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Alright, guys. Let's dive right into it.

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Welcome to another edition of Webinar Wednesday, tips to grow your online community.

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It's great that you guys can join us here today. It's great to be with you.

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Got a lot of awesome updates to share with you, so we'll dive, right into it.

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If you're joining us for the first time, Jason there on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by David Rockman, the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories.

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So David, thanks for joining us in the webinar. Hey, everybody.

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Glad to be back with you another week for webinar Wednesday.

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Alright. Cool stuff. I think this is webinar 73

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or 72, David. Which one are we on right now?

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73.

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70 3. Okay. We'll get to a hundred soon, and then we'll have a big party for everyone.

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Alright.

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I always like to mention this in case you're not a member of our Facebook group.

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Bottom line is it's awesome in there.

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It's a great place to continue the discussions in between webinar Wednesdays.

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You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward /facebook. We'll wait we'll wait a few seconds for you to do that.

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Just click on the join button.

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And if you have any questions after the webinar or in between webinar Wednesdays, please feel free to start discussions there.

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I'm very active in there myself and a lot of the people on the webinar today are very active in there as well.

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It's a really fun community.

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So I hope to see you there.

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And for those of you joining us for the first time, welcome.

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It's really great to be with you here today.

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Just to set the tone, Webinar Wednesday is really a great place and a great channel to discuss,

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ways to optimize your website with regards to marketing strategy, how to increase traffic,

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convert visitors into members.

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One of my favorites is how to improve your website's navigation.

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I'm a firm believer that if a website has a clean and simple navigation, you're gonna get the best use out of it with regards to how you want visitors and members to interact with your content.

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So, if you have questions, please save them.

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We're gonna do our best to get to all the questions that you have today.

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But yeah, welcome to the webinar and we'll dive right into the BD lab updates.

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So the Prilient Directories development team is on hyper fire mode right now, pushing lots of updates down the line.

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Some of them a little bigger, some of them nice

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quality of life updates.

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So we'll cover a few of them here.

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One of them is a quality of life update. The admin can now identify when spam is detected.

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I've seen in the Facebook group a lot of people are getting the spam block message when submitting the contact us form,

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or other forms around your site. That's actually a good thing. It's protecting your site

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from spam. However, there are instances where there could be false positives,

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and you as the admin are trying to troubleshoot those.

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Until now, you wouldn't be able to see why the form was being blocked. You would just see

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the message that spam was detected. So let me show you now what you'll see, just you as the admin.

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You can identify what the spam keywords are.

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So let's head on over. This is a sample site we're going to be working on a little later.

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But right now I'm logged in as a regular user. I don't have that black admin sidebar here.

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So let me just try submitting the form here,

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with some spam keywords that I have in my block list. So

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I'll do Jason@Jason.ru,

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I'll just put

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some spam keywords here that I know gamble, viagra,

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all the words we hate to see coming through our website.

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And I'll try to submit the message.

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So as a regular user, I'm just gonna see that spam has detect was detected.

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Now we don't wanna tell the people

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what the words were because then they're just going to circumvent,

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and not use those words. But if a member is emailing you, they can't submit a form.

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Again sometimes there's false positives. Let me log in as the admin here.

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I'm gonna click on visit website,

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and now I have the admin bar here. So the the website knows that I'm the admin

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kind of browsing my own website. Let's go back to the contact us form,

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and I'll do the same thing here. So jasonjason@jason.ru,

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and we'll do the same thing. We'll put gamble

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and viagra in here,

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And I'll send the message.

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So as the admin now, it's gonna tell me why the form was rejected. So in the email,

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field,

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it discovered dot ru, which one is is one of my spam keywords.

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And in the the message in the comments area, it identified gamble and viagra.

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And if we go into my admin area, I'll just toggle back to the main dashboard,

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And where you can define your

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spam keywords to block,

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is in the general settings under integrations,

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and if you scroll down,

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there is an area for blocked keywords.

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Now, if you're getting a lot of false positives on your site, or you want to kind of loosen this up a bit, you can certainly remove whatever

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suggestions we've put in here.

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These are words that we've that are 90% are usually spam inquiries, but again there could be some false positives in there.

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If your site is about marketing videos, you might want to for example remove the marketing video one.

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But again you can remove these if you just want it to be a little bit lighter and less aggressive, or you can add to this list as needed.

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But now you as the admin can identify, you don't have to bang your head against the wall,

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and then you can make adjustments to your spam keyword list. So that's a really nice one there.

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The next one, I don't have an example to show, but in your activity tracker, oh let me go back also.

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Even more important,

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you can also in your activity tracker,

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your site has an activity tracker with track certain actions on your site, you can actually see

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the spam IP address. So if spam is being submitted to your site,

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you can go to your website activity tracker and click on forms of the form submission option.

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that spam was blocked, and who the IP address is.

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So if you know it's you doing tests, you certainly don't want to block your IP address, but again to help protect your site further, if you notice that it is a repeat offender, you can certainly click on this block IP tool and it'll take you to the area where you can simply copy and paste the IP address, and stop them from accessing your site entirely.

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It's a really convenient tool.

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And since we're in this section, let me go back to my second update, view member upgrades in the activity tracker.

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Until now if a member upgraded their membership level through their member dashboard,

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it wasn't actually being tracked.

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It would just upgrade update their subscription and they would be on that new membership level.

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Now you can actually come here and you can see, I don't have any examples here, but you'll be able to see which members have upgraded,

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and what their actions were. So that's a really nice thing there too.

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Alright. This one is a major one, and I'm gonna recommend everyone does this on their site.

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There is a new login page redirect logic,

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setting in the advanced settings.

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Let me explain what this one does. It's really cool.

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anytime a member logged in,

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they would be directed to the page that you defined in the membership level setting.

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So let's go to a membership level and let's look at that.

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So let's for example look at a gold plan.

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So the default is they'll be logged into their account home, which is their member dashboard.

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That's fine if they're just logging into your site,

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but over the last couple years, Brilliant Directories has added a lot of areas

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where users can log in from places on the search results and and things like that.

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I don't have an example here. Let me let me actually go to a site real quick. Let me think.

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Here we go.

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This is another test site that we work

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on. So if we go to the search results,

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There are things on the site where a user would wanna log in.

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For example, if you want to like something and you're not logged in, it asks you to log in.

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So with this new setting, and I'm going to show you what to do, instead of after you log in it takes you to your member dashboard or whatever link you define for that membership level, it will simply reload and refresh the page.

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So the user can stay on this page and continue with their actions.

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So let me show you where what you want to do to set that up.

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Also when you're purchasing digital downloads,

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it asks you to log in.

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So instead of being directed to your member dashboard, it just reloads the page where you're about to make your purchase.

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Also if you're going to initiate a chat message with a member,

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it asks you to log in first or register to start the chat with a member.

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So in those cases you just want the page to refresh.

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anytime they log in it's going to redirect them to the member dashboard page.

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But if you want some of the pages to reload the current page rather than sending them somewhere else,

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I believe the name is called forced redirect. Let me see.

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Log in.

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Here we go. This is the one here, force product settings, and I wanna put this in the chat.

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So what you can do here is define the pages where it will redirect them to their member dashboard.

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So for example, you want to come here and put forward slash login, that way every time they go to login page it'll redirect them, but if you log in from any other pages on the site, it's going to reload the current page.

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So let me paste this into the chat.

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And by default on your sites, this field will be empty, which means that every page of your site wherever they log in will still

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do the current action which is redirect them to their member dashboard.

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So if you come in here and just put login, it's only gonna reserve the login page to redirect them to their the member dashboard, and then every other page will reload the current page.

