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WordPress User Last Login

Have you ever needed to know a WordPress user last login date?  By default, WordPress doesn’t provide any information on when a user last logged in.  However, such information is extremely useful when, for example, trying to delete inactive users or evaluate the success of a membership site. The User Meta API Thankfully, WordPress allows… Read More

Check If A WordPress Plugin Is Active

If you ever have to write code that is dependent on a specific plugin being active, WordPress has you covered with the is_plugin_active() function. View the code on Gist. All you need to do is pass in the plugin basename and WordPress will do the checking to see if the plugin is active. How do you get… Read More

Optimizing Images in WordPress for Google Image Search

Ever wondered how to get your images to appear in Google Image Search? The process is similar to getting a web page to rank well in Google Web Search: optimize your image so that Google sees your image as relevant content. Let me walk you through a few things that you can do when adding… Read More

Troubleshooting WordPress Plugins

So you found the perfect WordPress plugin, you install it and it doesn’t work on your site. What can you do? Let me guide you through the process of troubleshooting and give you some pointers when working with plugin authors.

Online Sales Leads

Is your business struggling to generate online sales leads? It is common knowledge that generating sales leads online can be more effective than traditional methods, not to mention more cost-effective. Given the current economy, businesses are looking to the internet in order to cut marketing costs.  We are going to take a look at different… Read More

Choosing a WordPress Theme

Choosing a WordPress theme can be a confusing task for a lot of people.  Everyone can choose a theme that looks nice, but being able to head off potential problems before you launch a theme on a live site is extremely important.  As a WordPress developer, I am often asked to review WordPress themes for… Read More

Redirect Old Domain to New Domain via .htaccess

When you migrate a site from one domain to another, it is very important that you don’t break all the links that you built to your old domain. Proper redirection of all the pages on the old domain to the same location on the new domain will ensure that visitors to the old domain will… Read More

Black Hat Social Media

‘Black Hat’ is a phrase originally coined to refer to a type of hacker — one who “violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain.” In the search marketing world, “black hat SEO” refers to techniques and tactics that increase search engine rankings in ways that fall outside of the search… Read More