WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.399 --> 00:00:02.560 Alright, everyone. Let's dive right into it. 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:06.660 Welcome to another edition of webinar Wednesday, tips to help grow your online 3 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:11.540 community. It's really great to be with everyone here. I hope everyone is staying safe out there. 4 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:16.835 If this is your first time joining us, welcome. I am Jason there on the left. 5 00:00:16.895 --> 00:00:18.414 We just passed webinar 100. 6 00:00:18.414 --> 00:00:22.275 It was a great milestone, and thanks to everyone's participation for joining. 7 00:00:22.494 --> 00:00:26.515 And we're lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist, 8 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:29.520 and so much more here at Brilliant Directories. 9 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:33.600 David, thanks for taking the time, to join us on this webinar. 10 00:00:33.820 --> 00:00:41.175 And I think today we're also trying, for the second time to not only host the webinar here, but also stream it on YouTube live, 11 00:00:41.575 --> 00:00:43.115 simultaneously. Is that correct? 12 00:00:43.495 --> 00:00:45.735 That's right. So we should be live on YouTube now. 13 00:00:45.735 --> 00:00:51.415 I'm sure we'll have, some people joining in on there momentarily, but, looking forward to today's webinar. 14 00:00:51.415 --> 00:00:53.835 As always, got some great updates to share with everybody. 15 00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:56.539 That's right. And I always like to mention, 16 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:02.460 if you're not already part of our Facebook group, it's a great way to stay connected in between webinar Wednesdays. 17 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.920 Everyone can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook 18 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.940 and just click on the blue join button. 19 00:01:09.125 --> 00:01:16.564 It's a great place to ask questions, get the latest updates, that are coming down the pipeline with Brilliant Directories and a whole lot more. 20 00:01:16.564 --> 00:01:19.545 I'm in there myself, and I look forward to seeing you there as well. 21 00:01:19.845 --> 00:01:25.840 And for those of you joining us for the first time, and I do see a good handful of new names and faces here today, so welcome. 22 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:29.040 You know, webinar Wednesday is really a platform 23 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:37.600 and channel for us to kind of, show you how to leverage some of the built in features of Brilliant Directories to help grow your community a bit faster. 24 00:01:38.265 --> 00:01:47.465 So not only will we showcase some new features that are available and also take some of your questions, but we like to kind of explain how these new features can help you, grow your community. 25 00:01:47.465 --> 00:01:55.100 Things like converting visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities, and one of my favorite I always like to mention is improving the website's navigation, 26 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.140 creating a nice simple flow, that can help increase conversion rates, subscribers, 27 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:00.940 registrants, 28 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:01.980 etcetera. 29 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:09.595 So, if you have questions on these topics or anything related to your BD website, we'll do our best to get to as many questions as we can in just a little bit. 30 00:02:10.215 --> 00:02:16.615 And, yeah, we always like to dive into just a few of the BD Lab updates that, have been pushed, during the last couple weeks. 31 00:02:16.615 --> 00:02:19.200 There's obviously more than this, but these are just a few 32 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.620 notable ones. So I'll just start at the top of the list there. 33 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:29.379 As everyone knows, we introduced some draggable content blocks, when you're building out a web page. 34 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:34.819 Very simple content elements that you can just drag into the editor and then make the changes 35 00:02:35.175 --> 00:02:36.795 that you'd like to make. 36 00:02:37.334 --> 00:02:43.435 What we did is we actually made individual elements or components like an individual image, an individual heading, 37 00:02:44.055 --> 00:02:47.035 that you can drag into the editor. I'll show you all very quickly, 38 00:02:47.495 --> 00:02:50.700 where that is and how you can use that on your site right now. 39 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:55.360 So what you wanna do is go to content and go to the web page builder. 40 00:02:57.660 --> 00:03:01.519 And what we could do is we'll just create a new web page here in this example, 41 00:03:03.834 --> 00:03:06.095 and we'll just call this sample 42 00:03:07.355 --> 00:03:07.855 elements. 43 00:03:08.715 --> 00:03:12.974 So what we have here is, yeah, you have a blank canvas always to start, and you have this 44 00:03:13.355 --> 00:03:15.694 toggle here. It says draggable content blocks. 45 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:17.320 And there's nothing fancy here. 46 00:03:17.320 --> 00:03:21.880 It's pretty simple, but you'll notice that there are, eight new individual elements here. 47 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:28.460 Image video, a button link, contact form, text block, section title, divider line, and a line break. 48 00:03:29.055 --> 00:03:34.195 Under those are the previous content blocks that we had created and originally launched with, 49 00:03:34.655 --> 00:03:37.875 text with image right, text with image left, 50 00:03:38.575 --> 00:03:40.515 like a three column feature list, 51 00:03:40.975 --> 00:03:42.035 etcetera, etcetera. 52 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:46.859 What you can do with these individual elements let me just clear this if I scroll up. 53 00:03:46.859 --> 00:03:51.680 If, for example, you you you already created your page without using any of the content blocks, 54 00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:53.920 and you wanted to add a button link, 55 00:03:54.299 --> 00:04:00.765 normally, you would, you know, you would make the text button link and then click on, you know, where that's gonna go to. 56 00:04:00.985 --> 00:04:04.045 And after you've created it, you can add a style to it, 57 00:04:04.504 --> 00:04:06.685 and so on. What we've done 58 00:04:07.944 --> 00:04:12.310 is you can just drag button link into here, and it'll kinda be premade, 59 00:04:12.690 --> 00:04:15.350 with some basic things, but it should give you a head start, 60 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:18.290 when you're trying to build out your page. 61 00:04:18.290 --> 00:04:23.170 And then of course once you have this here, you can certainly edit it, where it's gonna go. 62 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:25.110 Maybe this goes to your join page, 63 00:04:25.915 --> 00:04:28.655 and you want it to go you want it to say join now. 64 00:04:30.795 --> 00:04:34.975 And, of course, you can change some of the styles here. You can toggle full width, 65 00:04:36.315 --> 00:04:37.855 normal size button, etcetera. 66 00:04:38.690 --> 00:04:49.110 When you're doing the image, it's nice, it'll drag an image in so maybe you have a special spot you wanna put an image and what's really cool is if you click on the image, obviously, you don't wanna use this, kind of placeholder. 67 00:04:49.729 --> 00:04:56.625 You can click on these two arrows here and you can replace it with another image that you've already uploaded in your images, 68 00:04:57.405 --> 00:04:57.905 library. 69 00:04:58.445 --> 00:05:01.505 So, you know, you can certainly click and drag an image in, 70 00:05:01.884 --> 00:05:07.824 or you can browse, your image library here. Same thing with the video, you can drag a video in, 71 00:05:08.330 --> 00:05:09.950 and if you click on that video, 72 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:20.730 you can click on this replace button, and you could just switch it out with another YouTube video link, that you'd want to use, or you can also use the YouTube embed code, that's provided. 73 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:23.230 So, you can use either or for 74 00:05:23.725 --> 00:05:24.225 videos. 75 00:05:25.085 --> 00:05:29.505 What's nice is, you can add section titles. You can just drop that in anywhere. 76 00:05:30.445 --> 00:05:32.045 And also, like, a text block. 