Category: WordPress Optimization

Adding a Sitemap to WordPress

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This is super easy. The best plugin is “Google XML Sitemaps” and that’s sitemaps with an S. Google XML sitemap is another plugin that’s not as good. You’ll know the right one because it has Arne Brachold as the plugin author.

Installing the Sitemap
Go to plugins > Add New > and Type in “Google XML Sitemaps

Should be the top result, as shown here.

Install it, and once the popu…

Optimal WordPress Dashboard Settings Setup

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There are a few little tips and tricks to go through here that you learn after building a couple hundred WordPress sites. This is a basic instruction on setting up the Settings tab of you WordPress blog.

Login to WordPress and find the Settings tab on the left hand side, in gray, at the bottom.

Hover over and let’s start at the bottom with Permalinks

Permalinks
Setting up permalinks…

How to Change Your Default Media Directory in WordPress

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I like to do this so just to shorten up all the mess. “/wp-content/uploads/image-filename.jpg/” is just too long for me. Now, especially with image sharing social media being such a major ranking factor, you’ll want to be pinning images on Pinterest, blogging them to Tumblr, and sharing on Google+ and Facebook. Maybe you even use Forrst or Dribbble or one of the other media sharing sites out…