Last reviewed and tested: December 17, 2024 Maybe you’ve looked up how to do this online, or asked an AI, and found the steps don’t match what’s on your LinkedIn pages. LinkedIn updates their interface frequently. Here are some helpful instructions that we’ve tested and double-checked to make sure they’re accurate at the time of […]
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Content marketing is a powerful strategy to attract audiences through valuable content, like Ben Franklin’s almanac & the Michelin Guide.
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Tired of reformatting documents for your website or your blog? Maybe you don’t want to have to learn how to use another online text editor just to write a post. Then use Markdown to write your web pages. Do you write for the web? Do you post to any of these? If you do, wouldn’t
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How to create a new Public repository on GitHub so you can: All of this, without using the command line. There are lots of great reasons to use GitHub to share a repository of your code, like: What you need Before you start, be sure that you: Git repositories (also called a “repo”) are easier
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If your posts are easy for people to read and understand, they’re also easier for search engines to analyze and rank. That means good writing and formatting = great SEO. In a sense, search engines look at your page like a human visitor does: they both want to figure out what’s the most relevant information
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Often, you want to edit a page or post so your WordPress link opens a new browser tab. If a link in your WordPress site goes to an external URL (not on your WordPress site) you should tell the browser to open a new browser tab. This reinforces the idea that you’re going to a
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If you work with a team of coders, you’ll want to use git to develop WordPress sites, themes, and plugins. Even if you’re the only developer working on a WordPress site, you’ll want to maintain a history of all the changes you make to your site’s custom code, using a source code control tool like
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Here’s a little bash gem for updating Ubuntu (or, really, any apt-get box). Check out the sweet bash for loop: This single line bash command to runs a complete apt-get update that’s essentially a one line compression of this multi-line bash script: sudo -s — <<EOF apt-get update apt-get upgrade -y apt-get dist-upgrade -y apt-get
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The first step to improve SEO and traffic to your blog is to write great content, and lots of it. Once you’ve written a great post for your blog, there are a few quick updates you can make in WordPress to improve your post’s SEO performance and increase traffic to your site. Every time you add a
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If you’re using WordPress.com, or Jetpack with your WordPress.com account, protect yourself by setting up WordPress Two Step Authentication. In fact, you should use Two Step Authentication (also known as Two Factor Authentication) for every website that supports it, especially your social media accounts, your Gmail account, financial websites like your bank, and any other
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