> 00:55:31.885 It's called hide field labels. Label field labels, 768 00:55:33.090 --> 00:55:33.830 are basically 769 00:55:34.130 --> 00:55:36.710 these this text above the input fields. 770 00:55:37.170 --> 00:55:42.210 So if we click hide field label, that's gonna cut your form size in half right there. 771 00:55:42.210 --> 00:55:43.910 So let me just save those changes. 772 00:55:46.455 --> 00:55:48.395 And let's refresh the page. 773 00:55:52.535 --> 00:55:57.015 Should work. And then what we need to do is and let me help you with this step. Select an option. 774 00:55:57.015 --> 00:56:03.150 We want this to say select top category and select subcategory just like it the label was showing that the the thing on top of it. 775 00:56:03.150 --> 00:56:08.830 So let me just find out what those text labels are. So it's called get matched category select top. 776 00:56:08.830 --> 00:56:10.930 So let me just update these for you. Okay? 777 00:56:11.825 --> 00:56:14.484 - Okay. Under top. Much data already. 778 00:56:14.865 --> 00:56:16.164 - Yeah. Okay. So, 779 00:56:16.545 --> 00:56:18.244 let me just find this for you. 780 00:56:20.464 --> 00:56:23.525 Select an option. We're gonna say select top category. 781 00:56:25.700 --> 00:56:26.920 Let me save the changes. 782 00:56:27.140 --> 00:56:32.900 So everyone, what I did there is a lot of the text on your site, you don't have to get into the code to edit it. 783 00:56:32.900 --> 00:56:37.215 When you have your admin bar here, when you click on visit website and you come to your site, 784 00:56:37.615 --> 00:56:39.235 you can click on the, 785 00:56:39.855 --> 00:56:46.495 the text labels button here, this little comments icon, and it kinda tells you the name of what the text label is. 786 00:56:46.495 --> 00:56:50.015 So you can go in the admin. There's also this on page text level, 787 00:56:50.335 --> 00:56:55.660 text label editor. You can kind of edit it right here. I just prefer to to go to the admin area. 788 00:56:55.660 --> 00:56:58.400 So the next one is called select underscore sub. 789 00:56:59.500 --> 00:57:01.200 So select underscore 790 00:57:02.619 --> 00:57:03.119 sub. 791 00:57:04.140 --> 00:57:04.640 And, 792 00:57:05.385 --> 00:57:07.145 so there's one for sub and sub subs. 793 00:57:07.145 --> 00:57:10.205 You're not really using sub subs, so I'll just say select subcategory. 794 00:57:12.665 --> 00:57:13.465 I'll do it without the 795 00:57:15.065 --> 00:57:17.725 well, I like maybe you wanna call it something else like specialty. 796 00:57:19.050 --> 00:57:23.930 Top category is fine, but maybe something something else instead of sublevel category perhaps. 797 00:57:23.930 --> 00:57:27.310 But I'll just do subcategory for now since that's what was there before. 798 00:57:27.770 --> 00:57:29.630 You can think about what might be better. 799 00:57:30.170 --> 00:57:35.035 And then you can just hide the text labels and it will revert back to its original state 800 00:57:35.495 --> 00:57:38.955 here. So now it makes a bit more sense without those. 801 00:57:39.975 --> 00:57:48.440 And and then again, some of this is just, you know, you have a you have an image here that's taking up a lot of I I would recommend getting rid of this image here. 802 00:57:48.680 --> 00:57:49.900 Maybe it's an ad. 803 00:57:50.680 --> 00:57:52.779 - No. No. No. That works perfect. 804 00:57:53.079 --> 00:57:54.299 - Okay. That's fine. 805 00:57:55.559 --> 00:57:59.260 - But but, your form there is a bit smaller now. - You are. 806 00:57:59.640 --> 00:58:00.859 - Yeah. - Okay. 807 00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:02.460 Okay. 808 00:58:03.515 --> 00:58:06.555 We have a few more hands up, but I'll leave it there, for you there, Wendy. 