77 00:05:32.045 --> 00:05:37.025 So maybe we wanted to put a text block down here and another section title just above it, 78 00:05:37.540 --> 00:05:40.100 and you can certainly build out the page like this. 79 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:42.680 What's really nice is there's also a contact form. 80 00:05:43.140 --> 00:05:47.540 What's special about this is you won't actually see the live contact form here. 81 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:50.260 You'll see the short code for the contact form. 82 00:05:50.260 --> 00:05:54.155 So by default, it'll drop in the website's contact us form, 83 00:05:54.695 --> 00:06:03.415 when you're doing this, but you can certainly switch this out if you've created or modified your own contact us form, to be a lead magnet or something like that. 84 00:06:03.575 --> 00:06:07.035 You can just change this to be, you know, whatever the custom form 85 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:09.259 nickname is that you have 86 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:10.060 there. 87 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.240 Divider lines is exactly what it sounds like. 88 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:26.914 I'll I'll drop one in the middle of this paragraph here, and you see it as a divider line there, and just an extra line break space if you're having trouble like finding to create a new paragraph somewhere, you could just drop line breaks into here, and it'll do exactly that. 89 00:06:27.455 --> 00:06:29.955 What's really nice I'll just show one more thing. 90 00:06:30.495 --> 00:06:34.255 These work really nice in conjunction with the premade content blocks. 91 00:06:34.255 --> 00:06:36.740 So this is a premade content block, and, 92 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.720 you know, maybe you wanna put your contact form where this image is. 93 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.940 So I'll just delete this image and drop the contact form here, and I'll go ahead and save the changes. 94 00:06:49.215 --> 00:06:57.935 Then we can actually look at just those that simple thing that I just did, just using a content block and instead of using an image, putting the contact us form here. 95 00:06:57.935 --> 00:07:00.115 So you can pretty easily create a landing 96 00:07:00.669 --> 00:07:00.750 page. 97 00:07:00.990 --> 00:07:09.889 Adding images definitely helps, high quality images, and you should have more control, over stacking up, elements of a landing page with these elements here. 98 00:07:10.030 --> 00:07:13.710 So have fun with that, play around with it, and we'd love to see what you create. 99 00:07:13.710 --> 00:07:15.090 Share it in the Facebook group. 100 00:07:15.915 --> 00:07:17.775 Alright. This next one is actually, 101 00:07:18.635 --> 00:07:21.615 for the search members page in the admin area. 102 00:07:22.555 --> 00:07:27.275 There's essentially three different ways a member can join your site. One is a self sign up. 103 00:07:27.275 --> 00:07:29.855 They come to your page. They sign up for a membership plan. 104 00:07:30.370 --> 00:07:34.630 Number two is you may import the members through Excel or CSV file, 105 00:07:35.009 --> 00:07:39.110 or you might manually create an individual member from the admin area. 106 00:07:39.650 --> 00:07:40.710 Now you can actually, 107 00:07:41.490 --> 00:07:44.550 search. Now it is saving moving forward now, 108 00:07:45.075 --> 00:07:47.795 how the member was added to the database. 109 00:07:47.795 --> 00:07:55.735 So now there is a joined via search filter in the search members page and I'll actually show you why this is extra important that this is there now. 110 00:07:57.810 --> 00:08:03.009 So first is you'll see this here in the, the group of filters when you wanna look at your members. 111 00:08:03.009 --> 00:08:05.650 Here it is right here, right next to the search button right now. 112 00:08:05.650 --> 00:08:08.865 So join via the admin that's manually adding them, 113 00:08:09.185 --> 00:08:10.085 from the admin, 114 00:08:10.544 --> 00:08:12.724 right here, this green button, add new member. 115 00:08:13.104 --> 00:08:19.604 Importing would be through the c f CSV file, and self sign up would be if they signed up on their own. 116 00:08:19.905 --> 00:08:25.660 Where this is most helpful is if you import a group of members and for some reason it's not correct, 117 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.300 it only imported half the members, the top level category was incorrect. 118 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.740 There is a bulk action to delete members, but it was a little bit tougher to find 119 00:08:36.184 --> 00:08:37.865 which members those were that were, 120 00:08:38.505 --> 00:08:39.005 imported, 121 00:08:39.385 --> 00:08:39.885 versus 122 00:08:40.345 --> 00:08:43.544 members who may have joined on the same day through a self sign up. 123 00:08:43.544 --> 00:08:50.365 So what you could do is you could do joined via import and then put the join date, maybe you imported them today, 124 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:52.900 and then you can certainly search, 125 00:08:53.280 --> 00:08:58.080 and then you can highlight all those members and do a bulk delete if you needed to. 126 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:02.260 So that's just one, use case of this field, but 127 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:09.024 you can also create smart list based on members who were imported or added or did self sign ups as well. 128 00:09:09.024 --> 00:09:09.524 So 129 00:09:09.825 --> 00:09:11.745 I'm interested to see how everyone uses that. 130 00:09:11.745 --> 00:09:15.125 Should add a little bit more quality of life to filtering members. 131 00:09:16.065 --> 00:09:19.770 This one is a fun one. It's the total revenue snapshot. 132 00:09:19.770 --> 00:09:23.470 If now if you go to your finance and look at your membership plans, 133 00:09:24.010 --> 00:09:29.550 for any of your membership plans that are paid plans, you can see a quick snapshot of how much revenue, 134 00:09:30.145 --> 00:09:32.545 that plan has created. And, actually, give me a second. 135 00:09:32.545 --> 00:09:36.005 Let me toggle to a site that I can use as an example. 136 00:09:36.785 --> 00:09:39.605 You can get the same information if you went to your transactions, 137 00:09:40.545 --> 00:09:43.445 history page and just filtered by that membership plan. 138 00:09:43.750 --> 00:09:47.130 But if you go to finance and go to membership plans, 139 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:51.290 for any plan that's 140 00:09:51.750 --> 00:10:01.385 a paid plan, so not like your free plans or your claim listing plans, but for your paid plans, you'll see a number of the total number of members that are part of that membership plan. 141 00:10:01.685 --> 00:10:06.185 So this is just a site with some, sample transactions on it, and you can see here, 142 00:10:06.965 --> 00:10:08.905 that it shows the total revenue 143 00:10:09.270 --> 00:10:09.910 per plan. 144 00:10:09.910 --> 00:10:19.210 So if you just wanted to get a quick pulse of how the different membership plans were contributing to the revenue of your site, this would be a quick and easy way to, look at that snapshot. 145 00:10:21.524 --> 00:10:21.764 Alright. 146 00:10:21.764 --> 00:10:33.685 I know this one is gonna be super helpful, especially if you're setting up your site for the first time or if you're looking to revamp your site, and give it a fresh new look with regard to the fonts that you use on your site. 147 00:10:33.685 --> 00:10:37.920 So we try to keep our Google fonts library as up to date as possible. 148 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:40.980 We update it every few months or a couple times a year, 149 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.540 to make sure we have the newest Google fonts. 150 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:46.740 But what you can do is you can go to your design settings 151 00:10:48.315 --> 00:10:51.855 and can choose different fonts for your site. And up until now, 152 00:10:52.235 --> 00:10:54.875 you didn't really see what the font looked like. 153 00:10:54.875 --> 00:11:00.654 We kinda hid a link here to go check out all the different Google fonts from the Google fonts website. 154 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:04.840 That's one way to find the fonts, and and you can find things pretty quickly. 155 00:11:05.140 --> 00:11:11.400 But what we did now is anywhere you can choose a Google font, if you just give it a second, it'll actually show you a preview. 