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Is WordPress Jetpack Plugin Needed?

12/06/202312/06/2023 FidoSysop

Is WordPress Jetpack Plugin Worth Using? I’ve noticed with its latest release that it is tying wordpress.com into my blog, which I already knew about. But with the current version, It’s offering to sign in with its mothership. And are all the add-on goodies Jetpack is plugging needed? I ditched Jetpack because the mobile app wouldn’t connect with this blog. I gave up trying to debug my site. Jetpack was working fine until its last update. When I ditched Jetpack and cleared the CloudFlare cache the system performance was a…

Mastering SEO by The Good Internet Doctor

08/26/2023 FidoSysop

Mastering SEO: Here I use my Internet Handle “FidoSysop” to demonstrate its results on the DuckDuckGo search index. Also at the end of this video, I pointed out a bug in Windows 11 with tiny text sizes in mostly secondary and popup windows. Here I use my Internet Handle “fidosysop” to demonstrate its results on the DuckDuckGo search index. When writing articles or blog posts good keywords or keyphrases are a must if you want to hit your target. A couple of great tools to teach proper grammar and your…

Saying Goodbye to Costly cPanel and Hello Plesk Obsidian Web Admin SE

03/15/2021 FidoSysop

Recently I gave cPanel the boot and said hello to Plesk Obsidian Web Admin SE which is FREE for up to 3 domains. I’ve run cPanel for well over a decade, but its license fee has skyrocketed within the past year. Searching for an alternative and trying two others, I chose the FREE Plesk Obsidian Web Admin SE version as the easiest to set up. And had my two sites online within an hour. Plesk Obsidian is way different than cPanel and with such, there is a learning curve to…

Google Site Kit WordPress Plugin – Useful Or Just More Added Bloat?

05/15/202003/23/2023 FidoSysop

This post is a review of Google site kit WordPress plugin, and my thoughts about how Google treats conservative pro-Trump supporters. It’s no secret Google hates president Donald J. Trump. WordPress site kit only displays what’s already in your search console and Analytics accounts, and keeps your blog signed into Google at all times. It’s just more added WordPress Bloat! 🙁 This narrated screen video is a site kit tour of this blog and my old archive blog. The lack of pro-trump search terms here and especially on my archive…

Google AMP Page Errors Caused By WordPress

08/17/2017 FidoSysop

If you’ve noticed your WordPress website AMP Pages are showing critical errors in Google Webmaster Tools don’t worry. The AMP errors were caused by Automattic’s Amp plugin after a recent upgrade, that’s since been fixed. Apparently after it’s previous update the amp plugin was not stripping out <script> and </script> commands in the html code. That’s a big no-no to Google. Automattic updated it’s amp plugin that cured this problem. We are posting this for reference in case some are still having the problem. To fix this on your WordPress…

Full Encryption Done Right Using CloudFlare FREE SSL TLS

04/26/2017 FidoSysop

These days the best available transport layer security (TLS) can be acquired at no cost. And purchasing a certificate is no longer necessary. Here’s how we do encryption correctly using CloudFlare Free FULL Strict SSL on this blog! Running your website forum or blog under CloudFlare provides the best available speed through caching and unbeatable firewall in the business. It’s as easy as going to cloudflare.com and registering your account. After registering your webmaster account click add website and follow the prompts. After your domain is active on cloudflare click…

WordPress 4.7.4 ‘Noopener Noreferrer’ Added to target=”_blank” Links

04/25/2017 FidoSysop

WordPress Reverse Tabnabbing Vulnerbility

WordPress is adding both ‘noopener and noreferrer’ tags to external AND internal links opening in a new tab. Essentially anything that opens in a new window or tab (target_blank) on your WordPress site. We noticed this earlier today after updating an article then viewing it’s source. If you set a link to open in a new tab, WordPress will now, apart from adding the target=”_blank” tag. WordPress also adds the rel=”noopener noreferrer” tag automatically. Not only that if you open any old post and save it, the tag will get added automatically. This has…

How to Migrate WHM cPanel to Easy Apache 4 and PHP 7

03/24/2017 FidoSysop

WHM cPanel Easy Apache 4 Migration PHP 7

If you’re running WHM / cPanel Server chances are your PHP Version is 5.5 or older. Updating to PHP 7 has many new features that you’re sure to love and the speed increase is fantastic. PHP 5.5 is already at it’s end of it’s life-cycle. PHP 5.6 is nearing it’s life-cycle and is scheduled to expire in January 2018. Upgrading is important to ensure best server reliability and security. I’m a firm believer in keeping up with tech, and came across this tweet yesterday from Joost DeValk of Yoast, whose…

Easiest Facebook Comments Without Plugin WordPress Mod

11/20/2016 FidoSysop

Want to add Facebook Comments to WordPress but don’t want to use a plugin? Just add these two code snippets and it’s a done deal. This mod also works with Simple:Press the WordPress forum plugin. Plugins are a quick easy way to add Facebook comments to WordPress but some add extra bloat to your site. That added bloat eats up system resources slowing your blog down. It’s easy to save those resources by adding Facebook Comments manually by adding two small snippets of code to your theme. Before you start…

WP Fastest Cache Premium Plugin Best Under CloudFlare

11/02/2016 FidoSysop

We have been running this website under WP Fastest Cache for several months with exceptional results, so we decided to opt for WP Fastest Cache Premium. WP Fastest Cache Premium speed increase is fantastic, even when testing using Google page speed insights. Google page speed insights has been described as too strict for WordPress websites, thus results in the “green are not achievable” but we proved the nay sayers wrong with this test. The best we did with WP Fastest Cache free version was 74 tested with Google page speed…

Jetpack 4.3 Removes Stats From WordPress Dashboard

09/09/2016 FidoSysop

After upgrading WordPress Jetpack Plugin to version 4.3 we noticed stats were missing from our WordPress dashboard. To get your stats, logging into WordPress.com is now required. Update 09/27/16 Jetpack is now history. See update below this post. WordPress stats are adequate for a quick view into the days visitors, popular posts, etc. It was real handy to have WordPress Stats in WP-Admin sidebar menu, but after version 4.3 that option is gone. When going to > Jetpack > Dashboard > a short graph is available. Currently the view old…

WP Fastest Cache For WordPress Using CloudFlare

07/04/2016 FidoSysop

WP Fastest Cache is Doc’s recommended plugin for WordPress when using CloudFlare. Despite the increased speed CloudFlare gives your site, WordPress still has to generate each page dynamically. Above average visitor load can cause database connection timeouts. And even get your site shut down if on shared hosting. You can gain a ton more website speed by caching your posts, pages, tags, and categories. When caching your site a generated html page is delivered to your site visitor. This saves WordPress from doing all the work saving bandwidth and server…

Optimizing WordPress Using CloudFlare Security and Encryption

05/26/2016 FidoSysop

Optimizing WordPress SimplePress running under CloudFlare

CloudFlare is the best resource on the net to Protect and Enhance WordPress Installations. This also goes for the popular WordPress Forum Plugin SimplePress . In this article i am going to show how to get the most from CloudFlare’s FREE plan and tweaking WordPress and SimplePress for best results. Getting started: CloudFlare offers an incredible package even on their free plan. It’s rather easy to set up your domain. First go to CloudFlare.com and register your account. After registering scan your domain to add it to cf dns. This…

How Valuable Are Support Forum User Contributions?

04/08/2016 FidoSysop

Just how important are support forum user contributions to a community forum? Recently we posted a Google AMP specific question on this WordPress.org support forum . Another WordPress webmaster asked a question and was chastised by a WordPress moderator. Immediately afterword another moderator chimed in and closed the topic. As a rule, if i am experiencing a problem it’s best to first Google it up and go from there. Google AMP is new and searching “amp validation errors” brought up a lot of results. There were several results posted in…

CleanTalk The Best Anti-Spam Solution For WordPress

04/05/2016 FidoSysop

CleanTalk is the Best WordPress Anti-Spam Bot Solution. Are Bad Bots eating your blogs resources up, and spamming your comments with junk? Akiasmet does a fair job, but does not have a firewall like CleanTalk to block blacklisted IPs before they hit your blog. Doc’s Place BBS has been using this exceptional script for two years now – and it’s fantastic! Plus CleanTalk is Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) compliant. This is a big plus as many WordPress plugins are not currently amp compatible. CleanTalk also supports many other CMS…