Whitney Krape

Category: Wordpress

  • WordPress 4.4 Sidebar Naming

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    With WordPress 4.4 rolling out a few issues have come up around sidebars and widgets but one fix is not immediately obvious. When adding a sidebar, the naming previously was not case sensitive but it is now. The example below would not work: register_sidebar(array( ‘name’=>’Homepage Widget’, ‘description’ => ‘Main Area on the Homepage’, ‘id’ => ‘homepage’,…

  • Fix Facebook Fix Plugin and Facebook Meta Data

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    There is an awesome plugin out there http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fix-facebook-like/ which fixes errors that can crop up with incomplete Facebook Meta Data. Basically when Facebook goes to submit a Like they attach a lot of information to it such as a description, link, type, so on. This data is what ends up in Facebook Insights (among other places…

  • Hide Google Analytics when Logged into WordPress

    Hide Google Analytics when Logged into WordPress

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    Another quick but helpful tip. Most sites use Google Analytics to track visits, pageviews and overall traffic but if you are constantly updating a site you can end up wildly skewing your analytics with constant refreshes. To avoid this, you can go into Google Analytics and add an IP Filter: However this doesn’t help much…

  • Quick fix for rel=”category tag” in WordPress

    Quick fix for rel=”category tag” in WordPress

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    Here is a quick tip for helping WordPress, WordPress 3.2 specifically, with the HTML5 spec. HTML5 spec says that only certain rel types are allowed and WordPress’ “category tag” isn’t one of them. Fortunately I found a good bit of code here http://smalldiary.com/wordpresshow-to-add-nofollow-to-category-links.html which strips out the current rel=”category tag” and adds a rel=”nofollow” as…