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When a WordPress website has been compromised, simply deleting a suspicious file or installing a security plugin may not be enough. Malware can exist in WordPress core files, plugins, themes, uploads, database options, posts, comments, scheduled events, a
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If you are getting ready to set up a new server to host websites, you will inevitably run into the classic debate: Nginx or Apache? Both are incredible pieces of open-source software that power the vast majority of the internet, but they take very differe
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Stop leaving your revenue to chance. Give your audience the premium experience they deserve and start building a sustainable, ad-free community today.
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If you run a WordPress website, you know the drill. You write a great post, and within days, the comments are flooded with "Great post! check out my site..." followed by links for crypto, pharmaceuticals, or worse.
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Comply with EU GDPR and ePrivacy rules using the A1 GDPR Compliance Plugin. Adds a cookie consent banner, per-category preferences, script blocking, and DSAR tools — all inside WordPress.
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If you are not getting results like this on your site, it's time to make the switch to eZbloo! These results are straight out of the box with no user optimization.
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Have you seen "HTML Improvements Duplicate Title Tags" in your Google Search Console? Here is how you fix your Duplicate Title Tags problem.
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Wanna remove "Howdy" in WordPress? How many of you out there say "Howdy"? Maybe if you are from the south you may use that terminology however I had a client of mine that runs a Caledonian or Scottish blog.
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Installing fonts on Ubuntu is a lot easier than installing it on other Operating Systems. I personally prefer importing all the fonts into a hidden fonts folder to save time. If you have any issues please be sure to comment below.
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Master Chat GPT in WordPress: Step-by-Step Guide Looking to add a chatbot to your WordPress site? Look no further than Master Chat GPT. This powerful plugin allows you to create a fully-customizable chatbot that can engage with your visitors, answer quest
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Do you want to know how to do a lightbox for WordPress forms? Its really cool. If you do not know about lightbox yet it is a way to darken the background so that people can focus on a picture or a form.
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Q. Why should you watermark images? A. If your image is original it is exposed to the public if its online. Even if you have right click disabled by some JavaScript function people can still get your images by using the "snippet tool" or "print screen" f
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Scalable Vector Graphics I was recently asked if you can use Scalable Vector Graphics in WordPress. Scalable Vector Graphics or (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics that has support for interactivity and animation.
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Php web development in a nutshell is a company or developer that uses a computer language that is called php or "Hypertext Preprocessor".
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Redirect IP Address using htaccess Redirect IP Address Using htaccess to get rid of annoying visitors that come to leave you spam. Better yet would you not like to tell them off with a web page especially for them?
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How to add a thumbnail for your WordPress RSS feed
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So you want to know how to add a widget in WordPress? Well lets get right into it: Step #1 Find you functions.php file in your WordPress theme and look for this code
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For those of you arriving at this post this is a continuation of the Child Theme in WordPress series. Make sure that you have completed part 1 and part 2 before attempting to do the following tutorial.
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Child themes on WordPress for beginners part 2 CSS is a continuation of WordPress child theme creation tutorial. So if you have not completed that tutorial, you may want to look at it before you do this one.
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Welcome to WordPress Child Theme Tutorial Creation. Here are some of the benefits to creating a child theme in WordPress.
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Yes, you can use Summernote as a text editor in WordPress. However, to do so, you will need to install a plugin that adds Summernote as an option in the WordPress editor. One such plugin is the "WP Summernote" plugin, which you can find and install from t
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This post covers how to make a free website backup. Once finished you will be able to download a complete website backup zip file. This will also include your database. This task is very easy but I am going to explain the process in detail.
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Wordpress Under Attack The threat is real ladies and gentlemen WordPress is Under Attack as well as many banking sites. If you want to protect yourself then this is the article for you to read. People that monitor the security of internet activity have de
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To SEO WordPress all you will have to do is install the Yoast WordPress plug in. It can be found at the WordPress website at WordPress SEO by Yoast. The challenge that many webmasters face is that once they get the plug in installed they do not know how t
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I have been contacted by several people wondering how to add Woocommerce Options Variations Attributes for WordPress. In this tutorial I will show you how. Most of the process is communicated in the video so please watch it first.
