If you want to amp up your commissions, you should consider integrating your affiliate account with your website. Setting up Amazon Affiliate marketing for a WordPress site is surprisingly easy.
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If you’d like to take Google map locations to another level on your WordPress site, stick around because I’ll show you exactly how to do it in this article.
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Learn how to display your Instagram Feed on your Elementor website with this step-by-step guide. Follow the instructions to install & activate the plugin, create an access token, configure your feed, and embed it in Elementor.
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Animator lets you set up custom WordPress animations using a code-free point-and-click interface. It comes from the team behind CSS Hero and it’s easy to use – learn more in our full Animator review.
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Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier” with more details coming next week.
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 2, 2023
In response to a user who conjectured that this move is more about raising the friction to making bots, Elon Musk responded, saying that this is one factor motivating the change.
“Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers and opinion manipulators,” Musk said. “There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.”
It’s not yet clear how this will effect the Twitter ecosystem, whether it will impact bots that auto-tweet links from blogs and other useful tools. So far it is already affecting some migration tools like Movetodon that rely on the Twitter API to help users find their contacts on Mastodon. Movetodon’s creator said his app’s access was shut down today. According to Twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies.†Fedifinder, a tool that helps users find the Fediverse accounts of their Twitter contacts, is still up and running at the time of publishing.
NetNewsWire, an open source news aggregator, has already announced it will be removing Twitter integration in its next release:
You might think we’re reading RSS feeds from Twitter, but Twitter removed RSS feeds from the service something like ten years ago. We rely completely on the Twitter API.
WordPress’ Plugins team published a notice, alerting developers and site owners of Twitter’s upcoming API change. The team warned that the following types of Twitter plugins might be affected:
“If your plugin (or the related service) does any of those, you will have to investigate if this change impacts you,” Plugin Review Team Rep Mika Epstein said. “If you are impacted, you will need to update (or close) your plugin accordingly. I know a lot of free plugins will have some hard choices to make here.
“For plugin users, if a plugin suddenly breaks on/around the 9th, please be generous and kind to the developers. They really got blindsided by this, and it’s a lot to sort out in a short amount of time.”
WordPress plugin developer Joe Dolson, author of WP to Twitter and WP Tweets Pro, published an early reaction to the news.
“WP to Twitter makes very little revenue as it is,” Dolson said. “If I end up doing a lot of support because of this, or need to make significant changes to the plug-in, I will most likely just shut everything down and close the plug-in. That’s a purely practical decision.”
Dolson also said if the API costs are affordable for the average small user, then he will likely keep things as they are. This is because API access for the plugin is managed through each users’ developer account with Twitter.
“If the API costs are very expensive for the average small user, I suspect that will completely destroy the WP to Twitter user base, and there will be little to no justification to my continuing to maintain it,” Dolson said.
Many users are likely not technical enough to understand what an API is, let alone why free access is being cut off. This could create a major support burden for plugins that no longer work after February 9. Developers who become frustrated with the platform becoming less open, may no longer be motivated to create these kinds of tools.
With just one week’s notice, and very few details, developers have little time to react. Once Twitter releases more information next week about its API changes, plugin developers will need to be ready to take action with notices written to help users understand what is happening. This news comes on the heels of the company updating its developer rules last month to ban third-party Twitter clients.
There are a few ways to fix broken links in WordPress:
1. Use a plugin: There are several plugins available for WordPress that can help you find and fix broken links on your website. Some popular options include Broken Link Checker and Dead Link Checker.
2. Manually check your website: You can manually check your website for broken links by navigating through your pages and clicking on each link to see if it is working.
3. Check your website’s log files: Your website’s log files can contain information about broken links, and you can use this information to fix them.
4. Redirect broken links: If a page or post has been removed or moved, you can use a plugin like Redirection to redirect the broken link to a new page.
5. Check external links: If the broken links are external links pointing to other website, the best thing you could do is to contact the owner of the external website to ask them to fix their link, or update your own link with a new one.
It’s important to regularly check your website for broken links to ensure that your visitors have a positive experience and to maintain the integrity of your website’s structure.
WP Migrate, formerly known as WP Migrate DB and recently acquired by WP Engine, has long since expanded beyond its initial release as a database migration tool. Users may be familiar with the push/pull workflow of installing the plugin on two sites and migrating database, media, themes, and plugin changes back and forth. The most recent 2.6 release expands the plugin’s capabilities to include full-site exports for integration with Local, a popular free WordPress development tool, also owned by WP Engine.
