Here is How to Remove WordPress Post Feed and Post Comment Feed Via Snippet and Plugins With the Explanation of All Types of Feeds Generated. These tweaks are for optimizing the crawling by the search engine bots. More you will customize and simplify your WordPress powered website's HTML output, more easily Google can Crawl. WordPress has very limited number of useful plugins. Most are useless, … [Read more...]
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Mobile Device Specific Post Image Size in WordPress
Serving Mobile Device Specific Post Image Size in WordPress is Very Difficult and Either Conflicting Results Come in Hand or SEO Compromised. Removing WordPress Post Image Link was quite easy - just a filter. Actually, we are using the filter - you can see, this post image is not hyperlinked. But the current topic - serving mobile device specific post image size in WordPress is very … [Read more...]
Google Search in Sitelinks, WordPress and JSON-LD
Here is brief technical guide for the coding part for Google Search in Sitelinks on WordPress using JSON-LD in real complicated custom search. WordPress SEO has this feature, but actually our intention is to show you the complicated tweaks needed for practical situations - like in case of using Google AdSense Search instead of the default WordPress Search. This Google Search in Sitelinks, … [Read more...]
WordPress Local Development with Vagrant
Here is a Guide For Wordpress Local Development with Vagrant. Vagrant is Better than MAMP, WAMP or XAMPP for localhost development and is related to Virtual Appliance. Usually, we used to install WAMP or XAMPP, which gradually got backdated with the advent of Virtual Appliances. Now, Wordpress Local Development with Vagrant, is almost as the most advanced setup. Wordpress Local … [Read more...]
CSS Animation on Scrolling Down With WOW
Google Recommends to Use Animations on Landing Pages to Increase the Engagement. With WOW Library You Can Build CSS Animation on Scrolling Down. Lately, Google has released lot of Icons, Icon-Fonts and Page Speed Friendly HTML5 Templates. WOW is not of Google, but is fully free. WOW has two parts - CSS and JS. Injecting them conditionally and using proper div class can give you excellent Landing … [Read more...]
Remove WordPress Post Image Link (Image Link 404 Fix)
If you are getting lot of 404 and soft 404 in Google webmaster tools, you can add this snippet to remove WordPress Post image links to solve. There are many weblogs, question answer forums tried to provide a snippet which works for all Theme Frameworks - including Genesis, Thesis, Woo and practically all, but most either never works or stops working after a version update of WordPress. Our Snippet … [Read more...]
CSS3 Webkit Blink Animation
We can use CSS3 Webkit blink animation to emphasize a phrase or sentence to draw attention or can use on pure CSS logo. No Javascript needed. RedHat OpenShift has an effect - we gave some idea in our older guide on creating Spinning Logo for WordPress Genesis Framework and Other Themes. Spinning logo required a library, but blink animation will not require anything more than CSS. CSS3 … [Read more...]
How To Remove jquery.js and jquery-migrate.js in WordPress
Technically we should not remove default jquery.js file, but we need removal for speed. Here is how to remove jquery.js and jquery-migrate.js. You can expect that, after a couple of years; for not having HTTPS and a super fast website, even with good content like ours, you can get highly penalized. Browsers might throw such horrible scary message, an ordinary user, if somehow finds your website … [Read more...]
Drop Caps in WordPress Without Plugin
Typography matters. While there are many ways to implement Drop Caps, it is possible to use Drop Caps in WordPress without using any plugin. Drop Caps is the larger initial letter effect at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph. Without HTML markup, we can add Drop Caps effect in WordPress and even without touching the main CSS file. You can read our Typography related guides like How … [Read more...]
InnoDB Table Optimization for WordPress
InnoDB Table Optimization for WordPress is followup for our previous guide to use InnoDB Engine. Most plugins will not support optimization. The previous article was - MyISAM vs Innodb MySQL Engine For WordPress (Rackspace Cloud). So, we practically suggested to use InnoDB. One of our regular reader since 2011 ( Pritam from Bengal ) asked on Twitter, how to manage the optimization part for InnoDB. … [Read more...]
MySQL Queries to Change WordPress HTTP to HTTPS
Here are the required MySQL queries to change WordPress HTTP to HTTPS - including post images and all other contents. This is the right fix. Your site has many small matters like the links in the posts which required to be made HTTPS from HTTP. Changing the setting from Settings > General at WordPress backend expected to change the post, category etc URLs. Working with MySQL will make a fine-tune … [Read more...]