Continuing on our affiliate parade, today we’ll learn how to redirect, manage, and cloak affiliate links using PrettyLink Lite. I had a few people asking questions after our AffiliateWP tutorial about creating affiliate programs, on how someone can manage the links that they are using in their content. Luckily PrettyLink Lite makes that super-easy. Let’s …
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When you start using WordPress for a small business website, or e-commerce shop, you may want to hide the page title of your pages. I’ve come across a lot of WordPress projects where the theme looks great, but the page titles make the rest of the site look too “blog-y.” If you use a page …
The first thing you should do before customizing your WordPress website is to create a child theme. I’ll try to keep it as non-technical as possible, but think about it this way: You install your new shiny WordPress theme, start changing the colors, adding to the functions file, and then your theme updates. If you’re …
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If you’re making a living building WordPress websites, one major part of the process is supporting and training your customer. You might need to teach them the basics of WordPress, or you might need to create documentation on the custom features you built. The latter being more commonplace among the higher paying web consulting jobs, where they expect …
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If your new year’s resolution is to start that digital product store you’ve always wanted to profit from, look no further than Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress. It’s a great plugin, supported by a dedicated team, and it passes the FUSE test with flying colors. There’s a bunch of ways to make money with WordPress, and selling …
If you’re not familiar with Calypso, you might want to start cozying up to the native desktop app sooner, rather than later. I made a small prediction that “WordPress” was going to make a more concentrated effort to push the native app experience on us over the next year, and based on Mullenweg’s 2016 State …
Translating your WordPress website content can be a daunting task, and for some, impossible even. That’s where the Weglot plugin (and service) come into play. The plugin installs to your WordPress website, hooks into the Weglot.com service through an API key, and manages the translation of your WordPress pages. In this tutorial, we’ll dive into …
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Enabling custom post types on your WordPress website is, in my opinion, the first step to going beyond WordPress as a blogging platform. Sure, default WordPress is considered a Content Management System (CMS). You’re managing a collection posts and pages. Further, attached to your posts, you have categories and tags deepening the relationship across your …
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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install Google Analytics into your WordPress website. If you’ve only recently hopped on the Search Engine Optimization train, or you simply want to know who visits your website, Google Analytics is one of the most powerful ways to do it. Analytics become even more critical when you …
Have you ever stared at your computer, wondering how you could get the promised, pre-published post to your internal or external client or a guest blogger without giving them a login? Passing out WordPress logins or creating a demo login around the office or to your clients doesn’t end up working well. The Public Post …
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