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Are you looking for a WordPress Plug in that adds user address information and then takes that information and puts it into a printable format? You have found the right place.
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I laid everything out in the video on how to install a WordPress plugin. I willl go through the steps below. Step #1 Download the plugin that you want to use and save it to your computer.
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Search Engine Optimization SEO Has Changed Search engine optimization SEO has changed. Google is constantly refining their search results to try to be the best at what they do. This may be frustrating to some of us that were using the keyword planner and
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WooCommerce variation swatches and photos WordPress plug-in Many people have the woocommerce platform and it is an awesome way to sell things in WordPress. Sometimes though there are plug ins that have a learning curve with them and the woocommerce variat
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So I have a lot of bloggers that I have a privileged of working with and they get massive amounts of spam. So much for it being illegal when you get spammed over and over again anyway. Well I am here to help with that because I hate spam as well. In fact
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WordPress security is a big issue to my clients. Can you blame them? They put years of their life into a Content Management System like WordPress and in just one day it can all be wiped out.
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In this article we will be examining the best ways to make money online. It is important to me that my clients get the most money from their website that they can. There are easy aspects to it and some not so easy aspect to it. Knowledge of what to do is
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Headline Animator in your Email Signature Do you want to put a Headline Animator in your Email Signature? You can do it and its fast and easy. If you go to feedburner to and try to learn how to do it you will be lost if you are using Gmail.
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The speed of a website is important because statistics show us that slow websites have higher bounce rates. Sometimes your site may seem slow on your computer because you are on it so much. One of the things that I do regularly is check the speed of my we
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Instructions: Pick a date by clicking on it. Pick a time by clicking on it. You will see the selected date and time below the box.
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Welcome to the TablePress plugin Tutorial WordPress styling the CSS. You will be guided step by step on how to use this very useful plugin for WordPress. One of the challenges to WordPress is the structure of content when you want things in certain areas
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Transfer WordPress Site New Domain or New Server Host There are several options to transfer WordPress site. We are going to start with the easy way and then we are going to work our way up to the more difficult way. We are going to base this tutorial on s
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Create Widget for WordPress Control Visibility
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Why You Need Relevant Content in your Sidebars
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The Strategy of URL's and Hosting If you are new to websites and setting up a URL then this section is for you. If you already have a URL that you have been posting content on then you want to keep that URL.
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The key to picking subject matter varies from website to website. It is very helpful if your website is covering one certain overall theme. For instance if your website is about “Fast Cars” but you also have a side business on “Tasty Cakes” you more than
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How to increase page views in WordPress on long posts So my bloggers are very serious about their page views and bounce rate in their Google analytic's. Most of them put hard work into writing their posts to make the content deep and informative
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Picking a Content Management System CONTENT MANAGMEMENT SYSTEMS CMS is an acronym for content management system. A content management system is basically a website that you do not have to code yourself. I
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Setting up your shared server is relatively easy. Since all the scripts are usually there for you just to click and install all you will have to do is follow the steps below. When you buy hosting space you will receive an IP address and usually a cPanel w
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We will go over the administration login for the first time. We will then discuss permalinks and the importance of setting them up right the first time. User management is a very important feature of the CMS and assigning roles is very significant to the
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As stated before, good code structure is the foundation of good SEO or search engine optimization. It is the tags that tell spiders and other programs what the site is about. If you think about a book it has a table of content, indexes, titles, heading an
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Mobile friendly website are a must for today’s world and on into the future. Forecast’s show us that there will be more mobile internet users in 2014 than desktop users. Since there will be more than 1.6 billion internet users in 2014 you should be prepar
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What is the difference between a post and a page on WordPress? Easy WordPress Instructions on Posts, Pages and Widgets. A post is like a newscast or story about current events. A page describes your business and does not describe current events.