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This sounds a little complicated. It's actually pretty simple, so let me just take some questions.

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If anyone has any questions about how this works.

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We actually do have a couple questions typed in going back to the spam filter. Okay.

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Ross was asking

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if that would also block spam reviews from being submitted. Yes. It also works on the reviews page.

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It works on the contact Us page. It even works on the member sign up pages.

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So any public facing forms,

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it will work on.

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I don't believe, I'm I'm 90% sure it's not gonna block content that your members are typing.

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I'm not a % sure like if they're typing in if they are a member of your site, they're logged into their dashboard, and they're writing in their about content, I don't believe it stops that.

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It's more for the public facing forms for people who are unregistered on your site.

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So just basically normal visitors.

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Excellent. And then

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last question that we have here. Vincent was asking where they can get that list of spam words.

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Perfect. So if you wanna go to the add on and just search for spam on this page.

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So it's the spam form protector.

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Every Brilliant directory site has this, so it's included on all websites.

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So if you come to the add ons page, search for the spam form protector vents, and if you scroll down, we've actually included like a preset

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a comma separated list of words. You can copy and paste this into your site.

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And of course, if you're getting a lot of false positives or some of these words are actually not spam for your site,

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modify this list as needed. Let me share a link to this in the chat with everyone.

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Alright. Everyone should get a link to that, and you can copy and paste that.

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setting in your general settings, let me show everyone where that was one more time.

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General settings, integrations tab, and it's right here if you scroll down, block spam keywords, and then you just enter your list here.

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Alright, great. Let's move on here.

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So that's the new login page redirect. Now this is another awesome one.

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We've done a lot of webinars and even in the Facebook group showing you how to do workarounds when you want to moderate

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your members' posts.

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So now we have this really cool add on and it adds a lot of functionality. It's

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First, before we start, I guess since I'm in the add on section here, let me share a link to this.

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Advanced post moderation.

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So if you're a member of the VIP add ons club, you have, all these new new tools and gadgets.

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So if you want to moderate your member's posts, like every time they post an article or a coupon or a job,

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we have these funky workarounds where you have to edit the form, and take away their, you know all this stuff.

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So, we've actually created an elegant solution.

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It gives you, the admin, a lot more control, And let me show you exactly,

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how it works.

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So let's start with the dashboard here.

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Advanced post moderation. It allows you to moderate your members posts.

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So the first thing you wanna do when you have this add on is go to your post settings.

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And without this add on, by default, your members choose

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their posts are published or unpublished on the site.

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So every time they save a coupon or a job, they can choose and toggle between published and not published.

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So everything's really in their control.

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let's use coupon as an example. Let's say I wanna moderate every time a member publishes a coupon.

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So I click on edit here,

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and in the first tab, the general settings, if you scroll down,

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you see it. So there's members only settings. This is the new one. It's called post approval.

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it's gonna be set to member controls to publish status.

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So members will choose if their coupon in this example is published or not published.

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The second option here is admin moderates all posts.

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So anytime they save changes or publish a new post, it's going to automatically be set to a pending status.

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The third one is actually a little bit more aggressive.

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Anytime they post something, it's always going to be published.

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So I know sites like rip off report and things like that, the moment you enter something on that site, it's not coming offline.

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Again, you might want this for other reasons, but basically it allows the maximum amount of content that your members are adding, to be pushed to the site, and they can't,

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unpublish.

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What they can do is still delete the post, but they can't set it to an unpublished status.

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Everything is going to be published.

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In most cases, if you're using this add on, you're going to want to use the admin moderates

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all posts.

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Now before I set this, to this, let's actually log in as a member and see what they currently see for member controls published status.

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So let me just log in as a member here,

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this gold plan has the ability to publish coupons.

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Coupons can post. Alright. Let's log in as this sample member,

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and add content. Let's click on coupon.

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So right now, as the member, I can choose if it's published or not published.

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Now let's turn on the setting.

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If I scroll down and I set the additional settings, post approval setting, admin moderates all posts, and I'll save the changes.

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as the member I'm not going to see the published status.

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So now I just it starts with the title and so on.

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But what's really nice, and this is a text label, if you scroll down under the save changes button it does say after creating this post, admin approval will be required for this post to be published.

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So you can modify that text if you'd like. But let's go ahead and create a post. So

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free

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and this is an in store offer, category two, and expires on the thirtieth,

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and so on. I'll just go ahead and save the changes.

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Okay. Great. So I can go ahead and post another coupon. If I wanna look at all my coupons,

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I can see them here, but it does say pending approval.

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kind of like your command sensor for all the post content on your site.

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So, let's filter for coupons,

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You can also filter here by published, not published, and pending approval.

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So, if you have a site with lots and lots of content, if you're looking for all the pending approval posts,

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you can just toggle pending approval and then go through each one of your post types to see if there's any content in there that's waiting for your approval.

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then I can come here and I can do a bulk action to publish it,

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and then it will be in the search like the coupon search results of my site.

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that it has been published.

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So that's basically how it works. You can protect and moderate all the content.

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It's really good if you just want to make sure your site has high quality content.

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Obviously if members are abusing your site with bad content, you can give them warnings and whatnot.

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the post moderation add on is definitely going to add a lot of value to your site without any complicated coding and things like that.

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Let me see if anyone has any questions about this.

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Colette has her hand up. Hey, Colette.

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Hey, Jason. How are you? Good. Good. How are you? Good. Thanks.

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I just wanted to find out would there be any way of,

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doing it only for certain membership levels?

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So if you wanted to do this for certain membership levels,

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what you would wanna do is clone a certain post type.

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Right now it's just for the entire post type, but what you could do is clone the coupon

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post type and for the cloned version maybe you don't moderate those and assign those to the member, that post type to the members,

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who you're not who you're not regulating the post from. That would be one workaround

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to accomplish that.

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And how would that because I've got general users that can post events

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which I would prefer to be able to

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moderate but I'm happy for my members to post events.

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How would that affect the streaming widget on the home page?

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So it would be two different streaming widgets because essentially they are different post channels.

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So you would essentially have two different channels of posts in that,

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in that scenario.

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Okay. Thanks very much. Alright. Thank you, Colette.

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Nate had the same question. Could you set this for certain member types rather than the post type?

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it's just for the post type.

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Let's see how the phase one of this add on works out.

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I think we're good here. Let's go back to the dashboard. Let's go back to our slides.

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So, we have a lot of amazing things coming soon. There's even more to list than this.

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The ability to export your form inquiries, so all those people that are filling out your contact us form, you'll be able to export them with one click.

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We are doing final testing for admin user permissions, so if you do have staff working in your admin area, soon you'll be able to limit their access of which pages they can go to.

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Let me show you this example.

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This came up in the Facebook group. The ability to link to specific search views.

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So we are going to enable this functionality. This isn't live yet.

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It's going through a QA process, but you will be able to add, for example,

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question mark view equals map or

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It goes into list view or question mark grid,

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for some reason, you'll be able to do that there.

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I can't think of a reason off the top of my head, but a few people have brought this up, so but it should be a nice elegant solution for that.

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Alright. In addition to that,

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more members only settings are on the way,

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so stay tuned for those.

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in your search members page in your admin, you can do a few bulk actions.

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bulk action to change their status if they're verified or unverified on your site, switching them between an individual or a company account,

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their top level

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category.

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So if maybe you've added a new top level category to your site and you need to move a bunch of people,

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you can certainly do so. And one that I'm really really really excited about,

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we did release the sell digital downloads add on, and with that you can,

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send people to a success page or a confirmation page that you create.

