Google say it is really easy to add the AdSense responsive code to WordPress. But if, like me, you manually control the placement of ads then the cut and paste code that Google provides doesn’t work. I use the WordPress Genesis theme – so these instructions have been based around that. However these instructions should […]
How To Add ‘Last Updated’ To Genesis WordPress Themes
Why add ‘Last Updated’ to Genesis WordPress Themes? I was reading an article over at Viper Chill about how new ‘fresh’ content appears to be ranking above highly regarded older content in Google these days. From the tests that Glen at Viper Chill ran over the course of a year (with 100 or more search […]
Fix WordPress deprecated simplepie errors – assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in class-simplepie.php
When you login to your WordPress blog and look at the dashboard you see a bunch of errors under “Incoming links”, “WordPress Blog” and the “Plugins” areas as shown below. The errors, and there will be over 100 of them, will say something like: Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated […]
WordPress blog move or URL redirect
WordPress is in my sub-directory – doh! I installed a WordPress blog in the [pre_pretty]/webdesign[/pre_pretty] sub-directory of my web server during development but then decided that I want the website to be at the root. This was because up to 10% of your link juice may be lost using a redirect from the root of […]
Change length of WordPress blog summary
My particular WordPress theme looked great but I found it a bit frustrating when I could only see a dozen or so words before “Read More”. It was not enough to generate interest in the article so I had to find out how to increase it. It’s actually fairly simple when you know how! To […]