809 00:58:06.555 --> 00:58:09.455 It's, but it looks a lot more compact there for you. 810 00:58:09.755 --> 00:58:11.035 Alright. Here, let's see, 811 00:58:11.595 --> 00:58:15.055 a couple more questions. Our good friend, Colette. How are you, Colette? 812 00:58:15.849 --> 00:58:20.109 - Hi, Jason. I'm good. How are you? - Very good. Thank you for your patience. They're waiting for us. 813 00:58:20.490 --> 00:58:21.230 - No worries. 814 00:58:22.089 --> 00:58:24.670 I would assume that a lot of people would search 815 00:58:25.369 --> 00:58:28.010 for the location within that keyword too. 816 00:58:28.010 --> 00:58:31.515 So for instance, if they search the words higher Rolleston, 817 00:58:32.215 --> 00:58:35.995 those would be the two keywords. What does the algorithm do in that case? 818 00:58:36.535 --> 00:58:38.475 - So to to my knowledge, 819 00:58:39.095 --> 00:58:42.075 this goes back to and we can do some tests on your site, 820 00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:46.800 but what that's gonna do is if we go to the general settings here 821 00:58:47.420 --> 00:58:48.800 and go to the 822 00:58:49.180 --> 00:58:50.000 search settings, 823 00:58:51.980 --> 00:58:52.720 I believe 824 00:58:53.020 --> 00:58:59.214 if you have inclusive search, it will find all the listings that have either of those keywords in them. 825 00:58:59.674 --> 00:59:02.815 If you do strict keyword search, it's gonna have to, 826 00:59:03.355 --> 00:59:07.135 only only profiles that have that specific phrase, 827 00:59:08.150 --> 00:59:10.410 in it together, side by side together. 828 00:59:10.950 --> 00:59:13.370 So inclusive would search, like, 829 00:59:14.150 --> 00:59:16.330 someone who has either of those. 830 00:59:17.270 --> 00:59:19.850 Strict search would they have to have 831 00:59:20.150 --> 00:59:21.370 the exact phrase 832 00:59:21.775 --> 00:59:24.515 as part of their profile in their profile somewhere? 833 00:59:26.415 --> 00:59:27.315 - So, ideally, 834 00:59:27.615 --> 00:59:32.115 I would like it to have both of those keywords, but they don't have to be together 835 00:59:32.655 --> 00:59:34.595 because I don't want all of the Rolleston 836 00:59:35.055 --> 00:59:35.555 businesses 837 00:59:36.660 --> 00:59:39.000 to come up. I want only those that 838 00:59:39.380 --> 00:59:40.760 have higher in their, 839 00:59:42.099 --> 00:59:43.720 in their profile somewhere. 840 00:59:44.660 --> 00:59:51.800 - What I would recommend also is is I don't I it's it's it's good to work with, live data to see the examples. 841 00:59:52.235 --> 00:59:59.695 Play around with these two on your site and maybe post in the Facebook group or join us in the next webinar and let us know your findings, 842 01:00:00.155 --> 01:00:02.975 because currently I believe the inclusive search, 843 01:00:03.835 --> 01:00:04.335 is 844 01:00:04.910 --> 01:00:07.330 or if it has either of those 845 01:00:07.630 --> 01:00:08.670 or strict search. 846 01:00:08.670 --> 01:00:14.050 Again, it has to have the exact phrase, but play around with it and see if you're not getting the ideal results, 847 01:00:14.510 --> 01:00:24.035 that you want with that, and let us know either in the Facebook group, the next webinar, or email support if you think that it's it's incorrect and should be updated in some way. 848 01:00:25.615 --> 01:00:28.194 - Sure. Thanks very much. - You're very welcome. 849 01:00:30.670 --> 01:00:35.710 - Alright. Good. Yeah. Everyone has a vision for how they want keyword search on their site. 850 01:00:35.710 --> 01:00:36.450 That's why 851 01:00:36.750 --> 01:00:39.090 there are search settings here now. 852 01:00:39.470 --> 01:00:40.530 But your feedback, 853 01:00:40.910 --> 01:00:45.875 it's sounding like we should include a location field in that global keyword search 854 01:00:46.575 --> 01:00:51.075 module, so we'll explore having that as an option to include as one of the input fields. 