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But there was never really a way to protect that page and only limiting it to the members who actually purchased

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that product. So, in a way not totally that that page was a little public

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for people.

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But with this you'll be able to protect those pages and only members who have purchased

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that digital product would be able to go to that page, and actually a set of pages you can define,

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to be connected to people who have purchased a digital product.

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So I'm sure this is going to unlock a lot more use for people who are looking to protect

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some premium content that they're selling to their members.

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the tip of the week this week is something pretty amazing. It comes up a lot. It's

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how to create subcategories

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for classified

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With the Brilliant Directories default functionality on a per post basis, you can define a set of categories.

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But it comes up often that you also need to create a subset of categories.

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So what we wanted to do in this tip of the week is show you in a very basic form in a demo how you can create subcategory

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And David you actually work and connect with a lot of users that are on free trials with brilliant directories or who have recently started with brilliant directories, and I think this topic comes up quite frequently.

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work around for it for any post type, but

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really the primary post type that this has been requested for is for classified sites.

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this should probably come in handy and it's, it's pretty viable work around that we're excited to show you.

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When to kind of use this strategy. I think it's when the website's

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primary post type is one type of post type. For example, it's primarily classifieds.

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You're not really mixing events and classifieds and and coupons.

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You can certainly do that, but it does it does add a level of complexity.

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it does work very very well.

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And again it is really requested for classified sites to work with Brilliant Directories with this logic.

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So, I think we should just dive right into it. So if you want to set up, subcategories

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you can basically do it in three steps.

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We added a fourth step here, and I actually have a bonus step to take it a step further and customize it further.

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So the first thing to do is decide what your top and sublevel categories are.

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we have some simple, top and sublevel categories.

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The next thing you wanna do, and we already talked about it in the webinar earlier, is you wanna clone the classifieds post type and name it to match a top level category.

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Then you're going to go ahead and add your sub level categories for that new post type.

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The last thing you really need to do is just assign which members can post each type of classified ad.

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And what's even better is you can charge a different price to post each classified ad.

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It all sounds like a big tongue twister saying categories and subcategories,

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So let's say we wanted to create a classifieds website with the top level categories cars, electronics, and jewelry.

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without this, if you don't need sublevel categories

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for your classifieds, so let's go to the classifieds

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post type. So edit post settings, go to classified.

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Where we're limited with this is we can just show we can just have top level categories here.

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but you can't really take it further than that.

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call this for example,

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car classifieds, and then electronics classifieds and jewelry classifieds, and then add the respective subcategories

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underneath there. So let's step back a bit and go back to edit post settings,

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category.

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Great. I'm actually gonna do this two more times.

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Alright. Great. So now we have a copy of classifieds. Copy, copy, copy. So let's now

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each one.

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and I'm gonna add three sublevel categories just for that. So let's do Ford, Toyota, and Honda.

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And also what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna update the URL. What this also allows us to do is have

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a little bit better SEO structure with regards to the URL permalink for each classified category.

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So car classifieds

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for Toyota. And I'm also gonna change the search results title.

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So when you go to the search results page, it's gonna say car classifieds.

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I'll go ahead and save the changes.

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Let's do this for the other two.

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So we'll do electronics,

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and we'll do that here also.

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Let's spell it right.

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Now you might not think you need this because you don't have a classified site, but if you have other post types you might want to utilize this strategy,

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for some of your other post types. So for electronics let's do phones, tablets, and computers.

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search results design here, the h1 title, so this will say electronics,

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electronic classifieds. There we go. And I'll save the changes, and the last one will be jewelry.

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And for jewelry, we'll do rings, bracelets, and necklaces.

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spelled jewelry right? Yes, I did. Alright.

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And then we'll update the search results title, and we'll go ahead and save the changes.

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So if I go back to my edit post settings,

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I of course have all those other post types that come with brewing directories, events, and things like that, but I don't really care about those.

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I'm just gonna leave let them be.

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What I do have now are three post types called jewelry classified, electronics classified, and car classified.

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But now that I've created this, these these post types, these channels,

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I need to assign them to the members who can post these type this type of content.

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So the next step we want to do, and all I've done is point and click.

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I haven't done anything complicated here.

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You wanna go to manage products, which are your membership levels,

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and let's focus on the gold plan since I have a sample member there.

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So right now this guy can post articles, coupons, events, and all this good stuff.

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I'm gonna strip that all away for this example.

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So what we wanna do is lots of awesome settings here.

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We can go to post publishing, which are the publishing privileges for this membership level.

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I'm just going to use the can post all tool and I'm going to uncheck it so now I know nothing,

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not everything is posted. And I'm going to select my classifieds,

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that I just created. So we want car classifieds,

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electronic

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classifieds,

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can post,

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and also jewelry classifieds.

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Bonus, bonus, bonus.

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If you have the pay per post add on and you're using this logic to set up your site, you can now define how much it is to post,

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to create a post in each one of these categories.

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So maybe electronics is $1.

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Maybe jewelry is $5.

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And maybe to list a car is $25.

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So you can now have different prices every time a member wants to post into one of these categories.

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And of course what's also awesome is you can offer them maybe their first three posts free because you can offer free posts and then paid posts,

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or you can choose if they only have paid posts.

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In this case, let's just leave it as zero, which is unlimited free posts just for this example.

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I'll go ahead and save the changes now.

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can post car classifieds, electronic classifieds, and jewelry classifieds.

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So let's log in as a gold member and see what they see.

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Great. So I can add content,

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and you could really see how this creates a nice experience for the user. It really makes sense.

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You could this is a text label.

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If your site's about classifieds, you could say create new classified ad, create select a category.

446
00:31:34.590 --> 00:31:39.705
And to them, they feel like they're going to create a listing in a specific classifieds category.

447
00:31:40.164 --> 00:31:41.544
So we'll go ahead and choose

448
00:31:41.845 --> 00:31:42.745
car classified,

449
00:31:45.524 --> 00:31:47.465
and I'll go ahead and just post,

450
00:31:48.165 --> 00:31:50.985
a simple car classifieds. We'll do

451
00:31:51.445 --> 00:31:52.424
Honda example.

452
00:31:57.010 --> 00:31:57.670
The price,

453
00:31:58.210 --> 00:31:59.030
dollars 5,000.

454
00:31:59.250 --> 00:32:01.830
Let's get a little more real here. 2,003,

455
00:32:02.530 --> 00:32:03.750
used Honda example,

456
00:32:04.929 --> 00:32:05.830
great condition.

457
00:32:07.705 --> 00:32:08.205
Alright.

458
00:32:08.904 --> 00:32:11.725
So here's what's really cool. This is where the sub subcategories

459
00:32:12.265 --> 00:32:12.924
come in.

460
00:32:13.865 --> 00:32:17.404
Now when I'm creating a car classified, I can choose the category

461
00:32:17.945 --> 00:32:19.565
for this. So this is Toyota

462
00:32:20.040 --> 00:32:23.180
or and whatnot, and the condition for it, new or used,

463
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:28.600
and is it for sale, for rent, or is it sold. Is there an external web link and so on.

464
00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:34.595
So the key here are the custom categories because then you'll be able to search car classifieds, Toyota,

465
00:32:34.895 --> 00:32:37.455
and then some keywords and a price range and this and that.

466
00:32:37.455 --> 00:32:42.655
So it really creates a nice search experience for the user. So let's go ahead and save the changes.

467
00:32:42.655 --> 00:32:44.835
I'm just gonna add a photo on the next screen.

468
00:32:46.910 --> 00:32:50.130
I think I have a car photo here. Upload the photo.

