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16 articles on WordPress, Yoast SEO, Apache, Linux and front end development, newest first.
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2021
How to remove the date published and date modified schema from the Article schema (posts) and WebPage schema (pages and posts) in the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPressI was contacted a few days ago by a fellow WordPress warrior (hello Dan) asking if it’s possible to remove the date published (datePublished) and date modified…
2019
How to remove the person schema and the author property of the article schema in the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPressToday I’m going to talk you about how you can remove the person schema and the author section of the article schema in the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. I…
2018
How to Hide / Protect Email Addresses on WordPress WebsitesIt’s very common to put email addresses onto the front end of websites, and why not, it’s a useful piece of information and pretty much essential on loads of…
How to Display Facebook Page Events on Your WebsiteDisplaying your Facebook page events on your website is actually quite simple once you realise you need to use the Facebook Page Plugin/Widget, but with the…
2017
Laptop volume controls (fn keys) not working on Openbox (Debian 9 stretch – crunchbangplusplus)On a clean install of the excellent http://crunchbangplusplus.org/ linux distro (Debian 9 stretch AMD64) my Asus laptop’s volume control fn shortcut keys were…
Creating a Debian Linux bootable installation USB driveThis method of creating a Debian Linux bootable installation USB drive uses the command dd to copy the ISO image to an empty USB stick. Make sure the USB stick…
2015
mailto: links not working on Google Chrome AndroidThis drove me nuts for a good few hours. I had a normal mailto link which I was using as a simple email this page/post button/link in a WordPress template: <a…
Dropbox sync folder outside dropbox folder on linux debianIf you have a folder/directory that resides outside of the Dropbox folder you can still sync it to Dropbox
2014
Common SEO Snippets & InfoNo index a webpage: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html robots.txt examples Disallow all User-Agent: * Disallow: / Allow all User-Agent: * Disallow: Standard…
Linux rm command for removing files in directoriesDelete files from a directory: rm [options..] [file|directory] -f Remove all files in a directory without prompting the user. -i Interactive. With this option…
Upgrade Google Chrome in Linux DebianHow to upgrade just Google Chrome in Linux (Debian) To upgrade Google Chrome to the latest stable version: sudo apt-get –only-upgrade install…
Setting WordPress File/Folder Permissions in Linux TerminalTo set the WordPress file and folder permissions in Linux terminal: Go to the WordPress directory: cd /path/to/wordpress/ Change all directories to 755: sudo…
Common htaccess redirectsList of some basic htaccess redirect rules
Apache 2 Basic Terminal CommandsDebian & Apache 2 Start/Stop/Status sudo service apache2 start sudo service apache2 stop sudo service apache2 status New vhost sites sudo a2ensite…
Enter and display code snippets in WordPress custom fieldsIf you use a WordPress custom field to display code snippets like I do on this site, then you will notice that if you enter the full code with <\?php e.g…
Redirect WordPress attachment urls to the file urlBeen having clients upload PDF docs to WordPress in the usual way, WordPress then creates a post url for that file upload – no worries. Trouble is many clients…