After I moved my WP blog from root to /blog/ directory I wrote this post where I explained how I did it. This was about two months ago, but I dug a little more and now I give you my new findings. Adding a robots.txt file Yesterday I was navigating in my Google Webmasters account and realized […]
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How to Migrate a WordPress Blog to a New Hosting
My first year subscription at SiteGround was approaching to it’s end and I was facing to the decision whether to remain with them or to move to another web hosting company. I knew about D9 Hosting for a while and I heard only good things about them, so I decided to give it a try. I bought […]
Tweaking OptimizePress Theme
When I switched to OptimizePress theme for this blog, I noticed some styling problems and the lack of flexibility regarding the blog styling options disappointed me a little bit. Maybe it’s a good environment for sales pages, but the blog support is not quite what I was expecting. Anyway, even with a poor styling support, […]
How to Add PHP Code to WordPress Without Touching the Theme
There are times when you need to add customized filters or actions to a WordPress blog. The Problem When you search Google for a solution for how to do it, the solution you usually find is to edit functions.php from your current theme, sometimes with the recommendation to use a child theme. If you use a base […]
How to Move a Blog From Root to a Directory
During my early weeks’ training within P2S coaching program, I was taught to make a fresh WordPress installation in /blog directory, rather than the website’s root directory, and have it served from the mentioned directory. The reason for this is to be able to install more than one WP instances in the same domain, each […]
Top 20 Free WordPress Plugins for 2015
In this post I will show the best free WordPress plugins that I came within my short blogging career. I wanted to limit their number to a minimum, so I only kept the ones I consider to be a must. Here is the list ordered from the most to the least important. [Update – April 2, 2015] I […]
3 Methods to Disable XML-RPC Pingback in WordPress
In the previous post, I was talking about testing and adding ping or update services to WordPress. In this article I will talk about another XML-RPC functionality, pingbacks, and ways to disable them in WordPress. Pingbacks are evil. Why? Only two words: SPAM and DDoS. What Are Pingbacks XML-RPC protocol is used by WordPress as […]
How to Test XML-RPC Pinging Services
In today’s internet universe, if you want to stand out from the crowd you have to publish really quality and relevant content. It attracts not only real people eager to read what you have to say, but also search engines. But it’s not enough to have first class content, it has to be indexed by […]
How to Fix Structured Data Errors in Webmasters Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools is very useful when you must assess how Google sees your sites. In order to use rich snippets and other features in search results it tries to understand the markup on your pages. However it’s possible that some of that markup to be incomplete or malformed. In this case the Structured Data […]