How to change your post slug in WordPress for good SEO
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How to change your post slug in WordPress for good SEO

If you have configured your WordPress blog to display permalinks, WordPress will automatically generate a post slug using the title of your post. However, this post slug tends to be very long if you have a long title. Good SEO dictates that you keep your post slug as short as possible and you can do this by removing some stop words.

How to Add Text before Post Content in WordPress
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How to Add Text before Post Content in WordPress

The benefit of using WordPress to power your blog is that you don’t need to edit any PHP files and use thousands of ready themes available for free. If you’re like me, you’d prefer to keep away from major editing of the theme files and prefer to use the right assortment of plugins to get the job done. If you’re looking to add text before post content in WordPress, you can either edit your theme files or check out Add to All, a plugin I released a while back.

Giveaway Results: Free WordPress Themes Provided by ThemeFuse
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Giveaway Results: Free WordPress Themes Provided by ThemeFuse

Thank you for everyone who participated in the ThemeFuse WordPress theme giveaway. Below are the three winners of the same. Aakarshan Theme: NEWSSETTER devnullius Theme: Envision Gio Theme: Envison ThemeFuse will be contacting you shortly with the details on how to receive your theme.

Intro to Screen Options in WordPress Admin screens
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Intro to Screen Options in WordPress Admin screens

Two days back I took the decision to move from All in One SEO to Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. WordPress SEO automatically adds several new columns to the posts admin screen. Coupled with the columns that Jetpack adds, along with those added by my Top 10 and Where did you go from here plugins, I ended up with the post title column being one character long!

How to prevent CSRF vulnerability in WordPress plugins and themes
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How to prevent CSRF vulnerability in WordPress plugins and themes

Recently the folks at Secunia contacted me regarding a vulnerability in my plugin Contextual Related Posts. Contextual Related Posts is a powerful plugin for WordPress that allows you to display a list of related posts on your website and in your feed. The plugin comes with a tonne of options and inbuilt caching that can possibly increase user retention.

How to delete unused or less used post tags in WordPress
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How to delete unused or less used post tags in WordPress

If you’ve been running a multi-author blog like us, over a period of time, you’ll see your list of tags growing exponentially. When I reviewed the number of tags on Techtites today, I noticed that this was well over 1,100 tags! So, I went into the Tags interface and immediately realised that I’m going to spend an hour just deleting and cleaning up tags.