Tag: WordPress
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How to Make Your WordPress RSS Feed Show Full Articles Instantly
Finally getting around to resurrecting my newsletter, I wanted to update my RSS feed to include the full text of my articles, so that the entire post will be included in the email. Fortunately, WordPress has an option for this, and it doesn’t even require a plugin to pull it off. Enable full text in…
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Yoast SEO: No Focus Keyphrase showing posts with keyphrase
Even though I migrated back to WordPress months ago, I’m still in a constant cycle of improving my content. I tend to focus my efforts around my most trafficked content. Here and there I chip away at certain tasks that affect most if not all posts. One task is making sure the Yoast SEO plugin…
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Content Pruning for SEO: Less is More
As I’m attempting to take my blog and writing more seriously, I decided it was time to do some content pruning for SEO purposes. Going into this, I knew that the SEO benefits of content pruning, like much of the dark arts of SEO, are anecdotal at best. Google once said it was a good…
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Moving to WordPress from Jekyll
I recently told some friends that I was moving to WordPress from Jekyll. Not a surprise, the overwhelming sentiment was that hell had in fact frozen over. If you’ve followed my blog, you may remember that I’ve bounced around between WordPress and Jekyll a few times. I’ve also jumped around between GitHub, GitLab, and Cloudflare’s…
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Filtering WordPress menu items
Recently I had a request come in to update the navigation on a WordPress site. The way the request was worded made me think the change to the menu needed to happen on one specific page, and not across the entire site. This created an interesting problem, as the theme…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – July 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
So when I published last month’s post, later that same day it was announced that Flywheel was being acquired by WP Engine. There’s no timeline on if/when Flywheel would be fully consumed by the WP Engine brand, so they will continue to be featured on this list. If nothing else,…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – June 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Wow, can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks since I started venturing down the path of reviewing managed WordPress hosting. Since this still a new post series, things are a bit all over the place, and I’m still working out some kinks. Fortunately, this month is going to have a few…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – May 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Due to my ongoing efforts on my VPS Showdown series, I’m regularly being asked if I have any recommendations on hosting for WordPress. As it turns out, I don’t. Sure, you could leverage my existing reviews to pick a host to slap WordPress on, but what if you want to…
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Left align multiple line list items
I don’t claim to know all the things, and this post is definitely something that I’m pretty sure nearly everybody on the planet knew about but me. The problem I was attempting to solve recently is that I had a list and the left alignment of the multiple lined list…
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How to stop WordPress pingback DDoS attacks
Yesterday I had the privilege of dealing with a Wordpress pingback DDoS attack on one of my sites. My hosting company, whom I pay for access to a DDoS protection appliance, didn’t even notice anything. They deployed the appliance at my request and the spike in inbound bandwidth subsided. Unfortunately,…