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Add A Favicon; Because It’s The Little Things That Set You Apart

CMDR Mitchcraft

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One thing I continually notice as I surf the web is that people tend to cut corners when it comes to getting their sites up.  They continually forget to drop in small, polishing elements that make a dull website sparkle.  Favicons seem to be the most ignored of the bunch, as I see sites quite often that have kept their hosting account’s favicon or (even worse) don’t have one at all.

All In One Favicon is my go-to plugin of choice for giving my site’s a favicon.  Not only can you specify a different icon for your front end and back end (if you have lots of users, this becomes handy!) but you can also set the Apple Touch icons.  All of the directions are included, and everything runs on the image uploader, so you don’t have to worry about specifying paths, etc.

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  • Redirection: An Easy Way to Handle 301 Redirects

    Redirection: An Easy Way to Handle 301 Redirects

    Reading time: 3 minutes

    Since I’ve switched to my new design, I’ve also done quite a bit of cleanup work on the content side of things.  I pruned a lot of old articles that weren’t bringing in search traffic (and weren’t related to the site anymore), cleaned up a lot of the categories, and set my permalink structure to…

    Tutorial, WordPress
  • How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins on WPEngine (Without the Repository)

    How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins on WPEngine (Without the Repository)

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    Skip to the Tutorial My head is full and my heart is sad tonight. Thousands of WordPress users are left in a strange scenario today as Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and founder, pulled access to the WordPress Repository for thousands of users on WPEngine. WPEngine is officially cut off from all updates – plugins, themes,…

    WordPress