I’m a huge fan of automating those tedious repetitive tasks that are part of everyday business. If I don’t automate them, they will get stockpiled and sometimes not done at all, my brain is hard wired to look for the shniy new object and repetetive tasks are a real problem with me.
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I was working on the site of one of my regular maintenance clients, his site was running very slowly both on the front end and the back end dashboard.
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Something WordPress does by default that Google does not like for SEO reasons came to my attention recently. In this post I want to tell you about a potential SEO hit you may be taking but you may be completly unaware of. Are attachment pages affecting your SEO Attachment Pages Every time you upload and attach an image to a post or page it creates a new page called an attachment page. For example the image attached to this post creates this page. https://ibraininc.com/?attachment_id=8978 The problem is that Google can also index these pages and add hundreds of very low […]
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Me and my team get called in a lot to troubleshoot WordPress sites that have crashed . Here are my four top ways to help diagnose and fix WordPress sites that have crashed. White Screen Of Death When I talk about a crashed WordPress site, I usually mean the dreaded white screen of death. You make a change or install a new plugin then all of a sudden your site does not work any more. All you can see is a white screen, what is more you cannot login to undo your changes because wp-admin also give you the same […]
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The pharma hack is one of the most stubborn hack attacks I have to deal with on WordPress sites for my clients, I’ve written more about it here in my post The WordPress Pharma Hack Once you have fixed the hack, there is the lingering problem of getting Google to update it’s index and remove all reference to viagra, cialis and all the other disco drugs these scum buckets are trying to pedal.
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Did you know that WordPress has the ability to run multiple websites from one installation of WordPress? This type of configuration is called WordPress Multisite. In the past there were two versions of WordPress; standard WP that we all know and love and WordPress MU (Multi User) were distinct downloads. With the release of WordPress 3.x those two versions were brought together. What Is Multisite? After a making a couple of configuration changes, you can make your current installation of WordPress manage multiple WordPress sites. Each site will have it’s own content, users, plugins and themes. The benefit is you […]
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