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We often use terms without explaining them,..and don’t even realize it. Someone recently brought to our attention that it’s not always clear how WordPress sites differ from traditional websites. So here’s the WordPress 101 explanation… Traditional Websites “Traditional websites” refer to those built in straight HTML code (there are other code languages that may appear [...]

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We were asked by several clients this month about creating mobile versions of websites and wanted to share some information. Below are common misconceptions as well as pros and cons of having mobile sites. What Is a Mobile Website? A mobile website is a text-focused version of your website. It removes the fancy design elements [...]

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  If you are working with WordPress multi-site and are using the same theme for sites with and without IDX Broker, the typical start and stop tags for placement in the functions.php file will cause errors on sites without IDX Broker installed. Here’s a solution that will work for the Genesis AgentPress theme on a [...]

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By default, WordPress allows uploading of only certain file types. You can add or remove from the default list as needed. Steps to Editing Allowable File Types in WordPress Go to Settings and select the Settings submenu. Note: On a WordPress multi-site installation, you must be in the Network Admin area. Scroll to the bottom [...]

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Visitors are likely to find individual blog posts on your website rather than landing on your home page. While they are reading a blog post, it is important to keep them engaged by making it easy for them to find similar or related content. This is often referred to as internal linking. Promoting related posts [...]

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WordPress saves revisions of each blog post into the database. These additional database entries make your database larger and may cause your website to function slower. If you maintain your own WordPress website, you may consider deleting post revisions on a regular basis or turning that feature off entirely. Why Post Revisions Exist There may [...]

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RSS is a page within your website that identifies new content on your site.  Subscription emails send out messages to each subscriber, notifying them of the new content. Both features automatically include a link to the specific page on your site. The settings also include an option to display your full blog post or just [...]

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We came across an interesting company at the Florida Realtors Expo last week. The company is called Happy Grasshopper and they offer an automated email marketing system for real estate agents that sends out messages to your contacts every 3 weeks. They write the messages, so you no longer need to struggle over what to [...]

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Using TwitterFeed to broadcast WordPress blog posts to Twitter, FaceBook, and LinkedIn will make your blogging and social media strategy much easier to manage. What Is TwitterFeed The name is misleading,..TwitterFeed covers more than Twitter. It takes your new blog posts and automatically posts an update on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and Twitter with a link back [...]

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Protecting text and photos is always an important consideration for any website. Anyone can easily copy the text on your website and paste it into a text editor to alter and re-use the content, and you may never know it.  In f act, they can even use your text verbatim without your knowledge. The same [...]

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Flash videos look nice on a website, but unfortunately not all browsers (such as Safari) will display Flash. Normally you can have a message display when flash fails to load. However, this impacts the look and feel of your website. Instead of showing an error message by default, consider displaying a default image when the [...]

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You can add a FaceBook LIKE button to your WordPress website using one of the many social media plug-ins available. Be sure to check your website on different browsers. A common problem occurs with Internet Explorer not displaying the LIKE button properly. Solution to FaceBook Like Button Not Showing on Internet Explorer To resolve this [...]

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It is possible to include WordPress navigation menu links to other sites. This is commonly achieved via two different methods. Options Custom Nav Menu Most themes allow you to create a custom navigation menu. Within that functionality is the ability to create a menu item that actually links to a url. That url can point [...]

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