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Alright, guys. And let's dive right into it.

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I see a few more familiar names and faces just logged in here. Steven and Terry, good to see you.

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Tim

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as well. And I promised Sheila I'd give her a shout out. So good to see you here, Sheila, as well.

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Welcome everyone to another edition of Webinar Wednesday.

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We've made it through another couple of weeks together. It's great to be with everyone here today.

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We have a few, updates to share, a handful from the BD Labs, and we have a really awesome tip of the week that, David was nice enough to put together for us.

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I think it'll be really handy, not just to show some versatility, but kind of open our minds as to some of the ways we can use the platform,

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with the post types available. So if this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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I am Jason there on the left, and we are lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thank you so much for joining us today, and I'm really excited for the tip of the week today as well.

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Hey, everybody. Glad to be back with you for another webinar.

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We've got a great tip of the week, really exciting. Should be useful for a lot of you.

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We've been getting some requests on, how to implement what we'll be showing.

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So really looking forward to showing you all how to do

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that. So much anticipation.

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Looking forward to it. Alright.

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I always like to mention if you're not already part of our Facebook group, I do invite you to join.

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It's a great community,

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great way to keep the conversations going in between webinar Wednesdays. You can head on over.

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You can do it right now. You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook,

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and just click on the blue,

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join button. I'm in there myself.

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It's pretty active group and some really great constructive conversations in there.

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So we do look forward to seeing you guys there. And I do see some new names and faces out there.

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Just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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It's a great way for us to kind of introduce and show you some of the new features that are baked into the platform.

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What we really wanna do is kinda show you how those new features can help grow,

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your community, whether it's in increasing member engagement,

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sign ups,

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increasing traffic,

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your website navigation, things like that. So you have if you have questions,

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on these topics or anything related to your BD website, we will be taking questions in just a little bit.

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So if you have them, jot them down so you don't forget them, and we'll try to get to as many questions as we can today.

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Alright. And we have a small handful of BD Lab updates, today. Usually, this list is about double,

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but this is a good, list here, and I'll just breeze right through it for every for everyone.

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The first one at the top, we have added new color sets into the design settings.

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If you've already set up the colors for your website, maybe not so important for you.

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But if you're setting up a new website,

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these are some new modern color sets that can maybe help jump start your idea with regard to design.

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Let me just show you where that is for those of you who may not be familiar.

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We'll go on to the admin dashboard area,

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and the premade color sets are in the design settings.

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And from here, we can toggle over to the color sets tab.

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And if you scroll down, it kinda shows you what the menu color is gonna be, the the background and and the button color combination.

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So, again, if you already have your color set up, may not be so, important, but if you're just getting started,

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this is a great way to kind of maybe just pre select a color set that matches the vibe you're going for on your website, something lighter, darker, cold colors, warm colors.

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And then if you scroll down to the bottom, Minty is one of my favorite ones actually, and also Pulse, if you're if you're looking for something with purple in it.

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And if you scroll down, you have some darker contrasting

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backgrounds here as well. So it really just depends on the vibe you're looking for.

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And what's really cool is once you select the color set, maybe you wanna change what the main menu color is.

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select one of these, and then come back, scroll all the way back up.

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If you come back up to your general tab,

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you can make more granular changes to things like the menu color,

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and the button colors after you've preselected

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you've selected one of the premade color sets.

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So that's something cool to keep in mind as well.

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As you know, a couple months ago, we introduced the ability to have community comments, so members can leave comments on some of the posts on your site.

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So if you write a blog article,

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members can comment on that post.

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Up until now, whatever was entered as a comment, you're kinda stuck with it in the admin area.

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You can view them. You can moderate them. You can delete them.

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However, maybe if there's an obvious spelling mistake that you wanna fix or, you wanna redact something that shouldn't be there, like someone

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filled in at the end of a comment,

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maybe some links that shouldn't be there, and whatnot. You as the admin can now edit

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post comments. Let me show you where you can do that.

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So your your comments would be under the interactions tab under post comments,

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and it's pretty straightforward what we're gonna see right now.

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So you can see your comments here.

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Obviously, you can change the status, accepted, pending, declined.

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again, you may not need to do this. I'm sure everyone's writing

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decent comments for, the website. But if you're not gonna delete it and you just want to change

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something in the comment, you can click on that, and, you can edit it,

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So that's pretty cool with comments.

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Actually the tip of the week today is related to post comments as well. Alright.

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This next one, I think we previewed it or mentioned it in a previous webinar.

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As you know, when you're creating a web page, we have the pre made elements.

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There are other areas where the text editor is used in the admin area, however, the premade elements

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until now were only available when you're editing, in the web page builder area.

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how the premade elements are now available in other text editors

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in the admin area. So this should be pretty helpful.

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So, where it's always been in the web page builder, let's just take a look at that together.

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I've just created a new page here,

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and this is what we're referring to, are these pre made elements here in the sidebar.

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So you can drag an image in,

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you can drag text with an image. Pretty pretty helpful for stacking and creating a landing page.

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as an example. One of them is in the design settings,

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I think one of them is custom content text editor.

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So when we select this, we can toggle the text editor.

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And prior to this, there was no sidebar with the premade elements.

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that says premade elements, and when you toggle this,

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you'll get the premade elements in the sidebar here. So if you wanted to drop a button in,

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you know, and things like that. All the premade elements are here.

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So that's one area where we have a text editor, and now the premade elements are available.

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streaming section under the and enable additional sections, there's also a text editor with these.

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and there are some settings here related to the boxes and backgrounds,

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and we see it again here, premade elements.

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So you can just go ahead and drop one in here if you wanted to, and we see we've just added, the text with image right here.

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And then there is one more place I do wanna show you. It is in your membership plans.

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So if we head on over to membership plans, remember, you can add a welcome message into the member's homepage the homepage of their dashboard when they first log in.

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And up until now, again, it's just been the text editor, but, the premade elements should make it, easier to maybe make something that displays a bit better.

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we'll click on this,

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just a bit, it's custom dashboard content. So you can have,

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content of the header of their dashboard or the footer,

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that is when they log in.

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for developers and designers, you can always opt to choose a custom widget to render there instead.

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But for for me and and from, most of us, we're probably gonna wanna use the text editor.

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And we have the text editor here, and once again, we have the premade elements pop out here.

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And we can put that right in here, and we can put calls to action, so when people log in, we can kind of make it easy for them to do additional actions in addition to what's already there by default

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in the member's dashboard. So look out for this.

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If you're seeing this, we encourage you to use it, and, yeah, we'll be continuing to make improvements to the text editor, as we move forward.

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So that's pretty cool there.

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This one, thanks to Colette. We had fixed the bug where the profile statistics,

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if you have the, the profile analytics add on, it's tracking,

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how many profile views the members get, how many clicks to their website they get.