469
00:32:51.390 --> 00:32:54.050
Okay. Great. So let's just view my car classified,

470
00:32:55.630 --> 00:32:57.410
and let's go to view post.

471
00:32:58.910 --> 00:32:59.410
Alright.

472
00:32:59.870 --> 00:33:01.605
So here is my car

473
00:33:01.985 --> 00:33:03.284
classified listing.

474
00:33:03.985 --> 00:33:07.605
And we can see here the URL is car classified

475
00:33:07.985 --> 00:33:10.065
forward slash and then the post name.

476
00:33:10.065 --> 00:33:16.670
So this being here adds a very high level of SEO to your site because now it's creating a better subfolder

477
00:33:17.050 --> 00:33:18.670
for all your car classified

478
00:33:19.290 --> 00:33:19.790
listings.

479
00:33:20.410 --> 00:33:25.550
And then if we go here to the car classified search results page, if you were going to do a search,

480
00:33:26.565 --> 00:33:29.705
we see that in the sidebar here it says car classifieds,

481
00:33:30.245 --> 00:33:31.385
and then the categories

482
00:33:31.845 --> 00:33:33.304
are the subcategories

483
00:33:34.085 --> 00:33:34.585
for,

484
00:33:35.285 --> 00:33:40.020
for the car classifieds for Toyota and Honda. I'm just gonna do one more post.

485
00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:42.360
I wanna post into the jewelry section.

486
00:33:46.020 --> 00:33:49.400
So we can add content. Well, I'll do electronics here.

487
00:33:50.595 --> 00:33:53.815
So publish status, yes. And we'll do

488
00:33:55.635 --> 00:33:57.015
iPhone eight plus,

489
00:33:58.995 --> 00:34:00.054
almost new.

490
00:34:01.554 --> 00:34:02.054
And

491
00:34:02.995 --> 00:34:04.294
we'll do $80

492
00:34:05.210 --> 00:34:06.830
Now here again, the category

493
00:34:07.450 --> 00:34:12.650
for electronics I have here, phone, tablets, computers, it could be whatever it is for your website.

494
00:34:12.650 --> 00:34:14.190
In this case I'll do phone,

495
00:34:14.810 --> 00:34:15.870
status used,

496
00:34:16.489 --> 00:34:16.989
and

497
00:34:17.765 --> 00:34:21.385
this is for rent. Maybe I'm gonna rent my phone. And I'll save the changes,

498
00:34:24.565 --> 00:34:26.265
and we'll add an image here.

499
00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:36.369
And what's really nice is when you have a site like this, if you look at the sidebar it's really simple.

500
00:34:36.369 --> 00:34:39.349
There's only a few things here. I can manage my listing, maybe

501
00:34:39.650 --> 00:34:43.329
these people don't even have leads, but maybe they do, and then my account.

502
00:34:43.329 --> 00:34:44.949
It's not a really long complicated

503
00:34:45.250 --> 00:34:45.750
menu.

504
00:34:46.725 --> 00:34:50.505
So now let's look at my electronics classified. So we'll view the post,

505
00:34:52.725 --> 00:34:57.145
and once again we see in the URL it's in the parent folder for electronics

506
00:34:57.445 --> 00:35:00.185
classifieds and then the name of the post,

507
00:35:01.299 --> 00:35:04.599
and then here it is here. You can of course contact the member for this,

508
00:35:05.059 --> 00:35:09.559
regarding this post and so on. And then if we go to the search results page,

509
00:35:11.940 --> 00:35:18.405
we have electronics classified search, and then the categories of course are the ones related to electronics.

510
00:35:18.405 --> 00:35:19.625
So we have the subcategories

511
00:35:20.005 --> 00:35:20.505
here,

512
00:35:20.964 --> 00:35:23.525
and then we can do price range and things like that.

513
00:35:23.525 --> 00:35:28.425
Let me show you guys something cool in case you didn't know it. When, a post type like classifieds

514
00:35:29.130 --> 00:35:30.190
has a slider,

515
00:35:30.569 --> 00:35:35.309
you can actually control the minimum and maximum that this number starts on very easily.

516
00:35:35.369 --> 00:35:41.470
Let me just show you a little piece of bonus information, then I'm going to show you how you can link to all these categories that you created.

517
00:35:43.345 --> 00:35:46.865
So in the post settings, let me just start back a little bit.

518
00:35:46.865 --> 00:35:49.204
We'll click back into the electronics one.

519
00:35:52.625 --> 00:35:56.160
And I'm hoping this is gonna work in the webinar, it's kind of a new feature.

520
00:35:56.160 --> 00:35:57.540
In the additional settings,

521
00:35:58.080 --> 00:36:03.840
when the post search has a slider, you can actually set the minimum value and the maximum value.

522
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:10.100
So maybe for electronics we're not going up to a hundred thousand, you know, it doesn't make sense, we'll just do 10,000

523
00:36:10.695 --> 00:36:13.015
and we'll do this starting at $10

524
00:36:13.015 --> 00:36:14.075
or $1,

525
00:36:14.295 --> 00:36:16.155
and I'll go ahead and save the changes.

526
00:36:23.170 --> 00:36:28.550
Okay great, so let's view the search for that now. Let's go back to electronic classifieds.

527
00:36:30.530 --> 00:36:33.750
Great, so now we can see here it starts with $1

528
00:36:33.890 --> 00:36:35.910
and it goes up to $10,000

529
00:36:35.970 --> 00:36:38.630
which may make more sense for this type of post.

530
00:36:38.735 --> 00:36:44.175
For cars it might go higher, you know you might want to go up to half a million depending on the type of cars you're selling.

531
00:36:44.175 --> 00:36:48.435
If it's smaller items you might want to lower it. Just create some more

532
00:36:49.055 --> 00:36:53.880
better user experience if the numbers actually match the type of products you're looking for.

533
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:55.579
Alright. So now,

534
00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:57.900
what we want to do is

535
00:36:58.200 --> 00:37:02.700
there isn't a universal search to just enter something and search all these categories.

536
00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:09.255
So what we want to do, and when you get the classifieds theme with brilliant directories, you can also go to the demo and kind of see how we did this.

537
00:37:09.335 --> 00:37:12.795
This is a menu. This is the default one that comes with the classifieds,

538
00:37:14.375 --> 00:37:14.875
theme.

539
00:37:15.255 --> 00:37:16.075
Let's actually

540
00:37:16.615 --> 00:37:18.634
convert three of these into,

541
00:37:19.414 --> 00:37:21.035
links that will search

542
00:37:21.414 --> 00:37:24.474
each of the top level categories we created for classifieds.

543
00:37:25.660 --> 00:37:27.360
So where we want to go for this

544
00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:31.920
is in your toolbox, you can go to your menu manager.

545
00:37:34.700 --> 00:37:38.640
And Colette was asking in the Facebook group that she wants to kinda

546
00:37:39.204 --> 00:37:44.964
kinda like this, but to create custom links with images to pages that she wants to link people to.

547
00:37:44.964 --> 00:37:46.744
So you can actually use this logic

548
00:37:47.045 --> 00:37:48.964
with the classifieds category menu.

549
00:37:48.964 --> 00:37:53.145
You can go to our classifieds demo, log in there and see how we've created that.

550
00:37:53.650 --> 00:37:58.230
You can actually create boxes and link to whatever page that you want to.

551
00:37:59.570 --> 00:38:03.330
So here's the menu for the classifieds category. Everything is default.

