For a variety of reasons, you may have some pages on your WordPress website which you need to prevent Google from indexing. There is a right way to do it and a wrong way. Maybe you’ve just received the nasty notice from Google regarding your robots.txt file and how you need to remove the “noindex” directives from within and have … Read More
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Check if Your Website Supports TLS 1.2 – 1-Minute Tutorial
With the upcoming changes to PCI compliance and the whole credit-card industry, it’s important to ensure that your SSL encryption supports TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1. If you’re here, you more than likely received a letter or warning from PayPal or your credit card provider that you failed a test or otherwise need to verify support of these things. *Note: it’s … Read More
How to Add Superscript®, Subscript©, and More™ to WordPress Titles
If you’re here, you’ve like wanted to add the registered symbol (®) or trademark symbol (™) to the title of your WordPress post, page, or product, only to find that it won’t display as a superscript like you want! Or perhaps you’ve been wanting to add some other symbol, text, or number as superscript or subscript to your WordPress title … Read More
WordPress Site Keeps Going Down – Solutions
WordPress Site Keeps Going Down – Solutions So your WordPress website keeps going offline on a regular basis and you don’t know what to do. Never fear! We’ve seen it all. If your site is going down consistently, there is a cause and we’re going to find it. If your site goes down just once, take a look at our … Read More
View Graph of Visits to your Site by Specific Location – Google Analytics
Sometimes you want to see how traffic from a specific location has changed over time. Maybe you’ve targeted a new country, state, or city and want to see how your efforts are paying off, or maybe you just want to exclude all foreign traffic that might not apply to you. Either way, it’s fairly easy to see a graph from … Read More
10 Ways to Save Time Editing with Page Builders like Cornerstone
You can save a lot of time making a high quality website by using a drag-and-drop page builder. Once you’ve chosen the right one for you, the next step is learning how to work with that builder’s features and your own habits to cut down on repetitive behaviors. The page builder I use is Cornerstone. For almost as long as … Read More
How to Improve Your Website’s Usability
It’s easy to take for granted that people visiting your website don’t have the background with your company and website that you do. While you may think it is easy to place an order for something or navigate the services section of your website, first time users could be having a pretty hard time getting to the information they want. … Read More
How to ACTUALLY Get a Google Maps API Key Easily
They’ve got all the money in the world and the best and brightest minds from across the globe, and yet somehow Google seems to have no idea how to make things intuitive. If you’re like me, you thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to get a new Google Maps API key, but found yourself on sales … Read More
How to Prevent SSL Warning When Redirecting to Non-SSL
This is just one of those things that’s just so annoying to deal with as a developer. For whatever reason, you have traffic coming to an HTTPS link on your website, even though you don’t have an SSL. “Not a problem,” you say to yourself. “I’ll just redirect it to HTTP!” If only it were that easy. You’ll find if … Read More