Unless you have advanced programming skills or a programmer standing by, Google and the other search engines have already indexed the post. It is possible that the blog post will appear in the search engine results pages (SERP) and that people will click on the link. They will be met with a 404 …
Blogs
How to Display Icons in a WordPress Post
At the end of January, I tweeted about a new WordPress experience I had. After developing WordPress blogs and websites for 12+ years and using graphical icon representations the majority of that time, I used a WordPress icon font plugin and a shortcode, instead of graphics, to spice up the content …
Recent WordPress Upgrades
WordPress 4.1.1? WordPress 4.1.2, NO, Okay WordPress 4.2, What? WordPress 4.1.3 It's Saturday and my head is still spinning from all the WordPress upgrades I completed this week, and, for some of the websites I host vis-à-vis Adventures Online, it was WordPress upgrade upon WordPress …
Today is the Day for @WordCampRI
In a previous post, I wrote about the 2015 WordCamp Rhode Island coming up in September. Well, it is here! Today, Friday, September 25, 2015 is the first day of the two-day event. Since that post, I've been talking up the WordCamp when networking in person and socializing on the web; …
Custom WordPress Plugins with Responsive Website Redesign
Congratulations to Your Gift Certificate (YGC) who recently launched its redesigned website! YGC, located in Southborough, MA, is the brainchild of Ken Kahn and Steve Brideau. YGC offers unique marketing programs that put businesses in front of homebuyers at peak purchase time as homebuyers …
eCommerce WordPress website for Marlborough Wellness Center
Since changing the design would require a total rebuild of the website, it made sense to convert the original HTML-based website to a WordPress platform at the same time so that Julie and staff (who have previous experience blogging with WordPress) could add and update content on every page of the …
WordPress: How to Create a link to a section in your Post
When you are writing in your WordPress blog, sometimes you want to link to a section inside the same post. This is called an internal link, and the process for creating it is the same for blog posts and website pages. How do you create a link to a section in the same post or page? A good …
How to Get Your Blog Link to Open in Another Window
UPDATE: Dec. 5, 2020 The secret to opening a link in another window is to have "target=_blank" inside the link tag. The link tag is the piece of programming code that starts with <a href="...". Looking at the link code, you'll see that there are a number of definitions in between the left …
WordPress Fatal Error Recovery for New Client
Last month, a business colleague referred her client to me. The client’s #WordPress website had broken. When you typed in the domain URL, the only thing that would display is an ugly error message; something about the “watch-a-ma-call-it file in the thing-a-ma-bob plugin could not be found, and the …
Print a Course made with WP-Courseware
Wondering how to print a course that you developed using WP-Courseware? Oh... you can't. Well, not until now! During Q1 2020, I've been writing an online course. I am creating the content using a storyboard that I developed as a guide. There is no document that contains all of the …