552
00:38:03.330 --> 00:38:09.375
It's all going to classifieds category one and so on and so on. So first thing, all we need to do

553
00:38:09.914 --> 00:38:11.135
is link to

554
00:38:12.075 --> 00:38:19.454
the electronic classifieds, and if you want to know where to get the link for your top level category, it's actually in your edit post settings

555
00:38:20.420 --> 00:38:25.400
right here where it says URL permalink, it's the one we created, so we have jewelry classifieds.

556
00:38:26.180 --> 00:38:27.560
So let's put that here.

557
00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:31.320
And then let's get electronics classifieds,

558
00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:32.600
put that here.

559
00:38:34.925 --> 00:38:36.865
And then we can get car classifieds,

560
00:38:37.805 --> 00:38:39.185
and we'll put that here.

561
00:38:40.685 --> 00:38:44.225
So then what we can do also is we can do jewelry classifieds.

562
00:38:44.285 --> 00:38:48.225
If we want to use text we can certainly do so, and electronics classifieds.

563
00:38:55.790 --> 00:38:57.170
And car classifieds.

564
00:39:00.830 --> 00:39:02.610
I'll just go ahead and save the changes,

565
00:39:05.005 --> 00:39:09.825
And let's look back at this, this menu here. So now we have jewelry classifies,

566
00:39:10.125 --> 00:39:10.625
electronic,

567
00:39:11.005 --> 00:39:14.765
and cart. And these are just some standard icons where we're using the Font Awesome ones.

568
00:39:14.765 --> 00:39:16.625
You can see them in your design settings.

569
00:39:16.685 --> 00:39:19.585
What I'm actually going to show you is how you can turn these into images.

570
00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:21.880
So now I'm linking to

571
00:39:22.580 --> 00:39:24.040
each respective category

572
00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:25.080
or page

573
00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:29.480
for that post type. So we didn't post jewelry one, but here's the jewelry classified,

574
00:39:30.020 --> 00:39:33.480
here's the electronic classified, and here's the car classified.

575
00:39:33.954 --> 00:39:35.974
And I really really like this format

576
00:39:36.515 --> 00:39:41.815
of presenting them with the categories here, and then having them do additional searches.

577
00:39:42.355 --> 00:39:44.295
It's it's basically how,

578
00:39:44.835 --> 00:39:46.055
if you go to Craigslist,

579
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.540
you know they have you select your category

580
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:52.420
first,

581
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.940
and we even do it in our marketplace at Berlin Directories.

582
00:39:56.240 --> 00:40:01.305
When you come here we ask you to select your category that you want to search into.

583
00:40:01.305 --> 00:40:03.325
So it really does create a nice experience

584
00:40:03.785 --> 00:40:04.765
for the user.

585
00:40:06.025 --> 00:40:13.244
So that's basically how you can create that and I'm going to show you how I linked to this as well, but the first thing I want to do is change these icons with images.

586
00:40:14.270 --> 00:40:18.369
And to do that, we first need to upload images into the media manager.

587
00:40:26.845 --> 00:40:29.825
So I have three images here, jewelry, phone, and car.

588
00:40:30.925 --> 00:40:32.465
Open them all up.

589
00:40:34.605 --> 00:40:35.425
Okay, great.

590
00:40:35.805 --> 00:40:39.720
Now adding an image, you can add lots of things into the menu, the icons, the images, it does support HTML, so it's really, really nice that you can just

591
00:40:52.255 --> 00:40:56.095
And I'm just gonna put the code here for the car. I'm gonna replace the,

592
00:40:58.175 --> 00:41:00.915
the icon that I have. I'm just gonna do image src

593
00:41:01.295 --> 00:41:01.795
equals

594
00:41:02.494 --> 00:41:05.155
that. So let's do the same thing for the other ones.

595
00:41:10.510 --> 00:41:14.770
So that's car, and I need the other ones. It's jewelry, I'll right click.

596
00:41:15.310 --> 00:41:20.675
This is nice to know how to get the image URL as well if you ever needed to do it for other things

597
00:41:21.535 --> 00:41:22.515
and electronics.

598
00:41:30.975 --> 00:41:34.515
Okay. Great. So we're just gonna put those in there and let's save the changes.

599
00:41:36.359 --> 00:41:38.760
And hopefully, it looks nice and correct.

600
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.819
We'll see if we need to do any additional modifications to there.

601
00:41:42.520 --> 00:41:46.540
So there we go. So now we kinda have we have the text there, we have the image,

602
00:41:47.895 --> 00:41:51.035
and what's really nice is I also put this on the homepage.

603
00:41:52.295 --> 00:41:59.275
So that same menu I have on the homepage, so all my most popular categories, I can certainly add them here on the homepage,

604
00:42:00.510 --> 00:42:04.050
and link to them accordingly, whether it's with an image or an icon.

605
00:42:04.110 --> 00:42:11.330
Maybe I put the text as part of the image in there so I don't even have this bottom text, but this all links so nicely here.

606
00:42:11.870 --> 00:42:12.370
And

607
00:42:12.675 --> 00:42:16.455
let me show you how I put this menu on the homepage

608
00:42:16.755 --> 00:42:17.495
as well

609
00:42:18.435 --> 00:42:22.375
as on this page here, which is my categories page. And again, if you've installed

610
00:42:22.915 --> 00:42:23.895
the classifieds

611
00:42:24.195 --> 00:42:27.070
theme on your site, this should be preset for you.

612
00:42:27.070 --> 00:42:34.050
But of course, the themes are just preset design settings and such, so you can certainly do this on your site even if it isn't classified.

613
00:42:34.190 --> 00:42:37.245
So let's actually edit this page. It's just a static web page.

614
00:42:38.205 --> 00:42:42.545
And you can see here, this is the menu manager. This is a menu I have.

615
00:42:42.605 --> 00:42:45.585
And the system name is called classified categories.

616
00:42:46.605 --> 00:42:52.065
So what you can do is all you need to do is go to a static web page and do menu equals

617
00:42:52.390 --> 00:42:57.210
and then the system name for that menu. Menu equals classified categories

618
00:42:57.590 --> 00:43:00.810
and that's all that I have in here. I'll even look at the source code here.

619
00:43:01.350 --> 00:43:04.410
Basically nothing in here, just inside of a paragraph

620
00:43:04.865 --> 00:43:07.045
and it's menu equals classified categories.

621
00:43:08.305 --> 00:43:10.405
Now how did I get this on my homepage?

622
00:43:12.145 --> 00:43:16.484
A lot of us are familiar with the streaming widget options that are available on the homepage,

623
00:43:16.785 --> 00:43:24.720
but just in case you didn't know, you can add custom elements to your homepage even if they're not part of the streaming widget options.

624
00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:27.040
Let me show you how you can do that.

625
00:43:28.460 --> 00:43:31.120
So if we go to our settings and design settings,

626
00:43:35.665 --> 00:43:38.725
so we're in our design settings. Let's go to homepage layout

627
00:43:39.185 --> 00:43:42.005
and homepage section order, we're all very familiar

628
00:43:42.465 --> 00:43:45.205
with these. So I have the hero divider,

629
00:43:45.665 --> 00:43:47.285
I'm showing recent classifieds.

630
00:43:48.090 --> 00:43:50.990
In this case, I'm choosing to show custom homepage

631
00:43:51.290 --> 00:43:57.870
content because that's actually on the homepage is where I put menu equals classified categories and I'll show you that next.

632
00:43:58.010 --> 00:44:02.350
So you can set one of these section orders up just depending on how you want it.

633
00:44:03.435 --> 00:44:06.575
And you one of them you can set to custom homepage

634
00:44:06.955 --> 00:44:07.455
content.

635
00:44:08.555 --> 00:44:14.575
So let me just save the changes and then let's go look at our homepage content and see what we've done there.

636
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.359
Actually, I can get there from here.

