Questions tagged [wordpress]
WordPress is an open source content management system running on PHP and MySQL often used as a blog engine. There is a WordPress StackExchange at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/: if your question is related to WordPress but not webmastery, then your should ask it over there.
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Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed
I set up a website, and below is my main page. As you see I have added the tracking code, but when I login to google analytics, I see Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed. If you think ...
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Bots inside chrome v31?
I am currently running a wordpress site with the plugin "Wassup" installed.
In the last time I have registered around 30 users per day that call /wp-login.php on my webpage. And all of them always use ...
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In WordPress, should I “Allow search engines to index this site” during development?
I am going to create a web page, and I will do it online.
Should I choose the option: "Allow search engines to index this site." during development, or should this be opened after development ends?
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How does this website work? [closed]
By the looks of it this website is just a feed of articles from other sites. How does it import the whole articles like this? and how is the site ranking at all with the lack on original content?
I ...
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Tracking form abandonment
I'm looking for a decent way to track form abandonment. Ideally, I would like to see how many people start filling out a form but do not complete it, as well as the last field that was filled out.
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Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address
I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on wordpress.com to an external URL.
Given the following:
1) I own a domain name foobar.com purchased from another registrar (not ...
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How can I create a subdomain to a Facebook page running on CloudFlare
I'd like to add a subdomain to my website for an Android community Facebook page, using CloudFlare on my domain and subdomain. Please tell me how I might do that.
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Slow site because of WordPress Evolve theme
I've installed WordPress lastest version in my site. It is using Evolve theme. Demo of this theme is here. The original demo is also slow. Slowing is like that, site is waiting for 9-10 seconds for ...
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How auto load image work when an status is post to social website?
When posting a status update on social website like facebook.com and linkedin.com which contain an URL, it will automatically scan the images available on the particular website and put it at the ...
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Choosing the best URLs for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress
I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format ...
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Duplicate content problem due to plugin
Actually I am running website on WordPress where I have installed Transposh plugin on my site 'example'.
Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at ...
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Server won't respond to customer - Wordpress site / Hostgator - high volume
I've got a customer using WordPress. They have been using it for years. It's a school where the kids get on each day and hit the site A LOT.
Suddenly, in the last 3 days they get NOTHING back from ...
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Moving a WordPress site to a new domain - need help with an Apache htaccess URL rewrite rule
I'm helping to move a WordPress site from one domain to another, which includes a change in permalink structure. I know I can use a .htaccess entry, but I'm not that well-versed (yet) in regular ...
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Redirect directory URL to instead have .html suffix
htaccess redirect (301) all my old content from my WordPress to my new URL design. I want to redirect all the last trailing slashes to .html ... the permalinks are already working, but I don't want ...
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Unknown file automatically created on root folder
I am not sure if it is the correct place to ask such a question.
One of my websites got malware. It is hosted on a 1&1 server and the website is developed in WordPress 3.3.1 (now upgraded to 3.5)....
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Cannot send email to Google Apps alias from PHP
I'm using Wordpress and sending email via Gmail SMTP:
server: smtp.gmail.com
port: 465
I created Google Apps main domain called domain.com and email info@domain.com.
Then I registered domain aliases ...
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Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?
I run a blog under mywebsite.com/blog. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted (WordPress.com) solution instead.
The blog is ...
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Pull page content from master site in WordPress
So I am working on some sites for a health practice, all in Wordpress. I have one parent hub site that contains all the information about all the treatments they offer on different pages. I also have ...
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wordpress sites are slow on shared hosting but plain html/css sites are fast
I've got a shared hosting account, unlimited sites, unlimited GB, unlimited bandwidth etc etc.
Of course because it's shared and a cheap one at that - there's too many sites on each server and it ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com.
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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Is switching WordPress frameworks later on bad?
I just read that if you get a site established in Google with one WordPress framework, lets say "Thesis", and then change to another one, lets say "Genesis", that you could lose all your traffic from ...
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Way to search for sites using WordPress, Yahoo SiteBuilder, vbulletin?
Is there a method to search the web for website page sources that mentions WordPress, vbulletin, or Yahoo Site builder? Basically websites using WordPress or something like Yahoo Site builder?
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Is Google showing ads from other companies or WordPress plugin is injecting ads which are not mine?
I am using WordPress for managing my blog website. I am using an Ad Injection plugin to place my ads where I want in a post. The plugin seems very good, but I saw some ads which were not from ad ...
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Most used social bookmarking sites for sharing? [closed]
A lot of WordPress sites have a "share this post to xxx" link. I was wondering which "xxx" people click the most? A top 5 or something like that.
I know Twitter and Facebook are in the list, but are ...
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Website speed issues
I am developing a website however i have noticed speed issues, i am not sure whether is due to the location of the server.
I am not a guru when it comes to performance or speed issues, but according ...
