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Is your Jetpack ‘Popular Posts’ WordPress plugin/widget not refreshing? [solved]

February 1, 2020 / 0 comments

Over the last month or so, the Popular Posts plugin I use for one of my sites stopped refreshing. For that particular site, I have been utilizing Jetpack’s WordPress Top Posts and Pages widget for many years and rarely ever had an issue.

How to force WordPress to remove auto-hyperlinking of URLs in content

February 5, 2018 / 1 comment

I just realized that WordPress started automatically hyperlinking website URLs when they appear in content. This is happening whether one adds a hyperlink code to the URL or not.

The easiest way to upload ads.txt file onto your WordPress root domain

November 10, 2017 / 13 comments

I got the message about ads.txt file, too. I didn’t really know what it meant. All I wanted to do is to is remedy it as quickly as possible.

Can Akismet scan old comments for spam and clear them out retroactively?

November 5, 2015 / 3 comments

I run a couple different websites on WordPress and for one reason or another, Akismet is deactivated which results in dozens of spam comments flooding in.

Here’s why Typepad sucks for SEO

August 5, 2014 / 2 comments

It’s a wonder that anyone uses Typepad anymore. Unless you have a private, rarely-updated blog you only want to share with your immediate family and close friends, I don’t know why anyone would choose Typepad as their blog platform.

Automatically add an external link icon to WordPress content

March 11, 2014 / 0 comments

Here’s a cool plugin for WordPress that I just discovered. This External Link plugin allows you to process and style external links. Adding a link ‘notification icon’ to all external links within your content.

Spend more time watching TV, use Shortcodes Ultimate for WordPress

February 14, 2014 / 1 comment

What I Found Out Today: Bloggers have it so much easier nowadays. Ok, not today, but I was reminded of it recently just last week, that there was a time when there weren’t any blogging platforms or WYSIWYG editors: if you wanted to publish a blog post, you coded everything

Restricting a WordPress widget to only display on the homepage

January 20, 2014 / 3 comments

What I Found Out Today: Hello WordPressers, there may be a time in which you want to display a widget only on the home page of your site while not showing up on other pages.

Forget WordPress Plugins, Use IFTTT for Tweets, Instragram, Facebook, Etc.

November 9, 2013 / 0 comments

Forget plugins and custom themes, when it comes to connecting APIs on a @WordPress blog, nothing beats @IFTTT — Stuart Leung (@steuwart) November 10, 2013 If you’re looking to bring in all your social activity onto your WordPress blog, look no further than IFTTT.