Unlike search engines that rank pages on the basis of various factors, Social networking portals display posts in groups and on pages in first-in-last-out order. If the page is old, you’ll have to scroll down the group until you find it. If the title of the post is interesting, people will share the post on their profiles or in groups they’ve joined. Such pages are called viral posts...
Things you should do after Installing WordPress
WordPress is the most powerful content management system. According to analytics tools, WP powers 30% of websites running on the internet. WP is a popular and user-friendly CMS. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL to save data. Unlike scripting languages such as JAVA EE, ASP, PHP is easy to learn. Shared hosting companies offer a 1-click WP installer tool. If you use this tool, you can launch a...
Fast Velocity Minify: Plugin that combines CSS and JS files without breaking the site
WordPress repository is the home to 100s of minification plugins. Some plugins may break the site and some will do their job. Fast Velocity Minify is a free plugin that improves the loading speed of your site. The plugin has 20000 active users and it is easy to use. It is a great alternative to Autoptimize and WP Better Minify. FVM supports Nginx gzip_static module and it is compatible with 100s...
How to test WordPress plugins online without installing?
If your site is getting good traffic, and if a new version of the plugin you’re using has been launched, you’ll have the following two questions in the mind: Will the plugin break your site?Is the plugin worth installing? Even though the plugins are thoroughly tested before launch, it may have some bugs. If you install the update, your site may crash or it may add HTML code which...
How to disable or noindex WordPress attachment pages?
Attachment page is the built-in feature of WordPress. When these pages are not handled correctly by the website owner, Google and other search engines will index them. WordPress attachments are thin pages that don’t add any value to a blog. These pages should be used only on personal or photography blogs wherein you want the visitors to comment on the pictures, videos, and other media files...
InstaShow Instagram feed plugin review (2018)
InstaShow is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate the Instagram feed on your website. It has registered 6000+ sales on the ThemeForest marketplace. It is a highly customizable plugin that has a rating of 4.87/5. InstaShow is cheap and it provides amazing features. If you own a photography, product review website or a food blog, you can get more Instagram followers by installing...
Top 4 Best free WordPress migration plugins (2018)
Even though I have a technical background, I was not comfortable in moving my sites during my initial days of online career. At that time, 2 of my biggest worries were: Incorrect site configuration can lead to tons of soft 404 or 404 errors. If DNS isn’t configured correctly, search bots and visitors would fail to access my sites. I started my online journey in May 2013. I’ve changed...
Bulk move noindexed posts from All in One SEO to Yoast
The Yoast SEO plugin includes an option to import meta description and title tags from other popular plugins. While using other plugins, you may have noindexed or nofollowed some or several posts. There are a couple of plugins that enable you to move settings from AIOSEO to Yoast. Unfortunately, none of the plugins provide an option to bulk move noindex posts. People noindex posts to recover from...
Best way to Auto Tag WordPress posts
WordPress tags are important, no matter how small or large a site is. Tags allow users to group posts. They make website navigation easier. They allow search engines to discover and index new posts quickly. WordPress Related posts plugins use tags to calculate post relevancy and display related articles below blog posts. Human beings make mistakes. Sometimes, a webmaster may delete an important...
Best Twitter feed plugin and Widgets for WordPress (2018)
Twitter is the world’s most popular microblogging site. Twitter has 200+ million users thereby making it one of the best platforms to promote your product. Like Facebook, this site enables webmasters and developers to integrate user activity feed on third-party websites. The Twitter feed aka Embedded Timelines widget displays a list of your recent tweets and retweets from users who have...
Fix Remove Query Strings from Static Resources warning
Yesterday, I was checking the performance of one of my sites with GTmetrix and Pingdom tools. Although my site takes about 1 second to open in any browser, the tools were reporting remove query strings from static resources warning. Anything that follows after the question mark i.e “?” is called a query string. You’ll find URLs with query strings on dynamic sites. If the site...
Top 5 Best CDN 2018: Fastest content delivery networks
CDN aka content delivery networks improves the performance of your site. They reduce the latency by serving JavaScript and CSS files from the location closest to the visitor. A CDN provider may have several data centers spread across the world. When you signup for the CDN service, the service will cache static resources of your site on a server nearby the location you specify. You’ll have...
Top 7 Best WordPress SEO plugins (2018)
If you’re running a website, you must optimize it for search engines to succeed as a blogger, business owner etc. Programmers can have nightmares while making their site or client’s website SEO friendly. If you’re using a content management system, this task is a piece of cake, thanks to the best SEO plugins. If you’re new to WordPress CMS or if you’re site is not...
Elegant Themes review 2018: Great themes for WordPress
A theme is responsible for the success of a blogger. Many bloggers end up buying a theme which looks attractive but scores 0 when it comes to SEO. Despite publishing high-quality content on their sites, these bloggers don’t enjoy success and they quit blogging As a newbie blogger, I had committed a huge mistake of trusting a third class theme developer. The developer rolled out an update...
How to show or hide widget in WordPress pages or posts?
Sometimes, you may want to display widgets only on certain pages of a site. If you’ve knowledge of PHP, you can show/hide widgets with just 2 lines of codes. The 1st line will have the PHP if else condition to detect the current page or term. If the condition you’ve specified in the if statement is true, then the code inside the if block must be executed. The block must have the...
The right way to update a WordPress theme or plugin
Themes and plugins are the most important parts of a WordPress website. If the code of the theme is not SEO friendly, your site will not perform well in search engines. Likewise, if the plugin has an erroneous code, it can lead to poor user experience. In worst cases, the problematic theme or plugin may cause high server resource utilization. The search bots will begin to ignore your site. If you...
Best WordPress Review Plugins (2018)
Most people use the internet to read reviews of products before they buy them. You may have seen top search engines such as Google or Bing showing star ratings in the search results of its pages. Google doesn’t show the ratings for all websites. It shows ratings only for the portals having schema markups and in-depth content. Writing the content is up to the user, but one can easily add...
Must have WordPress Plugins for 2018
WordPress, being a versatile plugin allows you to launch all types of sites. It allows users to install plugins to make website search engine friendly, faster, highly rewarding, etc. WordPress has millions of users. The WordPress repository hosts over 100k plugins of all types. An experienced blogger using WP platform may not difficulty in choosing the right plugin. But the newbie users may get...
Best WP AMP plugin : Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress
People spend more time on mobile phones than computers. Google Engineers realized this a few years back and they made several changes to core Algorithm. They introduced a mobile-friendly testing tool for webmasters and launched page layout algorithm which affects rankings of ad-heavy desktop/mobile sites. In 2016, Google launched a new concept called Accelerated Mobile Pages. After testing AMP on...