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Posting To Social Media From #WordPress Shouldn’t Be This Difficult. But It Is.

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I hate Facebook.  Have I mentioned that? I’ve actually dreamed about deleting my Linkedin account and woken up smiling. Twitter is the only form of social media you’ll ever catch me enjoying. All I want to do is automatically send my WordPress posts to Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.  I’ve tested multiple plugins and with the exception of Jetpack they have all failed. Get Jetpack here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Jetpack Pros: Easy to … Continue reading →

Cleaning Out Your #WordPress Database

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Howdy.  Let’s talk about size.  Specifically the size of your WordPress database.  Size does matter.  Regardless of what you’ve been told. If you database gets too large and full of junk it can slow down your site.  I’ve embarked on a voyage of discovery.  The goal being to clean up and trim down my WordPress databases.  Here are my experiences so far with two plugins. WP-Optimize This plugin helps you … Continue reading →

Backing Up #WordPress with the BackWPup Plugin

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Here is an introduction video to using BackWPup to backup WordPress.  This video is intended for people who are new to WordPress and the concepts of backing up a site.  Not intended for advanced users.  If you are an advanced user you will be bored out of your mind watching this.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Find BackWPup here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ Note that BackWPup does not have an option to … Continue reading →

Find and Fix Broken Links in #WordPress

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There are many reasons broken links may be on your website. Sites you pointed to no longer exist. URLs at other sites have changed. The link was typed in wrong. You changed things on your site and moved something. Hunting down broken links is time consuming but necessary for your site to work right. Additionally multiple broken links on your site doesn’t reflect well on you. Like it or not … Continue reading →

Beyond Seamalt. Buttons-for-website.com And More.

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A while back (a longish while back) I posted about blocking Seamalt.com from your website.  In the time since there there have been some developments. 0. I noticed that I was spelling “semalt” wrong.  I was typing “seamalt”.  And I’ve got in wrong in this post as well.  That’s bad website building.  People should be able to spell your URL.  Ha! 1. Another spam referral website has come to prominence.  … Continue reading →

Introduction Video to YOURLS

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Get YOURLS: http://yourls.org/ I’ve been experimenting with the YOURLS link shortener and in this video I’ll give you an over view of what it does, can do and can’t do. I’ll show you some tips, plugins I added and talk about mistakes I made. I’ll also show you how to integrate YOURLS with your WordPress installation. Leave questions, comments and ideas in the comment section. I’ll get back to you … Continue reading →

Jetpack Contact Form and W3 Total Cache Oppsies

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“Are you sure you want to do that?”  That’s the message I was getting from assorted WordPress sites when using Jetpack’s built in contact form.  And by golly I know they use to work. If you are using W3 Total Cache try this and see if that solves the problem. Log in to WordPress. Go to ‘Performance’ -> ‘Page Cache’ Scroll down to the ‘Advanced’ section and look for the … Continue reading →

Weaver II Theme, Child Themes and Jetpack Tiled Galleries

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In my quest to make the tiles photo gallery that comes as part of the Jetpack plugin work I found I had to create a child theme for my theme of choice, Weaver II. This was quite the saga and since I couldn’t easily find documentation to make this happen I decided to write it.  So here it is, step by step. References: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes http://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-tiled-galleries?replies=9#post-3842343 http://codex.wordpress.org/Content_Width Creating a child theme … Continue reading →

WP Social Toolbar Plugin

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WP Social Toolbar Plugin WP Social Toolbar will display your latest tweet status, list your social networking profiles, and allow users to “Like” your page on Facebook or tweet about it on Twitter! With so many options for customization our toolbar will easily adapt to your WordPress theme’s style. Some of the customization options include; specifying colors, changing fonts, and rearranging your list of social network icons to your desired … Continue reading →

Backing Up the WordPress Database

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How to backup your WordPress Database: Backing up your WordPress database on a regular basis is very important.  By very important I mean it’s right up there with oxygen.  If you don’t have either you are screwed. There are a multitude of ways to backup your databases.  If you use CPanel you can do it there.  The easiest way I’ve found so far however is the WordPress Database Backup.  The … Continue reading →