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YouTube is an incredibly powerful tool. It handles storing, encoding, compressing and playing videos so you don’t have to worry about compatibility across an ever-increasing number of browsers and devices. Adding YouTube videos to WordPress is fairly simple because of oEmbed support added in...
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Before we get too involved here, let’s answer one all-important question first: Why Do You Need Followers? The number of followers you have can really boost your ego and make you feel great (assuming it’s a good number, and not a bad number), but that’s not the main reason to get...
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Chances are that if you’ve been using WordPress for a while then you’ve heard of something called a shortcode. Ok, that might be an understatement. If you’ve been using WordPress for a month then chances are you’ve already been using shortcodes left and right. It’s...
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Are you struggling with slow site loading times? Just a few extra seconds can make a big difference. For every additional second it takes your site to load, your page abandon rate rises. About half of your visitors will expect it to load in 2 seconds or less, according to KISSmetrics. If it...
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Welcome to the second of my two-week mini-series on social integration with WordPress. Last week I covered how to integrate Facebook with WordPress. This week I’ll be focusing on integrating Twitter with WordPress. In my previous post I focused on two things: 1) Facebook comments; and...
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The Internet sees a constant bombardment of blog posts every day. With so much to read and consume, your posts can get lost in the chatter. Blog posts can get overshadowed by the news or the next big thing that’s ‘it’ for the moment. When this happens, your post can get brushed under the...
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Before we go into any details at all, first things first: What’s a WordPress Lightbox? To put it simply, a lightbox is an overlay or a popup window that goes over the website and shows a picture. They showcase the picture and darken the rest of the page, but still allows it to be visible...
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Most of the time when someone is looking to create a private WordPress blog, we can pretty much guess why; they want to blog about their baby or something but don’t want the world to see it. Understandable. And we’ll help you figure out how to make your blog private for that reason in this...
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In WordPress, pages are stitched together from different template files. Each template file represents another part of the page, and together they make up all of the content of your individual pages, pulled from the WordPress admin. However, which template file is actually selected is based on a...
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Let’s face it: backing up a website can take time and can be tedious work. The more time something takes, and the more tedious it is, the less likely it is to get done. The more a website changes the more often the backup is required. A website that changes often doesn’t have the luxury of...
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Building community on your website is a must nowadays. Outside of traditional comments, you can accomplish this by building a social network. And one great way to do that is to create a forum. I’ve written before about how to add a forum to your WordPress site. Those forums were brand new and...
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WordPress’ new built-in media players make it a powerful platform for streaming video and audio. But you might notice that your WordPress install has a prohibitive maximum file size for uploads. If you want to know what your site’s upload limit is, you can visit Media -> Add New....
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