Recently, I introduced #TechBrijTips, A micro-blogging section on this website which has content like twitter posts. It is different from regular blog posts as it doesn’t have any specific title. So I had a question what to display in the RSS feed of WordPress. It doesn’t look good to me to display first few words of the main content. I decided to display title from Excerpt. In this post, we will see how to implement it.
Category: WordPress
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WordPress: Disable 404 Redirect to Homepage
If you don’t know what 404 error is, It is an error displayed on when a user requests a web page that couldn’t be found on their server (i.e. the requested webpage is not available). In this case, If you are redirecting (302 redirects) to home page then it is confusing for end user. Definitely, you should avoid 302 redirecting for non-existent URL. Probably you don’t want to send a low quality signal to Google and other engines if they are testing how 404’s are being handled by requesting a noexist page. The best solution is to create custom 404 page having search box saying “Did you mean …?”
In this post, we will see how to prevent 404 Redirect to Homepage in WordPress.
Best Free WordPress Quiz Plugins: WP Quiz vs Quiz And Survey Master vs WP Pro Quiz
Do you want to conduct a Quiz on your WordPress website to increase user engagement and looking for best free WordPress plugins? In this article, we will compare the following best 3 plugins:
HTTP to HTTPS Migration, WordPress and SEO
Before I start this article, I would like to ask one question to you, How many HTTPS links do you see in first page of Google search result? Generally, I get more than 50% for my search queries and major top links belong to HTTPS. It is self explanatory how important HTTPS and SSL is. As SSL is mandatory for safely processing transaction e-commerce website, but here I am not going to talk about security and safety, my concern is SEO. The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default and it is encouraged by Google with announcement HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014. Chrome and Firefox browsers started to display warning for HTTP (Non secure) websites. So you decided to move on HTTPS. Hold a minute and see the challenges. you will get many examples on Google saying huge drop in traffic after moving HTTPS if not implemented properly. So you must aware of the challenges. In this post, we will move a WordPress website to HTTPS, Setup free SSL and update dependencies to meet SEO guidelines. It is assumed Apache server is used in Ubuntu server.
Install Free SSL from Let’s Encrypt with Apache on Ubuntu
In this tutorial, we will setup HTTPS with Apache on Ubuntu server and generate free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. It is a free certificate authority which can issue free certificates with a valid duration of 90 days and the certificates cost nothing to implement. It is assumed you know the basics and importance of HTTPS and SSL in terms of safety and security.
Read Also: Install or Upgrade to PHP 7.X on Ubuntu
Install or Upgrade to PHP 7.X on Ubuntu
This post explains how to install or upgrade to PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu. It is assumed PHP 5.x is running on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine in case of upgrade.
Note: This new version brings with it a number of new features and a few incompatibilities that should be tested for before switching PHP versions in production environments.
Read Also: Installing Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) Stack on Ubuntu 14.04
How to Load Disqus Comments on Click
On searching Google, I got many articles on this but didn’t find any way to do if official Disqus comment system WordPress plugin is used. So, decided to write on it. This post explains how to setup Disqus on your website to load on-demand (on click on any button or link) and not automatically. It is assumed you’ve registered your website with Disqus before get started.
A Better Way to Add Google Custom Search to WordPress/PHP Site
Display File Download Count in WordPress
In some posts, I’ve attached source code and files allowing user to download. Now I’m interested to check how many times file downloaded and how to display it with download link as in other sites. I found different WordPress plugins like WP-DownloadManager, Downloads Manager, WordPress Download Monitor, WordPress Download Counter..etc. All are doing file management perfectly, But I like WordPress Download Monitor the most. It allows you to upload files, store it on your server and share it with your readers. You can install and activate it easily as normal plugin.
Error establishing a database connection – WordPress
When I imported production database and configured code on my local dev machine, I got this error even I had updated wp-config.php with correct information. I fixed the problem after some changes. This article explains troubleshooting steps to fix this error.
How to Display Featured Post with Thumbnails Without Plugin
Object:
1. Display featured post with thumbnail.
2. Title will be placed below the thumbnail.
3. Featured posts will be randomly selected and must show default thumbnail if no thumbnail is defined for the post.
4. All selected posts must appear together, no slider to navigate.
5. It must not use any script(Not good for SEO) or plugin.
Configure ‘Google Analytics for WordPress’ plugin for Subdomain tracking
Yesterday, I created a sub-domain in my site. To configure Google analytics to track content and visitor data for sub-domain, I searched and found following in Google code:
a default setup of Google Analytics is designed to track content and visitor data for a single domain, such as www.example.com. This means that even if you manage both a domain and a sub-domain, you must make modifications to the tracking code in order to share visitor data across both domains.
Create a Project Collection Theme using WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Type
I faced many problems to manage my shared content on skydrive, google Docs, dropbox…etc. I decided to create a wordpress theme where I could share my content properly. I like wordpress 3.0 custom post type feature. It gives me option to create this feature. In this post, A project collection theme using wordpress 3.0 custom post type is explained.
Object:
1. To create Custom post type for Projects with following options:
Report(s)
Presentation(s)
Submitted By
Other Attachment(s)
2. To add different external shared file (Google Docs, Windows SkyDrive..etc) in Options.
3. To create Index page and new feed for the Projects
4. To create catalog for Projects.
Exclude Posts by Category Name from Home page in WordPress
I have created a new category ‘Idhar-Udhar’, But I don’t want to show posts related to this category on home page. I saw “Function Reference/query posts”. there is parameter category_name which displays posts from only one category by name. There is no parameter to exclude posts by category_name. I tried -(minus sign) in following way, but not worked.
query_posts(‘category_name=-Idhar-Udhar’);
I tried ! sign also, but no luck.
query_posts(‘category_name!=Idhar-Udhar’);
Setup wordpress on local xampp from production server
For a wordpress blogger, it is required to setup and sync blog on local machine for theme, widget and plugin development and customization. this article shows the steps to setup wordpress blog on local machine from production server.