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ABSTRACT This is the third of 8 papers in our web development strategy courses. This class will focus on the need to have good quality photos and media within a website. The methods discussed will show a student how to do this effectively so that their me
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The reason why we covered the Google Keyword Planner first in this class is so that you would know what to name your media files. When planning an article, product or description sometimes it's helpful to write the outline first. This will give you releva
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In order to use the Bing keyword research feature you have to have a Microsoft account and then you have to add your site. Creating a Microsoft account is easy. Just fill out the information and enter your current email address. Next you will get a screen
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SERP as we have learned is an acronym for "Search Engine Rank Position" or "Search Engine Results Page". This is what you have to do with your web page before submitting it to the search engine. Set everything up like we have discussed, before asking to b
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WP Super Cache Settings are important to the caching of your website. Caching your website will help your site load faster on several different types of browsers.
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Finding the Non-Secure Item on Your Website is a cumbersome task sometimes. I have included on this post some resources that can help you find the culprit.
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Changing permalink structure in WordPress properly can be a very cumbersome task. Some webmasters feel the need to change their permalink structure and for good reason. CTR or the "click though rate" for blogs without the date in their permalink are highe
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Updating to WordPress 4.0 There are some issues when updating to WordPress 4.0 that makes your WordPress go into maintenance mode. This problem does not happen to all that WordPress websites but is happening to many of them breaking the code.
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One of the most important things that you can do is back up your website. There are 2 different kinds of backups for WordPress. We will discuss the easy way then the more thorough way through your cPanel.
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Google announced August 6th of this year that an SSL on your website will affect where you rank in their search engine.
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500 Internal Erros driving you nuts?
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Set your YouTube video to play at a certain time. Have you ever had a YouTube video that you wanted to play at a certain time? Here is a FREE WordPress plugin for you. This plugin will show up right in your dashboard when you log into it.
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Have you heard of pagination in WordPress on one post? An example of this on my website is that article entitled Using Bing Webmaster Tools.
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If you want to learn how to blog with WordPress using Microsoft Office you have come to the right place. We have the typed out the instructions as well as a video to help you accomplish this goal.
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Social Syndication is very important to website these days. Really who has the time to keep posting to all the network platforms out there after you already make a post.
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I just figured out something really cool. How to make BIG BUCKS off of all your old posts. I would love to give this away free but I just can't, it is really that good and I am not joking in the slightest.
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Opencart Installation on Shared or Dedicated Servers is a process but hopefully I can help make that a little easier for you.
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If you're a blogger or website owner using WordPress or the Genesis framework, you may be interested in displaying advertisements or additional content after the first post on your homepage.
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You should think twice before you install a plugin for WordPress because of the ramifications that plugin can bring. A WordPress plugin has access to your database as soon as you install it. It can therefore update, delete, and manipulate your WordPress d
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MySqli is a PHP extension used to connect and communicate with MySQL databases. One of the key features of MySqli is the ability to grant privileges to users for accessing databases. This feature allows the database administrator to have better control ov
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The Google Analytics tracking code placement needs to be in the header. DO NOT believe those guys that tell you to put in before the closing body tag.
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WordPress is slow here are some advanced tips to help you speed it up a bit. Before we get on with the advanced steps that you can take make sure you do the elementary things first.
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Additional languages on websites creates more targeted visitors. Many websites that are indexed are missing out on this huge opportunity to engage visitors that do not speak the webmasters language.
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Why put nofollow attributes in menu structure? In a nutshell it all boils down to relevance. Every link on your particular web page should have to do with the subject that it is about.
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Are on the hunt for the perfect htaccess file for your apache server? The truth is there is no one real universal htaccess file that covers all websites. Every website will have something unique that they specifically have to deal with. However there are
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Image editing in WordPress tips and tricks is something everyone needs to get a grasp on. Image editing and optimization in WordPress is easier than you may think.
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Google Webmaster Tools is now Google Search Console, I am going to show you how to deal with this quickly in your website. Many welcome the change and some don't.
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You can create Scalable Vector Graphics in Google Draw and use in WordPress easily. This is a very easy and fun process. Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG files do not lose quality when they are zooming in on. Check out this SVG file that I created in Googl
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Do you want a KALEIDOSCOPE CSS JAVASCRIPT ANIMATION IN WORDPRESS? Check out the script below. This is a script written in JavaScript and CSS. It can tantalize the visual senses for a while. What is even more cool is that you can use your own pictures just
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If you are dealing with empty tags in WordPress you have come to the right place. I have a very simple solution for you to carry out.
