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Is Your Website As Unique As You Think?
You're Not As Unique As You Think You Are. Well over a decade ago, I was in a room with a web consultant talking about the needs, wants and desires for our company's website. We put on a wonderful presentation with details about our shopping cart, sales funnel, web...
Using Rank Math With Divi Just Got Easier
Using DIVI and Rank Math Together Just Got Easier! I make no secret that I build websites almost exclusively in the DIVI WordPress theme. And one of the big issues in almost all SEO plugins and DIVI is it's only possible to make changes to the SEO info in the "classic...
How to Change A WordPress Username
Need To Change a WordPress Username? It doesn't happen often, but once in a while a client or website will need a way to handle user requests to change a username. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t let you change a username in it's stock version. A quick look at a user...
4 Ways To Move a WordPress Website
Why Would You Move a Website? There are plenty of reasons to move a website from host to host, or even within a host to different plans. Upgrading from shared to VPS, or VPS to Dedicated, or even beyond that to a new environment in the same host. Unsatisfied with...
What Do You Need To Know To Run A WordPress Website?
What Do You Need To Know To Run A WordPress Website? So you've found a host, downloaded and installed WordPress, and are ready to fire up your new website. Now what? Before you go beyond, or even get to this point, let's talk about the other things you may need to...
How To Use a Robots.txt File
Exactly what is a robots.txt and what does it do? The official Google definition of robots.txt is : “A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site...
Google Mobile Indexing Starts in March 2021
Google Will Start Exclusively Indexing Mobile in March 2021 This is the WP Wednesday podcast episode 125 : Google Mobile Indexing Is Here! My name is Marv Dorner of BeBizzy Consulting and today we’re going to talk about getting your site ready for use on mobile...
Should I Use Hero Images?
What Is A Hero Image? Wikipedia defines hero image as "a large web banner image, prominently placed on a web page, generally in the front and center." It usually dominates a home page, and can be linked by the visitor to the company or organization's image. Because of...
Does Google Value Hidden Content Less?
Hidden Website Content A fairly common way to display large chunks of content on a website is to use tabs, accordions and toggles. All of these "hide" content until they are clicked or otherwise activated, revealing the content underneath. So how does Google index...
Tech Changes in 2020
2020 Forced Lots of Technical Changes 2020 was weird. There. I said it. The past nine to twelve months has change the way many of you work and live. Commutes, water coolers and being interrupted by a co-worker walking around have been replaced by video meetings,...
WordPress 5.6 Is Available
WordPress 5.6 is Available to Download WordPress 5.6 was released for download and installation on December 8, 2020. On today's episode of the WP Wednesday Podcast we'll talk about what's in the release, and why you should, or should not install it.WordPress 5.6...
Fonts In WordPress
Using Fonts in WordPress Most websites have images. Some have videos. Others have database connections, feeds from other sites, shopping carts, and others item. But it's fair to say that EVERY websites has fonts. From the classic Times New Roman, to newly launched...
What Technology Do I Need to Manage WordPress?
What Do You Need To Manage WordPress? WordPress lives entirely online. The wp-admin portion of a WP site allows the admin to manage everything from one spot. On the admin you can create posts and pages, add media (images, videos, audio and documents), add/manage...
Sending Emails from WordPress Sites
Why doesn't WordPress send emails without any configuration? The easy answer is, it does... sometimes. Some hosts and website work without any editing to the WordPress install or even the plugins to send emails from forms. It' uses the PHP Mail function. But some...
Sending Email From Your WordPress Website
Why Send Email From A Website There are many reasons to set up your WordPress website to send emails. Recover WordPres account passwords Send emails to the website owner, specific people in the organization, and even to people outside the site or business. Special...
Do Headings Affect Your SEO Rankings?
Do Headings Have to be Used in a Specific Way? Heading tags are a great way to format your web pages by giving them primary headlines, separate a new idea or topic, or even easily identify important ideas. But for years it's been widely accepted that these headlines...
Protecting Your WordPress Sites With Good Passwords
WordPress Admin SecurityThe most obvious security issue with WordPress is your administrator account logon information. By locking that down you can protect your website content and install information. But there are other security measures you should implement if you...
Adding Notifications to Your WordPress Site
Adding Notifications Sometimes you need to get specific information out to your customers like operation times, newsletter signups, new product lines, or even business sale or closing messages. There are many ways to do this, and also many things to consider when...