156 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:15.855 It'll it'll go fetch that Google font and actually load a preview of what, 157 00:11:16.334 --> 00:11:17.935 the font family looks like. 158 00:11:17.935 --> 00:11:23.315 So, again, just another quality of life, update here to kinda give you a quicker preview, 159 00:11:23.774 --> 00:11:25.795 of what the font is that you are selecting, 160 00:11:26.175 --> 00:11:30.995 for your site. So I know the main website design is one area where you can choose, 161 00:11:31.649 --> 00:11:34.070 Google fonts, also the homepage, 162 00:11:34.850 --> 00:11:36.389 titles, the hero titles 163 00:11:36.769 --> 00:11:39.190 right here, homepage title font. 164 00:11:40.050 --> 00:11:49.225 So, you guys can have fun with that, and maybe you want to add a fresh new look to your site, and you could do it a little bit quicker because you can see the preview right here, in the design settings. 165 00:11:50.565 --> 00:11:56.505 Alright. This one is pretty cool. It's the ability to hide the call to action buttons that show in 166 00:11:56.885 --> 00:11:58.325 the member search results. 167 00:11:58.325 --> 00:12:03.400 So it really just depends on what the focus of your site is and how much emphasis you wanna put on, 168 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.900 showing additional buttons to contact a member or view the member's profile. 169 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:13.580 I'll just show you, exactly what this is and how you can turn it on or off for your site. 170 00:12:14.645 --> 00:12:17.145 So if we go to a search results page, 171 00:12:17.605 --> 00:12:19.945 I think this should be a member search results page. 172 00:12:20.885 --> 00:12:27.030 So this is a member search results page, and right here on the right hand side, these are the call to action buttons here. 173 00:12:27.270 --> 00:12:31.530 Generally, it'll say view listing or send message. This is how it is by default. 174 00:12:32.470 --> 00:12:37.270 You know, it's really important to get visitors to click through into internal pages of your site. 175 00:12:37.430 --> 00:12:38.490 So these have always 176 00:12:38.950 --> 00:12:42.890 been there more or less for the last ten years on the Brilliant Directories team. 177 00:12:43.185 --> 00:12:49.765 However, there are cases, because the the member's name is clickable and so is their image to go view their profile, 178 00:12:50.385 --> 00:12:51.985 where you may not want this here. 179 00:12:51.985 --> 00:12:59.700 So some people would email into the support, team, and we'd provide them with the, you know, the snippet of code to put on their site to hide this. 180 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:07.080 Now it's just a regular setting and design settings, and I'll show you exactly where that is, and we can compare the, before and after aesthetics. 181 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:09.880 So this is also in the design settings, 182 00:13:10.404 --> 00:13:13.385 and this is under the search results design tab. 183 00:13:14.805 --> 00:13:19.545 And for now, it should be the last option, member results layout. 184 00:13:20.085 --> 00:13:22.745 So by default, it's the member details, 185 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.300 plus the buttons and buttons, or if you just want the member's details only, 186 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:31.380 sans the buttons without the buttons. So let's set that up like that. 187 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:40.065 And what I'll do is I'll clone this page or just duplicate my tab here, and we can do a quick comparison of before and after. 188 00:13:41.005 --> 00:13:42.205 So we can see here, 189 00:13:43.245 --> 00:13:47.345 it just opens up the page a bit more. It just depends how much content you're showing. 190 00:13:47.405 --> 00:13:55.180 Maybe you're using larger font sizes on your site and you want that extra space to kind of give the font, room to breathe. 191 00:13:55.560 --> 00:13:58.300 So you can see the the difference between the two aesthetics. 192 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:04.040 And really nothing's different besides those calls to action buttons are being removed here. 193 00:14:04.040 --> 00:14:09.745 Everything else works the same, and you can still click on the member's name or profile image, 194 00:14:10.205 --> 00:14:11.985 to go to their profile page. 195 00:14:12.365 --> 00:14:15.345 So, again, that setting is in your design settings 196 00:14:15.725 --> 00:14:21.560 under the search results design area, and it's the last one right now called member results layout. 197 00:14:21.780 --> 00:14:26.120 So, again, this is just a personal preference on what you'd like to have on your search results pages. 198 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:32.920 Tons of updates coming soon. I've just selected a handful of them here to share with you guys. 199 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:36.360 For those of you who are designers or developers or coders, 200 00:14:37.035 --> 00:14:39.774 we are creating a setting where you can disable 201 00:14:40.315 --> 00:14:41.695 the default CSS 202 00:14:42.075 --> 00:14:44.714 that loads with your Brilliant Directories website. 203 00:14:44.714 --> 00:14:48.475 If you're not familiar with the lingo that I'm referring to, don't worry about that. 204 00:14:48.475 --> 00:14:51.055 It is for the designers and developers out there. 205 00:14:51.330 --> 00:14:54.470 And in addition to that, we are providing the ability to, 206 00:14:54.930 --> 00:14:56.790 fully load a custom widget, 207 00:14:57.330 --> 00:15:03.430 that will take over the entire web page and no BD assets, not the default CSS, JavaScript. 208 00:15:03.935 --> 00:15:06.355 None of it will load. So you can truly have, 209 00:15:06.895 --> 00:15:09.955 a customized landing page without having to circumvent 210 00:15:10.334 --> 00:15:13.475 and work around some of the default styling that is loaded, 211 00:15:13.935 --> 00:15:16.755 with the site. So I know a lot of people who are 212 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:25.220 kinda higher level developers, that'll come in handy and allow you to develop a whole lot quicker by just enabling and disabling those default CSS, 213 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:26.579 rules and JavaScript. 214 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.055 There is a new cool add on coming soon. It's called personal post feed add on. 215 00:15:32.135 --> 00:15:34.555 It's not necessarily like a Facebook timeline, 216 00:15:35.095 --> 00:15:36.875 but what this will do is, 217 00:15:37.415 --> 00:15:39.274 if the members are following 218 00:15:39.575 --> 00:15:43.195 other members, so let's say I'm a member of your site and I like or bookmark 219 00:15:43.654 --> 00:15:45.660 10 other members on the site, 220 00:15:46.060 --> 00:15:53.920 I can go to my personal post feed page and see all the posts only from the people I'm following or I have bookmarked or liked. 221 00:15:54.139 --> 00:15:57.019 I can kinda show you a quick preview of the direction this is coming in. 222 00:15:57.019 --> 00:16:02.155 It'll probably be released before the end of the year, I'd say, maybe a little bit sooner. 223 00:16:02.535 --> 00:16:05.835 So what will happen is when the member is in their dashboard, 224 00:16:06.935 --> 00:16:11.675 we're all familiar that they can see their saved posts. Right now, it's just one 225 00:16:12.040 --> 00:16:14.620 drop down, and then they would choose if they wanna see, 226 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.220 all the coupons they've bookmarked or liked, job listings, 227 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.620 member listings. What we're going to do with this is we're going to separate 228 00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:25.340 saved post or bookmark posts, 229 00:16:25.964 --> 00:16:29.824 and they'll be able to see their saved members or bookmarked members 230 00:16:30.204 --> 00:16:34.865 just in this tab here. So it'll separate posts from members you've liked or bookmarked. 231 00:16:35.245 --> 00:16:38.144 And then if you've liked and or bookmarked members, 232 00:16:39.070 --> 00:16:48.850 you'll also have this link here post by saved members and you can of course change this verbiage once it's pushed to the site to make it whatever you wanna call it. 233 00:16:49.149 --> 00:16:51.170 And then you'd be taken to a page 234 00:16:52.015 --> 00:16:54.035 where essentially, again, it's still in development. 235 00:16:54.654 --> 00:16:59.235 You'll have a personal post feed, and all you'll see in these different tabs of content 236 00:16:59.774 --> 00:17:02.675 are from the members that you're following or have bookmarked. 237 00:17:02.895 --> 00:17:06.915 So it won't be all the site's content. It'll just be the personal 238 00:17:07.859 --> 00:17:09.000 feeds of the people, 239 00:17:09.380 --> 00:17:11.140 you followed as a member. 