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It's a pretty cool add on. However, we had fixed something where the statistics

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so the statistics stop showing,

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if it's disabled for a membership plan. However,

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we had some feature requests to make a setting where the profile statistics

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are only visible to the admin of the website and not the member in their member dashboard.

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So everything I just explained, let me show you what I'm referring to.

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We'll start with a link to the add on so we're all on the same page here,

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the members, how many profile views they've received, clicks to their websites, if they have posts like they published an article or an event, it'll track how many views that article or event have have received.

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So it's pretty it's a good retention tool.

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If your members are thinking about canceling, you can kinda point to the analytics and say, look, you're getting, you know, a hundred views a month on our on our site, you know, how much is that worth to you, etcetera, etcetera.

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So I'm just gonna pop this in the chat here, and then I'll show you guys the settings that are now available.

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Alright. So when this setting is enabled, you enable it for a membership plan.

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So maybe for your premium members, do you give them the ability to see their profile stats.

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When this is enabled for a member, in their dashboard, they'll see here

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a button that says profile statistics. Now this is a a demo site.

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I don't think there's much data on this member,

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profile views, and it shows you month over month.

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You can actually click into a month, and it'll show you day by day.

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So we can see here in June, he's received

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10 views on his post and one

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profile view. So not much here, not much of a retention incentive here, but

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this is what they see. So this is enabled for the membership plan, and the member can view it.

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And then let me show you where the setting is.

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This is the premium plan top contributor.

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So let's go to our membership plans,

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and let's actually disable this for this this membership plan, but only enable it for the admin of the site.

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And when we edit this plan, there are a lot of settings here.

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If you know in your mind what you're looking for, it's kinda helpful to use the search by keyword tool.

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So I'm gonna look for statistics,

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and here it is right here, enable profile statistics.

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So before, it was just enable or disable were the options.

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enable for member and admin, so the member and the admin can see the stats.

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enable only for the admin.

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So what this means is you, the website owner of the site, and we'll take a look at an example,

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only you will see the stats for this member when you're looking at that member's data

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in the administration area here. So let's set this and save the changes.

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we'll see here now in the sidebar the profile statistics is is gone, and if he tries to go directly to the link, it'll just redirect him back to the dashboard page.

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However and let's take his member ID.

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Let's search for this member in the search members area.

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Alright. So what we wanna do is wanna look at this member's account details,

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and this will kinda take us to everything on in their transaction subscriptions.

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This is the tab that shows for the administrator.

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So when that setting is enabled, enable for admin only,

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the tracking will be enabled, so it'll be ticking and and counting how many profile views that that whole engine is gonna be working for the membership plan,

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and then the profile analytics will only be available here,

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for the admin to continue tracking it.

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So, again, it's a good retention tool where you as the admin can use it for whatever you need.

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So that new settings here.

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I Just wanted to go over it in detail because not too many people might be familiar,

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with this feature, and it's pretty cool. Alright.

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And last but not least, we did introduce this in the previous webinar.

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You now have the ability to not only create tickets, but view your tickets from the administration area, and we've just added a couple new quick links to make it easier for you to access,

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your tickets and create new tickets.

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We got some really good feedback on this.

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We're making some small improvements along the way, but so far it's been a winner, and we're really happy that we've made it easier for you guys to manage your tickets all in one place.

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This is gonna be the quick links are gonna be under the my account toggle drop down here.

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So go ahead and click that open.

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prior to this, you basically just had your email address and a sign out link.

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Now you have quick links to view all your websites if you have more than one website in your account,

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and then you can click view my tickets

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and create new tickets. I'll open these two in a new tab. You could take a look at them.

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Alright. So this will kinda take you to your outer account management area,

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where you can again view your websites, your tickets, or create a new ticket.

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So these are just all some sample tickets here,

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and then the create new ticket is right here.

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So you really if you ever have a question, you really never have to leave, the admin area.

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You can just create a new ticket, and the response time is usually within a day or sooner is what we aim for.

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So that is there for everyone. Under the my account drop down are these quick links here.

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streaming down your homepage. That's been pretty highly demanded and requested for.

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Also, still the ability to exclude smart list when sending newsletters, that's coming down the pipeline soon, and improving the workflow when matching leads with members.

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Wanna make that a little more intuitive and easier to use, a nicer workflow.

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A majority of that are, from the support tickets that you guys submit and the features, feature request that you guys submit.

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So thank you guys so much for those,

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Alright. Let's, I know that was a mouthful. Let's take a question or two.

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I'm gonna lower everyone's hands.

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If you just just on the things we went over right now, if you have a question or a comment or two, we'd love to hear from you.

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Let me, see who's got their hand up, and then we'll, segue into the tip of the week. Alright.

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Good friend Bobby here has got his hand up. Looks like you're self muted, Bobby. There we go.

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Can you hear me now? Yes. We can. How are you doing? Where are you calling from? I

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Alright. Alright. That's where I am too, Los Angeles. What's your question for us?

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I'm in the Bay Area, so Northern California. Okay.

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First of all, I just wanna say thank you, Jason.

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I actually purchased the lifetime

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brilliant directory

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And so, you know, my what I was doing before was no longer essential, so I had to put my development

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hat back on. And I just wanna say, number one, you guys look great.

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All the changes and the updates that you've made from when I first got it to today,

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I think it was I wanna call today fate.

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But with that being said, I just wanna thank you. So to my question,

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premade elements toolbar and text editor, do you is this going this would be great.

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This was never there before.

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So I this is a great opportunity for me to make things easier

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by using the the premade elements that you have.

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Is that is that across all the different pages such as, like, a contact form or or is that just a home page?

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Where are the premade elements

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So in the web page, those are the pages that you kinda like, landing pages you're creating and things like that.

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Let me do this. We did do a webinar that kinda covers it in more depth.

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I'm gonna share a link in the chat,

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that kinda show I'm gonna share two links with you. Okay?

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Here's one, and then I'll show you one for one that goes specifically into the home page, and one is just in general talking about it.

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And then this next one is, like, kinda how to spruce up your homepage using the premade elements, like, how to put, like, a testimonial on your homepage and things like that, which kind of, are really good engagement tools,

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for new visitors. So, check them out, and then ask questions in the Facebook group too.

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We'd love to see, what you're, what you're developing there. Thank you so much.

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Okay. We have a great, tip of the week today. I'm actually pretty excited about this one.

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David suggested it, and I think it's right on on the mark with, some of the questions we've been seeing in the Facebook group, some of the discussions that have been started there,

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how to create a community message board with your brilliant directory's website.

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If it's okay with you, David, may I pass it over and, we could take a deep dive into this tip of the week.

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Yeah. Absolutely. So as Jason mentioned, we've been getting this question a lot recently.

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Quickly, let's go over some of the primary benefits of having a message board on your website.

