In order to reach new heights in business, marketing is important. Similarly, Google Webmaster is important to get traffic from Google. Like all other apps from Google, a Webmaster is also a free tool. Almost all Website owners use Webmaster to have a look over the relation between their website and Google (as a search engine). Here I will be sharing a guide with you through which you easily Add your website’s sitemaps to Google Webmaster 2019. Before proceeding towards the guide, you need to create an account on Webmaster if you haven’t yet. Once you are logged in to webmaster account, you have to add your website and need to verify it. If you haven’t verified your website yet then you check our guide on "How to add a website in Google Webmaster 2019". Note: – Google Webmaster 2018’s layout and the interface was very different from Webmaster 2019 thus, it is recommended to read the guide as per your webmaster’s version. But 2019’s Webmaster has some more features than 2018’s webmaster. Now, let begin with the Guide Itself. Step 1# Login to your Google Webmaster account. The very first is to login into your Google webmaster with the
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I hope you have already tried to change your WordPress Username but somehow you couldn’t. We will be sharing two different methods through which you can change your WordPress Username very easily. Although the complete procedure is not very complex but still it needs some special tools or we can say it has some particular steps to be followed. Earlier You might not have the proper knowledge but after reading this article you will become expert of changing WordPress Username. But if you are just reading this article just for gaining some knowledge then you have to understand What are the reasons that may lead you to change the Username? Why to change Username? Security could be a reason, if you had shared your important login details with someone back in the days then, changing your Username can add a new layer of security to your Website. While Installing the WordPress, you might have opted the “admin” username and now you want to change it. Sometimes, while selling a website personal name as a “username” can affect the impression on client thus, for your client you want to change. You might want to switch your username to something more relevant
WordPress offers different ways through which you can change its password. The most convenient way to change the WordPress password is through the WordPress dashboard itself. But the problem with this method is you must have the current password with you. You can't change the password if you don’t have the current password with you. Today, I will be sharing a complete guide on how to change WordPress Password using PhpMyAdmin. Through this method, you can change the Wordpress Password without knowing the current WordPress Password. But this method needs your access to cPanel. And before proceeding with this method, you should have your cPanel password with you. So now let's begin with the guide. How to change the WordPress Password using PhpMyAdmin? This guide includes some steps. Make sure you follow all steps carefully. Step 1 Open the cPanel of your website by entering you login credentials. Step 2 In cPanel under the database section, you need to click on the phpMyAdmin option. Step 3 This step is a little bit complex and it needs your 100% attention. On the phpMyAdmin webpage, you will find some database names on the left side. You need to open your website's database
Suppose you have published a very informative article for your website or we can say you have newly created a website. You are regularly updating your website too. But Google will take time to crawl your website automatically. If you need instant results, then you have to tell Google about your site. Here in this article, I will be giving you a brief guide through which you can get your website index more often and quickly. This article is not about tricks to attract search engine; it is one step ahead of all tips and tricks, here we will be telling you what Google Webmaster is? And how to add your website to Google Webmaster in 2019? We have mentioned 2019 mainly because Webmaster recently got a new layout. What is Google Webmaster? Google Webmaster is a free tool. Google webmaster offers Dozens of helpful features which will help you to maintain the performance of your website. You will get very useful information about your website like How search engines see your website, by using which keyword visitors are coming to your website, Is there any broken link on your website, your website is affected from malware or not, sitemaps and many more features are available in Google webmaster. Hope you have understood the basics of Webmaster
So, you finally want to know the most reliable way to update WordPress plugins. The very primary method of updating plugins is to visit WordPress dashboard and then simply update plugins using a 1-click update. This procedure might seem very easy, but sometimes things got stuck in between and can create problems. Here, I have a solution to this problem. We will be sharing a method through which you can upload or update plugins easily and efficiently. I will be updating the WordPress using FTP method. What is FTP? Before beginning with the method, you should make yourself comfortable with the term FTP. FTP is a File Transfer Protocol which allows you to upload (delete, edit, preview) file from your PC to your Website. If you want to use FTP, then it’s a must for you to have an FTP Client (generally termed as “Software”) through which you can append your WordPress Website data. These FTP Clients can be either Free or Paid. For the explanation of the method, we will use FileZilla as an FTP Client. You can pick any; hundreds are available on the internet. So, let’s begin with the process. Step 1 It is most basic as
XML Site Map is something you must have if you want to rank on Google. The earlier statement was very rude and straightforward, Isn’t it? But that’s the only truth. XML Site Map acts as an indirect vital ranking factor. Having a Site Map of a Website is as essential as Updating your website regularly to maintain its worth. In this article, you will understand How essential it is to have an XML Site Map of a website? How to create a Site Map? However, before that let’s know, What actually is an XML Site Map is? XML Site Map acts as a path for google so that it can reach your website. Among Billions of Website, you need to make yours stand apart so that Google can recognize it and can nominate for its searches. XML Site Maps will be acting as a bridge between your website webpages and Google. Through this bridge, your web pages will be ranking in google more efficiently. In XML Site Map of your website, all web pages, website media will be displayed that are available your website. This will encourage Search Engines to crawl your web pages. Why XML Site Maps are Important?
