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February 19, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

Tip of the Day: How to Force an Immediate Update to Your RSS Feeds in WordPress

If your WordPress feeds don’t seem to be updating but remain “stuck” in the past (this can happen particularly after a migration of a site to a new server), enter this snippet into the functions.php file of your theme in WordPress:

add_filter('wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function('', 'return 60;'));

Once this is in place, visit your feed URL in a web browser, then wait (literally) a minute for your RSS feed to update and it should begin working normally.

Once you have confirmed that the feed is working, comment out the above line in order to return to the default 12 hours update cycle or replace the value of 60 seconds with something more reasonable so as not to overburden your server with RSS updates.

February 16, 2016 By admin 3 Comments

SEO secrets to rank you high: make sure Google respects your 301 (permanent) redirects

If you had to implement a bunch of permanent redirects (301) you may wonder if Google is respecting them. This is of paramount importance for your SEO rank, as Google is known to penalize content duplicates. When the SEO karma of a page is split due to duplicates, the ranking of all URLs tanks.

You may still be seeing legacy page URLs in Google Webmaster Tools as if no redirect had ever been put in place. These discontinued, legacy URLs seem to keep generating page views at a lower page rank no matter what you do. Unnerving, isn’t it? The question is: how do you find out if there is anything that can or needs to be done?

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February 14, 2016 By admin 1 Comment

How to set up SFTP access in Dreamweaver for uploads to Amazon AWS EC2 using OpenSSH key pairs

For every user of Adobe Dreamweaver comes a time when it’s no longer feasible to work offline: sooner rather than later, you need access to a remote server, (either your staging or your production server, or both). If you are among the lucky ones whose staging or production environment runs on AWS EC2, Amazon’s high-performance low-cost compute cloud, you may hit quite a series of roadblocks before you get Dreamweaver CC/CC 2017 to communicate with your server instance(s). Here is a short and sweet tutorial on how to set up SFTP access in Dreamweaver without exposing your environment to the dangers of unsecured FTP.

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