We should all be concerned about online security. I’ve just read a easy-to-understand discussion by Mark Maunder, CEO of WordFence, of the reasons we need to be careful, what of our personal data we need to protect, and suggestions on…
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If you’re concerned about WordPress security, you should read this great article on KeyCDN “WordPress Security – Complete 16 Step Guide“. It’s a comprehensive list of things to do to make your WordPress site more secure. It’s current for 2016.…
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Scenario: I’m working on a WordPress online store using WooCommerce and my next task was to set up the main menu with the main product categories. Problem: When I opened the Menus admin screen, Product Categories was not an option.…
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Kevin Muldoon wrote an in-depth post about RSS on the Elegant Themes blog. You’ll get some good historical background and suggestions about dealing with the changing RSS environment.
I like the examples of post formats in the Compete Themes blog.
In WordPress, if you want to have widgets in new areas of your posts page, then you can register more sidebars and write code to position them in your page templates. Here’s what you need to do: Register a named…
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The task: Simplify the Search widget on my Elusive Music WordPress blog. The problem: Where are the styles for the Search widget? Modern browsers an Inspect tool for examining CSS class names and property settings. Usually, you right-click on any…
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Writing a WordPress blog post that contains code snippets can be tricky. If you switch back and forth between the visual editor and the text editor, your formatting and even the content can get totally messed up. There are a…
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In my Elusive Music blog, I wanted to use custom excerpts, also known as manual excerpts. However, WordPress doesn’t automatically add a “Read More” link to a custom excerpt, just to automatically generated excerpts. I could have just added the…
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Images serve many purposes: They can be purely decorative; they can be menu items or buttons; they can illustrate concepts and present data. How well does your web page work if your images are missing? If you are blind and…
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