Often times you might want to add the search functionality to your page without taking up too much space. A search icon in the menu is a nice way to do that. This is what mine looked like: Here’s how I did it: 1) Add this code to your functions.php file. (Please note- this only…
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Adding Google Analytics Manually
If you have a website, you should have Google Analytics. It only starts tracking your site from the date you install it, so add it today so you won’t regret it tomorrow when you’re wanting to know more about your site visitors. Analytics are the only way to make smart decisions about your site. If…
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WooCommerce Automated Shipping & Taxes
In the past, opening a WooCommerce store seemed easy – until you had to set up taxes and shipping. These often required a paid plugin or tedious setup. Taxes WooCommerce now offers an automated taxes plugin, WooCommerce Shipping & Tax, powered by Jetpack. It hasn’t gotten the best reviews, but it’s free. The problems seem…
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Attend WordPress Oxford: What is new in WordPress 5.7?
Note it’s 7:30pm Oxford time – be sure to verify for your own time zone! WordPress Oxford: What is new in WordPress 5.7? Wednesday, Mar 17, 2021, 7:30 PM Online event , 20 WordPress Users & Developers Attending Welcome to you all. — This months event is due to take place on March 17th and…
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Why is my Connection Not Private?
You might have seen this when you tried to visit your website: If you have an SSL certificate already installed and you’re still getting the little yellow warning triangle by your URL, you may be wondering why. A good way to find out it by using https://www.whynopadlock.com Testing your URL here will give you the…
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2020 State of the Word
Mark your calendars for the 2020 State of the Word – the annual keynote address of WordPress given by project co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. The event will be streamed on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on Thursday, December 2020, at 16:00 UTC and will have live captioning in multiple languages. Meetup groups around the world are encouraged to host watch parties to celebrate this year’s …
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FEATURED WORDPRESS MEETUP
Several WordPress Meetup Groups in the U.S. are joining hands to organize the: WordPress “Mega Meetup”: The “Plugin Draft” Episode event on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 6:30 PM EST. The event aims to highlight several useful plugins and demystify them for participants, and will also feature a host of talks and sessions. The organizers promise a fun event…
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Scheduling WordPress Posts
If you want to prepare your blog posts in advance, but want them to come out at regular intervals rather than all at once, you can easily schedule your posts. Simply go where you would normally click Publish and click Edit to schedule instead. This works great, especially when implemented with a social media plan…
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Email Links Not Working on Websites? Here’s How to Fix It
I noticed a while ago that when I clicked the email icon or link on a website that it was just opening to a blank page instead of opening my email client, like it used to. I ignored it for a while but finally figured it was time to fix it. Then I found this…
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If You’re a Nonprofit, You Should Know About This
Google Grants Imagine what you could do with $10,000 USD of in-kind advertising every month from Google Ads, an online advertising solution from Google. You could recruit more volunteers. Attract more donations. And share your story with audiences all over the globe. It’s all possible with Google Ad Grants. Find out more here: https://www.google.com/grants/