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Feel the Heat: The Best Firewall Plugins for Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

But to really protect your website against hacks, brute force attacks and the dreaded “denial of service” quagmire, all site owners and administrators should look carefully into adding a firewall via a plugin. But unlike the previously mentioned plugins Wordfence works from your own server rather than a remote proxy.

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Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 2

Byte Technology

Just grab the MonsterInsights plugin and, through it, insert Google Analytics code into your theme files (keep in mind this code will become non-functioning if you update or switch your theme, however.) Having to spend too much time scrolling around a web page to find what you want can really impact the user experience.

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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Ways to measure a podcast's success!

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What’s Your Type? Adding Custom Fonts to Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

Indeed, having the perfect fonts can mean so much to the readability of a site, and using typefaces that meld perfectly with other design elements can really make a huge impact on the user experience. At this point the easiest way to start using the fonts on your site is to install and activate the Typekit Fonts for WordPress plugin.

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Free v. Paid: What’s the Best Choice for an SSL Certificate?

Byte Technology

Should you use free plugins or paid versions? Do free themes have the same impact as paid ones? An SSL is a digital file that contains information to authenticate the ownership of a site while providing encryption of data moving between the site and users. What about web hosting?

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Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can then use plugins, redirects,htaccess files or DNS CNAME entries to get FeedBurner (and later, FeedBlitz) to serve that particular feed. Will you impacted if Feedburner closes? So if your blog is at example.com, your advertised RSS feed would be something like example.com/feed and NOT feeds.feedburner.com/example.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

Having a solid understanding of the basics covered in this guide can make a dramatic impact on the search visibility of your website. To rank for image packs you may also want to consider adding your keyword to the image file name. Interestingly, data collected from Moz suggests that organic click-through rates do impact SEO rankings.