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Obviously, it will increase member engagement, but it will also help to boost your website SEO by having additional content on your website.

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And this, you know, we talk a lot about user generated content and how to entice your members to participate in your community and and publish content for your website.

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to add content to your website without having to, you know, write an article or or make a video or create an event or anything like that.

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on your website. And lastly, it adds to your website's credibility.

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who may not be registered yet within your community that you do have an active community and that members care about each other and that they're interacting with one another.

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And they can also see, you know, if you're replying to discussions and and interacting in the comment section as well, they can see that as well.

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these are really good benefits. And, again, you said there's a lot more benefits.

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to get other community members, involved in those,

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strategies as well because you have content being created on your site for you. Absolutely.

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message type thing, you know, going to somebody's personal inbox. You can make it more of a public,

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on that by creating a discussion out of it. Alright.

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I was posted by we have the author snapshot here, so we know who posted it.

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this is basically a a discussion started, in the message board.

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members don't necessarily need to add images as well.

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members can just post a text question and then it would work the same exact way. Cool.

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So maybe with the message boards, they don't we don't want them to put, like, a feature image like they do with, like, an event or a coupon.

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my content and the edit post settings.

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So David actually did something pretty interesting here.

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Everyone should have the discussions

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the main discussions, the the threads that your your members can start the conversations.

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for the message board. And what we've done is then for this post type discussions,

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This membership plan can post discussions.

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Is anyone else

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That's great. Here's the comment.

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So if we go back to the message board, and this is under business services.

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Let's just go back to the message board, a landing page we created. We'll go over that in a second.

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we can see here I have this post here. Now is anyone else losing money on home appraisals?

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that is the admin contributor.

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so that's kinda like the blog articles versus the community articles where under the blog articles post type, it's the the staff and the admin of the web site adding the articles, and the community articles are the ones where the members are contributing.

440
00:29:34.775 --> 00:29:37.515
So they're two totally separate different post types.

441
00:29:37.815 --> 00:29:46.790
And, David, you said you mentioned you created this here website admin, as a membership plan, and this one can post both announcements and discussions.

442
00:29:46.850 --> 00:29:49.270
Remember, announcements is our secret one

443
00:29:49.570 --> 00:29:55.190
kinda that only the website admin can post, and you see there's only one member here as the website admin.

444
00:29:55.570 --> 00:29:57.910
So let's actually log in as the website admin,

445
00:29:58.885 --> 00:30:02.265
and we'll show you what we did on the landing page. Let's log in here.

446
00:30:03.365 --> 00:30:06.985
Great. So the website admin can post discussions or announcements,

447
00:30:08.405 --> 00:30:08.905
and

448
00:30:09.365 --> 00:30:10.505
we're gonna say

449
00:30:11.260 --> 00:30:12.240
holiday party

450
00:30:13.260 --> 00:30:13.920
in July.

451
00:30:14.620 --> 00:30:15.120
And

452
00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:18.720
you can have different categories. You could just have a category announcements.

453
00:30:19.100 --> 00:30:22.720
But this one, if we notice the difference, the URL for this is announcements,

454
00:30:23.865 --> 00:30:27.005
whereas the ones for our discussions are is discussions.

455
00:30:27.465 --> 00:30:36.525
So this is a totally different post type, but we're gonna make it seamless on that message boards page, so the users don't really notice that there is a difference between them.

456
00:30:36.985 --> 00:30:39.325
So let's just put holiday party in July.

457
00:30:39.919 --> 00:30:41.940
There we go. And we'll save the changes.

458
00:30:43.520 --> 00:30:45.700
Okay. Let's go back to our message boards,

459
00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:49.299
and let's go to announcements.

460
00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:51.940
This this page is key here, so let's see.

461
00:30:53.035 --> 00:30:54.075
Okay. Great. Here it is.

462
00:30:54.075 --> 00:30:58.895
We had one website announcement here with an image, but we can see here holiday party in July,

463
00:30:59.355 --> 00:30:59.855
and

464
00:31:00.235 --> 00:31:01.615
this is under announcements.

465
00:31:02.395 --> 00:31:14.390
So let's look at the landing page that we created and this main menu here because I think this is what ties everything together is this having this page with, the message board and and the selecting a category, etcetera, etcetera.

466
00:31:14.450 --> 00:31:17.510
And we're gonna show you how you can get the different categories.

467
00:31:17.570 --> 00:31:22.550
So discussions, we had those different categories set up, and we're linking directly to those categories.

468
00:31:23.455 --> 00:31:25.215
Let's take a look at this page here.

469
00:31:25.215 --> 00:31:29.635
And, David, if you don't mind, I'll go to this page, but can you kinda show us how you how you set this up?

470
00:31:30.975 --> 00:31:35.475
Yeah. Definitely. So it's very simple. We just use the basic tools that are included.

471
00:31:37.310 --> 00:31:40.290
All we did was we created a 3 x 3 table.

472
00:31:40.750 --> 00:31:44.130
You see the, middle row in there acts as a little bit of a separator,

473
00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:47.330
but we just found some icon images online,

474
00:31:47.710 --> 00:31:50.290
added them here, added some text.

475
00:31:50.975 --> 00:31:56.275
We have the button link premade element that we dragged over into each of these cells

476
00:31:57.135 --> 00:32:01.235
and then we added the we customize the text to make it view all.

477
00:32:02.255 --> 00:32:05.795
We can then add a link to the image

478
00:32:06.130 --> 00:32:08.470
to the title of each category

479
00:32:08.850 --> 00:32:13.030
as well as, to the button here. But this is really it. Also,

480
00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:15.990
important to mention is the hero section tab.

481
00:32:16.130 --> 00:32:19.270
At the top of the page, we did have that really nice cover image

482
00:32:19.615 --> 00:32:24.095
with, with the title there. So all those settings are controlled here in the hero section.

483
00:32:24.095 --> 00:32:28.595
We just uploaded, this hero image. We added a color overlay.

484
00:32:28.975 --> 00:32:32.575
We set the visibility of that color overlay to eight out of 10.

485
00:32:32.575 --> 00:32:38.230
So there's a little bit of transparency there, which makes the text on top a little bit easier to read.

486
00:32:38.610 --> 00:32:42.230
We center aligned the text, made the text white,

487
00:32:42.770 --> 00:32:46.710
edited the font size of the main title and the subtitle

488
00:32:47.170 --> 00:32:51.325
text, and those titles are at the very top of this web page builder.

489
00:32:51.465 --> 00:32:55.245
A message board is the main title, select the category and start chatting is the subtitle.

490
00:32:55.865 --> 00:32:59.725
That's pretty much it. This whole process took maybe about fifteen minutes,

491
00:33:00.105 --> 00:33:03.405
not including any time it would take, you know, to find icons and stuff.

