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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
Most WordPress themes display their name with a link back to their site. Here’s an example: It’s possible to remove these links. However, not all themes make it easy. In general, there are three types of themes with regard to footer links. Those like Genesis which explicitly have provisions to remove the links “Norma” themes […]
Google Analytics is such an important part of a webmaster’s arsenal, that I honestly don’t know a single site owner who doesn’t use it. For tracking and reports, there’s nothing better. And it’s free! All you need to do is add a snippet of code to your website and you’re done. The problem however, comes […]
The Linux command line can leave you feeling as if you don’t have all the information at your fingertips. In a traditional GUI, you can just peek at the bottom of the window and see how much space a folder is using. Or you can hover over a file or folder and get its size. […]
In the last tutorial, we saw how to give a user sudo privileges. One of the main benefits, is that we’re now free to disable root logins on Linux. So why is important? Most Linux installations come with the root user by default. Ubuntu is one notable exception where root is disabled. The problem with […]
Today WordPress powers around 30% of all sites on the Internet. That’s a staggering number. And while today it’s suitable for just about any kind of site design, it still sticks to its original roots in the blogging world. As a result, the homepage displays a list of latest posts in reverse chronological order. While […]
Linux’s “secure by design” philosophy places many constraints on the default permissions granted to every new user. Some of these precautions include disabling the ability to run commands with “sudo”. Sudo is a special command that permits running admin level command without actually being root. Sometimes however, you need to let people run these commands […]
Sometimes you visit a site and immediately see something you like. A sidebar, a theme, or a font and think to yourself “How do I get that on my site?”. In this tutorial, I show you how to add Google fonts to WordPress with or without a plugin. Let’s get started! Step 1: Find the […]
One of the strengths of WordPress is that it can be used to create just about any kind of site. It handles regular static sites just as well as dynamic data-driven ones. Normally, dynamic sites are created using certain themes and plugins like WooCommerce. This allows you to easily create pages that display new prices, […]
You’ll often find code to insert while researching some WordPress problem. Most people who come across this for the first time, have no idea where to place it. The usual response is your theme’s “functions.php”. But this is a bad idea. Why not Use Functions.php for WordPress Code? Using functions.php to insert code in WordPress […]
If you’re serious about maintaining a WordPress blog, then it’s essential that you know how to create a child theme and use one yourself. A child theme is merely an extension of an existing theme that you can modify safely. Why not modify the parent directly? Because theme developers release updates of their software regularly, […]