Creating a private page on WordPress will allow you to hide all the information published on it form your website visitors. Private Page of a WordPress website will only be visible to those users who have access to WordPress of that particular website. Here, we will be providing you all the required steps and instructions so that you can easily create a private page on WordPress for your site. But before moving towards the procedure of creating a private page, we must know what Private page is? And how it works? What is Private WordPress Page? Private WordPress Page is not very different from the normal WordPress page. You might have noticed the visibility option on the right side of the WordPress while writing a post on your website or creating a page. By default, the visibility option is set to public that means that anything (post or page) that you are going to publish on the website can be seen to any of the views. If in case you want to add some restriction on particular information then you need to shift that information to a private page. Thus, a private page is a segment that has some restrictions
Everybody wants search engines to crawl their website as quickly as possible. But sometimes a situation arises when you don't want search engines to crawl your website, for example, your website is under construction or you are working on staging website. So under these conditions, you may don't want search engines to index your website. Because it will show your incomplete website in search results to the people who are searching for content related to your website. In this article, I will show you how to stop search engines from indexing your WordPress website. Method to stop search engines from indexing or crawling your website WordPress has an inbuilt feature which tells search engines not to index website. So In order to do this, you just need to go to Settings >> Reading and then you need to check to Discourage search engines from indexing this site. And then click on Save Changes button. Look at the image below for reference. Now search engines will not be able to crawl or index your website but if in future you want search engines to index or crawl your website again, all you need to do is just uncheck above checkbox then
WordPress 5.0 has been released and Gutenberg is the default editor in this version and it will be default editor for upcoming versions of WordPress as well. But, most of the WordPress users are still not ready for this editor as they are more familiar with WordPress classic editor. They enjoy creating blog posts and pages using WordPress classic editor. So, many people are looking for ways and solutions to disable Gutenberg to use the WordPress classic editor as their default editor. Read more
Every website should have a contact form on it so that people can contact you. They can have any purpose to contact you like they are looking to send your inquiry for your products or they want to setup a meeting. So you can understand the importance of contact form on your website. In this article I will show you that how can you add a Contact form on your website: Step 1: Install Contact Form 7 Plugin In order to install contact form plugin you need to go to Plugins >> Add New from your WordPress dashboard. Now you will be redirected to a page where you need to search for Contact form 7 plugin. So just write Contact form 7 in the search box and hit the enter button. You will see Contact form7 plugin. Click on Install and then Activate button. Step 2: Create a new Contact form After installing contact form 7 plugin you will see a Contact tab on your WordPress dashboard. Click on Contact >> Add New. After clicking Add new link, you will be redirected to a page where you will see a contact form created with some default form fields. At
WordPress powers nearly 25% of all the websites across the world. It is the first choice when it comes to creating any website whether it is e-commerce, business website, blog, educational website or online community website. Once you make your WordPress website live, you know that you have to keep up with the trend of the web development world and make changes to your website almost every year. It could be adding new features, changing the design for SEO compatibility, modification to solve issues and much more. But making changes to a live WordPress site is as dangerous as playing with fire. It may suffer downtime, face configurational issues, give rise to additional issues and all these will contribute towards bad user experience and lower SEO rank. That is where the concept of staging website in WordPress comes into play. What is Staging website in WordPress and How is it Beneficial? If you want to make changes to your WordPress website, instead of doing it on your live website, you can do it on an alternate website called staging website. A staging website is a replica of your live website that is tailor-made to implement the changes you want to
Do you want to change your WordPress password from database or PHPMyAdmin? In this article, I will explain to you that how can you reset or change your WordPress password from the database. Step 1: Login to your Cpanel and you will need to click on PHPMyAdmin. you can see PHPMyAdmin under DATABASES section. Step 2: It will take you to PHPMyAdmin from where you need to select your database. Step 3: After selecting your database, you need to select wp_users table. Step 4: Once you will click on the wp_users table it will show you the list of users. You need to select the user for which you want to change the password. Click on Edit to select the user for which you want to change the password. Step 5: After clicking edit link it will open a form. Here you need to change your wordpress password. You need to remove the value of user_pass field and replace it with your new password. You can see I have written newpassword but you can choose any password and after this, you need to select MD5 from the dropdown under Function column. MD5 is used to encrypt password using MD5 hash.
You can remove website URL field from comments form in two different ways: Method 1: Remove website URL field using functions.php Method 2: Remove website URL field using plugin Method 1: Remove website URL field using functions.php You just need to write this below code in functions.php file. function websoft_disable_comment_url($fields) { unset($fields['url']); return $fields; } add_filter('comment_form_default_fields','websoft_disable_comment_url'); After adding this below code you will see that URL field will be removed from comments form. Method 2: Remove website URL field using plugin In order to remove URL field from comments form, you need to install Remove Comment Website/URL Box plugin. After activating this plugin you will see that URL field will be automatically removed from comments box.
