The aim here is to make a WordPress post or page private. (Not the whole site. To make the whole site private, see link below.) That means no one can see it, even if they know the URL. Actually I want to make all the pages/posts within a category to be private. So let’s go […]
MailChimp Featured Image Not Working in RSS Newsletter
April 28, 2017 by 11 Comments
MailChimp Featured Image Not Working in RSS Newsletter: There is a featured image problem with MailChimp RSS Newsletter. In short, their RSS Image Merge tag *|RSSITEM:IMAGE|* does not pull in the required featured image from the blog posts.
MailChimp Tutorial #4 – MailChimp Signup Form
April 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
MailChimp Signup Form – Now that we have opened a MailChimp account and created a list, created a campaign, created a layout for our newsletter, it is time to figure out how to create a Signup Form for our site.
Display WP Posts in a Visual Grid Layout
January 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How to Display WP posts in a Visual Grid Layout What I want to do, especially over at my ClearlyHelena.com website, is to be able to (automatically) display all my posts (within a category) in a visual grid layout. The visual grid layout makes finding articles (posts) much easier. At the moment, WP […]
Widgetize Pages Light: WordPress Plugin
May 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
I installed Widgetize Pages Light plugin (by OTWthemes) because, with it, I can drop widgets anywhere into my posts or pages. At the time of install, there were over 10,000+ active installs with generally 5 star user ratings.
Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress
May 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Displaying some Related Posts links at the end of each of your posts will help to increase traffic and reduce bounce rate. On this site, I have used Contextual Related Posts by Ajay. It had, at the time of my installation, over 60,000 active installations and mainly 5 star ratings. So I reckon this is a […]
Related Posts plugin (Jetpack) for WordPress
May 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Having related posts show up at the bottom of your posts is said to help increase traffic. So it is time I did something about this. Instead of installing yet another plugin, I will just use Jetpack plugin which I already have. So if you have the same, then let’s do it!
SEO your Images!
April 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
How to SEO your Images In my previous article, SEO: Image Alt Text vs Title, Lumpy Dog and I tried to get through the message that your images’ alt text are important to you. Together with the image title. But the former more than the latter. Don’t throw away your images’ SEO power! The question […]
Tips to Protect WordPress Installation
April 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
I just came across Matt Cutts’s Three tips to protect your WordPress installation. So I thought I had better look into it. Admittedly the article was written in 2008 but being Matt Cutts, the safety information might still be useful. And needful. How to Protect WordPress Installation
Google Fonts – How to Use
April 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Of course I knew about Google Fonts. But that was all I knew: about! Now is the time to learn how to use them. Because right now Google has over 676 font families. They are FREE! And they are BEAUTIFUL!! You can check them out at GoogleFonts. I didn’t try Google Fonts out before because: I thought it would […]
