Many website owners have been turning to mobile-friendly responsive websites, and moving away from traditional mobile-only sites, with encouragement from Google.
Responsive Websites Are Winning In Google
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Simple Facebook Sharing and Like button for WordPress
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You do not need to use a plugin to let your readers share and like your posts and pages in WordPress. Facebook provide code at single URL level, but you can simply add the WordPress php to call the current URL and that works a treat (get the Facebook code here). There are two pieces…
WordPress Breadcrumb Links the Easy Way
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There are several plugins that add breadcrumbs to Wordperss blog posts and pages but none are very easiliy configurable / styleable. I was using Yoast’s service from the WordPress SEO plugin, but decided to see if I could just hardcode something on the website. It was easy. I added this code to the content-header.php file…
How To Move The Twenty Twelve Sidebar to the Left
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I have just installed Twenty Twelve as Magazine Basic is doing funny things with my image map. But there is GUI to modify the layout of the page. So I had to delve into the dreaded CSS stylesheet! Fortunately moving the sidebar to the left is easy in the TwentyTwelve theme. Here’s how you do…
WordPress – Display A List Of Latest Posts But Exclude Sticky Posts
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Today I finally found a solution to a problem that has been bugging me for years. In WordPress, by default, lists of your latest posts display, as you can probably imagine, your latest posts. However, if you chose to make a post “sticky”, i.e. request that it appears at the top of your homepage, category pages and…
How To Add Your Logo To A WordPress Hybrid Theme
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When I first installed Hybrid News, a child theme for Hybrid, I edited the Hybrid code. But today there was an upgrade and I lost my logo, and I could not remember where I made the original edit (see, keeping logs of all changes is important!).
Quick Adsense is Dead, Long Live Ad Inserter and Global Content Blocks!
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For some reason the best advert management plugin for WordPress is no longer supported. Quick Adsense is dead, the adverts simply do not appear any more. It seems that the original plugin developer sold it to another party but they have not updated it – they also do not respond to enquiries. Now, the plugin actually stopped…
Do You Need a Website? Use This Flowchart to Determine if You Really Need a Website
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In an increasingly online world, the question “Do I need a website?” is one which you should consider carefully. The main thing to think about is the purpose of the website you may make. If it is for personal use, then a social network such as Twitter or Facebook may be better. However, if the…
The Plugins I use to Build an SEO Friendly WordPress Website
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It is my belief that for anyone who is passionate about writing and not so keen on developing websites, WordPress is the best content management system (bit of website software) to build and manage a website. WordPress is great because it is fully open source (so no cash needs to be handed over to use…
The Best Magazine Theme For WordPress
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Last night I noticed that on one of my sites there were hundreds of duplicate files being crawled. These files were all generated by the WordPress Theme as it appended a version number to the end of each javascript file each time an edit was done. However, there was nothing in place to “remove” old…
Drupal Gardens – The Best Free Website?
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Just came across this – Drupal Gardens – http://www.drupalgardens.com/ Like Ning, but using Drupal. More like WordPress.com really, but using Drupal. Many people have a free website for their personal blog or business. Generally they opt for WordPress.com, Blogspot.com, Google Sites or just make do with a Facebook page these days. Drupal is an open source…
How to Add Widget Areas to Your WordPress Theme
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Just found this fantastic tutorial on adding widget areas to any WordPress theme. I successfully set up a new widget area below the content of my posts on another blog I write for in about 5 minutes. Addwidget Area to Theme: Step 1. In the index.php file in your theme directory, add the following code…
Website Logo Competition
We are proud to announce that we have been chosen the host the MotleyHealth.com logo competition. MotleyHealth.com has decided that it is time to upgrade their current logo, and have decided to search for a new logo by way of a competition. The logo should be on the theme of Fitness, Strength and Weight Loss.…
Edit Hosts Files to view website on test server
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If you are moving a site to a new server, or building a new site for a client, you will want to be able to test it before updating the name servers. This task is very simple to do on both Linux and Windows PCs. All you need to do is add a line in…
How to Post html or php Code into a blog post
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One thing that I struggled with for ages was posting code to a blog, as the code would invariable be processed, meaning that it could not be shown. However, a bit of googling revealed that there are several online solutions which convert php or html code into blog safe code. This one is very simple…