637
00:44:17.359 --> 00:44:21.539
I can just click on edit static page because I have the admin bar here.

638
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:22.980
So this is my,

639
00:44:24.319 --> 00:44:24.819
homepage

640
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.619
right here forward slash home, and I just did the same thing I did on the classifieds page.

641
00:44:29.985 --> 00:44:31.845
Menu equals classified categories.

642
00:44:32.305 --> 00:44:33.045
And because

643
00:44:33.345 --> 00:44:35.765
in the design settings, in the streaming,

644
00:44:36.065 --> 00:44:37.765
widget options, I had selected

645
00:44:38.225 --> 00:44:40.805
custom homepage content for one of the sections,

646
00:44:41.185 --> 00:44:46.140
it's going to render this this code here, it could be whatever it is, in this case it's the menu

647
00:44:46.520 --> 00:44:47.340
on the homepage

648
00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:53.660
and in the order that I've set it in the section order. So in this case, it's in section two,

649
00:44:54.040 --> 00:44:55.660
custom homepage content.

650
00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:58.220
And that's how I'm seeing this menu

651
00:45:00.685 --> 00:45:01.985
here. So in a nutshell,

652
00:45:02.365 --> 00:45:03.665
that's exactly how

653
00:45:03.965 --> 00:45:04.685
you can,

654
00:45:05.165 --> 00:45:06.305
set up subcategories,

655
00:45:06.845 --> 00:45:15.730
and it actually enhances the SEO of your site, and it's incredibly useful especially if your site is using is searching for one specific type of post.

656
00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:19.490
David, did you wanna chime in here with anything before we take any questions?

657
00:45:20.270 --> 00:45:25.410
Yeah. I think it's important to note that the primary reason for doing this

658
00:45:25.855 --> 00:45:26.595
is because

659
00:45:26.975 --> 00:45:31.475
for post types, you can only have that one level of categories.

660
00:45:32.095 --> 00:45:34.835
So typically for classifieds, you can only have

661
00:45:35.135 --> 00:45:39.775
just regular categories in there. So you would only have cars, electronics, jewelry.

662
00:45:39.775 --> 00:45:41.660
You wouldn't be able to have these subcategories

663
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.539
within cars, within electronics, within jewelry.

664
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:46.140
And so that's the reason

665
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:47.099
for

666
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:48.119
this workaround.

667
00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:53.400
It seems like there was a little bit of confusion with regards to that and some of the questions that we were getting.

668
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:55.900
So I just wanted to address that one more time.

669
00:45:56.454 --> 00:46:00.155
Perfect. Do you think I think actually seeing it was a little bit more helpful,

670
00:46:00.934 --> 00:46:02.155
seeing it in action.

671
00:46:02.775 --> 00:46:05.835
And I kinda wanna kick things up a notch, David,

672
00:46:06.535 --> 00:46:10.155
and provide some bonus material here, if that's okay.

673
00:46:10.694 --> 00:46:13.369
Let's do it. If you do this format,

674
00:46:14.230 --> 00:46:20.490
you can also have, you know, when you fill out the classifieds form when someone's creating a post, they're inputting information.

675
00:46:21.190 --> 00:46:28.435
Now that we have in this example, cars, electronics, and jewelry separate, we can actually customize the classified form

676
00:46:28.815 --> 00:46:32.655
and then add input fields specifically for each type of post.

677
00:46:32.655 --> 00:46:38.195
For example, for cars, you may want to add mileage, right? So let me show you in this example

678
00:46:38.655 --> 00:46:40.675
how you can customize the form,

679
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:49.240
add for example a mileage field, we'll use cars in this example, and then how you see that data on the front end of your website.

680
00:46:49.619 --> 00:46:55.655
And so far up until now besides adding those images into the that menu there, we really haven't touched any code.

681
00:46:55.655 --> 00:46:57.675
All we've been doing is pointing and clicking.

682
00:46:57.735 --> 00:47:02.715
So if you could just spend a minute to kind of learn the inner workings of where to edit some of these things.

683
00:47:03.575 --> 00:47:09.515
You're gonna be a ninja master with publishing websites and publishing different types of content on websites

684
00:47:09.819 --> 00:47:15.440
without any complicated coding. But let's add mileage to the cars input field now David.

685
00:47:17.099 --> 00:47:22.000
So right now all the all the classifieds that we've created, they're all using the same form

686
00:47:22.315 --> 00:47:26.415
to create a classified. Let's look at that form one time before we move forward.

687
00:47:27.035 --> 00:47:28.815
So let's post the car classified.

688
00:47:29.355 --> 00:47:30.875
It's just asking the same thing.

689
00:47:30.875 --> 00:47:34.170
The only thing different are those categories we set in the post type.

690
00:47:34.650 --> 00:47:37.790
But let's dive in here, create a custom form

691
00:47:38.170 --> 00:47:40.510
for this, and add the mileage category.

692
00:47:41.130 --> 00:47:46.030
So what we want to do is actually go to our toolbox, and I'll start from the dashboard here.

693
00:47:47.154 --> 00:47:51.015
Alright great. So let's go to the toolbox and go to the form manager.

694
00:47:52.355 --> 00:47:55.174
And what we want to do is search for classified.

695
00:47:56.115 --> 00:47:57.734
So here's the feature classifieds,

696
00:47:58.194 --> 00:48:00.214
and I'm going to customize this.

697
00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:05.059
And when you customize a form, you have to add something new to it.

698
00:48:05.059 --> 00:48:08.740
So let me just quickly add just some numbers here, otherwise it it won't let you.

699
00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:13.079
It wants to make sure you're actually doing something different to the form, so we're not just

700
00:48:13.865 --> 00:48:14.365
customizing

701
00:48:14.825 --> 00:48:16.444
the master forms willy nilly.

702
00:48:17.625 --> 00:48:22.765
So okay. We've added this form, now we have the feature classifieds form. So let me edit this.

703
00:48:24.184 --> 00:48:28.080
We could do a whole program on editing forms. I'm gonna keep this simple though.

704
00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:33.220
So the first thing I wanna do is just add a new form field here David. Okay?

705
00:48:34.240 --> 00:48:35.700
I'm gonna call this mileage,

706
00:48:37.680 --> 00:48:39.940
and we're gonna call this car

707
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:42.240
mileage for the system name.

708
00:48:42.240 --> 00:48:49.194
So when you have a system name, you can then go and like add this data into the search results, or on the post detail page.

709
00:48:49.734 --> 00:48:57.800
So if you're a web designer or a developer, when you create these system variables and they're part of the post, it's really easy for you to start adding them to the pages.

710
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:01.980
We have a simple way to add these to the pages if you're not a developer, and I'll show you that right now.

711
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:04.280
The field type, we'll just do single,

712
00:49:04.600 --> 00:49:05.100
input.

713
00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:08.700
And I'm gonna put this after the price.

714
00:49:09.945 --> 00:49:13.245
So here we go price, and I'm gonna save the changes.

715
00:49:14.905 --> 00:49:19.145
Now here's the thing Dave, right now this form is the form for all the classified listings.

716
00:49:19.145 --> 00:49:21.885
I haven't really designated it for just cars.

717
00:49:22.140 --> 00:49:29.520
So I need to do something, I need to say, I need to change the system name from classifieds fields to something else like car classifieds.

718
00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:32.640
So it knows that this is gonna just be for cars.

719
00:49:32.940 --> 00:49:37.485
So you can go to actions and edit form settings. I'm just gonna change two things here.

720
00:49:37.485 --> 00:49:42.545
I'm gonna change the feature name to car classified so I can easily identify it myself.