This new remote-to-local workflow is included in both the free WP Migrate plugin and the pro version. The full-site exports bundle the database, media, themes, plugins, and other files into a ZIP archive, which can be seamlessly imported into Local.
After clicking Export inside WP Migrate, users are taken to the next screen where they can configure what is included in the export file. This ZIP archive can be dragged and dropped into the Import screen in Local.
The WP Migrate team collaborated with the Local team to match environments as closely as possible when exporting for Local import.
“Each site exported with WP Migrate includes a wpmigrate-export.json file which contains metadata such as the PHP and MySQL versions that were last used on the site,” WP Migrate Product Manager Kevin Hoffman said. “During the import, Local reads this file and attempts to match the environment to that of the exported site, so the local site works (and breaks!) just like its remote counterpart.”
In this migration scenario, the WP Migrate plugin can be included in the list of plugins so it is activated on the Local site, speeding up the workflow for setting up a local development site. Previously this required configuring plugins, add-ons, and license keys across both environments.
“In the last year, we really embraced our new identity as a full-site migration solution,” Hoffman said. “One of the goals we set for ourselves was to handle the migration of an entire site from within WP Admin without ever having to touch cPanel, phpMyAdmin, or FTP. This new workflow is the culmination of those efforts delivered as a free end-to-end solution for the WordPress community.”
Customers who have purchased the pro version may still opt for pushing and pulling directly between sites, but this new workflow makes it easier for users (both free and paid) to set up a local development environment for the first time.
“When we realized how much simpler we could make the remote-to-local workflow by embracing full-site exports, we reached out to the Local team who helped make it happen,” Hoffman said.
The WP Migrate team is looking at expanding the integration beyond matching the WordPress, PHP, and MySQL versions to give users the ability to predefine migration profiles for pushing local sites back to the remote host.
“When configuring an export, we could also let users set up one-click admin access in Local,” he said. “Imagine dropping a ZIP into Local and landing in WP Admin without ever having to log in. There are lots of possibilities, and I’m sure more will pop up as the community starts to use it.”
There are several ways to stop spam user registration in WordPress:
1. Use a plugin such as Akismet or Antispam Bee to filter out spam registration attempts.
2. Use a CAPTCHA plugin, such as Google reCAPTCHA or Really Simple CAPTCHA, to verify that a real person is registering on your site.
3. Limit the number of user registrations per IP address to prevent bulk registration attempts.
4. Use a security plugin, such as iThemes Security or Wordfence, to add additional layers of security to your site.
5. Block the IP address of spammer if you found any specific spammer IP.
6. Use a double opt-in process for new user registrations to confirm the email address of the registrant.
7. Keep your WordPress and plugins updated to the latest version to ensure that your site is protected against known security vulnerabilities.
It’s worth noting that no single solution will work for every website, so you may need to try a combination of these methods to effectively reduce spam and improve the security of your site.
Some popular must-have WordPress plugins include:
1. Yoast SEO: Helps optimize your website for search engines and improve your search engine rankings.
2. Akismet Anti-Spam: Protects your website from spam comments.
3. WPForms: Enables you to create forms and surveys on your website.
4. WP Super Cache: Improves website performance by caching pages and posts.
5. Jetpack: A multi-functional plugin that offers security, performance, and design features for your website.
6. Google Analytics for WordPress: Enables you to track website traffic and user behavior.
7. WP Optimize: Optimizes your website’s database for better performance.
8. Yoast SEO for WordPress: Optimize your website for search engines
9. W3 Total Cache: Improve the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
10. BackupBuddy: Backup, restore and move your WordPress site to a new domain or server with ease.
11. Gravity Forms: A premium plugin that allows you to create advanced forms and surveys.
12. WP Smush: Optimizes images on your website to improve page load times.
13. All in One SEO Pack: An alternative to Yoast SEO that helps optimize your website for search engines.
14. Contact Form 7: A widely used plugin that enables you to create contact forms on your website.
15. Advanced Custom Fields: Allows you to add custom fields to your website’s post, pages and custom post types.
16. WP Security Audit Log: Keeps a log of all changes made to your website and alerts you to suspicious activity.
17. WP User Avatar: Allows users to upload and use avatars on your website.
18. UpdraftPlus: A backup and restore plugin that creates backups of your website files and database.
19. ShortPixel Image Optimizer: Optimize images, reduce page load time and save space.
20. Autoptimize: Optimizes your website’s code to improve page load times.
It is important to note that the best plugins for your website will depend on your specific needs, but these plugins are widely used and considered must-have for any WordPress website.
