Category Archives: Wordpress

Wordpress Articles – Tips & Tricks:

While I realize that Wordpress itself is not considered Inbound marketing, certainly blogging is a major component…. if not most important in the inbound scheme of things. With that said, preparing and customizing your blog falls into an important factor in the Inbound scheme of things. I have provided this section to save readers the trouble of searching hundreds of forums for the same information…. Comments and suggestions of course are always welcome.

Technical Aids, Wordpress

How to Stop Known Scrapers from Accessing your Blog?

Scrapers are web sites that syndicate your content into their blogs (stealing) and in some cases end up outranking your site in the search engines for articles), it requires a 2 step process. First, who is it? and then 2nd how to block them in the future.

Readers should also know that this is usually done automatically using a plug in or script that “imports” your content into theirs upon postings. Google changes have helped prevent this on some levels but still its a big issue that is not fully combated. If you have a WordPress blog, there are already plugins that will do this function for the offending blog site.

How do I know if I’m being Scraped?
Usually you will discover this when doing searches for your own published articles and seeing them appear elsewhere, with same title, same content and even you same links (that usually link back to your own site as posted). You might even discover this thru Google Analytics. In short, eventually you’ll see “your complete articles” appearing in searches that are not coming from your web site

Why is Scraping an issue?
Offending Sites have been known to outrank the original sites with their own content Continue reading How to Stop Known Scrapers from Accessing your Blog? →

Wordpress

WordPress: How to Add Search Box to Top of Blog Header

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This little tip goes hand in hand with another article I wrote titled: WordPress Creating a Custom Social Top Bar for your Blog

Essentially, there comes a time when you would like a better search box on your site (better than the default WordPress one). I have been using the “Google Custom Search WordPress Plugin” for years now, and found it to be ALOT more efficient in finding stuff on my sites.. Best of all, you have some flexibility to move the things around without having to worry so much about PHP coding.

Now the page for some of the coding you will need can be found here
http://littlehandytips.com/plugins/google-custom-search/

Thought to keep things simple, I’m going to give you code and tips on how to get started, after which you can modify to your own needs. The code example I’ve provided uses a simple table HTML code, thus also adding it to the top of your site (above the header) Continue reading WordPress: How to Add Search Box to Top of Blog Header →

Social Media, Wordpress

WordPress: Creating a Custom Social Top Bar for your Blog


I had a client who needed a custom made top bar for his blog that included social icons and branding. Now there is a WordPress plugin which will do the trick at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-topbar/  Though it requires PAYMENT to fully utilize it. Rather than worrying about buying licenses I pulled together my own version that doesn’t require any extra plguins, or alot of hard coding. (Plus I can customize it better to my own specifications

The following works just using basic html and a few custom graphics
(the following examples are presented in 3 basic forms)

1- Open your “header.php” file and place the following code beneath yourtag

See below (the first coding is just a basic top bar you can add your own link to) Continue reading WordPress: Creating a Custom Social Top Bar for your Blog →

Technical Aids, Wordpress

WordPress: Move “Author Archive” Bio to Bottom of page?


01- Open up the file “author.php”

02- locate the code
(looks like this or similar)

<?php
// If a user has filled out their description, show a bio on their entries.
if ( get_the_author_meta( ‘description’ ) ) : ?>
<div id=”entry-author-info”>
 <div id=”author-avatar”>
  <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( ‘user_email’ ), apply_filters( ‘twentyten_author_bio_avatar_size’, 60 ) ); ?>
 </div><!– #author-avatar –>
 <div id=”author-description”>
  <h2><?php printf( __( ‘About %s’, ‘twentyten’ ), get_the_author() ); ?></h2>
  <?php the_author_meta( ‘description’ ); ?>
 </div><!– #author-description –>
</div><!– #entry-author-info –>
<?php endif; ?>

03 – cut and paste right BENEATH CODE Continue reading WordPress: Move “Author Archive” Bio to Bottom of page? →

Inbound Updates, Technical Aids, Wordpress

WordPress: How to add a “Grab My Code” button area to Sidebar?

This has often been a question asked especially in regards to WordPress Blogs. I found this great site, that takes care of the whole coding process for you. Once complete paste this code into one of your “text” widgets in your sidebar

http://www.mycoolrealm.com/sandbox/gbgen/

Example code used for client http://mommasays.net/  (below)
The code I generated has been listed below (in case the site listed above is no longer active)

<div align=”center” style=”padding: 5px;”><img src=”http://mommasays.net/images/mommasays-button.png”  title=”MommaSays.net” alt=”MommaSays.net” /></div><textarea style=”background:#f0f0f0;border:solid 1px #999999; color: #777777; font-size: 90%; height:45px; margin:auto; text-align: left; padding: 2px 0 2px 5px; display: block;  width: 90%;”>&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;>&lt;a href=&quot;http://mommasays.net&quot; title=&quot;MommaSays.net&quot; target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mommasays.net/images/mommasays-button.png&quot; alt=&quot;MommaSays.net&quot; style=&quot;border:none;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div></textarea> Continue reading WordPress: How to add a “Grab My Code” button area to Sidebar? →

Technical Aids, Wordpress

WordPress Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted

A recent error that occured when opening up one of my WordPress pages (that uses a specific plugin)

wordpress Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 42 bytes) in

This means a memory error, usally caused by a plugin taking too much RAM frrom the sever.

A quickfix can be implemented per this:

1- Open wp-config.php

2- add the single code line of Continue reading WordPress Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted →

Technical Aids, Wordpress

WordPress: Redirect Https To Http On My Site?

I had the biggest problem with this for the longest time. My WordPress site would occasionally strap on a nasty https: to some of my posts for no reason, which seemed to mess with some of my page results.

After trying different .htaccess suggestions, this one seemed to work for me (Apache Server configuration)

In any case, add this snippet of code to your .htaccess file located in root. (paste at top)

# redirect all https requests to http
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L] Continue reading WordPress: Redirect Https To Http On My Site? →