Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
If you’re a blogger you’re probably familiar with the term “breadcrumbs”.
In a nutshell, breadcrumbs are navigable paths from a blog’s home page to the page that’s currently displayed in the browser.
Every portion of the breadcrumb path except for the post/page name itself can be clicked on to jump immediately to that section of the blog.
For example, if you look at the top of this page you’ll see the following breadcrumb situated between the bottom menu bar and the post title: [Read more…]
Question from Caroline: I recently made a Facebook page for my “women’s issues” blog and I’m having a problem with it.
Now every time I write a new blog post I paste the link to it in a Facebook status update.
The problem I’m having is sometimes Facebook won’t display the photo from the blog post. All it will display is the title and a short snippet of the text.
Is there something I’m doing wrong? Or is there a trick to getting Facebook to pull in the image from my blog posts?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Have you ever visited a blog and noticed that every post has the same block of text before and/or after the post content?
For example, some bloggers include a message asking the reader to subscribe to an email newsletter or share the post they are reading on social media sites.
If you have a block of text that you’d like to display before and/or after the content of each blog post, all you have to do is edit your WordPress theme’s functions.php file and add one or both of the following code snippets at the bottom. This post will tell you how to do that. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you’re probably always on the lookout for opportunities to boost your blog traffic.
After all, more traffic results in more conversions (sales, advertising revenue, email signups, etc.), right?
Well, I recently began researching ways to boost the traffic to RicksDailyTips as well, and one of the tools I stumbled across is a service called 10DollarSoloAds.
This post is a review of my experience with them.
With hackers and scammers attacking WordPress blogs right and left these days, it’s more important than ever to lock your blog down and make it as secure as possible.
There are several things you can do to harden the security of your blog, but one of the most effective methods of thwarting hackers is enabling Two-Factor Authentication on it.
I’ve used several different plugins for enabling two factor authentication on my own WordPress blogs, but I now use and recommend the awesome Google Authenticator plugin.
Google Authenticator is extremely easy to install and set up, and it’s even easier to use. Just follow the steps below. [Read more…]
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