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Content Marketing
WordPress: Stop Updating Years On Your With This Shortcode To Calculate Years Since
One of the best features of WordPress as a content management system (CMS) is Shortcodes. The flexibility to program dynamic content using shortcodes can help you deploy robust and incredible sites. Shortcodes are substitution strings you can insert into your content that renders dynamic content. I’m helping a client this week where they’re taking one of their products and rolling…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: If You Don’t Know What a Child Theme is…
You’re modifying WordPress themes incorrectly. We’ve worked with dozens of clients and built hundreds of WordPress sites. It’s not that our job is to create WordPress sites, but we wind up doing it for many clients. Clients don’t come to use WordPress sites very often. They typically come to us to help optimize their sites for search, social, and conversions.…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add a Featured Image Column To Your Posts List In Your Theme Using functions.php
A WordPress plugin involves additional overhead, requiring WordPress to load and manage the plugin. This includes reading the plugin directory, checking for updates, and maintaining plugin metadata. Whenever I’m working on optimizing Martech Zone or a client’s WordPress installation, I always analyze the plugins utilized, quality of the code, impact on the site, and how much functionality there is in…
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Analytics & Testing
How To Use Google Analytics 4 Events to Track Category Popularity in WordPress
Category popularity can help you understand what content your audience finds most engaging. Tracking this data can help you tailor your content strategy and enhance user experiences. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) offers powerful event tracking capabilities, enabling you to monitor your WordPress website’s category views. In this article, we’ll explore how to implement event tracking to measure the popularity of…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Add A Modified Date Column To Your Posts View And Make It Sortable
If you’ve been a long-time reader of Martech Zone, you have likely noticed the work I’ve been doing to remove outdated articles and update articles that are popular but outdated. When working within my posts page in WordPress admin, I filter the view significantly to identify articles to delete or update. One of the fields that I needed was the…
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Content Marketing
How To Build Your Own Site Search with Google’s Programmable Search Engine
Internal search engines on content management systems (CMS) are nowhere as robust as Google’s engine when it comes to providing great results. Instead of using the internal search on sites that I’m trying to find information on, I often utilize Google’s ability to just search a single domain. Just type site: and the domain you wish to search along with…