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The USPS Shipping module in Woocommerce is an ideal calculator for many Woocommerce shop owners. It gives you the flexibility to choose the have your shipping for your cart to be calculated based on the standard US Postal Rate Chart automatically based on
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What you may not be aware of is that your product descriptions and titles mean everything online. A product title needs to be specific and precise.
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Submitting your products to Google and Bing for indexing is easy after you have the accounts set up. URL submissions to the search engines are free. This is "Organic Indexing".
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Some people were asking me how do you play an audio file in your website? HTML5 has a great way for you to play your audio files.
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If you want to add a Handling Fee in WooCommerce you now have to add the code below. You would then add this to your functions.php file in your child theme in WordPress. Save the file then you now have a $5 handling fee! :-)
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So many webmasters want simple share buttons with no junk added. What do I mean by this? In today's world of "free plugins" webmasters do not know what they are getting into.
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If you are just getting started with Amazon web hosting services you may feel lost. First of all make sure that Amazon web hosting services are right for you. You must understand the following.
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This tutorial will show you how to install WordPress and database on Amazon web hosting services. This can be challenging but I have a present for you. A terminal cheat sheet.
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This is a tutorial on how to enable pretty permalinks in Amazon Web Hosting services. In order to do this you have to enable mod_rewrite in your Apache server. Otherwise you will get a page not found error.
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We use ubuntu servers because they are are awesome to work with. There are however some technical things that you may run into when installing a WordPress CMS on an Ubuntu server.
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So you want to track your conversion for ad-words? Here is how you do it for woo-commerce.
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You installed a plugin and then you try to use the shortcode on your sidebar. It does not show up, what do you do? Well here is a series of short codes that you will add to your functions.php file. By adding the following short codes you will be able to
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Here is some code for bootstrap nav menus for wordpress. This is for anyone following along in the Bootstrap to WordPress Theme Creation Integration tutorial.
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If you are ready to move your WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS the fastest and easiest way follow these steps. #wordpress
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Let's move onto using Glyphicons and FontAwesome in the Bootstrap WordPress CMS. The first thing that you will have to do is call in the libraries. We have already called in the Bootstrap library but just in case there are some not following along with th
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Why Am I Getting Contact Form 7 Configuration Errors? New updates in the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin may have placed this warning in your dashboard. This is to prevent email sending errors because of empty entry fields. This is quick and easy to repai
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If you need to disable php on a directory with htaccess here is your script. Open up your text editor and paste this code in it.
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Sometimes when you transfer a wordpress site you will get errors. Keep in mind that your old server may be using a different version of PHP than your new server. If you keep getting prompted to download a file when you go to the front end of your website
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If you are getting the message. "Your Theme Does Not Declare WooCommerce Support" please follow the instructions below.
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(TFA) or "Two Factor Authorization for WordPress" is a security plugin that makes your WordPress safer. There are several different 2 step options in this plugin and they are very easy to set up.
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You may want to hide your Google analytics tracking code from your IP address. Why? So you can get more accurate data from the analytics program. If you track your own visits that is not giving you the full picture of your visits. Here is how you do it.
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Another tutorial on how to upload with summernote to a filder
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Add a YouTube subscribe button on your website to increase subscribers. This little task is fast and friendly and only takes a couple of minutes. The benefits to doing this is convenience for the people that visit your site.
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Feedburner for WordPress can be a little tricky if you are not familiar with it. Integrating it with WordPress is not that hard and in this video tutorial I show you how to do it all. Some things that you want to make sure of is that you are signed into y
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Adding a desktop shortcut for a url is easy. I will explain how to do this in the tutorial below and include a video on the subject as well so you can see how to do it.
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Categories in WordPress is easy to do. The main thing that you want to think about is what type of articles will you be writing. We will be looking at a blog that talks about healthy living.
