How to Get a Wordpress Menu Link to Open in a New Tab

in Wordpress, Internet, Web Design | January 29, 2021

Wordpress is a great platform to build a website on for non-programmers, and one of the native features that makes it so great is the ability to create multiple navigation menus under the "Appearance > Menu" tab. While this part of Wordpress makes it easy to create menus, add navigation items that are already created Posts and Pages within the Wordpress system and re-organize those...

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301 Redirects for WP Blog Posts with Only Post Name Permalinks

in Wordpress, Internet, Plugins | May 8, 2020

We work with clients and projects of all kinds, and a frequent task we have to complete during a redesign or SEO overhaul is batch redirect a number of different pages from the old URL to the new, often SEO-optimized URL, without losing any of the existing SEO value from the old version of the same page. Many times, a project will benefit SEO-wise by...

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The Best Wordpress Plugin Money Can Buy

in Wordpress | September 8, 2014

Recently this author began a project that already had a Site Admin who , aside from being a smart and well-rounded dude, was also quite well versed in Wordpress. I'd go so far as to say that Wordpress was his bread and butter and he certainly had a trick or two to share with me that I had not seen before--despite having extensive experience in...

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Error Establishing a Database Connection: Wordpress on Bluehost

in Wordpress, Bluehost | February 6, 2013

I recently got a report that a site that had been functioning for months, and whose code had been untouched, had just gone down and was displaying the horribly ambiguous Wordpress error in black text on a white screen: "Error establishing a database connection". The website was hosted by BlueHost. When this happens, it means that Wordpress is having trouble communicating with the database you...

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Removing the Wordpress Admin Bar

in Wordpress | June 13, 2012

Wordpress has its pluses and minuses, and while it's a great tool for getting a website up and running quickly and easily, it's still got loads of annoying features that are sometimes even more annoying to get rid of. One of my least favorite Wordpress features is the Wordpress Admin bar. That's the annoying dark gray bar that drops down from the top of your...

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