Category: Tutorial
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Setting Up An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance for WordPress: Part 2
This post is part two of a series on setting up an Amazon Web Service Instance for a WordPress site. Part 1 covers the initial setup, security, and terminology of Amazon’s AWS. Edited: Oct 12, 2016 to include newest versions of software. If you’ve read the link above, you should have a newly created Amazon…
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Setting Up An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance for WordPress: Part 1
For a while now, I’ve been diving more and more into the realm of the “server administrator” and setting up servers for clients. I started with Ramnode, but eventually moved to Digital Ocean because of its ease-of-use for a (then) newbie like myself. Over the past few days, however, I’ve been migrating a client away…
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Creating a Site Specific Plugin in WordPress
Quick: how do you add a custom function into a theme. If you said ‘add it to your functions.php file’, then you would be correct. But is that really the best way to go about things? The Problem Let’s say you’ve customized your site with some pretty fancy functions you’ve added in through the hooks…
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Redirection: An Easy Way to Handle 301 Redirects
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…
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Podcasting with PowerPress
Most brands would benefit from having some sort of podcasting element on their site or blog. And the easiest way to do that is with PowerPress – the de facto podcasting plugin for WordPress.
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Help! I’m Locked out of WordPress
Today we talk about the options we have in case the worst happens – we find ourselves locked out of our WordPress admin account unable to login.
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Category Description: SEO for your Category Archive
Here are the top 5 options you should absolutely set before you start writing in your WordPress site.
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Under the Hood with WordPress, Part 6: jQuery / JavaScript
Today, we’re covering jQuery and JavaScript – a power language that can manipulate elements and – in some cases – even bring content in, even after the site has loaded.
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Under the Hood with WordPress, Part 4: Using CSS
This is Part 4 of a 6-part series on diving “under the hood” with WordPress. Today, we’re covering the last part of CSS (Cascading Stylesheets). We’ll go over some specific examples that you’ll see often as you look through a WordPress theme.