240 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:14.760 So we're looking forward to that being released soon, and we will keep you updated 241 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:17.000 in the Facebook group with that. 242 00:17:17.460 --> 00:17:22.545 This one we've been talking about, for a bit, the ability to force end your staff admin session. 243 00:17:22.545 --> 00:17:23.285 So maybe, 244 00:17:23.825 --> 00:17:25.025 you've let go of someone. 245 00:17:25.025 --> 00:17:29.365 You wanna make sure they're logged out of all devices, etcetera from your admin back end. 246 00:17:29.585 --> 00:17:34.029 You will be able to do that with the push of a button. It's just going through its final QA. 247 00:17:34.029 --> 00:17:40.289 This one, since it's related to security, it goes into a little bit more scrutiny before it's pushed, but that should be available soon. 248 00:17:40.990 --> 00:17:45.250 A fun one that's coming soon, I just showed you the content blocks for web pages. 249 00:17:45.615 --> 00:17:49.875 We are working to create content blocks when you're creating your email templates. 250 00:17:49.935 --> 00:17:53.235 So if you're scheduling a newsletter or creating a custom newsletter, 251 00:17:53.615 --> 00:18:01.309 we're gonna create common blocks that you could just stack up, and then replace the images and text to make it a bit easier to create your 252 00:18:01.850 --> 00:18:02.750 newsletter templates. 253 00:18:03.529 --> 00:18:11.389 Another one just about to be released for, the multi member manager add on where one member can create alternate sub accounts. 254 00:18:12.169 --> 00:18:17.615 The ability to toggle back from a sub account you're editing back to your parent account is coming soon. 255 00:18:18.155 --> 00:18:23.195 And there are a lot of ongoing updates, to make the admin area a lot easier. 256 00:18:23.195 --> 00:18:24.015 We're compartmentalizing 257 00:18:24.635 --> 00:18:26.575 settings, putting things in more proper, 258 00:18:27.115 --> 00:18:31.535 places. So moving forward, again, we wanna make the platform a bit more intuitive 259 00:18:32.020 --> 00:18:34.900 for everyone. We know there's tons of features built in. 260 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:47.059 So, we're just working, and a lot of your feedback is helping us putting things in the right places to just make the platform a lot more intuitive and efficient to use for a lot of our power users out there and also for beginners. 261 00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:47.505 So, 262 00:18:47.905 --> 00:18:53.905 these are just a few updates coming down the line. And why don't we take a few questions here? 263 00:18:53.905 --> 00:19:01.045 If you have any questions about, some of these updates that we just looked at or if you have a comment, something that you're looking forward to, we'd love to hear it, 264 00:19:01.585 --> 00:19:03.205 now for just a few minutes. 265 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:09.080 So Nathan typed in a good question regarding one of our recent updates. 266 00:19:09.080 --> 00:19:12.780 He wanted to know if he can use his brilliant directory's website as a forum. 267 00:19:12.840 --> 00:19:15.820 And now that we have the community comments 268 00:19:16.120 --> 00:19:19.179 add on available, that would be something that's possible. Correct? 269 00:19:19.775 --> 00:19:22.914 Yeah. That's actually can definitely help you emulate, 270 00:19:24.575 --> 00:19:25.315 a forum. 271 00:19:25.775 --> 00:19:27.715 What you can do with community comments, 272 00:19:28.895 --> 00:19:31.875 and we have a video on this from a previous webinar. 273 00:19:32.495 --> 00:19:34.590 I'll I'll grab the link in a second, but, 274 00:19:34.990 --> 00:19:35.490 essentially, 275 00:19:37.150 --> 00:19:47.309 a forum, somebody starts a discussion, you know, with a title and and a message just kinda like a blog post but not as long as an article, and then people respond with with comments below that. 276 00:19:47.309 --> 00:19:53.645 So with the community comments add on, now as long as the members are logged in and you've enabled it for, 277 00:19:54.105 --> 00:19:55.245 that post type, 278 00:19:55.865 --> 00:19:59.165 then people can certainly leave comments and emulate a forum, 279 00:19:59.785 --> 00:20:01.380 kind of experience here. 280 00:20:01.860 --> 00:20:05.240 And what you can do is probably the easiest way to do this, 281 00:20:05.540 --> 00:20:07.080 I would clone your 282 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:11.800 member articles post type. So if you go to edit post settings in the admin area, 283 00:20:12.260 --> 00:20:15.240 I'll I'll go there together with you. This was a good question, actually. 284 00:20:15.645 --> 00:20:17.185 The closest thing to 285 00:20:17.645 --> 00:20:22.045 kind of a forum post would be the, and let me see. Maybe the site doesn't have it. 286 00:20:22.045 --> 00:20:23.345 Let me look for articles. 287 00:20:23.965 --> 00:20:26.385 Yeah. Community articles are your member articles. 288 00:20:26.765 --> 00:20:31.620 You can clone this and then call this something else like community forum. 289 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.980 And when you do that, you can then create different categories 290 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:40.900 for the different posts. So community forum, you can you can create some different categories 291 00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:42.580 like general questions, 292 00:20:43.924 --> 00:20:50.885 you know, or whatever you want for the categories of your forum, and then the post can be assigned to their respective categories. 293 00:20:50.885 --> 00:20:52.105 So, yep. 294 00:20:52.804 --> 00:20:56.725 Alright. We got, one more hand up here, and we'll move on to the tip of the week. 295 00:20:56.965 --> 00:20:59.705 Brad, I've unmuted your microphone there. How are you doing, Brad? 296 00:21:00.059 --> 00:21:03.440 Good. How are you doing? Good. Good. Good. What's your question for us today? 297 00:21:03.899 --> 00:21:09.580 I had a couple questions about the multi member manager one. It's a tongue twister, that one. Yeah. 298 00:21:09.580 --> 00:21:10.559 Exactly. So, 299 00:21:10.860 --> 00:21:13.919 first of all, like, when you're designing it, you know, you can 300 00:21:14.235 --> 00:21:17.135 say how many different subaccounts they're allowed to have. 301 00:21:17.355 --> 00:21:22.235 So we have some people that have five locations. Some have 10. Some have, like, a hundred. 302 00:21:22.235 --> 00:21:33.640 So, I mean, do I need to make you know, you know, obviously, we don't wanna have somebody that have we wanna charge somebody that has five locations, a different price, and somebody that has a hundred and so forth. 303 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:34.140 So 304 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:36.220 do we need to make different 305 00:21:36.600 --> 00:21:37.260 kind of 306 00:21:37.560 --> 00:21:39.740 plans for each kind of level? 307 00:21:40.155 --> 00:21:42.655 I would. I I I think in your case, 308 00:21:43.595 --> 00:21:47.435 yeah, I I would recommend so someone can sign up as a single user. 309 00:21:47.435 --> 00:21:50.975 So maybe have pricing a pricing page for single user accounts 310 00:21:51.355 --> 00:21:54.175 and then have an alternate page, like, need to manage multiple, 311 00:21:54.550 --> 00:21:59.610 you know, accounts or or profiles, and then have a separate pricing page and do them in increments. 312 00:21:59.830 --> 00:22:05.050 And what you can do is you can have, like, five or 10 or 25, whatever the most common ones are. 313 00:22:05.190 --> 00:22:13.315 And then it's very common on sites like that where need more than a hundred or need more than 25, contact us for enterprise pricing or or something. 314 00:22:13.535 --> 00:22:14.755 Yeah. That's what we're doing. 315 00:22:15.055 --> 00:22:19.155 So and then we'll just manually do it. Okay. Thank you much. Alright. Good question. 316 00:22:19.855 --> 00:22:20.735 Let's move on. 317 00:22:21.215 --> 00:22:26.309 We have a new feature. It's the ability to set a custom main menu, 318 00:22:27.090 --> 00:22:29.190 for logged in members. 319 00:22:29.730 --> 00:22:35.054 And, David, you put together a couple slides here on some of the benefits and use cases for this. 320 00:22:35.054 --> 00:22:38.414 So I'll pass it on, to you, and you can kind of walk us through this. 321 00:22:38.414 --> 00:22:40.034 And then what we'll do is we'll actually, 322 00:22:40.414 --> 00:22:43.075 show you guys how you can enable a custom main menu, 323 00:22:43.375 --> 00:22:45.235 for your logged in members as well. 324 00:22:45.695 --> 00:22:48.674 Yeah. So this is a great new feature that can be utilized, 325 00:22:48.975 --> 00:22:58.090 for websites that really wanna provide a different experience for just the typical website visitor versus your actual logged in members. 