If you’re here, more than likely you are trying to fix an SEO issue identified on your WordPress website by an SEO Tool like SEMrush or ahrefs. During an audit of your site, they probably mentioned that you have “Nofollow attributes in outgoing internal links”. Digging deeper, you may have realized that these “nofollow” links are coming from your comment … Read More
We’ve been dealing with an uptick in hacked WordPress websites lately, and they all appear to have the same symptoms. If you’ve seen these symptoms, you have probably been hacked too, unfortunately. Luckily, we will outline not only how this particular hack works but also the steps you can take to resolve it. But fair warning: most of these steps … Read More
This is a nice and easy one today. While we spend most of our time maintaining WordPress websites for our clients, I actually use Gmail/Google Workspace as my email client of choice. This was just one of the things I couldn’t figure out immediately. I found myself unable to figure out how to indent an item in a bulleted or … Read More
I ran into a situation today where the “redirect method” dropdown option in Settings -> General for the Really Simple SSL plugin was greyed-out. Given that there’s always a red exclamation point there, I assumed that maybe they require you to read their warning first, but actually (and confusingly), it’s entirely unrelated. Now, call me an idealist, but obviously it should … Read More
If you’re like me, you use Chromecast regularly and were getting infuriated by those idiotic “Get ad-free YouTube and more” ads that popup seemingly on every single video and, despite having a “Dismiss” button, have no discernable way to actually dismiss them. Most of the time we are running updates to our clients’ WordPress sites or performing other maintenance tasks, … Read More
I was using wp_dropdown_categories() this week to, well… Create a dropdown menu that links users to the category archives page on a WordPress website, obviously. And I couldn’t figure out how to indent the subcategories, even though that seemed like a very obvious thing you’d want to do. Google was amazingly useless in this task. Though it almost always is, … Read More
While migrating a new client website over to our premium WordPress hosting this week, I ran into a problem that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: every page that you would navigate to had the same content as the home page. What’s weird is that the URLs seemed to be correct, but the content was not. In our case, … Read More
For years, I just assumed it was a fact of life that every time I responded to an email, my signature (and everyone else’s, too) would get added to the message. I use the Gmail/Google Workspace interface as my email client to interact with clients about their WordPress websites. Sometimes these threads get quite long, and I don’t need to … Read More
As a web developer, using social media plugins which are famously prone to breaking are the bane of my existence. That’s why, when I figured out that you could very easily embed a Twitter (X) feed of your timeline directly on your WordPress website without using any plugins, I knew I had to write about it immediately. This incredibly lightweight … Read More
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been fed up with Disqus and the asinine ads ruining your beautiful website. Maybe you’ve been putting off figuring out how to migrate all of the comments back to WordPress, thinking it’s going to be a nearly-impossible task. I’ve got great news for you! It’s actually quite simple. Disqus tried to make it very … Read More
