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Ever wake up a three in the morning in a cold sweat, wondering if your WordPress site has any broken links? Okay, so maybe that’s just me…but seriously, broken outgoing links are bad for your SEO and they’re pretty embarrassing.
You don’t want your readers clicking a link on one of your blogs and seeing this:
“Oops, that page could not be found!”
Are you building a WordPres membership site where you need sell access to protected video and audio files? Well if so, have I got the WordPress plugin for you! It’s called WordPress FLV Embed.
I’ve used this on my WordPress sites, including multisite networks, for years and it’s the best plugin for simple embedding of video and audio files that you can:
Host and protect FLV videos AND MP3s directly on your WordPress installation
Change the display size using simple edits in your short code
Give members the option of downloading, but also block downloads if you choose
Ignorance is most definitely not bliss when it comes to the world of SEO.
If you want to maximize your rankings in Google (and ensure that you are not penalized), you must take ownership of every element of SEO — from your link profile, to your onsite optimization, and so on.
This can seem unfair for beginners — after all, how are you supposed to know what to do? The simple answer is that you can’t know. The productive answer is that whilst you can’t know, you need to learn.
Your WordPress Theme Menus where you want them!
You’ve surely come across a WordPress theme and said to yourself, “Oh this is a beautiful theme, but I wish the menu wasn’t right there!” Well, WordPress theme menus don’t have to be only where the theme designers put them.
Today we’re gonna look at a few ways you can re-position the main navigation in pretty much any WordPress theme. You’re not limited to only the main nav, as you can also use these methods to re-position any other WordPress theme menu in themes that have more than one.
Ever found a fantastic WordPress theme but wished you could make a few minor tweaks to the navigation menus?
I have. I’ve noticed that some WordPress themes have navigation menus which display post categories rather than displaying your pages and that some of them don’t give you the option of tweaking this from the admin area.
For example, when I discovered the slick, professional “pixel” theme in the WPMU DEV “Farms 133 Pack,” I was frustrated to find that the navigation menu at the top was displaying post categories instead of my pages. Check it out:
Hi admin!
Just kidding. That’s not your name is it? Then why keep using it as your WordPress username? Not only is it boring, imagine how easy it is for hackers to guess your admin username.
Well, good news, changing your WordPress admin login username is easy. First, go to your”wp-config.php” file (in the root directory of your WordPress install) and find the name of your WordPress database. It’ll be defined in a line of code that looks like this:
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/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
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Create a truly unique WordPress menu
This little tutorial will show you how easy it is to create an image-based custom menu for your WordPress site or blog, similar to the screenshot below (taken from the Twenty-Eleven theme with header image hidden for clarity). It only works for a menu with top-level items only though; sorry, no sub-menus. I haven’t yet figured out a way to do this with drop-down sub-menus; when I do though, I’ll definitely do another write-up!
Want to change the name of your WordPress database?
If you’ve got more than one WordPress install on your server, of if you’re anything like me, you’d rather not go to your PHP My Admin and see database names that look like this:
wpdb14
wpdb15
wpdb17
wpdb18
It gets a bit tricky to keep track of things when you can’t tell which database belongs to which site. Not to mention that if you make a modification to the wrong database, you could end up having to back trac and end up creating a problem on your live site that takes you some time to patch up.
If you have started to edit the CSS of your WordPress theme you probably know that you can change your font style of any site element by using the font-family selector. For instance, to change your site’s title font, you might use the following code inside the theme style.css file:
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#site-title a {font-family:georgia;}
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Easy right? Sure…but what if the font you want to use isn’t included in the list of available fonts with the standard WordPress installation.
Welcome to the seventh post in my series on building a WordPress plugin from scratch. This tutorial series requires no programming experience, but I do suggest you start from the first post in this series if you’re a total newbie to WordPress development. Just a couple things to keep in mind about this series if you’re just tuning in:
Five Official “Cover my Butt” Statements
At the time of this writing, the most up to date WordPress version is 3.4.1. It might be different by the time you read this.