326 00:22:58.630 --> 00:23:02.009 So, for example, you could have the primary public 327 00:23:02.404 --> 00:23:12.164 main menu have links that go to your about page, your sign up page, because if somebody's not logged in and they're coming to your site, maybe that means they're not already a member. 328 00:23:12.164 --> 00:23:14.850 So you might want to, push them to sign up. 329 00:23:15.570 --> 00:23:19.990 You can link them over to some of your basic publicly available content, 330 00:23:20.370 --> 00:23:27.030 what benefits members do get to, again, try to entice them to sign up and then maybe make some testimonial success stories 331 00:23:27.405 --> 00:23:31.105 available within your main menu that they can, easily reach. 332 00:23:31.405 --> 00:23:35.265 Whereas for your private main menu, for your logged in members, 333 00:23:35.725 --> 00:23:39.745 what you want them to see might be different than what you want just the typical 334 00:23:40.260 --> 00:23:42.340 non registered website visitor to see. 335 00:23:42.340 --> 00:23:56.935 So for your login members in the main menu, maybe you wanna link them to their account dashboard so it's really easy for them to go back and forth between the content on your site and then managing their account, publishing posts, things like that, everything that they can do within their dashboard. 336 00:23:57.315 --> 00:24:01.015 Maybe you wanna add actual direct links so that they can add content. 337 00:24:01.395 --> 00:24:10.260 If you're really pushing your members to publish articles, say, for example, on your site, then you can add a direct link in your main menu that says, 338 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.980 add new article, publish new article. 339 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:19.059 They click that, and it takes them to, the page where they can start writing up an article and publishing it on-site. 340 00:24:19.365 --> 00:24:20.985 You might also wanna link them 341 00:24:21.285 --> 00:24:23.225 to some search result pages. 342 00:24:23.765 --> 00:24:31.365 This would be different depending on what the primary focus of your website is and your target demo, of course, what your members are doing on your site. 343 00:24:31.365 --> 00:24:37.049 But, again, if it's focused on articles, maybe you wanna link them to the articles search result page. 344 00:24:37.190 --> 00:24:40.169 Maybe you have a specific page that you've made, 345 00:24:40.710 --> 00:24:46.650 for your members that links them to a bunch of different areas on your site that really only members, 346 00:24:47.110 --> 00:24:47.929 would utilize 347 00:24:48.309 --> 00:24:49.610 and your typical 348 00:24:50.075 --> 00:24:56.335 non logged in website visitors wouldn't, and you can link over to custom portal page that you've made like that. 349 00:24:56.795 --> 00:25:05.260 Or another option would be that you could link to a custom landing page that you've made for members to upgrade into a higher membership 350 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:06.120 plan. 351 00:25:06.120 --> 00:25:14.600 So, if they're logged in, maybe they're just at a a free member account, you might want to provide a a quick link for them so that they can see, 352 00:25:15.045 --> 00:25:19.225 what benefits they could get if they upgrade and a quick link so that they can quickly, 353 00:25:19.605 --> 00:25:26.185 go ahead and upgrade into a higher tier membership plan rather than having to do that through their account dashboard. 354 00:25:26.645 --> 00:25:32.669 What's really cool about this, and it's available to everyone now, they have these two different menus for public menus and, 355 00:25:33.309 --> 00:25:36.769 logged in members, main menu is you can really create a wall. 356 00:25:37.389 --> 00:25:45.975 You know, the main menu for public people is is basically selling them on joining your site, giving them the information they need to get familiar with your brand and your story 357 00:25:46.275 --> 00:25:50.775 and what they can expect and get from your site and how they can join your site. 358 00:25:50.914 --> 00:25:57.610 And then once they pass that threshold, once they take the leap to register as a subscriber, a free member, a paid member, 359 00:25:58.870 --> 00:26:01.290 some in some capacity joining your site, 360 00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:05.690 then when they're logged in, they can have that member's main menu. 361 00:26:05.830 --> 00:26:24.892 And what's most important here is you can direct them to the actions that are most important you as the website owner want your members to to take, whether that's completing their profile, pushing them to upgrade, taking them to a portal page where if you have the members only add on, you can actually take them to members only, pages, and things like that. 362 00:26:24.892 --> 00:26:30.340 So what we wanted to do was kinda show you how you can enable this on your site, 363 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.700 and then kinda how you can create that alternate menu, 364 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.100 that would be designated for, 365 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.139 logged in members. And before anyone asks, 366 00:26:39.845 --> 00:26:43.705 right now it's just a public main menu and a menu for logged in members. 367 00:26:44.085 --> 00:26:45.305 And even when we 368 00:26:45.845 --> 00:26:50.025 mentioned in the Facebook group that we're gonna be pushing this, the immediate next response is, 369 00:26:50.405 --> 00:26:54.265 can we have menus for different membership plans for different membership levels? 370 00:26:55.020 --> 00:26:57.440 And we are going to push that in a phase two. 371 00:26:57.580 --> 00:27:11.025 So we're gonna let this one, marinate a bit get some feedback from it but it looks like we also will have the ability to have alternate main menus based on membership plans or at least choosing the menu elements that will display 372 00:27:11.485 --> 00:27:15.245 per, membership level. So we're just gonna figure out the best way to do that. 373 00:27:15.245 --> 00:27:18.865 But for now, this should still be really awesome again for creating that wall, 374 00:27:19.250 --> 00:27:22.770 between the public main menu and the member's main menu. 375 00:27:22.770 --> 00:27:25.830 So let's dive right into this quick demo here. 376 00:27:26.610 --> 00:27:31.750 What we'll wanna do is it'll start at the dashboard so we're all on the same page here. 377 00:27:33.434 --> 00:27:41.375 So the first thing we'll wanna do is let's go to the menu manager and look at the menu that is our website's main menu. 378 00:27:42.075 --> 00:27:46.575 In this case, we have a header main menu, and let's go edit that real quick. 379 00:27:48.230 --> 00:27:51.430 So, again, it really depends on the focus of your site. 380 00:27:51.430 --> 00:27:57.190 Maybe your entire directory is public to search, you know, searching for members, searching for coupons, events. 381 00:27:57.190 --> 00:27:58.410 You don't need to register 382 00:27:58.710 --> 00:28:01.850 to search any of that stuff. You can continue linking 383 00:28:02.535 --> 00:28:04.875 to those pages. There's nothing wrong, 384 00:28:05.255 --> 00:28:06.075 with that. 385 00:28:06.375 --> 00:28:15.915 But let's let's take the route of something like this where, you really want people to register first, before they can access, some of the pages of your site. 386 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.700 So, you know, you could have a link that says about, and it goes to your, 387 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.380 about page. 388 00:28:22.840 --> 00:28:25.899 And then, you know, something like why join, 389 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.700 and it goes to your you know, you have a page for your benefits page. 390 00:28:31.184 --> 00:28:32.085 You can have, 391 00:28:33.424 --> 00:28:33.924 testimonials 392 00:28:34.784 --> 00:28:37.205 and goes to a page that you've created with the 393 00:28:37.825 --> 00:28:38.325 testimonials. 394 00:28:39.424 --> 00:28:39.924 And 395 00:28:40.304 --> 00:28:42.404 you could say join today, 396 00:28:43.540 --> 00:28:45.080 and it goes to your 397 00:28:45.620 --> 00:28:49.880 join page, and we'll just save that. I'll delete those last two links as well. 398 00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:52.600 About 399 00:28:54.020 --> 00:28:55.880 about our mission. We'll do that. 400 00:28:57.825 --> 00:29:02.225 And I'll show you what you can do on with the alternate menu. 401 00:29:02.225 --> 00:29:04.085 Let me just delete these two menu items, 402 00:29:05.665 --> 00:29:07.684 and let's visit the site, 403 00:29:08.705 --> 00:29:10.165 make sure I'm logged out. 404 00:29:10.830 --> 00:29:11.330 Okay. 405 00:29:11.630 --> 00:29:13.090 So here's a site. 406 00:29:13.630 --> 00:29:18.610 This was on the travel guide theme, but we can see here about our mission, why join, testimonials, 407 00:29:19.150 --> 00:29:21.169 join today, whatever else you think, 408 00:29:21.630 --> 00:29:26.049 will get the message across and motivate people to wanna register or subscribe 409 00:29:26.475 --> 00:29:29.855 to your website, in some capacity as a member. 