855 01:00:51.935 --> 01:00:54.195 Thank you guys for your feedback on that. 856 01:00:54.895 --> 01:00:55.375 And, 857 01:00:55.775 --> 01:00:59.850 let's go with Jamie here. Jamie, it looks like yourself muted on your end. 858 01:01:00.330 --> 01:01:03.070 Can you hear me now? Yep. Can hear you loud and clear. How are you doing, Jamie? 859 01:01:03.370 --> 01:01:06.670 - Good. I I don't have anything about this the the searches, but 860 01:01:07.210 --> 01:01:11.470 I'm having a issue. I'm trying to figure out how to put a table into the contacts 861 01:01:11.930 --> 01:01:13.494 us page, which 862 01:01:14.135 --> 01:01:15.835 sure. Let's check it out. 863 01:01:16.295 --> 01:01:18.234 I have a a Facebook page, 864 01:01:19.255 --> 01:01:19.755 widget 865 01:01:20.615 --> 01:01:23.915 that I wanna put if you go to the bottom of that page, you'll see it. 866 01:01:24.375 --> 01:01:27.195 K. See it there? Yep. I want them side by side. 867 01:01:27.810 --> 01:01:29.590 - Perfect. Okay. Let's do - that together 868 01:01:31.010 --> 01:01:32.550 - here. Just give me one moment. 869 01:01:33.410 --> 01:01:35.010 That's cool that you wanna put the, 870 01:01:35.650 --> 01:01:38.050 your Facebook stream there, so let's check it out. Yeah. 871 01:01:38.050 --> 01:01:41.890 - I didn't know where else to put it, and it's kind of a big part of our company. I'm with you. 872 01:01:41.890 --> 01:01:42.765 I'm with you. 873 01:01:43.244 --> 01:01:44.704 - Let's do this together then. 874 01:01:45.005 --> 01:01:46.385 Alright. This is your 875 01:01:46.924 --> 01:01:47.424 content 876 01:01:48.045 --> 01:01:49.184 edit web pages, 877 01:01:50.684 --> 01:01:52.865 and it's your contact us page. 878 01:01:54.444 --> 01:01:59.960 - So let's see what you have here. Is this your Facebook stream here, this thing? - Yeah. 879 01:02:00.260 --> 01:02:02.760 - Okay. Let me look at the code here, what you have. 880 01:02:05.140 --> 01:02:05.640 Table. 881 01:02:08.500 --> 01:02:09.000 Okay. 882 01:02:09.540 --> 01:02:10.500 I'm going to 883 01:02:12.125 --> 01:02:17.984 what I'm gonna recommend is this. Let's take this code out. And whenever you're dealing with, like, 884 01:02:18.444 --> 01:02:24.625 code like embed code and and things like that that you might get from Facebook and and things like that, I would recommend 885 01:02:25.244 --> 01:02:26.704 going to your widget manager 886 01:02:27.150 --> 01:02:27.650 and 887 01:02:30.270 --> 01:02:32.130 popping it in as a new widget. 888 01:02:33.390 --> 01:02:39.230 So this is just that that code that Facebook gave you that they say copy and paste this to your website, you know. 889 01:02:39.230 --> 01:02:50.385 What I recommend is instead of putting it in the text editor because it can when you're doing it a lot, it can get a little messy in the text editor, especially when it's just not text and images and it's kinda like hidden stuff that you don't see unless it renders. 890 01:02:51.085 --> 01:02:53.664 So we'll give the widget a name. We'll call it 891 01:02:57.240 --> 01:02:58.780 Facebook like module 892 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.280 or something. It doesn't matter what we call it. Alright. 893 01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:05.100 I'll just call it Facebook module. And 894 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:08.760 I'm gonna I'm gonna if you scroll down, you can copy the short code here. 895 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:13.215 So I'm just gonna click copy here, widget equals and the name of the widget we just created. 