The first time I saw “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” on my WordPress site I was terrified. I had attempted to update a plugin and it failed. And no matter how many times I refreshed the browser, the site wouldn’t come back up. Now I know what the solution is: delete the .maintenance file on…
Problem: Login page either displays “Too Many Redirects” error message, or it actually logs in but the CSS is all fucked up and all the Admin pages are 404s. Ugh. Solution (at least in my case): WPBeginner’s How to Add an Admin User to the WordPress Database via MySQL After following their instructions, and trying to…
Google’s +1 Button Part 1: Google’s +1 code: Source Part 2: How to Add the Google +1 Button to your WordPress – WPBeginner
Categories vs Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content – WPBeginner The Right Way to Use Categories and Tags in WordPress to Boost SEO – ManageWP Writing & Editing Posts > Categories vs. Tags – WordPress
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Getting a 404 error? Yep, me too! How to Fix Yoast’s WordPress SEO Sitemap 404 Error – WPBeginner
Install Widget Title Links Reference: WPBeginner – How to Add a Link to Widget Titles in WordPress
Excellent article from WPBeginner – How to create CSS Call-to-Action Buttons using MaxButtons CSS3 Button Generator for WordPress. WordPress plugin excerpt: Create great-looking CSS3 buttons that can be used on any post or page in your WordPress site. The easy to use button editor makes it a snap to generate awesome CSS3 buttons in very…
Adding a second menu to the Speaky WordPress theme from WPBeginner, even though this tutorial is for adding a second menu specifically to the TwentyTen WordPress theme. Tutorial: http://digitalraindrops.net/2010/08/the-second-menu/ Files affected: functions.php header.php navigation-2.php (new file) style.css Note: Since I didn’t want the second menu to look different from the main menu, as the tutorial…