492
00:33:03.750 --> 00:33:07.370
But, yeah, very simple. To summarize, it's just creating the table,

493
00:33:07.830 --> 00:33:11.050
adding in the image icons that we found online,

494
00:33:11.430 --> 00:33:16.695
adding in the text, dragging over the buttons from the premade elements on the right hand side.

495
00:33:16.855 --> 00:33:20.634
And then the last thing to do just to link all of those to the proper URLs

496
00:33:21.255 --> 00:33:23.434
for all of these discussion categories.

497
00:33:24.294 --> 00:33:25.414
And that's perfect.

498
00:33:25.414 --> 00:33:30.670
And let's actually show you guys, for example, where to get because we had to link this manually.

499
00:33:30.670 --> 00:33:32.770
We had to get the link for business services,

500
00:33:33.230 --> 00:33:37.730
and then we needed to edit the link here. So it goes to business services.

501
00:33:38.110 --> 00:33:41.490
Let me show you guys where to get links for your post categories.

502
00:33:41.550 --> 00:33:45.570
That way you can use them in your main menu. You can use them on landing pages.

503
00:33:45.995 --> 00:33:51.055
So you can create nice pages on your site and link to specific categories of your posts.

504
00:33:51.675 --> 00:33:56.975
So the easiest way to do it, I think, is go to your edit post settings. It'll open a new tab,

505
00:33:57.995 --> 00:33:58.495
and

506
00:33:58.890 --> 00:34:03.370
we'll use the discussions as an example. So, you can write here and edit post settings.

507
00:34:03.370 --> 00:34:11.150
If you ever needed to get to, like, the search results page of one of your post types, you can just come here and it can go this is the URL permalink.

508
00:34:11.770 --> 00:34:15.665
Basically, this will take you to the search results page for all discussions.

509
00:34:16.445 --> 00:34:25.265
And then if you wanna get the link for a specific category, the easiest thing to do, just do a search for that category in the sidebar here with your search module,

510
00:34:25.645 --> 00:34:27.265
and hit search now.

511
00:34:29.420 --> 00:34:33.819
And this would be the URL that takes us directly to business services.

512
00:34:33.819 --> 00:34:37.760
So we really just need to copy everything after the first forward slash. Whoops.

513
00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:42.319
So it's you could copy the whole thing if you want, but I like to just you just need to take

514
00:34:42.815 --> 00:34:46.995
the first forward slash and beyond. When we come back to our landing page,

515
00:34:47.375 --> 00:34:51.375
that's exactly what we wanna so we have this image here and we can, of course, link images.

516
00:34:51.375 --> 00:34:52.515
I'll edit the link

517
00:34:52.975 --> 00:34:54.595
and just paste this in here.

518
00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:59.619
And then we also added this button. I'll actually remove this button and,

519
00:35:00.259 --> 00:35:02.039
show you guys how I added it.

520
00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:05.559
So I put a a space here. I dragged a button here,

521
00:35:06.579 --> 00:35:08.920
and then I changed it to be the default.

522
00:35:09.465 --> 00:35:10.985
And then I edited the button.

523
00:35:10.985 --> 00:35:15.485
The URL is gonna be the business services link, and I like it to save you all.

524
00:35:17.145 --> 00:35:18.685
And I'll go ahead and,

525
00:35:19.225 --> 00:35:20.125
save the changes.

526
00:35:21.385 --> 00:35:22.845
Oops. Just hit enter there.

527
00:35:23.690 --> 00:35:24.670
And that's it.

528
00:35:25.369 --> 00:35:30.269
I think in this hero section, just to show you guys the overlay color, what it does, it's something new we added.

529
00:35:30.490 --> 00:35:33.950
So if we look at this page, David had like a dark blue overlay.

530
00:35:34.170 --> 00:35:37.309
I'm just gonna do red, so it's like a big difference in the contrast.

531
00:35:40.085 --> 00:35:41.224
And if we refresh,

532
00:35:42.724 --> 00:35:43.444
we'll see here.

533
00:35:43.444 --> 00:35:56.610
So again, just depending on the mood of your site, the hero image can can come in really handy, and that overlay is really cool, because you can add a tint on top of the image so the the text can really pop a bit more.

534
00:35:57.230 --> 00:36:03.170
But, yeah, to get the link to a category, that is the easiest way. Go to your edit post types.

535
00:36:03.390 --> 00:36:06.370
And so for the announcements, that one's a little different.

536
00:36:07.005 --> 00:36:08.704
Let's go to the announcements page.

537
00:36:10.045 --> 00:36:13.265
And because this is its own post type and there are,

538
00:36:13.885 --> 00:36:25.390
there are not yet really any additional categories, maybe later we do announcements, maybe another one we do company news, things that are really dedicated to the message board that only the admin of the website are gonna post.

539
00:36:25.850 --> 00:36:27.950
Again, you can do the search here

540
00:36:28.410 --> 00:36:29.150
and just

541
00:36:29.770 --> 00:36:31.630
copy everything from the first,

542
00:36:32.170 --> 00:36:35.550
forward slash. And if we come back to our landing page

543
00:36:36.145 --> 00:36:39.125
under announcements, I wanna make sure that I am linking,

544
00:36:41.985 --> 00:36:42.485
there.

545
00:36:43.505 --> 00:36:44.805
Same thing with the image.

546
00:36:47.265 --> 00:36:49.745
And that's it. That's how you can get links to the category.

547
00:36:49.745 --> 00:36:54.220
So you can make a nice little landing page, and you can now have a message board experience.

548
00:36:54.359 --> 00:36:56.760
For the links, we did the same thing in the main menu.

549
00:36:56.760 --> 00:37:00.859
I'll just since we're talking about it, I'll go there real quick in the menu manager.

550
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.859
And this is the header main menu.

551
00:37:06.455 --> 00:37:13.115
And we can see here, we have the message board, and you can see we've nested about five or six links,

552
00:37:13.575 --> 00:37:17.435
with their respective URLs. So we put the name that we want,

553
00:37:18.020 --> 00:37:20.900
and it just goes to the page that it's related to.

554
00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:28.200
So by linking to the categories, we create like a really nice interactive experience just for one of our post types or two of our post types,

555
00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:31.640
by linking to the pages that, they correspond to.

556
00:37:32.195 --> 00:37:38.355
And in a nutshell, what we've created here is a page that acts like a portal, and you can create portals for different things.

557
00:37:38.355 --> 00:37:43.655
In previous webinars, we talked about when members log in, you can redirect them to another page.

558
00:37:43.875 --> 00:37:46.215
You can bring them in their in their member dashboard.

559
00:37:46.550 --> 00:37:55.210
You can create something like this to make their dashboard more of a portal of places they can go on your site and actions you want them to take.

