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After moving my WordPress blog to Nginx on Digital Ocean, I have had to work through a few issues, one of it being Yoast SEO sitemap blank problem. Likes most bloggers I use Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin, which sort of eliminates the need for several other plugins for non-on-page SEO … read more
Visual content is massively important to your blog, it creates interest for your posts and also has the potential of increasing website traffic. Studies show the human brain processes imagery 60,000x faster than text with 90% of day-to-day information transmitted being visual. The trouble is finding free to use images … read more
Recently, I shared a brief comparison of Digital Ocean vs Synthesis vs GoDaddy and why switched to Digital Ocean’s VPS. Running my WordPress site on Digital Ocean’s VPS definitely made my site faster and more responsive than any other hosting solutions I have tried. On top that, I have the … read more
AddThis Pro for WordPress could be the one social audience engagement tool that could take your blog to the next level. AddThis has been providing plugins like share buttons, follow buttons, and content recommendation to help increase your social network footprint with likes, shares, and followers for years. Now they … read more
Setting up a self-hosted CDN can speedup WordPress by parallelizing downloads. Recently, I explained why I moved to the $5 VPS offering from Digital Ocean. I can tell you that I have been more than happy with the performance of my VPS server and my WordPress site. Until about a … read more
After 2 months of searching and comparing GoDaddy vs Synthesis vs Digital Ocean, my quest to find a web host that meets my needs has officially ended, at least for now. With the redesign and re-branding of htpcBeginner, I have been looking for a web host that is not only … read more
If you use WordPress and have been blogging for a while, the chances are your wp_commentmeta and wp_postmeta tables are huge and significantly larger than the actual wp_comments and wp_posts tables. Yes, it does not make sense that the meta data associated with comments and posts (the actual content) is … read more
Today, out of the blue I lost access to my blog: only a WordPress blank page appeared with only the word -error- displayed. I encountered a similar error few months back and somehow after research I fixed it. But I forgot how I fixed it. So this time when it … read more
This post describes how to remove duplicate meta descriptions and titles on multi-page WordPress posts. Paginating long posts into multiple pages with the nextpage tag in WordPress increases pageviews and we have already shown you how to add and style post page numbers in Genesis theme with and without plugins. … read more