410 00:29:30.315 --> 00:29:34.315 So what we wanna do is then we wanna go to the men the menu manager again. 411 00:29:34.315 --> 00:29:36.554 So we have our header main menu. It's really simple. 412 00:29:36.554 --> 00:29:39.295 The easiest thing all of us can do is go to actions 413 00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:43.480 and just clone the menu. We've actually done it here, header main menu two. 414 00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:45.020 I'm just gonna clone this menu, 415 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.760 and I'll update the nickname here. I'll I'll call this logged in main menu. 416 00:29:52.760 --> 00:29:56.585 So we're gonna edit our new cloned menu. I'll give it a new nickname, 417 00:30:00.164 --> 00:30:01.625 logged in main menu, 418 00:30:03.125 --> 00:30:05.784 and I'll save the changes. Nothing else I need to do. 419 00:30:07.350 --> 00:30:13.030 So now let's go grab some links that a member who's logged in might navigate to in their account. 420 00:30:13.030 --> 00:30:16.170 So let me actually go ahead and log in as a as a member now. 421 00:30:16.390 --> 00:30:18.570 Let's go to my search members page here, 422 00:30:19.635 --> 00:30:22.375 and I'll just log in as a sample member here. 423 00:30:22.915 --> 00:30:23.475 Okay. Great. 424 00:30:23.475 --> 00:30:28.915 So the first and most obvious page, I can certainly link to their account home, their main dashboard page. 425 00:30:28.915 --> 00:30:33.735 If you ever wanted to figure out what to link to, just, you know, click on something like dashboard, 426 00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:37.130 and you can just copy the the whole link. 427 00:30:37.290 --> 00:30:41.790 I like just taking the part that's after the domain name, the the first forward slash there. 428 00:30:42.010 --> 00:30:44.590 So let's go back to our main menu, and we'll say 429 00:30:45.210 --> 00:30:46.030 my dashboard, 430 00:30:48.825 --> 00:30:51.005 and we'll link to account home. 431 00:30:51.625 --> 00:30:54.905 You know, what else is important on this site? Let's say this was a, 432 00:30:55.465 --> 00:30:55.965 classifieds 433 00:30:56.505 --> 00:30:58.765 site, so I want to add a classified. 434 00:30:59.385 --> 00:31:00.925 It's like post a new classified. 435 00:31:02.040 --> 00:31:07.660 So here, I can, I can add a new classified here? So, again, I'll just take this link, 436 00:31:08.360 --> 00:31:11.260 count classifieds add, and we'll say 437 00:31:12.600 --> 00:31:13.340 add new 438 00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:14.300 classified 439 00:31:16.475 --> 00:31:19.135 or create new classified. I'll save that there. 440 00:31:19.515 --> 00:31:22.015 Maybe you can't search members until 441 00:31:22.315 --> 00:31:27.695 you have a registered account. So now I can search members. So I can do, like, find matches. 442 00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:28.820 Right? 443 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.740 Whatever that may be, and that can go to my search results page. 444 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.140 And we can look at, maybe members only content, 445 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:39.700 and maybe we have a page 446 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:45.155 that's, you know, members only or whatever whatever that may be that no one else would have access to. 447 00:31:45.155 --> 00:31:47.895 So we can go ahead and, save these changes. 448 00:31:49.955 --> 00:31:53.415 And so now I have I've kinda set up my two different menus. 449 00:31:53.779 --> 00:32:00.039 I have my header main menu, and then I have my logged in main menu. So how and where 450 00:32:00.419 --> 00:32:04.519 do I tell the system use this one for the public menu and this one for, 451 00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:10.115 the the logged in members? It's pretty simple. You can navigate to your design settings, 452 00:32:14.015 --> 00:32:14.515 and 453 00:32:15.695 --> 00:32:18.755 the right now, it's the third drop down, main menu design. 454 00:32:19.970 --> 00:32:23.110 You can see there's public main menu and members 455 00:32:23.410 --> 00:32:24.150 main menu. 456 00:32:24.530 --> 00:32:33.190 So what you can do for everyone right now, it's they're both locked on to header main menu, so everyone's seeing the same menu until you decide to take this action to create a custom, 457 00:32:33.730 --> 00:32:35.030 logged in member's menu. 458 00:32:35.325 --> 00:32:40.865 So in this case, I have it called logged in main menu, and I'll go ahead and save the changes. 459 00:32:43.645 --> 00:32:44.845 And we can, 460 00:32:45.725 --> 00:32:47.184 let's go to the home page. 461 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:55.140 So you can see I'm I'm logged in as this guy here, and we can see the menu now says my dashboard, add new classifieds, 462 00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:59.200 find matches, and members only content. 463 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:05.695 So if I click on my dashboard here, you know, if billing is important for you guys, you can link people to their billing history. 464 00:33:06.475 --> 00:33:08.555 It just really depends on what the focus on your side is. 465 00:33:08.555 --> 00:33:13.375 There's no there's no right answer here or right way to do this. It's just what you want, 466 00:33:14.120 --> 00:33:18.760 to direct your logged in members to. So, we can see here, I can add new classified ads. 467 00:33:18.760 --> 00:33:22.600 It's taken me here. Find matches. It's taken me to the search results page. 468 00:33:22.600 --> 00:33:28.780 So, this happens to be a public page on this site, but member maybe this is only a a member's only page on your site, and 469 00:33:29.674 --> 00:33:32.715 the link will now be available up there, once I'm logged in. 470 00:33:32.715 --> 00:33:37.034 And I don't have a member's only content page, but you can certainly add one, 471 00:33:37.355 --> 00:33:37.855 there. 472 00:33:38.235 --> 00:33:42.495 So it's pretty self explanatory. Again, you can find this in the design settings 473 00:33:42.990 --> 00:33:44.430 under main menu design. 474 00:33:44.430 --> 00:33:51.490 Just choose a public main menu versus a, member's main menu, and the easiest thing to do is in your menu manager, 475 00:33:51.950 --> 00:33:53.810 just go ahead and, clone 476 00:33:54.430 --> 00:33:55.790 under the actions link here. 477 00:33:55.790 --> 00:34:01.995 Clone your current main menu, and then create those alternate links that you want for the logged in members menu. 478 00:34:01.995 --> 00:34:06.475 They might be identical menus. Maybe only one link is different on on one of them. 479 00:34:06.475 --> 00:34:08.495 Maybe the join today button is gone 480 00:34:08.795 --> 00:34:12.395 on the, the main menu and and you remove that when the member's logged in. Right? 481 00:34:12.395 --> 00:34:14.130 It doesn't have to be something so drastic. 482 00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:19.030 It could just be as simple as removing the join today button once the member's actually logged in. 483 00:34:19.409 --> 00:34:19.909 So, 484 00:34:20.290 --> 00:34:24.449 again, excited to see what you guys, create and use this functionality for. 485 00:34:24.449 --> 00:34:27.750 And, again, in a phase two, we will be releasing the ability, 486 00:34:28.344 --> 00:34:29.005 to have 487 00:34:29.545 --> 00:34:35.725 main menus based on the specific membership plan, not just the if a member is generally logged into this site, 488 00:34:36.265 --> 00:34:37.085 or not. 489 00:34:37.305 --> 00:34:41.465 So what we'd love to do is if you have any questions about this, it is new functionality built in. 490 00:34:41.465 --> 00:34:47.150 I think it'd be pretty powerful, to see what you guys do with this, but happy to take any questions about this. 491 00:34:47.530 --> 00:34:51.790 And we can open it up to, questions and answers. Happy to take any questions about, 492 00:34:52.170 --> 00:34:55.310 your sites as well, see if we can give you guys a helping hand here today. 493 00:34:55.775 --> 00:35:00.115 Alright. Don't see, too many hands up here. No. The updates are pretty self explanatory. 