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Auto-create Featured Image Using Post Title

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One of my favorite plugins to create a featured image automatically on posts is the Auto Featured Image from Title. What this plugin does is to create a featured image with your post title over your selected default featured image.

Great Combination in WordPress: Elementor PRO and Anywhere Elementor

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Elementor is a great drag-and-drop builder for WordPress. The Pro version we are using for one of my client sites has global section for widgets and sections. It does not have a global feature for the header, footer, sidebar, and the like. To augment it, we use AE templates or Anywhere Elementor templates to create a global header, global footer, global sidebar, and global 404 page. Anywhere Elementor allows you to easily use the template to your PHP files like the header, footer, sidebar, and 404 php files.

How to set up DFP DoubleClick For Publishers in WordPress

Are you new to DFP DoubleClick for Publishers? Are you using WordPress for your site? Here is a very good video tutorial on how to use the DFP DoubleClick For Publishers.   if you are not sure what DoubleClick For Publishers Small Business is, check out this other video below:

What to Do When Fixing a Website or in Maintenance Mode

This link explains how to have a maintenance mode or page for your website. There are 3 suggestions given: .htaccess, built-in wp maintenance page, or a plugin: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-maintenance/ This is a link explaining how to handle maintenance correctly with SEO in-mind. It suggests that you use http 503: https://yoast.com/http-503-site-maintenance-seo/ What to do with your planned maintenance for … Read more

Installing WordPress, Genesis Framework, and WP Whoosh

Install WordPress as your platform: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress (Some are using quick installs via the CPanel like Softaculous and Fantastico). Under Appearance > Themes, install Genesis framework (both framework and child theme): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt6AovXl8Ms Get a Genesis 2.0 Framework here (free download): https://www.techerhut.com/free-download-genesis-framework-2-0-1-from-studiopress/ Under Plugins, install WP Whoosh: https://www.wpwhoosh.com/tutorials/how-to-install-wp-whoosh/

SSL Connection Error in Chrome for Google Sites

I once had problem connecting to Google sites using Chrome. Only to find out that I just had to uncheck Scan encrypted files in Kaspersky to temporarily resolve it. I am still hoping that enabling the scan encrypted files in Kaspersky might be no longer a problem when viewing Google sites in Chrome. Check out … Read more

Move Text Only in Suffusion Top Navigation Menu

This is applicable when:

  1. using Suffusion as theme.
  2. using an image as background in the top navigation bar/menu.
  3. trying to move the text only leaving the background image as it is.
#nav-top a {padding-top:40px !important;}

Note:

  • When applied without !important at first, nothing happened.
  • 40 can be any figure.

WordPress Theme

Testing LIVE Testing a New WP Theme This is a great plugin to test a new WP Theme without letting your site’s visitors see what you are currently testing. I find this a good alternative to XAMPP (unless you really want to test a new theme in your desktop or laptop). Try Theme Test Drive … Read more

Fixing Jetpack Slideshow: this slideshow requires Javascript

When you see this instead of the slideshow that you expect: “This slideshow requires Javascript,” You can do the following: 1. Make sure that you have your wp-footer. 2. Update your javascript. jQuery Updater is a WordPress plugin to fix your slideshow, which is powered by JetPack. See the FAQs as it may also break … Read more

Auto-update Copyright Year in WP Footer

Are you tired of manually updating the copyright year in your WordPress footer every year?

Updating it every year and more so updating it in each post and page is time-consuming.

If you are wondering how to auto-update the copyright year in your WP footer, you can use this <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?>.

An example would be:

<?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> BrodNeil.com

Which will produce to

2013 BrodNeil.com

as <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> changes to year.

Hope this makes things easy for non-coders like me.

No Indexing WP Taxonomies and Other Tabs and Optimize Pagination

Two things learned from SEJ: 1. Optimize pagination 2. No Index Taxonomies and Other tabs in WordPress SEO Although the index of variables three and four plummeted, organic traffic skyrocketed. Traffic on variable three increased by 30 percent within two weeks, while variable four increased by 20 percent. via No Indexing WordPress Taxonomies: Do or … Read more

Show a specific category on homepage

if (is_home()) { query_posts(“cat=3”); }   here’s another hack to show what category you want on homepage <?php if (have_posts()) :query_posts($query_string .’&cat=3′); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> And if you want to exclude a specific category from homepage, instead of ‘&cat=3′, put’&cat=-3’ . via WordPress › Support » Show a specific category on homepage.

WP Google Fonts

Check out this WP Google Fonts. The WP Google Font plugin makes it even easier to use Google’s free service to add high quality fonts to your WordPress powered site. Not only does this plugin add the necessary Google code, but it also gives you the ability to assign the Google fonts to specific CSS … Read more