896 01:03:15.435 --> 01:03:17.855 And that's gonna save this block of 897 01:03:18.155 --> 01:03:21.935 html or whatever on your site, so now it's custom html widget. 898 01:03:22.670 --> 01:03:31.650 So now what we want to do is this, so here's your contact us form, so let's just put a table side by side, I'm going to drop this Oh that's it right there. 899 01:03:31.710 --> 01:03:36.285 - Oh okay. Drop this here and drop this here, yeah it's up here and just you want 2 x 2. - Oh, yeah. No. 900 01:03:36.285 --> 01:03:40.305 You know, I I knew that part. I didn't realize that that widget was the that's what it was. 901 01:03:40.684 --> 01:03:44.125 - Gotcha. So let's so now you have nice and tidy code here. 902 01:03:44.125 --> 01:03:48.865 You know, you have the Facebook module and the and the thing Yeah. Keeps the editor nice and clean. 903 01:03:49.560 --> 01:03:52.700 I'm gonna cross my fingers here. Hope it works. Let's go to view page. 904 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:54.460 - It was the right 905 01:03:56.040 --> 01:03:56.540 the 906 01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:57.500 - right 907 01:03:57.960 --> 01:03:58.460 code. 908 01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:01.580 - You know? - Okay. It looks like it's not 909 01:04:02.135 --> 01:04:06.214 - it's not looking. - Automatic. - Yeah. Let's see why. It looks like there's a bunch of spaces here. 910 01:04:06.214 --> 01:04:07.355 Let's take a look together. 911 01:04:08.934 --> 01:04:10.075 Let me see here. 912 01:04:11.095 --> 01:04:14.954 Normally, it would just be a copy and paste, but let me check this out for you. 913 01:04:15.309 --> 01:04:15.809 - Mhmm. 914 01:04:16.829 --> 01:04:21.890 - And let's save the changes one more time. I wanna get this looking good for you. Oh, I know why. 915 01:04:23.309 --> 01:04:25.650 I know why. We don't wanna use the 916 01:04:25.950 --> 01:04:26.690 the widget 917 01:04:27.309 --> 01:04:31.444 contact us form. We wanna use the form contact us form. 918 01:04:33.025 --> 01:04:35.845 We actually stopped using the widget contact us form 919 01:04:36.464 --> 01:04:38.005 not too long ago, but 920 01:04:38.704 --> 01:04:40.085 let me get what she wants. 921 01:04:40.385 --> 01:04:41.845 - I think it was in there defaulted. 922 01:04:44.030 --> 01:04:49.170 - Here. Website con here it is. So let me just copy to clipboard the short code for this, 923 01:04:49.550 --> 01:04:51.250 and we wanna use this here. 924 01:04:52.670 --> 01:04:54.530 Form equals contact form. 925 01:04:54.910 --> 01:04:55.730 That's it. 926 01:04:57.555 --> 01:04:59.335 And it should go full width. 927 01:05:00.995 --> 01:05:03.415 And I'll show you one more thing we wanna do here. 928 01:05:04.435 --> 01:05:06.135 - Yeah. Format the Okay. Boxes. 929 01:05:06.515 --> 01:05:11.315 - Yep. So what we wanna do is we want to this is you can see here that 930 01:05:12.010 --> 01:05:15.390 well, now they're lining up at the top, but a good thing to do 931 01:05:15.770 --> 01:05:17.550 is the horizontal align, 932 01:05:18.330 --> 01:05:24.030 oops, sorry, vertical align, set them both to top just to ensure that they always line up at the top there. 933 01:05:24.250 --> 01:05:25.870 And what you can do here 934 01:05:26.565 --> 01:05:29.224 is before your contact us form said, 935 01:05:30.565 --> 01:05:32.984 contact us, so we'll just put that title 936 01:05:34.085 --> 01:05:34.744 up here. 937 01:05:36.085 --> 01:05:37.625 - Oh, that was from the old one? 938 01:05:37.925 --> 01:05:39.625 - Yeah. So we'll just put this 939 01:05:40.420 --> 01:05:42.520 here, and we'll give it an h two. 940 01:05:42.820 --> 01:05:45.240 You can make it bigger if you want. The font size, 941 01:05:45.540 --> 01:05:46.340 48, 942 01:05:46.340 --> 01:05:47.080 it's bold, 943 01:05:47.460 --> 01:05:48.840 and we'll save the changes. 