494 00:35:01.055 --> 00:35:04.255 So, yeah, Jeremiah is asking, can it be a menu per membership type? 495 00:35:04.255 --> 00:35:07.475 That'll be coming in a phase two, for that. 496 00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:12.800 Good question there. I do see Rajesh. Your hand is up. I'll unmute your mic. Yeah. Hi, Jason. 497 00:35:12.860 --> 00:35:15.520 Can you hear me? Can hear you loud and clear. How are you there? 498 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:20.240 I'm doing great. Thank you very much. You guys are doing excellent job. Wonderful updates. 499 00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:21.345 I really love it. 500 00:35:22.065 --> 00:35:25.605 Just one question I have. You know, when you have a membership, 501 00:35:26.305 --> 00:35:29.765 sign up for, like, three blocks or four blocks, different bronze 502 00:35:30.545 --> 00:35:32.165 bronze, silver, gold, like that, 503 00:35:32.545 --> 00:35:37.810 is there a way that you can turn off and on? Because I I am struggling that 504 00:35:38.210 --> 00:35:42.710 let's say, well, I just wanna create four, but I just wanna publish right now only two. 505 00:35:42.849 --> 00:35:45.430 Is there a way that you can hide those membership levels? 506 00:35:46.210 --> 00:35:50.230 To hide them from the the pricing page you're referring to. Correct? 507 00:35:50.585 --> 00:35:52.684 Right. Yeah. And then you have bronze, 508 00:35:53.305 --> 00:35:58.125 silver, or gold. I want to create all three of them, but I just wanna publish only two. 509 00:35:58.424 --> 00:36:00.265 I may have a solution for you. I have a question. 510 00:36:00.265 --> 00:36:03.964 Are you using this layout for your pricing, or are you using the vertical 511 00:36:04.350 --> 00:36:08.210 menus in a column? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can show you here what to do. Okay? 512 00:36:08.510 --> 00:36:13.470 So you so in your case, you're managing it from the menu manager, the vertical Correct. Yes. Okay. 513 00:36:13.470 --> 00:36:17.150 Yeah. So what you can do is you have the side by side pricing page, 514 00:36:17.470 --> 00:36:17.970 menu. 515 00:36:18.345 --> 00:36:21.165 What you can do is the one that you want to hide. 516 00:36:21.785 --> 00:36:22.765 Yeah. Okay. 517 00:36:22.905 --> 00:36:30.045 So in the in the title one, the first one where the where the green thing is, pop I'm gonna give you this code. 518 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:31.740 Pop open your settings. 519 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:32.780 Okay? 520 00:36:33.640 --> 00:36:37.100 Yeah. And what what you can do is this. You can put style 521 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:40.540 equals display none important, 522 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:47.315 and this will hide the menu on this. So in the outer l I inline attribute, this one here, 523 00:36:47.695 --> 00:36:49.474 and it should hide this 524 00:36:49.935 --> 00:36:54.755 from and when you want it to display again, just remove this. Remove it from Okay. Perfect. 525 00:36:54.974 --> 00:37:00.035 It's basically saying don't display this. Display is none Yeah. For this l I. Yeah. Okay. 526 00:37:00.494 --> 00:37:02.690 Alright. Okay. Very good. Thank you, Rajesh. 527 00:37:03.070 --> 00:37:03.790 Good question, 528 00:37:04.430 --> 00:37:04.930 there. 529 00:37:05.790 --> 00:37:07.410 Actually, that's not a bad 530 00:37:08.109 --> 00:37:09.490 option there to just 531 00:37:09.869 --> 00:37:11.570 hide menu item 532 00:37:12.030 --> 00:37:12.530 elements 533 00:37:13.150 --> 00:37:13.650 entirely. 534 00:37:14.109 --> 00:37:17.115 I think, when we do the the main menu 535 00:37:17.415 --> 00:37:19.675 thing where you can choose the membership plan, 536 00:37:20.615 --> 00:37:22.295 that's it'll be per element. 537 00:37:22.295 --> 00:37:27.495 So you could choose, you know, hide from everyone, show to everyone, or you can checkbox your membership plan. 538 00:37:27.495 --> 00:37:29.675 So we'll figure out the best way to 539 00:37:30.060 --> 00:37:33.200 to do this. It seems to be coming up, more frequently now. 540 00:37:33.740 --> 00:37:36.320 Okay. We got a couple more hands up here. 541 00:37:36.620 --> 00:37:39.600 Okay. Our good friend, Colette, has a question here. How are you, Colette? 542 00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:44.000 I'm good, Jason. How are you? Excellent. Excellent. Thanks for joining the webinar. Thanks. 543 00:37:44.845 --> 00:37:46.145 Quick question today. 544 00:37:46.445 --> 00:37:54.705 Just in when I'm logged out of the admin panel and I log in again, it takes me to one of my other sites, not the main site 545 00:37:55.085 --> 00:37:57.505 that I wanted to take me to. 546 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:01.940 Now I vaguely remember you saying there is a way for it to automatically 547 00:38:02.640 --> 00:38:04.500 come to the site that I'm wanting? 548 00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:05.540 Yes. 549 00:38:06.240 --> 00:38:08.100 You go to your admin accounts, 550 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:10.320 and you edit, 551 00:38:10.640 --> 00:38:11.860 your admin account. 552 00:38:13.095 --> 00:38:13.835 If you 553 00:38:14.375 --> 00:38:15.755 have more than one website, 554 00:38:16.055 --> 00:38:17.675 one of these options here, 555 00:38:18.055 --> 00:38:19.195 will be primary 556 00:38:19.575 --> 00:38:20.475 account login. 557 00:38:21.015 --> 00:38:21.515 So 558 00:38:21.815 --> 00:38:24.475 go to your, admin accounts and edit yourself, 559 00:38:24.950 --> 00:38:31.530 and there should be a primary, like, website to log in to option, since you own multiple sites on the platform. 560 00:38:31.990 --> 00:38:35.610 Perfect. Thanks, Jason. You're welcome. Good question there. 561 00:38:35.990 --> 00:38:38.650 Alright. We, we have some hands up here. 562 00:38:39.174 --> 00:38:43.914 And, Thomas, had a great question. He wanted to know if he's customized some of his widgets, 563 00:38:44.295 --> 00:38:51.275 is there a way to know if our team has pushed an update to those widgets that he hasn't received because they've been customized? 564 00:38:51.734 --> 00:38:52.714 Excellent question. 565 00:38:53.984 --> 00:38:54.484 So 566 00:38:55.160 --> 00:38:59.240 something you should do from time to time is, one, I I I never recommend heavily, 567 00:38:59.640 --> 00:39:02.140 editing any widgets or or things like that, but, 568 00:39:02.680 --> 00:39:03.320 let me, 569 00:39:03.720 --> 00:39:06.380 let's customize a a widget. Just a moment here. 570 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:08.860 What you can do is show widgets, 571 00:39:09.435 --> 00:39:12.395 and let me customize a widget and quickly show you what you can do. 572 00:39:12.395 --> 00:39:14.415 So, like, let's say it's the header left widget. 573 00:39:15.115 --> 00:39:16.815 I'll go ahead and customize this, 574 00:39:18.235 --> 00:39:19.355 and I'll just put, 575 00:39:19.755 --> 00:39:22.095 some extra stuff here and save the changes. 576 00:39:23.319 --> 00:39:27.579 So from time to time, what you may wanna do is, one, you can check our change log, 577 00:39:28.040 --> 00:39:28.540 monthly. 578 00:39:29.240 --> 00:39:32.700 We do mention all the different widgets that may have been updated. 579 00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:35.740 But when you edit this widget that you've customized now, 580 00:39:36.714 --> 00:39:38.795 there's an extra tab here. It's called diff. 581 00:39:38.795 --> 00:39:43.855 It's difference checker, and it'll tell you the difference between your HTML, your CSS, and your JavaScript. 582 00:39:44.635 --> 00:39:47.055 And if you scroll down, we can see in this case, 583 00:39:47.755 --> 00:39:52.550 your custom widget has this stuff added to it. And if you're missing something, 584 00:39:52.930 --> 00:39:56.550 it'll be highlighted in red here, so you can basically see any discrepancies, 585 00:39:57.410 --> 00:39:57.910 between, 586 00:39:58.530 --> 00:40:00.470 the customized widget and, 587 00:40:01.250 --> 00:40:03.890 the default or master, widget here. So, 588 00:40:04.455 --> 00:40:06.555 let me also share a link to our, 589 00:40:07.175 --> 00:40:07.995 change log. 590 00:40:09.815 --> 00:40:12.855 It's in our blog, and it's under monthly change log. 591 00:40:12.855 --> 00:40:17.195 And, again, if you're not doing heavy customizations with widgets on your site, it's not terribly important. 592 00:40:17.500 --> 00:40:19.680 But if you're a developer and, you know, you're managing, 593 00:40:20.140 --> 00:40:22.640 accounts for several customers or clients of yours, 594 00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:30.640 it's good to check up on this, you know, once a month and just see if there's anything that you should be aware of of any significant changes. 