560
00:37:55.750 --> 00:38:00.250
For public visitors, maybe this is the page where they see that they can search events,

561
00:38:00.735 --> 00:38:01.955
coupons, classifieds,

562
00:38:02.895 --> 00:38:03.715
member listings,

563
00:38:04.095 --> 00:38:06.175
you know, add your business could be one of them.

564
00:38:06.175 --> 00:38:11.235
So think of this as not just message board, now we're expanding it a bit more.

565
00:38:11.295 --> 00:38:13.955
Creating portal pages with maybe,

566
00:38:14.319 --> 00:38:17.220
you know, three, six, nine, 12 distinct links

567
00:38:18.319 --> 00:38:22.559
of actions or places on our website we want visitors and members to go to.

568
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:27.515
So it helps with the navigation, provides a better experience, and it's super simple.

569
00:38:27.815 --> 00:38:33.914
Turns your site more into an app like experience where they're just clicking to get to the to the section they wanna get to,

570
00:38:34.375 --> 00:38:35.515
without any cumbersome,

571
00:38:36.214 --> 00:38:38.635
filtering or searching at least right from the bat.

572
00:38:39.095 --> 00:38:41.035
So keep that in mind as well.

573
00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:45.580
So with that, we'll pass it over to you guys. We definitely have time for some questions.

574
00:38:45.580 --> 00:38:48.000
I'm gonna lower everyone's hands here.

575
00:38:48.220 --> 00:38:53.680
And if you do have a question, maybe about the tip of the week, your own website, what some of the new features we've released,

576
00:38:54.060 --> 00:38:55.920
we'd love to answer your questions.

577
00:38:56.635 --> 00:39:00.235
Aiden, how are you today? Great. I'm good. How are you? Pretty good.

578
00:39:00.235 --> 00:39:05.055
How'd you like the tip of the week today? I thought it was great, and I really love this

579
00:39:05.355 --> 00:39:08.520
message board. I just had a couple questions about it. Sure.

580
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:12.060
I know you were talking about that you could restrict

581
00:39:12.600 --> 00:39:17.100
hosting to different membership types, but can you also restrict viewing?

582
00:39:17.560 --> 00:39:20.280
Yes. You can. So that's also really, really cool.

583
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.100
So let's say you have a portal that's only for your

584
00:39:23.635 --> 00:39:24.695
premium members.

585
00:39:25.235 --> 00:39:26.375
Basically, in a nutshell,

586
00:39:26.915 --> 00:39:31.655
let's say let's say we have a post type called, like, private discussions or member discussions.

587
00:39:32.195 --> 00:39:35.095
What you can do when you have the members only add on,

588
00:39:35.555 --> 00:39:36.055
is

589
00:39:36.435 --> 00:39:38.535
you can protect the post type.

590
00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:45.240
And if you wanna like fully protect it, you could protect the search results page and the detail pages.

591
00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:53.165
Sometimes people enable the search results pages, so like people who are lurking your site or browsing your site can get a teaser

592
00:39:53.625 --> 00:39:58.125
of the of the content, but when they've clicked to view it, the detail page is protected.

593
00:39:58.425 --> 00:40:03.485
But when it's protected, Aidan, and you save your changes, you will then let me just protect,

594
00:40:03.865 --> 00:40:05.245
discussions real quick.

595
00:40:06.720 --> 00:40:09.060
So let me show you. Now that this is protected,

596
00:40:09.520 --> 00:40:18.100
I need to go to the membership plans, and I need to specifically choose not only who can post, but who can view this post type as well.

597
00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:20.340
So if I try to go view

598
00:40:21.125 --> 00:40:23.944
this now, the discussions, let's do it together.

599
00:40:25.125 --> 00:40:25.785
Go here.

600
00:40:26.645 --> 00:40:32.505
It says this content it says it's for upgraded members because I'm already logged in, but now let's give me access.

601
00:40:32.645 --> 00:40:33.305
I am

602
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:38.580
I am the website admin membership plan. So let's go to membership plans,

603
00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:41.140
and I hope this is answering your question.

604
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:43.440
Yeah. This is fabulous. Okay.

605
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.620
So now we have to go now that we've protected the post type, we have to give the privilege

606
00:40:48.035 --> 00:40:50.135
of who can use it. So we go to post publishing,

607
00:40:50.995 --> 00:40:54.855
and that was for discussions. I think we have a filter here.

608
00:40:55.475 --> 00:40:55.975
Discussions.

609
00:40:56.435 --> 00:40:56.935
Okay.

610
00:40:57.315 --> 00:41:00.355
Here we go. So now we see the can view options.

611
00:41:00.355 --> 00:41:06.560
So website admin membership plan, can post, and can view. So let me save the changes.

612
00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:08.640
And if I try to

613
00:41:09.980 --> 00:41:15.500
view that page again where was it? Here it is. I'll refresh. I should be able to view it now.

614
00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:16.320
There we go.

615
00:41:16.835 --> 00:41:17.654
That's great.

616
00:41:17.954 --> 00:41:21.954
Okay. Thank you. And, actually, I had one more question just about the discussion board.

617
00:41:21.954 --> 00:41:25.095
Is the admin able to moderate what's posted?

618
00:41:26.035 --> 00:41:28.375
Yes. So you could do a couple

619
00:41:29.154 --> 00:41:29.654
things.

620
00:41:30.510 --> 00:41:32.690
You you have here so for discussions,

621
00:41:33.470 --> 00:41:35.570
member controls publishing status,

622
00:41:36.910 --> 00:41:38.770
admin moderates all posts,

623
00:41:39.310 --> 00:41:43.810
or auto publish all posts. That's very aggressive. That means anytime someone saves changes,

624
00:41:44.145 --> 00:41:45.525
it's it's on the site,

625
00:41:45.905 --> 00:41:50.085
forever. That's but, anyways, yes. You can, admin can moderate all the posts.

626
00:41:50.305 --> 00:41:54.725
And that's what these that's what these indicators are, these orange dots. So if you have,

627
00:41:55.985 --> 00:42:00.170
post comments or under manage posts pending for your approval,

628
00:42:00.550 --> 00:42:06.230
you'll see you'll see a number indicated here that there's work to do to Okay. Perfect. To moderate.

629
00:42:06.230 --> 00:42:08.650
Thank you so much. Alright. Good stuff there.

630
00:42:09.109 --> 00:42:11.945
And we got our good friend, Robert, here. How you doing, Robert?

631
00:42:12.245 --> 00:42:15.705
Hi. Hi. Good. Can you hear me good? You sound perfect.

632
00:42:16.245 --> 00:42:21.465
Oh, great. Quick question I had. I thought I'd heard one time you said that post

633
00:42:21.765 --> 00:42:22.585
search results

634
00:42:23.289 --> 00:42:29.869
would have a map option too, like the like the member, you know, search settings do, or was I mistaken there?

