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Weekly Links Roundup – CDNs, Shortcodes, Writing Blog Posts, Before-and-after Photos

August 9, 2019 by Debbie Campbell Leave a Comment

This week’s top WordPress and web marketing links.

Is your blog slow? Especially if you have a lot of media files like images and video, you may greatly benefit from getting a CDN (content delivery network). A CDN serves your media files from servers around the country (or the world) that are closer to your users, speeding up delivery of those files in their browsers. Here’s a review of the 10 Best CDN Services for WordPress users. My current favorite is CloudFlare, which has a free plan and is pretty painless to set up. It also has security benefits for your site.

As a WordPress user you may have come across this before. You have a shortcode, which inserts something dynamic like a form or button wherever it’s placed. You want to paste it into a widget so your dynamic content will show up in a sidebar or other area – here’s how to do that, two easy ways.

Are you starting a blog, and you want to learn everything? I mean everything… Check out this article on How to Write a Blog Post. This may be more than you bargained for… if so, try this one instead: Write Better Blog Posts.

Finally – a nifty plugin I ran across this week. If you ever need to display before-and-after images, this tutorial on How to Show Before and After Photos is perfect for you! The plugin is very easy to use, and the effect looks great.


Did you find this information useful? Please share with your friends and colleagues! And comment below with questions or observations.

Filed Under: Blogging, WordPress Tutorials Tagged With: before and after photos, blogging, plugins, shortcodes

Weekly Links Roundup – Forums, Video Players, Shortcodes, Security Plugins

April 6, 2018 by Debbie Campbell Leave a Comment

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

While discussion forums don’t seem to be as popular as they once were, they can still be a great tool on websites where you have a lot of members and want to enable them to ask questions and interact with each other – which can be good for sustaining and growing your membership site. Learn how to add a forum to your site with bbPress.

Looking for a video player plugin to embed videos from YouTube or play locally-hosted videos? There are many out there, both free and commercial. Check out this review of 7 free WordPress video player plugins.

WordPress shortcodes can be great while you’re using them, but one big mess if you have a theme or are using a layout tool like Visual Composer and decide to switch. You’ll end up with a whole lot of useless shortcodes in your pages. Here’s a review of the commercial plugin Shortcode Cleaner that will help clean up all those unused shortcodes. If you use a tool like this, please be sure to backup your site beforehand!

Finally… if you’re considering paying for a security service for your site, here’s a comparison of Wordfence and Sucuri. There’s a lot of noise in the comments about this being a biased review by a Sucuri affiliate, but IMO that may not be true. I’d also strongly recommend Sucuri over Wordfence. If you’re hosting with us or using our Small Business or higher WordPress maintenance plans, you’re already taking advantage of Sucuri’s services.

 

Filed Under: Security, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tutorials Tagged With: bbpress, forum, security, shortcodes, sucuri, video player plugin, wordfence

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