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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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Four SEO Tips for WordPress Websites

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WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. If you work with WordPress, or you’re considering building a website on the platform, you will have probably wondered about SEO and whether there is anything specific you can do to optimize your site. Optimize Your Page URLs. Create an XML Sitemap.

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6 Annoying Ways You’re Using WordPress

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I’ve never made any attempt to hide it, I have an ongoing love affair with WordPress. Often times, WordPress I’ve found WordPress used poorly. There are some people that can usually name a WordPress template just be looking at it, so it’s normal for myself and other web developers to spot purchased designs.

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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability

Waxing UnLyrical

As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. This is WordPress’ built-in Excerpt field.). Now, here’s the thing. The grasshopper way.

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

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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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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. This is WordPress’ built-in Excerpt field.). Now, here’s the thing. The grasshopper way.

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Split Testing Made Easy with the ConverThis WordPress Plugin

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For example, you might want to test two sales pages, each with a different headline, to see which one leads to more sales. ConverThis is a WordPress plugin that makes A/B testing simple. ConverThis is a great plugin for WordPress that can help you do some simple split testing. The questions is, how do you do this? Split Testing.

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