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Case studies in SEO Good Ranking Does not Guarantee Traffic
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Enable Imagemagick in PHP8 on Ubuntu 20.04 For WordPress. ImageMagick is a powerful open-source software suite that is used for creating, editing, and converting images. It is commonly used by WordPress developers and designers to enhance the visuals of t
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This post is about how to find thieves stealing your YouTube videos and uploading to their channels. There is nothing more frustrating than working so hard on your content and videos and then having some thief stealing them and uploading to their channels
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If you are seeing the error "Failed To Insert Media" in WordPress then chances are you have a permissions issue on your website. You could also experience issues with trying to install a plugin or a theme. This is an easy fix, so just follow along here.
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This is an Ajax in WordPress tutorial. Let it serve as an ultimate beginner's guide for you. I have already made several posts on Ajax and how to use it. However, this is my first post for using Ajax in WordPress. I think you will enjoy this lesson with a
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In this how to tutorial I will show you how to move a large WordPress website from one server to another. In this tutorial I assume that you already know how to SSH into your server. You must already know these following things, if you do not, click the l
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bulk compress images, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of them. There are, of course, many ways we can do this, but I want to show you this little app that I use on my Windows computer called Caesium. It is free and lightweight
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If you want to rotate your image left or right at 90 degrees or 180 degrees the process is simple in Windows. Recently I had a client send me their photos from their iPhone and all their images were turned to the left 90 degrees. We needed to upload the i
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First of all I want to let you know that there is no way to automatically fix broken Amazon affiliate links. As of today November 18th 2020 you still have to manually go in and fix these broken affiliate links as well as non Amazon affiliate links.
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Is Facebook pulling the wrong image from your website when you share website posts? Here is an easy fix you can do in 5 minutes.
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Create featured image with GIMP for WordPress, YouTube or any other social media platform. The process is easy you just need to know the dimensions or ratios.
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Facebook marketing for your business is fun but it is a lot of work. In this post I will show you how to find people in your niche and market your business to them. It is important that you understand meta data, SEO titles, sharing, graphics and analytics
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SEO Setup for promoting, marketing and sharing is an important aspect for your SEO Marketing goal. SEO is all about the content that is on one particular page. You need to consider every link that is on that page. To ignore even the weakest link on that p
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Fix Hacked WordPress infected with malware the professional way. There are many tutorials out there on the web on how to fix a hacked WordPress website. The way professionals fix a hacked WordPress is much different. We fix hacked WordPress websites on a
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Have you done the WordPress 5.0 Update and can no longer use text view? That is because the classic editor is becoming a thing of the past. WordPress now has the "Gutenberg Editor" and even if you install the classic editor you are bound to still have pro
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Want to use Google Fonts with your WordPress website. This tutorial makes it easy and shows you how to get it set up with your site.
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Have you ever tried to add a hover effect for mobile devices? Well the truth of the matter is that you cannot do it. Hover effects require you to have a mouse that you can use to hover over an element. This is not the case with touch screens. Some people
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Insert content on your homepage blogroll in WordPress by programming it in PHP. Its fairly easy and we will provide the codes for you right here. Keep in mind that you should only do this to a child theme. In the tutorial I demonstrated it on a parent the
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This article will discuss GDPR Compliance, and What You NEED To Do before the deadline on May 25th. This will include the need to edit your Privacy Policies, Terms of Service and any other Data Policies
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Maximize adsense revenue in your WordPress website. If you really want to increase your earning potential then we have the plugin for you!
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This article will help you install WordPress with Shell access ( ssh ) using the wget command in a Linux/Ubuntu terminal.
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Making money online in 2018 effectively and easily is better than ever. In today's virtual world it does not take money to make money anymore. Through the use of your social media platforms and websites making money is easier than it ever was.
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Most effective and easiest way of backing up your website is in terminal. The process that I am about to show you is very easy. It may look like it is past your capabilities but it is not.
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We have talked extensively on using SSL's but Google is upping the game. Starting in October 2017 Google will require you to have an SSL on your website. SSL is an acronym for secure socket layer. It is what makes the green lock at the top of the website
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