Google Analytics, tracking tools, Pinterest, and many other tools that we use ask us to insert a script in the < head > section of our WordPress sites. Depending on your theme and your level of expertise, this may be super easy, or it may seem way out of your comfort zone. Don’t worry! It […]
Let’s Talk About WordPress Frameworks
In the olden days a theme was a theme. You either found a free one, or you purchased a fancier theme with more features and options, uploaded and activated it on your blog, then configured it the way you wanted it. Of course these themes could be modified, but once modified they couldn’t be updated […]
Make Your Blog Schema.org Compliant for Search Engines and Pinterest Rich Pins
Over at the Facebook group many of you are talking about Rich Pins for Pinterest. Like you, I was completely overwhelmed when I looked at Pinterest’s instructions for setting these up. But guess what? Pinterest doesn’t know you run a WordPress blog where a simple plugin can do 90% of the work for you! The […]
How to Clean Up Your WP Dashboard
You know how you have tons of widgets and boxes on your Dashboard and in your post editor? Then every plugin you add throws up another little box… Yea, me too. And it’s distracting. (I hate clutter!) Guess what? You can hide a bunch of that stuff and keep only what you use. I hide […]
What Is [Shortcoder] and How Can I Use It?
What is Shortcoder? Shortcoder is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create a custom “shortcode” and store HTML, Javascript and other snippets in it to simplify usage of frequently used snippets (small bits) of code. If that “shortcode” is used in any post or pages, the code stored within will get executed in that place. A […]
What to do with Spammy Trackbacks?
Question: What do you all do to stop the spammy trackbacks on your WP blogs? I turned off allowing them and I’m still getting them and having to delete so many every day it is driving me crazy. I don’t have this issue with spammy comments, just the trackbacks. Best Answers: Follow up on them […]