721
00:49:43.245 --> 00:49:48.065
And the form variable name, I'm gonna call it car underscore classified fields.

722
00:49:48.285 --> 00:49:49.985
And I'm gonna save the changes.

723
00:49:52.520 --> 00:49:53.020
Brilliant.

724
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:53.980
Alright.

725
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:59.500
We're done with the form now, David. Okay. Let me just edit it, make sure the mileage is in there.

726
00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:05.740
We can see it's called car classifieds now, and we can see my mileage field right here.

727
00:50:06.654 --> 00:50:09.694
What I'd have to do now is I did create this form.

728
00:50:09.694 --> 00:50:14.835
It's custom on my site, but I have to connect it to one of the post types, one of the post channels.

729
00:50:14.974 --> 00:50:19.395
So the system knows to use this form when I want to post my car classified.

730
00:50:19.855 --> 00:50:22.970
So this is the final step is go to your edit post settings.

731
00:50:22.970 --> 00:50:24.829
And this is what I love about this platform.

732
00:50:25.130 --> 00:50:29.310
Connecting forms to the post types, to what the members can publish.

733
00:50:29.609 --> 00:50:34.829
Those three things and the ability to control that gives you so much flexibility as the website owner.

734
00:50:34.970 --> 00:50:36.990
So we're going to go to car classifieds.

735
00:50:39.905 --> 00:50:43.505
And if I scroll down it says select form to use.

736
00:50:43.505 --> 00:50:47.365
And right now it's just using the default form classifieds fields.

737
00:50:47.585 --> 00:50:51.045
So if I click this open, I can see my customized forms

738
00:50:51.345 --> 00:50:52.885
and I have car classifieds.

739
00:50:53.640 --> 00:50:57.500
So now my car classifieds post types will use the car classifieds

740
00:50:58.279 --> 00:50:59.900
form and I can add

741
00:51:00.279 --> 00:51:05.579
many different types of fields that I want to collect data from my users for this post type.

742
00:51:06.535 --> 00:51:12.315
And I'm done David. Let's let's now go post a car classified. I think if I went back here.

743
00:51:12.535 --> 00:51:15.595
So Dave, now you can see here I have mileage.

744
00:51:16.055 --> 00:51:16.555
Right?

745
00:51:17.415 --> 00:51:19.275
So let's publish a new post.

746
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:20.940
02/2015

747
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:22.780
Honda Civic,

748
00:51:24.200 --> 00:51:24.700
black,

749
00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:25.980
low mileage.

750
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:28.940
Alright. Price,

751
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:31.180
$15,000.

752
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:31.900
Mileage,

753
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.560
5,000

754
00:51:33.560 --> 00:51:34.060
miles.

755
00:51:34.905 --> 00:51:36.125
Category, Honda.

756
00:51:36.585 --> 00:51:40.285
And again, you can move these anywhere you want. Condition used for sale,

757
00:51:40.905 --> 00:51:43.885
and we'll go ahead and save. Let's yeah. Let's save the changes.

758
00:51:46.025 --> 00:51:47.645
Let's just add one image,

759
00:51:49.619 --> 00:51:50.680
and we'll upload.

760
00:51:51.140 --> 00:51:51.640
Fantastic.

761
00:51:53.539 --> 00:51:56.680
So we're done. Let's go look at this post now, David.

762
00:51:56.980 --> 00:52:01.559
So what I love is when you customize a form and you start adding custom form fields,

763
00:52:02.355 --> 00:52:05.255
over here you have post details on the side bar.

764
00:52:05.555 --> 00:52:10.935
Immediately we can see the title, the price, and even the new custom field I just added

765
00:52:11.235 --> 00:52:13.415
for mileage it says 5,000.

766
00:52:13.890 --> 00:52:15.029
Condition is used

767
00:52:15.329 --> 00:52:18.230
for sale etc. So you can add unlimited

768
00:52:19.010 --> 00:52:19.829
input fields,

769
00:52:20.289 --> 00:52:20.789
and

770
00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:23.750
it's going to be part of the post.

771
00:52:24.210 --> 00:52:32.515
So you're not going to skip a beat, you don't need to do any complicated coding, and of course I didn't do it, but the the person who's posting it can write a very decorated description

772
00:52:32.974 --> 00:52:34.655
of the product that's being,

773
00:52:34.974 --> 00:52:35.875
listed here.

774
00:52:36.415 --> 00:52:37.635
Any questions, David?

775
00:52:38.494 --> 00:52:42.515
That's excellent. Nate asked a question that I think is is good to address.

776
00:52:42.655 --> 00:52:48.600
He's wondering if he goes about doing this work around, what happens to his existing classified posts?

777
00:52:49.300 --> 00:52:51.860
So those are still in their own channel. Right?

778
00:52:51.860 --> 00:53:00.125
So the way Brilliant Directories work and Colette asked the question earlier, you know, every time you create a post type, it is its own independent channel.

779
00:53:00.665 --> 00:53:04.925
So those posts will stay in the in the general classifieds,

780
00:53:05.785 --> 00:53:06.605
post type,

781
00:53:06.905 --> 00:53:10.045
but he can start directing people to posting,

782
00:53:10.585 --> 00:53:12.365
into the dedicated categories

783
00:53:12.825 --> 00:53:14.845
for those types of posts moving forward.

784
00:53:15.620 --> 00:53:19.320
Excellent. And then the next pertinent question would be,

785
00:53:19.940 --> 00:53:21.640
how do you get the URLs

786
00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:25.640
to share or to link to elsewhere on the website

787
00:53:26.100 --> 00:53:27.240
for the subcategories

788
00:53:27.885 --> 00:53:34.145
of these new classified post types? That's an excellent question, and let's let's go to

789
00:53:34.445 --> 00:53:41.005
that menu that we were looking at before, and I'll but I'll show you, and this works even for member categories and things like that.

790
00:53:41.005 --> 00:53:42.305
So let's edit the classifieds

791
00:53:42.605 --> 00:53:43.860
menu that I have here.

792
00:53:44.740 --> 00:53:48.680
And if you recall there's nine in there. So before there was just a classifieds

793
00:53:49.460 --> 00:53:54.420
post type, and we see here it said category, category one, and so on.

794
00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:57.000
If you're going to find out how to link to the subcategory,

795
00:53:57.725 --> 00:53:59.985
the easiest thing to do is just do a search

796
00:54:00.445 --> 00:54:05.485
in my opinion. So for car classifieds for example, just use just use the main search.

797
00:54:05.485 --> 00:54:07.025
Just search for Ford

798
00:54:07.325 --> 00:54:09.345
and just go ahead and use the full URL.

799
00:54:09.740 --> 00:54:13.980
All this is searching for, everything is empty except the category has Ford in it.

800
00:54:13.980 --> 00:54:17.680
So just copy this link and that's how you get the link to the subcategory.

801
00:54:19.500 --> 00:54:22.799
Alright. Let's see if anyone has, their hand up here.

802
00:54:22.925 --> 00:54:25.984
That was a lot to digest, but I think that was a pretty good tutorial, actually.

803
00:54:27.405 --> 00:54:31.805
Alright. We have our friend, sir, Surdle here. I'm gonna unmute your microphone.

804
00:54:31.805 --> 00:54:36.285
I think we have a member's only question coming. How are you, Surdle? Yeah. It's quite good.

805
00:54:36.285 --> 00:54:38.065
The you added too

806
00:54:38.720 --> 00:54:43.599
many features and they are quite useful for me. Oh great to hear that great to hear that.

807
00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:44.799
What's your question for us today?

