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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog Before getting started, I know this is a really looooong post, and I apologize in advance. I hope this is an especially valuable post for anyone running a WordPress blog. Do good plugins really slow down my site?

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Popup Opt-in Forms: Case Studies, WordPress Plugins, and Alternatives

Kikolani

In this post, I’m going to share my research into popup opt-in forms: who’s using them, case studies, WordPress plugins, and the alternatives for building your mailing list. Popup Opt-In Forms for WordPress. Pippity is becoming a popular WordPress popup opt-in form plugin. More Popup Opt-In Plugins for WordPress.

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How to Make Your WordPress Blog Mobile Friendly

Waxing UnLyrical

The header, widgets and so on made it look very cluttered. Then I checked out a few different options, including Mobify , WordPress Mobile Edition and then (because I was getting bored very quickly) WPTouch. For example, I customized the footer message of the WUL mobile version with the © symbol instead of just text.

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5 Tips to Highlight the Best Content on Your Blog

Kikolani

Use a popular post widget. WordPress offers a number of plugins to automatically display your best posts based on view count. You can display this widget in your sidebar or a widget box in your theme. One favorite of many bloggers is “ WordPress Popular Posts ” with over 300,000 downloads. WordPress 2.7

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The Best Social Sharing Plugin Is Getting Better

The Social Media Hat

Updated Popular Posts widget : All new features including post thumbnails, custom styling and time-based filtering. Way better Translations : The plugin will now detect your WordPress install's default language and, if translated, will automatically use that language. According to the official announcement : .

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4 Ways to Embed Facebook Posts and Page Features on Your Site

Sprout Social

How to Embed Facebook on WordPress Sites. If you’ve ever used WordPress, which is likely since roughly 60% of the market does, then you know there’s a plugin for just about everything and Facebook is no exception. You have a couple of options for embedding on WordPress using either the plugin route or a manual process.

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

SocMed Sean

As an example, a while back I translated my top-performing blog post about issues with Facebook Messenger into this version of the post written in Spanish. As an example, at the bottom of this post, there is a “Pinnable” image that has text in it.

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