I have been seeing a disturbing number of blogs with some creepy tag clouds. This isn’t something just recent. The tag cloud tragedies I’ve seen span more than a decade! Some have no CSS spacing implemented and others, well, they really are a ‘drag’ on the layout’s load time. I am not going to draw
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How to Add Drafts as Menu Item to the WordPress Admin Navigation
I rely on my draft posts. On a whim, I will often just create a title, write a few notes, and save a draft post with the plan of writing about it in the future. However, I get annoyed having to navigate a few pages in my WordPress admin to get the to draft post
[Continue Reading...]Children Using WordPress: How Can Parents Keep Kids Safe
After a child safety discussion on a WordPress Security Facebook group that I managed to participate in, I felt the need to touch up on children using WordPress, as I’ve been finding a lot of younger kids getting into creating websites and blogs. My own son has a WordPress blog as well. The original question
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Troubleshooting Tip: How to Fix the Pending Menu Problem
Sometimes when updating, WordPress brings up some strange issues. In this troubleshoot tip, the problem is a pending menu in the WordPress backend under Appearance> Menus. This usually occurs after a WordPress core update, and what happens is that if you’ve put together menus, they read as pending and custom links. Aside from the pending
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Support Tips – Wait, There’s Etiquette?
The WordPress community is constantly growing. This means that there are more newbies needing help. Aside from the newbies, there are seasoned users, designers, and developers that all look for help. Aside from the official WordPress Support forum, there are groups all over the place just brimming with people either needing help, or people wanting
[Continue Reading...]How To Optimize and Repair A WordPress Database
Don’t forget that your website is saved on a server, which is another computer. Sometimes your data gets corrupted, or sometimes the databases fail. To keep your WordPress database happy, it might be necessary to repair and optimize them. Your web host isn’t always obligated to do this for you, but one of the more
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