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How To Write Meta Tags Correctly: Manual and Automatic Ways for WordPress

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Google or Bing’s search results are curated from relevant keywords users input in their search tab. These search engines possess internet crawlers that scan through the entire content of multiple internet pages to provide the best results for a user’s query. Web crawlers realize a web site’s content through the meta tags on the page’s source code. They rank sites by comparing the words within the title, headings, content, and meta tags to see how well the information within … Read more

5 Ways of Increasing the Speed of Your WordPress Website

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Learning how to speed up WordPress is an essential skill for any website owner. Since page load speed affects everything from traffic to bounce rate to conversions, user satisfaction, and end-revenue. Although using a PSD to HTML service to build your website will ensure it is fast, you can still take a few steps yourself. In this article, we’ll teach you multiple ways to increase WordPress page speeds. 1. Investing in Hosting Quality One of … Read more

Find and Fix WordPress Disk Full Issues with Disk Usage Sunburst

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Many web hosting providers have rather tight caps on the size limit of your WordPress installation as typically unless you are running a multimedia blog and uploading very specific high resolution images or video media to your hosting provider itself instead of leveraging a CDN you shouldn’t use too much hosting space on your hosting provider.  However I ran into an issue where my hosting provider contacted me about my disk storage being over 90% … Read more

How to Embed HD YouTube Video in WordPress

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Now that DragonBlogger.com has a very large post width area I was embedding larger YouTube video sizes into the WordPress posts but found that the embedded YouTube videos were too low resolution and required the viewer to manually click on the gear icon and switch the resolution to 720p or 1080p to get the best experience from the video. Video Tutorial on how to Embed HD YouTube Video in WordPress When you use WordPress to … Read more

Protect Your WordPress Blog from Being Framed

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After reading about @ileane having her blog iframed by other blogs which can lead to not only your content being read and used on another site, but your Google banner ads displayed on another site and a violation of AdSense ToS which does not allow AdSense ads to be displayed via an iFrame.  This could risk in an account ban. So I decided to test out the WP No Frames plugin after I saw it … Read more

How to Change Default Username and Login Logo in WordPress

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In my previous article about Security Tips for WordPress, I specified that changing the default username (admin) is really necessary for security reasons. As you know, your default WordPress username once chosen, cannot be changed from the Dashboard by default without a plugin.  But we could easily change it from phpMyAdmin which is the interface to your blog’s SQL database. Below are the steps to change the default (admin) WordPress username: Changing Default WordPress Admin … Read more

WordPress Plugin: Category Reminder

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Wordpress plugin category reminder will help writers remember to select a category by triggering a popup if you forgot to select a Wordpress category when you publish your post.