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Pam Marshall
February 7, 2017
WordPress Sites
security, WordFence, WordPress
We should all be concerned about online security. I’ve just read a easy-to-understand discussion by Mark Maunder, CEO of WordFence, of the reasons we need to be careful, what of our personal data we need to protect, and suggestions on…
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Pam Marshall
July 8, 2016
WordPress Sites
passwords, security, WordFence, WordPress
If you’re concerned about WordPress security, you should read this great article on KeyCDN “WordPress Security – Complete 16 Step Guide“. It’s a comprehensive list of things to do to make your WordPress site more secure. It’s current for 2016.…
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Pam Marshall
December 3, 2015
WooCommerce, WordPress Sites
menus, screen options
Scenario: I’m working on a WordPress online store using WooCommerce and my next task was to set up the main menu with the main product categories. Problem: When I opened the Menus admin screen, Product Categories was not an option.…
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Pam Marshall
July 26, 2015
WordPress Sites
RSS, SEO
Kevin Muldoon wrote an in-depth post about RSS on the Elegant Themes blog. You’ll get some good historical background and suggestions about dealing with the changing RSS environment.
Pam Marshall
July 22, 2015
WordPress Sites
post formats
I like the examples of post formats in the Compete Themes blog.
Pam Marshall
July 20, 2015
Coding, WordPress Sites
sidebar, template, widget
In WordPress, if you want to have widgets in new areas of your posts page, then you can register more sidebars and write code to position them in your page templates. Here’s what you need to do: Register a named…
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Pam Marshall
July 19, 2015
WordPress Sites
CSS, search, widgets
The task: Simplify the Search widget on my Elusive Music WordPress blog. The problem: Where are the styles for the Search widget? Modern browsers an Inspect tool for examining CSS class names and property settings. Usually, you right-click on any…
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Pam Marshall
July 18, 2015
WordPress Sites
code, formatting, plugins
Writing a WordPress blog post that contains code snippets can be tricky. If you switch back and forth between the visual editor and the text editor, your formatting and even the content can get totally messed up. There are a…
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Pam Marshall
July 17, 2015
Coding, WordPress Sites
In my Elusive Music blog, I wanted to use custom excerpts, also known as manual excerpts. However, WordPress doesn’t automatically add a “Read More” link to a custom excerpt, just to automatically generated excerpts. I could have just added the…
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Pam Marshall
July 17, 2015
Tech Topics, WordPress Sites
page template, tag cloud, WordPress
I’m fond of tag clouds. When the blog writer labels each blog post with relevant tags, the word cloud shows at a glance the topics that get a lot of coverage. They’re also visually interesting, with font size showing how…
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