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Content Marketing
WPCode: Simplify, Speed Up, and Secure Your WordPress Customizations
Customizing a WordPress website to meet unique needs can be challenging, especially for those without extensive coding experience. Traditionally, this process involves editing theme files directly—a risky approach that can introduce errors or get wiped out during updates, or installing multiple plugins, often leading to performance slowdowns and compatibility issues. WPCode Enter WPCode, a powerful and user-friendly WordPress plugin that…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How to Create a Shortcode To Publish Your Google Calendar Booking Button
Google Calendar’s appointment scheduling feature allows businesses, freelancers, and professionals to streamline bookings without needing third-party scheduling software. However, Google doesn’t provide an easy way to embed a booking button directly into a WordPress site. Instead, users must insert a custom script or link to the external page. To make this process seamless, a simple WordPress plugin can enable you…
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Content Marketing
How to Add Featured Images to Your WordPress RSS Feed Using Functions.php
RSS feeds are a crucial tool for content distribution, especially for marketers looking to syndicate their blog posts, improve discoverability, or automate email newsletters. However, by default, WordPress does not include the featured image in RSS feeds, which can make your content less visually appealing when it appears in RSS readers or third-party platforms. In this article, we’ll show you…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add Featured Image and a Sortable Last Edit Date To WordPress Admin
We’re launching a new WordPress site I designed and developed at my company. Having developed and deployed hundreds of WordPress sites, I always install some essential plugins and make customizations to manage the site more effectively. One example is the admin panel’s page, posts, and custom post type (CPT) lists. I like ensuring each entry has a featured image, and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
WordPress: A Shortcode to Add a Share on X Link With Your Content in WordPress
Capturing and directing relevant traffic to your website is more crucial than ever. Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have evolved from simple microblogging tools to dynamic hubs for real-time conversations, breaking news, and vibrant community engagement. With over 450 million monthly active users, X represents a goldmine of potential traffic for your brand. Leveraging this platform effectively can…
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Analytics & Testing
WordPress: How To Append A UTM Campaign Querystring To External Redirects
Martech Zone is often a pass-through site where we connect our visitors with products, solutions, and services available through other sites. We don’t ever want our site utilized as a backlink farm by SEO consultants, so we’re pretty careful in the content we accept and how we redirect our visitors. Where we can’t monetize an external referring link, we avoid…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Redirect All RSS Feeds To One Destination
While reviewing Google Search Console, one issue that I kept encountering was URLs ending in /feed/ causing issues. While it’s pretty ingenious of the WordPress CMS to add RSS feeds to every bit of content – posts, tags, categories, comments, etc. – the feature is unnecessary. It produces a ton of internal paths for Google to crawl that have no…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Build a Custom Feed In Your Site For Your Externally Hosted Podcast
How to publish an externally hosted podcast feed as a custom feed within your WordPress instance.
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Content Marketing
Jetpack: Limit WordPress Related Posts To A Specific Date Range
Related posts are an essential feature for websites, especially those with significant content such as blogs and news portals. They contribute to various aspects of user experience and website performance. Here are the key reasons why related posts are important: Improving User Engagement: Increased engagement by encouraging users to spend more time on your site and reducing the bounce rate.…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How to Remove and Prevent Line Feeds and Carriage Returns in Titles
You may have encountered line feeds or carriage returns inserted into the post titles when creating or editing in WordPress. These extra characters can cause formatting issues and make your titles appear inconsistent. In this article, I’ll provide two methods to remove line feeds and carriage returns from your WordPress post titles: a MySQL solution to fix previously written titles…