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 […]
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
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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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
The vv script is no longer maintained, and this page is currently preserved for historical purposes. From the vv GitHub repo: This project is no longer maintained. Please update your copy of VVV , which has most of the vv features built in. from bradp/vv: Variable VVV – a VVV Site Creation Wizard. So many
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The VVV WordPress development environment runs on your local development computer in a virtual machine (VM) so you don’t need to connect to a remote server to build your WordPress site. Varying Vagrant Vagrants, or VVV, is an open source project that runs on all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Because
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What’s the difference between a WordPress Post and a Page, and when should I use one instead of the other? As you build your WordPress site, you will use two main building blocks: Pages and Posts. When you are starting out, it can be very confusing to select which of these foundational elements to use
My site displays a text menu across the top of the page when you view it in a desktop browser. But when you look at the site on a smart phone or a tablet, the menu is replaced by an icon with three stacked lines. When you tap this icon, the menu appears vertically. How
