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If you are having speed issues with your WordPress website then you may find that this is because of the the heartbeat control that is within the WordPress software. Running speed checks on your website like PingDom may reveal that your admin-ajax.php is taking ages to load. So, what do you do about it? It really depends on your own situation …
WordPress – Completely disable Heartbeat Control Read MoreIf you are using WordPress on a sub-domain already and you want to setup WordPress Multisite using further sub-domains (if you have an existing WordPress sub-domain site for example) then following all the standard guides out there on the web may not get you all the way to a fully working sub-sub-domain WordPress site. As an example, we here at …
How to setup a DNS Wildcard when using WordPress Multisite on a sub-domain Read MoreIf you have a WordPress site and want to setup a newsletter subscription page just like ours here, then there is a very simple way of doing this. Just create a post or a page in WordPress and then click on the Text tab of your post editor: Then just add the following short code to your editor (remember to …
How to setup a newsletter subscription page in WordPress using shortcode Read MoreIf you are using WordPress for your blog then you will probably be using your latest posts to make up your home page. By default, all categories of posts are included in your home page, but what if you want to exclude a category or multiple categories of posts from displaying on your home page? Well, it is pretty simple… …
Exclude Certain Categories from the Homepage on WordPress Blogs Read MoreWe have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to get you started: <pre style=”border: …
WordPress – Code snippet display Read MoreIf you are using WordPress for your blog and trying to set W3 Total Cache, you may find that on your Administration page, you are getting this error: “W3 Total Cache Error: Page Cache Rewriting is URL Not Working. Please verify that the server configuration allows .htaccess” There can be a few reasons for this but you can try this …
W3 Total Cache Error: Page Cache Rewriting is URL Not Working Read MoreIf you want to add a VK.com Jetpack sharing buttons then there is a very simple way of doing this. Just login to your WordPress administrator site and navigate to Settings > Sharing: You should then scroll down to the Sharing Buttons section and click on the “Add a new service” link: You should then have a lightbox pop up …
How to add VK.com to your Jetpack Sharing Buttons Read MoreIf, like us, you have converted from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress, then you will have probably redirected all your posts from your old platform to your new one. Work’s great huh? well yes it does – for normal tablet and computer browsers, but have you tested it with an iPhone browser? You may find that it is not working. …
Blogger to WordPress Mobile Redirection Fix Read MoreSince the WordPress update to version 4.5, you may have noticed that your WP Tab Widget may not be working. There is an update coming out soon to fix this, however, in the meantime for a quick fix, you can add the following code to your themes “function.php” file: if (!is_admin()) { wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’); wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js”), false, ‘1.11.3’); wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); } This …
WordPress – WP Tab Widget Broken Fix Read MoreYou may have seen our post recently about the WordPress plugin JetPack causing our site to crash due to massive resource usage. Well, as we had removed JetPack, we wanted another site stats plugin so we tried WP Statistics. This proved to be even worse, completely taking all our hosting down completely for 16 minutes whilst we had to go …
WordPress 100% CPU – WP Statistics Read MoreYou may have seen a notification from Google way back in October 2013 that you are not able to just add the HTML/Javascript code to your Google Sites website any longer. This is very strange….you can have a Google website but cannot put Google AdSense on it with any ease? madness! Anyway, although you cannot just add the code into …
How to add AdSense to Google Sites Read MoreIf you use Google Blogger and you have searches or menu items based on labels, you might find that when you click on these you get the below information appear at the top of your posts: This can be extremely annoying when you are trying to make your site look as professional as possible, so we are going to show …
Google Blogger – Remove information when searching on labels Read More