595 00:40:31.180 --> 00:40:31.680 Okay. 596 00:40:32.664 --> 00:40:33.065 Let's see. 597 00:40:33.065 --> 00:40:37.545 Our really good friend, Arlana, has her hand up, and I'll go ahead and unmute your microphone. 598 00:40:37.545 --> 00:40:38.045 Arlana? 599 00:40:38.585 --> 00:40:43.405 Hello there. Can you hear me? We can hear you. How are you doing today? Great. Thank you. 600 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:48.780 I have a little late getting on here, but, I do have a a question I'm working on. 601 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:53.500 I'm trying to create a landing page for a a free gift giveaway. 602 00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:54.840 And, 603 00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.845 I need to put in the universal code so that it will accept 604 00:40:59.325 --> 00:41:02.945 the landing page information from my constant contact. 605 00:41:03.724 --> 00:41:06.145 And I'm not sure where to go to do that. 606 00:41:06.765 --> 00:41:07.825 Perfect. So 607 00:41:08.205 --> 00:41:13.585 is the entire landing page built on constant contact or just the form? Just the form. K. 608 00:41:13.590 --> 00:41:15.290 So this is what you'll wanna do. 609 00:41:15.910 --> 00:41:19.210 Tell you exactly what you wanna do. You wanna go to your widget manager, 610 00:41:19.830 --> 00:41:22.330 and you wanna click on new widget, 611 00:41:23.750 --> 00:41:25.930 and call it whatever you want, constant 612 00:41:27.215 --> 00:41:27.715 contact 613 00:41:29.375 --> 00:41:34.755 form, and just put your copy and paste that code into here, the HTML here. Okay? 614 00:41:35.215 --> 00:41:37.155 And while you're doing this simultaneously, 615 00:41:37.535 --> 00:41:38.035 Arlana, 616 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:43.700 you'll see here there's some short code here, widget equals constant contact form. 617 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.060 So just go ahead and and save your changes. Copy this here. 618 00:41:48.160 --> 00:41:50.820 Obviously, I just put gibberish in here, but this will be 619 00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:54.180 the code that constant contact wants you to add to your site. 620 00:41:54.525 --> 00:41:59.825 So now you save that, and now it's a custom HTML widget on your site, which is really cool. 621 00:42:00.045 --> 00:42:03.984 And the best way to do that is go back to your landing page in your web page builder, 622 00:42:04.444 --> 00:42:06.704 and wherever you want that form to render, 623 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:12.400 just pop in that widget equals constant contact form. So, if you're using yeah. 624 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.680 I'm sure you've styled your page beautifully, but I'll just use it in this example. 625 00:42:15.680 --> 00:42:17.940 You know, if you were using a content block, 626 00:42:18.240 --> 00:42:22.815 maybe I wanna remove the image, and I'll just do widget equals constant contact form here. 627 00:42:23.055 --> 00:42:26.595 And then the constant contact form will run should render properly, 628 00:42:27.055 --> 00:42:28.435 in this in this way. 629 00:42:28.815 --> 00:42:34.515 Okay. So it gave me I have two different, HTML codes. Right? They're the one for the actual form, 630 00:42:34.990 --> 00:42:37.250 and then it says to be sure and and 631 00:42:37.550 --> 00:42:38.050 input 632 00:42:38.430 --> 00:42:40.190 the universal code onto 633 00:42:40.670 --> 00:42:41.970 Okay. The universe 634 00:42:42.590 --> 00:42:44.370 right. So the universal code, 635 00:42:44.750 --> 00:42:46.210 you can put it in two places. 636 00:42:47.230 --> 00:42:54.405 In this case, because you only need that universal code to work on your landing page, or do you need that to work on all the pages of your site they're suggesting? 637 00:42:55.585 --> 00:42:57.285 Yeah. They're saying for all of them. 638 00:42:57.425 --> 00:43:02.645 So very simply, you can go to design settings, and there's a special place just for that. 639 00:43:03.390 --> 00:43:03.890 And 640 00:43:04.670 --> 00:43:08.210 go to the second to last tab here, custom CSS head. 641 00:43:08.510 --> 00:43:10.210 And just depending on their instructions, 642 00:43:10.829 --> 00:43:16.190 go ahead and paste it into the additional head code area or if they want it at the bottom of the page. 643 00:43:16.190 --> 00:43:20.405 I think they want it in the in the head code area, but if they want it at the bottom of the page, yeah, 644 00:43:20.785 --> 00:43:24.565 you would go footer code. But in this case, put that universal code here. 645 00:43:25.665 --> 00:43:26.245 You know? 646 00:43:27.905 --> 00:43:32.005 Give that a try. The universal code pop here, it sounds like it's for tracking purposes, 647 00:43:33.020 --> 00:43:36.480 and some, like, JavaScripts they need for their forms to load. And then, 648 00:43:37.180 --> 00:43:44.640 yeah, then do the for the specific form itself, create it a a custom widget for it, and then pop that widget on the landing page 649 00:43:45.165 --> 00:43:51.005 with the widget equals short code, that I just, shared with you. Okay. So I'm gonna I I get it. 650 00:43:51.005 --> 00:43:54.845 How to put that information into here and create this. And then what do I do? 651 00:43:54.845 --> 00:43:56.785 How do I get that into the page again? 652 00:43:56.845 --> 00:44:04.200 So so, so when you're editing your your widget, if you scroll down, there's a the short code's right here, so you can just copy this here. 653 00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:06.580 Widget equals constant contact form. 654 00:44:06.580 --> 00:44:11.300 It's the same as the widget name, and I'll just backtrack a moment. Go back to your landing page. 655 00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:13.800 I'll just I'll just open a new web page in this case. 656 00:44:14.105 --> 00:44:19.224 And wherever you want that form to render, just put the widget equals constant contact form. 657 00:44:19.224 --> 00:44:21.724 Then all their HTML for that specific form, 658 00:44:22.424 --> 00:44:26.765 and how it's supposed to be designed, should render properly on your landing page. 659 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.240 And I can do that right on the main page for page content. 660 00:44:30.240 --> 00:44:33.060 I don't have to go into the HTML formatting part. 661 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:38.160 Correct. Just you don't have to do it. Just just pop this in wherever you need it to go. Great. 662 00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:41.360 That was exactly what I the step I was missing. Okay. 663 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:44.375 If you continue to have issues, post something in the Facebook group. 664 00:44:44.615 --> 00:44:46.955 Maybe I can help you out there as well after the webinar. 665 00:44:47.655 --> 00:44:51.095 Okay. Perfect. No. I think that that's awesome. That's the step that I missed. 666 00:44:51.095 --> 00:44:57.530 I I put the HTML directly into that page. Gotcha. And it wasn't showing. So Okay. Perfect. 667 00:44:57.530 --> 00:45:00.270 Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Glad to help. 668 00:45:00.570 --> 00:45:05.850 Alright, guys. Well, thank you so much for another wonderful webinar. We've passed the 100 mark. 669 00:45:05.850 --> 00:45:07.550 We're on our way to 200 webinars. 670 00:45:08.170 --> 00:45:12.135 If we didn't get your questions today, please join us, in the Facebook group. 671 00:45:12.135 --> 00:45:16.635 You can go to brilliant directories dot com forward slash Facebook, and we'll try to get to your questions there. 672 00:45:17.255 --> 00:45:20.695 You can now have a custom main menu for your logged in members. 673 00:45:20.695 --> 00:45:25.115 I definitely recommend taking advantage of that. And, again, it doesn't need to be anything drastic. 674 00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:36.069 It could simply be the difference between having a join today link or join now link versus not having that join today link, or you can create totally unique menus for, logged in members versus, public visitors. 675 00:45:36.849 --> 00:45:40.069 Lots of lab updates we were happy to share with you guys today. 676 00:45:40.665 --> 00:45:45.945 And, again, please join us in the Facebook group. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook. 677 00:45:45.945 --> 00:45:47.885 We can continue the conversations there. 678 00:45:48.185 --> 00:45:54.212 The next webinar is in two weeks, so we'll join you guys then. On behalf of myself, 679 00:45:54.512 --> 00:45:58.852 David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thank you guys so much for joining us today. 680 00:45:59.152 --> 00:46:02.292 Have a great day and a brilliant week. Take care, guys.