944 01:05:53.015 --> 01:05:56.475 So you can have that like that, and let me show you one more thing cool, 945 01:05:57.095 --> 01:06:10.049 what you can do in the tables also is you can give it a background color, so maybe you want the form to be like a light gray here, and what's even cooler is you can give it a bit more padding, let's give it a large let's give them both extra padding. 946 01:06:10.349 --> 01:06:11.730 It just looks a bit nicer. 947 01:06:14.270 --> 01:06:17.010 And also, we will put this 948 01:06:17.390 --> 01:06:19.650 one line lower just so there's a space there. 949 01:06:21.309 --> 01:06:23.089 And if we refresh the page, 950 01:06:29.885 --> 01:06:31.484 so you have these here like this. 951 01:06:31.484 --> 01:06:35.405 - Maybe this one doesn't need the padding, actually, so - we can remove that. - And - the other one's yeah. 952 01:06:35.405 --> 01:06:37.505 - Because it's done. - You all yeah. 953 01:06:39.140 --> 01:06:42.900 Well, that way it'll line up with the with the top of this here, the gray here. 954 01:06:42.900 --> 01:06:44.260 The padding is on the inside. So 955 01:06:45.460 --> 01:06:45.960 - Oh. 956 01:06:46.500 --> 01:06:47.000 - Okay. 957 01:06:47.300 --> 01:06:51.444 So there you go. They're kinda side by side now, and now you have your your contact us form. 958 01:06:51.444 --> 01:06:55.605 So in this case, instead of using widget equals contact us form, that has some width rules on it. 959 01:06:55.605 --> 01:06:56.265 We're just 960 01:06:56.645 --> 01:07:00.325 directly loading the form here, form equals the contact us form. 961 01:07:00.325 --> 01:07:03.770 - I think I used whatever was there to - figure out - if that has changed. - Yeah. 962 01:07:03.770 --> 01:07:04.970 You didn't do anything wrong there. 963 01:07:04.970 --> 01:07:12.510 But now now they're side by side, and and now your your Facebook code is in its own custom widget here, so shouldn't mess with anything on the text editor. 964 01:07:13.130 --> 01:07:14.349 - Awesome. Alright. 965 01:07:14.730 --> 01:07:17.070 Cool. Thank you very much. It looks great. 966 01:07:17.815 --> 01:07:20.855 - Alright, guys. I think we're just about out of time there. 967 01:07:20.855 --> 01:07:23.835 I wanna thank you guys for an amazing webinar Wednesday. 968 01:07:24.455 --> 01:07:32.040 So the two new add ons available, streaming post carousel slider, you know, add a nice aesthetic to your homepage and the global website search. 969 01:07:32.120 --> 01:07:38.300 You know, based on your feedback there, it looks like we'll be making some updates in phase two and phase three to add more settings to this. 970 01:07:38.520 --> 01:07:43.340 But for now, I think it'll add a good simple keyword search to your website if that's what you need. 971 01:07:44.120 --> 01:07:50.335 Lots and lots of lab updates on the way so definitely looking forward to sharing those with you guys. 972 01:07:50.335 --> 01:07:53.155 The next webinar will be in two weeks, 973 01:07:53.775 --> 01:07:56.255 and I always like to mention please join our Facebook group. 974 01:07:56.255 --> 01:07:59.535 You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook 975 01:07:59.535 --> 01:08:01.714 and click on that blue join button. 976 01:08:02.049 --> 01:08:07.750 On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thank you guys so much for joining us today. 977 01:08:07.890 --> 01:08:12.930 Have a great day and a brilliant week. We will see you in two weeks in the next webinar Wednesday. 978 01:08:12.930 --> 01:08:13.910 Take care, guys.