635
00:42:29.930 --> 00:42:31.549
They do. If the posts

636
00:42:32.329 --> 00:42:33.130
have any,

637
00:42:34.170 --> 00:42:34.670
location

638
00:42:35.525 --> 00:42:38.805
attributes to them. Oh, this is our demo site here. So,

639
00:42:39.525 --> 00:42:41.705
like, I'm looking at classifieds here.

640
00:42:42.405 --> 00:42:45.705
Right. There is a map view available here. Okay.

641
00:42:46.245 --> 00:42:51.900
Oh, but but they they have to the user would have to physically click on that manually click on that.

642
00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:56.860
Right? Well, you do you do have an option to start in map view if you wanted to.

643
00:42:57.180 --> 00:43:00.240
Let me show you where that is. So two places.

644
00:43:01.055 --> 00:43:03.555
Let me show you the the main one first. So

645
00:43:03.855 --> 00:43:06.915
in your design settings, under search results pages

646
00:43:07.455 --> 00:43:09.715
here Right. Under additional settings.

647
00:43:10.895 --> 00:43:14.115
Let me scroll down here. Post search results layout,

648
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.200
And you can start in list view, grid view.

649
00:43:17.200 --> 00:43:22.799
If you have the if you have the add on for map view, it would say start in map view, but you can choose Well, I should have that.

650
00:43:22.799 --> 00:43:25.599
Yeah. Yeah. If you Okay. Have it, you have it. So start in map view.

651
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.415
Now, that would apply to all your post types. So that would be your coupons, events, blogs.

652
00:43:30.415 --> 00:43:32.675
Now let's say there's only one post type.

653
00:43:33.055 --> 00:43:37.875
Let's say you wanted them all in list view except for one post type. Let's say your classifieds,

654
00:43:38.175 --> 00:43:40.595
you want to start in map view.

655
00:43:41.070 --> 00:43:43.250
So actually, again, thanks to Colette,

656
00:43:43.550 --> 00:43:45.810
great suggestions from her. We did also

657
00:43:46.190 --> 00:43:51.890
release an an additional setting here, which is granular. It's it's under your edit post settings.

658
00:43:52.030 --> 00:43:55.970
So under, let's say, classifieds, I'll just use this one as an example.

659
00:43:56.515 --> 00:44:01.875
If you wanted to override what you have in your design settings, let's go to search results design Uh-huh.

660
00:44:01.955 --> 00:44:05.095
As it's related to the jewelry classified search page.

661
00:44:05.235 --> 00:44:08.855
Under additional settings, this one's a little lower here.

662
00:44:09.650 --> 00:44:12.390
Yeah. Okay. Start results view in.

663
00:44:12.930 --> 00:44:16.130
So you can have it use the design settings rule.

664
00:44:16.130 --> 00:44:20.050
So by default, it does that, or you can override that and choose,

665
00:44:20.530 --> 00:44:22.455
map, grid view, or list view here.

666
00:44:23.175 --> 00:44:26.615
For each individual one. For each individual post type.

667
00:44:26.615 --> 00:44:33.095
So maybe one looks nicer in grid view versus list view versus map view on your site. Okay. Alright.

668
00:44:33.175 --> 00:44:37.900
Robert. Alright. Cheers. Thanks. Thanks, buddy. Alright. Good question there from, Robert.

669
00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:39.680
Always always good to see you in the webinars.

670
00:44:40.220 --> 00:44:43.840
Alright. Do you see a couple more hands up? Let me get some,

671
00:44:44.140 --> 00:44:45.760
new names and faces here.

672
00:44:46.060 --> 00:44:50.444
Alright. Good friend Ryan's got his hand up. Ryan, looks like yourself muted there. Hey, Jason.

673
00:44:50.444 --> 00:44:53.025
Good stuff. I just wanna show you, an example.

674
00:44:53.165 --> 00:44:59.744
It's not for discussions, but another, I guess, exact use case that you went over today just so people can see another visual example.

675
00:44:59.885 --> 00:45:01.585
Absolutely. That for post types.

676
00:45:02.150 --> 00:45:05.130
Just if you go to horizonfamilysolution.com,

677
00:45:05.430 --> 00:45:09.050
this is something we did for client, but I think it's a good example of that.

678
00:45:10.390 --> 00:45:12.650
Yeah. If you go to, explore more,

679
00:45:13.190 --> 00:45:15.930
and go to the core topics and just go to wellness therapy,

680
00:45:16.355 --> 00:45:19.154
These are all similar. They're basically kind of pillar pages.

681
00:45:19.154 --> 00:45:20.914
It's kinda what you did, but you could do it for

682
00:45:21.954 --> 00:45:25.815
this is another example exactly like you did. But instead of doing,

683
00:45:26.515 --> 00:45:31.255
customer support topics, it's basically linking to all the different post tags for a particular topic.

684
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:36.760
I love this. I see. Well, it's it's kinda exact same thing you can do as for others. So

685
00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:42.360
There we go. Fantastic example. Thank you so much for sharing them. So just click on one of those.

686
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:44.978
Just go to the jobs board or or just something for that.

687
00:45:44.978 --> 00:45:49.505
And I I the one thing I just wanna show everybody, just kind of an additional item that they could do

688
00:45:49.805 --> 00:45:51.085
for the discussion board.

689
00:45:51.085 --> 00:46:00.950
So say you go deep dive into the announcements, and so now you're in the announcements one, and there's no way to go back you have to go back to the other page to go back to another category of hot topics or whatever.

690
00:46:01.010 --> 00:46:05.090
So what we did was we added a just a real quick widget on the side there with core topics.

691
00:46:05.090 --> 00:46:08.470
You could kind of just directly link straight to another,

692
00:46:09.170 --> 00:46:10.790
topic set or category,

693
00:46:12.050 --> 00:46:17.085
right, straight from the the results page so you don't have to, you know, go back a page.

694
00:46:17.085 --> 00:46:19.565
You can kinda just kind of jump around right where you're at.

695
00:46:19.565 --> 00:46:27.185
So it's kinda one thing that they maybe they they could do as well, add, like, a widget there where they can, you know, between post or discussion post types.

696
00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:33.039
Absolutely. This this keeps them clicking around, and this is great for organizing their navigation,

697
00:46:33.900 --> 00:46:38.299
experience. Right. Great. Thank you. So anything else you wanna show us about this site? No.

698
00:46:38.299 --> 00:46:43.715
I just wanna show everybody another example, but you could do it with other stuff too, not not just for the discussion

699
00:46:44.015 --> 00:46:47.695
Absolutely. Discussion folks. Alright. Thanks so much, Ryan. Good stuff there.

