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How to Find a Backdoor in a Hacked WordPress Site and Fix It

Backdoor

Time and time again, we have helped users fix their hacked WordPress sites. Most of the time when they reach out to us, they have already cleaned up the site, and the hacker was able to get back in. This happens if you did not… Read More »

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Nov 28, 2012
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How to Automate WordPress and Social Media with IFTTT

IFTTT

We get questions like how can I update facebook from my WordPress blog. Or how can I automatically tweet every time I publish a new blog post. There are tons of plugins for that, but we are about to show you a method that doesn’t… Read More »

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Nov 14, 2012
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How to Easily Embed Instagram in WordPress with oEmbed

Instagram

In the past we have shown you how to embed videos, slideshare, and soundcloud in WordPress using oEmbed. One of our users asked if there was a way to easily embed Instagram in WordPress with oEmbed. The answer is YES. In this article, we will… Read More »

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Nov 5, 2012
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How to Automatically Link Twitter Usernames in WordPress

Linkify Twitter Usernames

Two years ago, Twitter launched Twitter Anywhere API which made it really easy for us to mention twitter usernames and have them be automatically linked to the right profile. It also allowed for beautiful hovercards with additional info. Sadly Twitter has decided to retire the… Read More »

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Oct 25, 2012
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How to Add Rich Contact Information in WordPress

Rich Contact Information in WordPress

Web search engines like Google or Bing are trying to pull more and more semantic from the content of the websites they index every day. Specific markups like microdata and microformats have been created to help search engines understand the meaning of your content. Search… Read More »

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Oct 24, 2012
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How to Add Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress Posts and Post Types

Custom Fields in WordPress

Just last week, we showed you how to add custom meta fields to custom taxonomies in WordPress. That article brought our attention to another important topic of how to add custom meta boxes in WordPress posts and post types. We wrote about a plugin method… Read More »

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Oct 23, 2012
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What To Do When You Are Locked Out of WordPress Admin (wp-admin)

Locked Out of WP-Admin

This past weekend, we had a user who was locked out of WordPress Admin panel of their site. While we had written numerous articles covering each specific issue, we realized that we should combine all of them at one place to make it easier for… Read More »

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Oct 22, 2012
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How to Add Custom Meta Fields to Custom Taxonomies in WordPress

Additional Fields for Taxonomies

By default WordPress taxonomies (categories, tags, etc) have the fields name, slug, parent, and description. Recently while working on a client’s project, we found a need to add custom meta fields to custom taxonomies. We needed a way to add custom text on each taxonomy… Read More »

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Oct 18, 2012
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How to Fix the WordPress White Screen of Death

White Screen of Death

If you have been using WordPress for a few years, then you have encountered the white screen of death at least once. The WordPress white screen of death is one of those extremely annoying problems like error establishing a database connection. The reason why this… Read More »

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Sep 28, 2012
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How to Increase or Decrease WordPress JPEG Image Compression

JPEG Compression

One of our users, a photographer, complained that the JPEG image he uploaded were losing a little bit of quality. After doing some research, we found out that it is true that WordPress does automatically compress JPEG images at 90% quality. In this article, we… Read More »

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Sep 26, 2012
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