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How to Easily Create Custom Category Pages in WordPress
WordPress category pages are the pages that list all the posts on your blog from a particular category. These pages give your readers a way to view all the posts on a certain topic or category in one place. However, depending on your chosen WordPress theme, these category pages don’t often include any original or…
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An Introduction to Guest Bloggers and Guest Blogging
The benefits of expanding the scope of your blog are pretty self-explanatory: you expand the scope of your content, add new perspectives for your readers, build relationships with key influencers, build backlinks, and bring a wider audience to your blog through the writer’s existing followers. Keep your expectations reasonable One of the key mistakes many…
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The 6 Types Of Cyber Attacks To Protect Against In 2024
Introduction to Cybersecurity Threats It’s every system administrator’s worst nightmare. Hackers gain access to your system, stealing mission-critical information, locking sensitive files, or leaking proprietary information to the public. Frankly, it can be hard for companies to recover from such an attack. The data breach at Equifax in 2017 is turning out to be one…
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A Guide to Using WordPress Logs to Track Errors
Use WordPress logs to fix problems that arise on your WordPress instance — or, more accurately, to figure out why they’ve occurred. This feature tracks errors and records them in one easy-to-locate file, so you can get started on the troubleshooting process. There are three basic steps to enable WordPress error logs: In this article,…
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Speed Optimization: the WordPress Plugins You Need
I’ve talked a lot about security over the last few weeks. This week, though, I want to talk about another important website attribute: speed. For anyone who experienced 56k dial-up, you could be forgiven for thinking today’s super-fast broadband connections have solved the problem of website speed. After all, most websites load within a few…
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Four Tips for Customizing the WordPress Admin
If you work with WordPress regularly, the WordPress admin will feel like a second home — I know it does for me, at least. Although the default design, layout, and settings work exceptionally well, it’s possible to make small tweaks to the WordPress admin to help you work more efficiently. Today, I want to share…
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Can Your Site Benefit from a WordPress Reverse Proxy?
While explaining how it works is a little more difficult, the essence of what a WordPress Reverse Proxy does is simple. It allows your WordPress site to be viewed through another domain, so that your visitors have no idea they’re on a different site or system. For example, let’s say you have a WordPress blog…
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How to Find the Post ID in WordPress
Introduction to WordPress IDs When I first started using WordPress several years ago, I remember a plugin asking me for a post ID. I thought I was picking up WordPress quite quickly, but this one had me stumped. I could see the name of my post, I could find the URL – but I had…
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The Complete Guide to Creating Custom Shortcodes in WordPress
In this post, we’ll take you step-by-step through the process of creating and using your own custom shortcodes. We’ll go over what shortcodes are, walk you through the entire process of creating a new shortcode, and show you how to modify and control the shortcode attributes and functions. Please note that this is a more…
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What is WP-CLI? And Why You Probably Want It.
A lot of developers seem to enjoy grunt work – the thrill of fixing problems, building things, and losing yourself in lines of code. But there’s only so much time in the day. And you probably have better things to be doing than repetitive tasks that end up taking longer than they should. When you…