808
00:54:44.799 --> 00:54:49.460
I and I do see another one of your questions here it says is there a way to control search results?

809
00:54:49.680 --> 00:54:52.740
What I want to do is is not display uncompleted

810
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:53.619
members

811
00:54:54.065 --> 00:54:58.805
in the search results. We actually do have a tool that you can use for that, okay?

812
00:54:59.905 --> 00:55:01.285
So what you can do

813
00:55:01.825 --> 00:55:03.845
is go to your

814
00:55:04.305 --> 00:55:04.805
settings

815
00:55:05.425 --> 00:55:07.765
and go to advanced settings, okay?

816
00:55:09.190 --> 00:55:12.250
And search for, I think it's called require,

817
00:55:14.790 --> 00:55:16.410
require yeah here it is,

818
00:55:16.790 --> 00:55:17.290
require

819
00:55:17.590 --> 00:55:18.570
complete profiles

820
00:55:19.030 --> 00:55:21.370
and change the zero to a one.

821
00:55:22.150 --> 00:55:23.530
What this does is

822
00:55:24.055 --> 00:55:29.835
the member will not show in your member search results unless they have a name or company,

823
00:55:30.375 --> 00:55:32.715
they have selected a top level category,

824
00:55:33.575 --> 00:55:37.515
they've added a profile photo or at least a company photo,

825
00:55:37.950 --> 00:55:39.170
and they have entered

826
00:55:39.630 --> 00:55:42.690
an address where they work or live or whatever.

827
00:55:44.190 --> 00:55:53.905
So it's not so your definition of a complete pro complete profile might be different but this would be a good start for you And what you see It's okay for me.

828
00:55:53.905 --> 00:55:57.185
It's very easy on the my requirements. Perfect.

829
00:55:57.185 --> 00:56:03.845
So what I wanted to do is what you can do is because your members might not know that they actually need to complete those things.

830
00:56:04.145 --> 00:56:05.525
So what I would recommend

831
00:56:06.170 --> 00:56:09.710
is is this, let me take it a step further for you.

832
00:56:10.490 --> 00:56:14.410
For the different members, when a member signs up they receive a welcome email.

833
00:56:14.410 --> 00:56:17.710
So let's look at for example this Braun membership level.

834
00:56:19.145 --> 00:56:24.605
The welcome email, the sign up email is welcome basic. So if you go to your email templates

835
00:56:26.105 --> 00:56:28.045
and search for welcome basic,

836
00:56:28.905 --> 00:56:29.565
you know,

837
00:56:30.590 --> 00:56:31.730
so search for

838
00:56:32.510 --> 00:56:36.210
welcome basic, here it is. So what I would do is I would customize

839
00:56:36.590 --> 00:56:37.890
this email template

840
00:56:38.590 --> 00:56:43.330
and you're welcoming them to your site, but tell them what they should do in their next steps

841
00:56:43.655 --> 00:56:44.555
So they're educated

842
00:56:44.855 --> 00:56:48.555
on how your website works and how they can get maximum visibility

843
00:56:48.855 --> 00:56:49.755
on your website.

844
00:56:50.295 --> 00:56:52.795
So with that said, I'm also going to share

845
00:56:53.974 --> 00:56:59.690
a great webinar segment we did. Let Let me go to our blog here on the Brilliant Directories website,

846
00:57:00.630 --> 00:57:02.570
and I'm gonna share this with everyone.

847
00:57:02.870 --> 00:57:06.090
It was a great segment we did on how to welcome new members

848
00:57:06.470 --> 00:57:08.010
to your directory,

849
00:57:08.390 --> 00:57:14.775
and sometimes when you have restrictions like you want them to complete their profile and or you want them to do other actions,

850
00:57:15.155 --> 00:57:25.330
this video really goes a little in-depth into how to motivate them to complete their profile properly, how to get them involved in your website as much as possible,

851
00:57:25.950 --> 00:57:26.990
with these six tips.

852
00:57:26.990 --> 00:57:33.790
So, thank you for your question, Cirtle, and I'll also look forward to seeing more of your questions in the Facebook group.

853
00:57:33.790 --> 00:57:34.690
So, thank you.

854
00:57:35.225 --> 00:57:40.605
Alright, a good question there. And I also see Ryan has his hand up. How you doing today, Ryan?

855
00:57:41.385 --> 00:57:44.125
Hey, good. Can you hear me? Yeah. Thanks for joining the webinar.

856
00:57:45.225 --> 00:57:50.530
Yeah. So I I I put my site into the, the chat box there. You can show it to everybody if you want.

857
00:57:50.530 --> 00:57:52.470
I kind of actually did what you did for the demo.

858
00:57:52.770 --> 00:57:54.450
I wish I would have known us a week ago.

859
00:57:54.450 --> 00:58:00.944
It would have been a little bit faster, but I, actually did kind of, if you wanna show it, just show everybody what it what it kinda looks like.

860
00:58:00.944 --> 00:58:04.065
I don't know if all the links done, but Yeah. No. Just just scroll down.

861
00:58:04.065 --> 00:58:09.585
I I I basically did what you guys said already. Oh, fantastic. And you made them a little smaller.

862
00:58:09.585 --> 00:58:12.164
Why not? You don't need three in a row. You can do more.

863
00:58:12.704 --> 00:58:14.565
So this looks this looks awesome.

864
00:58:16.260 --> 00:58:17.000
Very nice.

865
00:58:17.140 --> 00:58:23.960
It doesn't edit like I said, I don't have it set up yet, and then I did the pictures above there for the businesses just to make those stand out from the class, finally.

866
00:58:24.340 --> 00:58:24.840
Absolutely.

867
00:58:25.220 --> 00:58:27.800
Is is Hudsonville, where is that a neighborhood in?

868
00:58:28.484 --> 00:58:31.065
Michigan. Michigan. Okay. My wife's from Michigan.

869
00:58:31.605 --> 00:58:32.005
Yep.

870
00:58:32.644 --> 00:58:37.464
I love what you did with your menu. Just, took it a little step further here. And, yeah.

871
00:58:37.605 --> 00:58:39.944
I think you're doing one of the most important things.

872
00:58:40.310 --> 00:58:41.130
You're adding

873
00:58:41.430 --> 00:58:46.410
high quality images that fit the spot they're supposed to go in. So that just creates

874
00:58:46.710 --> 00:58:53.954
that just makes the site look like it's more developed, it's more established, and, all you're really doing is is being you're curating

875
00:58:54.255 --> 00:58:56.255
higher quality images and things like that.

876
00:58:56.255 --> 00:58:59.535
And I love your color format actually too, these colors here.

877
00:58:59.535 --> 00:59:04.974
Thank you so much Ryan for joining in on the webinar and being such an active community member in the Facebook group.

878
00:59:04.974 --> 00:59:05.550
It's great.

879
00:59:06.910 --> 00:59:12.130
Alright guys, thank you so much. This is an amazing webinar Wednesday. Lots of BD lab updates,

880
00:59:13.150 --> 00:59:15.650
lots of ways to create subcategories

881
00:59:16.110 --> 00:59:19.730
for different posts. So thank you David for putting these slides together.

882
00:59:20.295 --> 00:59:23.175
And if you have more questions please join us in the Facebook group.

883
00:59:23.175 --> 00:59:25.275
You can go to brilliantdirectories.com

884
00:59:25.655 --> 00:59:30.155
forward slash Facebook. Look forward to seeing you in there. And in behalf of myself,

885
00:59:30.486 --> 00:59:36.966
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thank you so much guys for joining us today, and we'll see you guys in two weeks.

886
00:59:36.966 --> 00:59:40.106
So have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys.