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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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WordPress 4.8: What’s New and Notable in the Latest Release

Byte Technology

And keep in mind that, unless you enjoy the ease and peace of mind of being on a managed hosting service, you’ll have to manually initiate the update (after creating a complete backup of your site first). First there’s the Image Widget, which allows users to add a picture to a sidebar without having to use a plugin or write custom HTML.

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14 Ways to Grow Podcast Downloads (in 2020)

Whole Whale

Embedding your episodes on other relevant pages on your site is a way to capitalize on existing traffic. Make your full pod player embed available for partners to add to their sites. This will give them more functionality and engaging content that doesn’t force people to leave their site and it gives you downloads.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress plugins, such as SocialSnap or Yoast , allow you to easily set up Twitter Cards for your website and blog, but if your site is not built using WordPress, your website developer will need to customize your website and blog to enable Twitter Cards. Twitter Spaces.

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Six Advanced Facebook Page Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

First impressions are important on social media sites, and this page sends a clear message that CMU gets Facebook and is taking it seriously. If your organization blogs via WordPress.org, there is a Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress.org Blogs. 2) Create a customized Tab for your default Landing Tab.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

SpamBayes — Trainable anti-spam plugin for Outlook (may work with other clients as well): [link]. Koyote Free CD — Ripper and Free Audio Converter: [link]. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. ScreenHunter Free — Screen capture program: [link].

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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