Category: WordPress Tips

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WordPress Technical SEO Guide

Navigate this article: Introduction What is Technical SEO for WordPress? Who is Responsible for the Technical SEO of a WordPress Website? The WordPress Technical SEO Guide Select a Great Webhost Keep Plugins to a Minimum Use DNS-Prefetch / Preconnect Use an Optimized Theme Use a CDN Optimize Your...

This Line in Robots.txt Will Make WordPress Websites Appear as Not Mobile-Friendly to Google

Ever since Google began to focus on the loading speed and experience of a website they have requested access for their crawler (known as Googlebot) to CSS and JS files on a website. This dates back to 2012 when then Google community liasion Matt Cutts requested this access...

How to Automatically Add Internal Links to Your WordPress Site

One of the most annoying parts of running a WordPress website is manually editing documents to add links to other important pages. Depending on the size of your website adding a new page that needs links from older articles or blog posts could mean editing hundreds or thousands...

The Top WordPress Plugins for 2022

The top 112 plugins every WordPress website should consider using in 2022 and why. We’ve got over eighteen years of experience building and optimizing amazing WordPress websites that perform great in search engines, engage users, and drive conversions. This list contains the best paid and free WordPress plugins...

WordPress Has Banned New Plugins That Allow Users to Add Javascript, CSS, or PHP

Note: A WordPress team member replied to the Reddit thread embedded below and stated that this isn’t a ban, but something the review team is now checking for. They also stated that there are numerous undocumented things that will keep a plugin from being approved and that these...

This One Line of Code Could Boost Your SEO and Make Your WordPress Website More Secure

It’s a problem known as ‘directory browsing’ and there’s a chance your WordPress website is susceptible to it. This is when someone copies a link to a javascript file or an image on your website, pastes it into their browser, and then instead of viewing the files, views...

Why Do My WooCommerce View Cart & Checkout Buttons Go To Website Home Page

You’ve decided to become an entrepreneur and start an online store selling products. After examining your options you went with WooCommerce from WordPress over Shopify, Prestacart, and other options. You found a great web host, installed WordPress, installed WooCommerce, picked out a great theme, added your products and...

How Yoast Can Become an Attack Vector for Hackers, and How to Stop It

TL;DR WordPress creates Author Archives pages for anyone who publishes content on a website sometimes keeping that page live even if that content is transferred to another user. By default WordPress uses the ‘username’ a user logins in with for the Author Archive page URL and offers no...

How to Get Messages on Facebook Messenger From Your Website

Facebook is nearing 2 billion active users and as they approach this milestone we’re witnessing a shift in consumer behavior that Facebook has happily tapped into. For the past several years we’ve seen consumers engage with brands across social media platforms from Twitter for customer support to Reddit...

How to add Prerender and Prefetch to WordPress sites

Update: The Add Meta Tags plugin has been deprecated and should not be used in production sites. We’ll update this article when a suitable replacement is found. Prefetch and Prerender are two meta tags that can greatly improve the user experience on your website one is recognized by...