700
00:46:47.695 --> 00:46:52.915
So, yeah, it was a it's a really good exercise, ties into the tip of the week. Here's the one for,

701
00:46:53.855 --> 00:46:55.075
for boarding schools.

702
00:46:55.695 --> 00:47:00.330
Basically, creating these portal pages that act as navigation landing points.

703
00:47:00.790 --> 00:47:07.450
Yeah, it's where the visitor comes here and it makes it easy for them to kind of initiate their their journey into

704
00:47:07.910 --> 00:47:12.224
the depths of your website here. And I really like that you've used,

705
00:47:12.625 --> 00:47:17.845
images that are similar dimensions, and each image kinda corresponds to the category,

706
00:47:18.385 --> 00:47:21.204
you're about to dive into. So thanks for sharing that.

707
00:47:22.065 --> 00:47:23.585
Alright. I do see,

708
00:47:24.065 --> 00:47:26.869
our friend from The Netherlands. See your hand up again.

709
00:47:27.170 --> 00:47:33.589
Yeah. Yeah. Jason, I have two quick questions. Hope you allow me to ask that. Sure. Of course. Yeah.

710
00:47:34.450 --> 00:47:38.145
The first question is, like, you have shown a page.

711
00:47:38.145 --> 00:47:42.485
It is a system page that says the content is for upgraded members.

712
00:47:42.945 --> 00:47:43.445
Yes.

713
00:47:43.985 --> 00:47:47.605
So can we edit those kind of messages?

714
00:47:48.705 --> 00:47:49.205
Absolutely.

715
00:47:49.825 --> 00:47:52.645
That's part of the fun. Some people put videos there,

716
00:47:53.105 --> 00:47:56.750
action links. So when you see text like that on your website,

717
00:47:57.290 --> 00:47:59.470
you can look one, you can use the

718
00:47:59.850 --> 00:48:04.010
show text labels tool from the front end. I'll show you that in a second.

719
00:48:04.010 --> 00:48:07.150
You can also search for it in your text label. This

720
00:48:08.105 --> 00:48:08.605
page

721
00:48:09.545 --> 00:48:10.605
is for

722
00:48:11.145 --> 00:48:14.684
I I don't remember what the phrase was is it said upgraded members.

723
00:48:15.464 --> 00:48:15.964
Mhmm.

724
00:48:16.665 --> 00:48:18.845
You can search for it. Number, sir. Okay.

725
00:48:19.704 --> 00:48:22.840
So this was part of the part of the the message.

726
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:28.140
So the what you can do is go to your visit website link so it knows you're the admin.

727
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.920
I'll show you the easier way to do it. And,

728
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.240
click on show text labels. When you do that, you get this admin sidebar here.

729
00:48:35.240 --> 00:48:41.465
So click on show text labels, and all that that default text that's kind of embedded in the code,

730
00:48:42.165 --> 00:48:46.505
you'll see here and it's in yellow here if I scroll. There isn't much on this page.

731
00:48:47.045 --> 00:48:47.545
However,

732
00:48:48.110 --> 00:48:51.650
here there's some here. These that's all the text labels on this page.

733
00:48:51.710 --> 00:48:54.370
And then you can edit it right here with this pop up.

734
00:48:54.990 --> 00:48:56.050
So you can change,

735
00:48:56.910 --> 00:48:58.370
what it says. But

736
00:48:58.750 --> 00:49:02.425
to answer your well, not to expand on it, it also supports

737
00:49:02.805 --> 00:49:03.305
HTML,

738
00:49:04.245 --> 00:49:08.645
some PHP. Okay. You can also, in these text labels, use widget short codes.

739
00:49:08.645 --> 00:49:14.265
So you could render something amazing in a widget and put, you know, widget equals,

740
00:49:14.565 --> 00:49:15.945
you know, my widget.

741
00:49:16.950 --> 00:49:23.430
And that really if if you really need to get wild with what you're gonna render, it could be a lot more than just text.

742
00:49:23.430 --> 00:49:26.650
So it's pretty flexible with how you can use these text labels.

743
00:49:27.190 --> 00:49:33.805
Okay. Fine. My, thank you. My second question is on some websites or even your, demo sites,

744
00:49:34.204 --> 00:49:35.984
if you look at the listings

745
00:49:36.525 --> 00:49:37.025
in

746
00:49:37.325 --> 00:49:40.305
grid view, we can see that the listings

747
00:49:40.684 --> 00:49:42.305
with, less information.

748
00:49:43.244 --> 00:49:47.880
Yeah. There's space here. Yeah. Yeah. There is space. How how we can avoid that?

749
00:49:48.260 --> 00:49:52.120
Okay. So we've recently pushed an update that does two things.

750
00:49:52.500 --> 00:49:57.400
One is before, it would be in masonry view, which is more like Pinterest, which means

751
00:49:57.885 --> 00:50:01.265
the rows beneath it would try to come up as well.

752
00:50:01.325 --> 00:50:08.465
So it wouldn't be the setting we created was structured view where every new row will be on a new clean line.

753
00:50:08.685 --> 00:50:11.185
So let me show you where that setting is first. Okay?

754
00:50:11.530 --> 00:50:14.830
So under design settings for grid view, there are settings.

755
00:50:15.450 --> 00:50:20.830
And I would worry about setting an absolute height, an exact height because

756
00:50:21.370 --> 00:50:24.110
you might cut some people off in some cases.

757
00:50:24.765 --> 00:50:28.065
What I would recommend in your case under design settings,

758
00:50:28.605 --> 00:50:29.984
search results pages,

759
00:50:30.525 --> 00:50:35.505
we're using this a lot today. Under grid view layout, I would just recommend using structured.

760
00:50:36.810 --> 00:50:37.310
Okay.

761
00:50:37.610 --> 00:50:39.790
The alternative would be to use CSS

762
00:50:40.410 --> 00:50:43.310
to set an exact height for all of them.

763
00:50:43.450 --> 00:50:46.990
The problem with that is if there's a case where you maybe underestimated

764
00:50:47.370 --> 00:50:48.990
the height of one of the modules,

765
00:50:49.434 --> 00:50:53.115
you're gonna cut off somebody's name or their the links at the bottom.

766
00:50:53.115 --> 00:50:58.654
So in in my recommendation, I would just set this structured view for grid view layout.

767
00:50:59.035 --> 00:51:03.000
Okay. The last question is the plan have some kind of,

768
00:51:03.720 --> 00:51:10.380
limitation like a storage, for example, 10 GB or 20 GB, or the bandwidth is something like, 10 GB.

769
00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:11.320
And,

770
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:15.900
my question here is, if particular directory is going to

771
00:51:16.585 --> 00:51:22.045
use with many thousands of people, they may upload many photos or other things.

772
00:51:22.585 --> 00:51:23.965
Do you compress

773
00:51:24.425 --> 00:51:25.165
these photos

774
00:51:25.705 --> 00:51:27.005
when they get uploaded?

