New in WordPress 3.8 [Video]
In this quick video, you’ll see all the new features in WordPress 3.8, plus tips on how to use them.
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Hide Content from Search and Sitemaps with WordPress SEO Plugin
In this quick video you’ll see how to hide your content from search bots and keep it out of both your sitemaps using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. There are several combinations of settings and I’ll tell you about the different options and which ones are best to use to suit your content goals.
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TinyMCE Advanced Text Editor for WordPress
Get a better text editor for WordPress called TinyMCE Advanced. It will stop WordPress from removing your special coding and give you all sorts of extra features. In this quick video I’ll take you through how to set it up properly. That’s important because there are things in it that could override your theme style…
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5 Things a Theme Designer Hates About You
All site designers belong to a secret club. We talk about our headache site owners. Some of you reading this today are those clients. We don’t call out names in our club, but we do dish the dirt. We have to, otherwise we would run screaming down the street, pulling our hair out. Why? Because you make us crazy. We have a club because misery loves company and we feel better knowing we’re not the only ones with clients that drive us nuts. I’m going to spill the beans and tell you what your designer won’t so you can avoid being that client we talk about.
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How to Turn Off WordPress 3.7 Auto Updates
WordPress 3.7 was released last week and it was not without incident. Some sites experienced immediate conflicts. That shook the faith in the new auto update feature in WordPress 3.7. But, you may want to think twice about turning it off completely. And, doing so requires changes to one of the core WordPress files. In…
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WordPress 3.7 is Available
WordPress 3.7 contains some of the “most important architectural updates we’ve made to date” according to the post about its release on the WordPress.org website. What’s in 3.7? Besides the three, big highlights of automatic updates, stronger password recommendations, and localized versions for non-English languages, the developers closed over 400 Trac tickets. These were nagging bug and feature fixes, some of which had been lingering since before version 3.6.
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WordPress SEO Plugin Removes Stop Words from Permalinks
The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast has a new setting that was turned on by default a couple of updates ago that affects your permalinks. It’s a little thing. But it could have a big impact on your SEO and whether your post gets the click in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). In this quick video I’ll show you exactly what the change is, how your permalinks will appear, plus a couple of caveats with using this, or any plugin, that removes stop words from permalinks.
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Genesis Minimum Pro Theme – Getting Started
The Minimum Pro theme has been released at StudioPress. It is now HTML5 compliant and had a bit of a facelift. This theme makes use of a few different items than other themes, such as a technique called Backstretch on the big image on the front page, as well as a two-widget combo with a special plugin to get those nice big social media circles on the home page too.