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STANDARD OPERATION PROCEDURES (SOPs)

SOP | Permalink Shortening

The following information contains the Standard Operation Procedures for the Content Manager when shortening permalinks. All information is accurate up to the 14th of August 2019.

  1. Open up the WordPress Admin website.
  2. On the left hand side, search for the button labelled Pretty Links.
  3. Hover over and select “Add New”.
  4. Paste the destination URL into the box labelled Target URL.
  5. Modify the slug in the box labelled Pretty Link to whatever you want the shortened URL to be.
  6. Click “Create”.
  7. Test if the link works in an Incognito Browser Window.
    1. This ensures back-end access doesn’t cause any disruptions.

The following video summarises the above steps: youtu.be/4KQHvtbtDjY… Read the rest

SOP | Create Table Of Contents, Link To A Certain Place Within A Page

Anchor links point to a place within a page.

A # in front of a link location specifies that the link is pointing to an anchor on a page. (Anchor meaning a specific place in the middle of your page).

To link to an anchor you need to switch to Text mode in the editor:

1. Create a link pointing to the anchor

2. Create the anchor itself.

An anchor is created using the # tag.
If you want to create an anchor called mistake3, you simply add this line where you want the anchor to be:

<a name="mistake3"></a>

After doing this, you can make a link pointing to the anchor using the normal tag, like this:

Click <a href="#mistake3">here</a> to read chapter 3.

Note:
When linking to an anchor on a page you need to put a # in front of the anchor.

When you link to an anchor on the same page, simply enter

<a href="#YourAnchor">blabla</a>

When you link to anchors on external pages use this syntax:

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com#YahoosAnchor">blabla</a>

Watch video tutorial:

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Security SOP

This topic divided into 2 parts. First part is about individual security hygiene. Working in a company and using personal devices to get the job done requires strict security discipline. Intrusions do not distinct business and personal devices – they look and find vulnerabilities.

Second part is about securing WordPress web-site. In course of years this became much shorter and simpler.

Part 1. Individual Security

Using strong passwords

1.Shouldn’t be common words, names etc.

2.Should contain caps, letters, numbers, symbols

3.Keep passwords safe (LastPass i.e.)

4.Don’t reuse passwords

5.Don’t use same password for multiple services like FB, Gmail etc.

6. Change passwords every 90 days or sooner if needed

 

Log out of sessions

1.Working with RMRS Business email, web-site, softwares – always log out after work is done.

2.Do you use devices in public places? Don’t leave computer unattended while you are logged in.

3.Don’t check emails from public WiFi

 

Antivirus on your devices

1.Which antivirus do you use?

2.There are plenty of free ones like Avast, Avira, etc. Look at TOP-10 antiviruses this year in Google. Choose one. Pretty much every popular paid antivirus has its own free version.

3.Do you scan downloaded files before installation? You should

4.Do you access risky sites having potential security warnings?

 

Phishing emails – don’t trust:

1.Do not trust emails from unknown sources

2.Check sender’s email address. If it’s empty or the same as yours – delete it

3.If sender is a company you know, but email address is different – delete it

4.Do not click any links in email asking to verify your payments, security issue with your account etc.

5.Do not trust Warnings like your computer is infected and you need to clean it by clicking this link.

6.If possible – see what the link source code is. PayPal example – emails looking like original ones, sent from company–like email address, but links are cheating

7.Company-like looking web-sites – CHECK URL. If it’s different from company main URL – leave that web-site. PayPal.com vs PayPalz.com

8.Email attachments after saving should be scanned

9.AVOID Unsubscribe links in obviously spam emails – don’t click unless you know the sender or it is a reputable company. The thing here is if you “unsubscribe” – it means you technically “confirm” your email address as a real spam target.

 

Global attacks and threats

1.News say there is global attack on FB, Microsoft … Read the rest

How To Disable Gutenberg Editor

Generally Gutenberg block editor sucks. It doesn’t bring any prominent advantages at this day and creates multiple confusions. Needless to say one can NOT edit URL slug unless a post/page is published. The video embedding is confusing etc.

To both upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and have regular editor (vs Gutenberg) as we accustomed to, we need to edit functions.php by inserting the code below:

add_filter('use_block_editor_for_post', '__return_false');

There are other options like installing special plugins, but that’s too much just for disabling something.

If you need more info and other solutions, read this article https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-gutenberg-wordpress-editor/… Read the rest

How To Build A Tracking Link SOP

For situation when we have just a sponsor link without tracking code and we want sponsor to see that traffic came from RMRS.
I.e. FB Bot messages, Pinterest banner promotions etc.

1. Go to https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/
2. Insert URL into Website URL field
3. Under ‘Campaign Source” provide indicator i.e. rmrs-fb-broadcast or rmrs-pinterest
4. Under ‘Campaign name’ put ‘realmenrealstyle’
5. Get ready URL from the box beneath “Share the generated campaign URL”. It is ready to use.

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