Entries by SNO Trainer

The SNO Report: All About Plugins

Because your SNO site uses WordPress, you have access to a large library of plugins that you can download, install, and use. On the one hand, these third-party plugins (i.e. the ones SNO did not develop) can provide some great additional site features. On the other hand, they can easily spiral out of control and cause problems […]

The SNO Report: Avoiding Copyrighted Materials

With spring quickly approaching, your publication may have already set a few goals for the rest of the year – trying out some new content, earning more Distinguished Sites badges, or maybe even looking ahead to summer workshops (either for you or for your staff). Whatever your goals, we’d encourage you to add one more that will hopefully protect your site from legal […]

Tips for Avoiding Spam Form Submissions

We think it’s pretty safe to say that no one likes spam. It’s annoying, it clogs up your inbox, and it can make finding the things you actually need more difficult. Recently, we’ve received a handful of messages from clients using the Gravity Forms plugin (part of the SNO Site Booster bundle) about spam form submissions. Unfortunately, […]

Best of Best of SNO: Winter Edition

As January comes to a close, our reviewers have already published over 1,200 Best of SNO stories since submissions opened in September. We hope you and your staff will keep them coming for the remainder of the school year – we can’t wait to see what number we reach by the end of May! One things many of […]

Server Migration & Updates

Buckle up, we’re about to get techie. If that doesn’t interest you, here’s the TL;DR version: We’re upgrading the hardware that powers your website, and you don’t need to worry about a thing.  Read on for the nitty gritty details. What is happening? SNO Sites is in the process of making a significant investment in new […]

Three Category Ideas for the New Year

Happy 2024! We hope you enjoyed a happy and relaxing holiday season and that you’re ready for the year ahead. To kick things off, we’re sharing a list of three categories that have caught our eye recently on client sites. They all have a few things in common – they’re easy to update, they’re fun […]

The SNO Report: Our Year in Numbers

Everyone has their New Year traditions – whether it’s perusing your favorite news outlet’s end-of-year listicles, watching the ball drop in Times Square, or setting a few New Year’s resolutions (and promising you’ll stick to them this year). One of our favorite traditions at the end of each year is to look back at all the previous year’s analytics […]

SNO Distinguished Sites Badge Tips

As we approach the end of 2023, we are a little over one third of the way through the Distinguished Sites badge submission season. Dozens of schools are participating, and, at the time of publishing, we’ve already had nine earn Distinguished Site status! It’s not too late to make this a goal for your site in 2024, so we’re reaching […]

SNO Tip Tuesday: Mobile Design

It’s SNO Tip Tuesday time. In each SNO Tip Tuesday report, we’ll share tips and tricks to help you optimize the tools available on your website. Today, we’re diving into mobile design. If we were to guess, we’d say a majority of your audience is probably viewing your site on a mobile device. That means your content […]