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Can't get into the admin console after migrating to new server
I migrated my WordPress blog to a new server, and everything seemed to be working fine until it started giving me the error when entering the admin area:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 ...
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Forum is removed but still being visited by Googlebot
I've removed Simple Machine Forum (SMF) from my blog and from Google's index . I've even removed the sub-directory /forum from my blog techwayz.com and blocked it through robots.txt file. ...
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Blogger still visible after moving to WP; Google Indexing issues after moving from Blogger to WP
I recently migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and am having two major transition issues that are really hurting. Despite literally hours of searching and experimenting, I cannot resolve the following:
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Category to page and blocking category URL via robots.txt - good for SEO?
I am using a template which in the pages it allows me to add sidebars / more content under and above the content I want to pull from a category which is very helpful.
If I create pages to display my ...
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Web.config WordPress rewrite rules next to Magento
I've installed Magento on IIS in folder: E:\mydomain\wwwroot (I already have it all running correctly).
I have no deeper folder magento, I placed all files directly in the wwwroot folder, so:
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Updating Pages after migration of website
My web site was coded in Coldfusion and over the years has obtained a good ranking. I recently migrated the front-end to a Wordpress site and wanted to know what is ideal way of updating Google and ...
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What VPS spec would I require to run WordPress [closed]
I am looking to move an existing WordPress website to a virtual private server (VPS). It will be a Debian (minimal install) running ISPConfig3, Squirrel Mail, and Apache2.
The WordPress site ...
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WordPress multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains
I have a WordPress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary.
I'm using the Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things.
From ...
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Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop
I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum ...
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How to reduce the CPU load on a hosting with WordPress installed as a CMS? [closed]
I have been using hostgators hatchling plan for three months. I got an email from the hosting that my website is creating an over load on CPU. They said that I am eating up their processor and as a ...
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Can preventing directory listings in WordPress upload folders cause Google ranking drops when they cause 403 errors in Webmaster Tools?
I recently moved to a new host that blocks crawling to my uploads folders but (hopefully) allows the files in the folder to be crawled.
I now show many 403 errors for each folder in the uploads ...
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SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll/Wordpress migration
We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (yinyanghouse.com) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like ...
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Showing index.htm and index.php both
I have a static HTML based site.
Server automatically pulls the index.htm as the default page. Fine.
I just installed WordPress in the root:
But .com/index.php is redirecting automatically to .com/...
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Web assets and SEO - albums on WordPress
I'm told that it is considered good SEO practice to have multiple digital properties "around" a website. For example, Youtube, Flikr, Social Media pages etc.
Fine. I have linked my website to my G+ ...
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My website has a script which loads from www.greek-web.info/jquery.min.js. How did it get there?
I've made a website that has inside this script:
<script type="text/javascript">
if(!document.referrer || document.referrer == '') {
document.write('<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript"
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302 Redirect causes garbage at end of Wordpress link in Facebook
When I try to link my Wordpress blog to Facebook, the url doesn't resolve properly. There's garbage appended at the end and Facebook is not able to retrieve information from the site. Happens in ...
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Which CMS scenario should I choose for SEO?
I have a website, about web design and programming, which uses WordPress. I also list some applications that I have made, in pages like:
mysite.com/myapp1
mysite.com/myapp2
(note: these pages are ...
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404 Hits from “PHPCrawl” on WP site
Forgive me if this is in the wrong area - I thought considering the topic, it belonged here (as opposed to in WP). Correct me or move it if I am wrong.
I've been looking around one of the sites I ...
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Get Website Listed in Google News
I've developed a wordpress website and with the help of Yoast News SEO plugin, I've created the News Sitemap XML. However, when I submit the Sitemap to Google Webmasters, I get an error as below
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Keep current .htaccess file but add subdomain handler
Below is my current .htaccess file. I want to add a method by which I can conduct a simple pass-through if someone hits my subdomain. My current .htaccess is designed to grab any one who comes to my ...
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Greater PHP version required
I have bought a new hosting plan and trying to install WordPress from the beginning. I am new with the installer I am using now. The error I get is unusual for me and i cant manage this problem. ...
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Disable Wordpress tags to be indexed by Google
My client doesn't want the tag pages (www.example.com/tag/tagname) to be indexed by Google. How can I achieve this? Disallow in robots.txt doesn't work. Thanks!
Robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /...
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WordPress bot issues
I need to implement a blog into a clients site as he is unhappy with his current basic CMS driven solution.
It needs to suit both seo and the current style and as I'm a front end dev/designer and ...
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How to fix unknown broken link error in WordPress?
I've been working on a client website and found that there are broken links. I have fixed most of the links. Most of the broken links are generated from comments. So I fixed them. But still when I ...
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Do I need add Meta description for each post?
I used WordPress to setup a website. I want use excerpts as Meta descriptions. Is it necessary to do this?