775
00:51:27.305 --> 00:51:32.890
Yes. So that's a good question. Let's say someone uploads a profile picture that's 3,000

776
00:51:32.950 --> 00:51:33.450
pixels.

777
00:51:34.390 --> 00:51:36.410
What you have are image settings,

778
00:51:36.710 --> 00:51:38.730
and by default, there are reasonable

779
00:51:39.190 --> 00:51:42.490
maximum width and heights that these images are,

780
00:51:43.205 --> 00:51:44.025
set to.

781
00:51:44.645 --> 00:51:47.705
So example, if I if I upload a profile photo,

782
00:51:48.245 --> 00:51:54.345
no matter what the pixels are, the system will automatically optimize that image and bring it down to 200 pixels

783
00:51:54.645 --> 00:51:56.910
by 200 pixels max height and width.

784
00:51:56.990 --> 00:52:00.670
It will keep the proportion, but it will set the max height and width.

785
00:52:00.670 --> 00:52:05.250
So, yeah, the system is shrinking larger images to smaller sizes,

786
00:52:05.710 --> 00:52:08.289
in order to prevent members from uploading

787
00:52:08.589 --> 00:52:10.289
to, like, four megabyte images.

788
00:52:10.765 --> 00:52:13.244
It compresses it down to a more reasonable size.

789
00:52:13.244 --> 00:52:17.345
So, yeah, it there are image settings here to assist with that. Does that answer your question?

790
00:52:17.565 --> 00:52:20.685
Okay. Fine. Thank you. You're welcome. Alright. Good stuff there.

791
00:52:20.685 --> 00:52:23.345
Let's go out with a bang with, one more question.

792
00:52:24.300 --> 00:52:28.860
Melissa, looks like you're self muted on your end. Can you hear me now? Yes. Yes. How are you?

793
00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:34.000
Hello. I'm good. Thank you. It's just mainly a question about the announcement board for members.

794
00:52:34.460 --> 00:52:34.960
So

795
00:52:35.260 --> 00:52:39.835
you know how we when we log in, we can see the orange dot that he was referring to? Yes.

796
00:52:39.835 --> 00:52:42.495
As a notification that we need to do an edit post.

797
00:52:42.795 --> 00:52:53.455
If me, as an admin, have updated the message board for the members, is there a way for them to get, like, a notification or an orange dot to say, you know, read something in the announcement,

798
00:52:53.915 --> 00:52:55.135
something that's been updated?

799
00:52:55.680 --> 00:52:57.859
Like, can you show in their dashboard or anything?

800
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.240
Is it something they've commented on, or it's just something you want everyone to know about? Yeah.

801
00:53:02.240 --> 00:53:03.220
Just like an update.

802
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:05.599
I mean, obviously, there's emails.

803
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:10.125
So, you know, like, if you if you do an email to everybody, to your members to say this is what's been done.

804
00:53:10.285 --> 00:53:13.005
But I think sometimes an email might not be necessary.

805
00:53:13.005 --> 00:53:17.505
It could just be, you know, have a look at have a look at the the announcement board.

806
00:53:17.805 --> 00:53:19.665
So this might be a little overkill.

807
00:53:20.205 --> 00:53:21.905
There isn't, like, a little notification

808
00:53:22.730 --> 00:53:26.750
just in there that there's new announcements. What you can do is a couple things.

809
00:53:27.210 --> 00:53:31.309
So I I mentioned this earlier with when I was talking about the premade elements,

810
00:53:32.089 --> 00:53:32.829
being available.

811
00:53:33.289 --> 00:53:35.630
So in the in the plans dashboard,

812
00:53:36.250 --> 00:53:40.265
so I don't know. You might need you might wanna do this for one plan or multiple plans.

813
00:53:40.885 --> 00:53:43.385
You can go ahead and and go to member dashboard.

814
00:53:44.165 --> 00:53:45.785
And if you scroll down

815
00:53:46.244 --> 00:53:48.825
just a bit, custom dashboard content.

816
00:53:49.045 --> 00:53:52.585
You could so in the header of their dashboard, you can use the text editor.

817
00:53:53.160 --> 00:53:59.260
And maybe you wanna add links to noteworthy announcements here, and it'll show up in the dashboard.

818
00:53:59.319 --> 00:54:04.540
So, you know, you can you can you can write text, you could you could make the text linkable,

819
00:54:05.015 --> 00:54:09.735
you know, to where it so you can link Oh, so I'm just gonna check that every time. You can do that.

820
00:54:09.735 --> 00:54:14.315
Now if there's one super important announcement, this is this is what I was thinking might be overkill,

821
00:54:14.935 --> 00:54:17.835
but you might wanna consider it. It's pretty cool, actually.

822
00:54:20.069 --> 00:54:25.750
If you have the website announcement bar add on, you'll have this in your design settings website announcement bar.

823
00:54:25.750 --> 00:54:29.029
You can enable it. Yeah. You know, so you're familiar with this.

824
00:54:29.029 --> 00:54:40.785
So you can display it only for members and you can put your message, and then you can link to you know, this would be good if there was one important announcement, or if you're linking them to the portal page where all the important announcements are.

825
00:54:41.485 --> 00:54:44.785
So Okay. And you can just show for them. Yeah. Yeah.

826
00:54:44.845 --> 00:54:48.910
So you you might not wanna use this all the time, but if it's something important

827
00:54:49.290 --> 00:54:53.850
and you really wanna make sure Yeah. Your members see it, use the website announcement bar. Okay.

828
00:54:53.850 --> 00:54:57.930
Yeah. That makes sense. No problem. Thank you. Thanks for the question. You're welcome. Okay.

829
00:54:57.930 --> 00:55:02.510
Good stuff there. And alright, guys. We are just over time here.

830
00:55:02.795 --> 00:55:06.975
I think I got to everyone's questions. We'll end it there. If we didn't get to your questions,

831
00:55:07.275 --> 00:55:09.215
please ask them in the Facebook group.

832
00:55:09.515 --> 00:55:10.955
We'll do our best to get them there.

833
00:55:10.955 --> 00:55:14.175
Thank you so much, David, for creating this great tip of the week,

834
00:55:14.475 --> 00:55:17.935
how to create a community message board. Super helpful there.

835
00:55:18.250 --> 00:55:22.730
Lots of lab updates, more on the way. And, again, please join us in the Facebook group.

836
00:55:22.730 --> 00:55:26.670
You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook.

837
00:55:27.050 --> 00:55:31.783
On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, it's been a pleasure.

838
00:55:32.083 --> 00:55:34.083
Have a great day, guys, and a brilliant week.

839
00:55:34.083 --> 00:55:38.788
The next webinar is in two weeks, and we look forward to seeing you then. Take care. Bye bye.