If you will publish a post or page in WordPress then it will be visible to visitors right away but sometimes you want to show content to specific people. So you can do it very easily in WordPress by adding a password to your post or page. After entering that password, the visitor will be able to see post or page content. These are the steps to add password to your post or page: Step 1: On the right side of the page editor you will see Publish section. There you will see Visibility option. You need to click on Edit link after Public label. Visibility is set to Public by default but we will change it to Password protected. Step 2: After clicking Edit link you will see other two options Password Protected and Private. Please see below image: You need to click on Password protected and then you need enter your password in password box and then click on ok button. Step 3: Now you will see that your page or post visibility is changed to Password protected. Now you need to click on Publish button but if you are adding a password to the existing published post
In WordPress, if you want to login to your WordPress dashboard then you need to add /wp-admin or /wp-login.php at the end of your domain i.e www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin or www.yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php then it will take you to WordPress dashboard login page. But sometimes it can affect your website security because of some reasons like anybody can come to know that you are using WordPress or hacker can try to guess your username and password and can try to hack your website. So we should change our website login page URL in order to make our website secure. We will use WPS Hide Login plugin to change URL of our login page. These are steps to change WordPress login page URL: Step 1: Firstly we will go to Plugins >> Add New. Step 2: We will search for "WPS Hide Login" plugin and then you will see this screen. Please check this image: You need to click on Install button and then Activate. The plugin is activated now we can use this plugin to change our admin page URL. Step 3: In order to change admin page URL we will go to Settings >> General tab and then scroll down. Step 4: After
It is very easy to disable plugins from WordPress dashboard but sometimes the situation will arise that you will not be able to access your WordPress admin panel. This usually happens when a plugin on your website is creating problems for you to logging into your admin area or When you see the blank white screen on WordPress website which is also called white screen of death. So under these situations, you will not be able to access your website admin panel. In order to get rid of this problem, it is recommended that you should deactivate all plugins and then activate them one by one to check that which plugin is creating the problem on your website. There are two ways to deactivate WordPress plugins without accessing admin panel: 1. Deactivate plugins via FTP 2. Deactivate plugins via Phpmyadmin 1. Deactivate plugins via FTP In this method, you can deactivate all plugins via FTP client like (FileZilla or Cute FTP) or you can deactivate all plugins from your hosting File Manager but Some hosts will not provide you the option to access file manager (WordPress hosting) so you need to deactivate it with help of FTP client. Firstly you
Hello, blogger! Do you have a great blog that isn’t getting many views? Are you striving to get traffic to your blog posts? For you, it can be very difficult not having an audience to read your blogs, however, once you have your own audience, enormous impacts will be there! Today, social media is the most powerful source for driving traffic and increasing your blog presence. Follow the below list to help you grow an audience for your blog posts via Social media 1 - Facebook: (1.32 Billion daily users on average for June 2017) Share your blog posts on your personal profile and/or your page and encourage your friends/followers to share it across their profiles/pages. Use Facebook groups that are related to your niche, share your blog posts on them, but don’t forget to read the group rules before you do the share because some groups don’t allow it. QUICK INFO: 57 percent of social content sharing activity took place on Facebook. 2 - Instagram: (200 Million daily active users on average for April 2017) Share your blog posts multiple times to increase the chance of the click through to your blog, make sure you use catchy content and
An autoresponder is a service which automatically sends out emails to the people who submit forms from your website. The main benefit of this service is that you can send a pre-written message or you can send offers as well. Contact form7 is most popular contact form plugin. So in this article, I will show you that how to setup autoresponders in Contact form7. Scroll down on your contact page and you will see Mail(2) section. Select Use Mail checkbox and then copy email shortcode [your-email] and paste it into To textbox. We need this shortcode to send autoresponders. (You can see below image for reference.) This [your-email] shortcode will catch users email which he will enter in email box while submitting a contact form. Then enter your message which you want to send via autoresponder and then click on save button. Now your autoresponder is setup. If you are facing any issue with Contact Form7 autoresponder then please comment below.
Contact form7 is one of the best and most used contact form plugin for WordPress. Sometimes you need to send emails to multiple email addresses. For example, You want that if somebody will fill contact form on your website then emails should go to departments like Sales, Marketing and Support Department. There are two methods to do this in Contact form7 and both are very easy: METHOD #1: In this method you can add multipple email addresses seprated by comma(,). You can see below image. METHOD #2: In this method you need to add Cc, Bcc to Additional Headers section. You can see this below image: So these are the two methods to send email to multiple email addresses. If you have any question or if you are facing any issue then please comment below.
There are two ways to install WordPress theme. Install WordPress theme from the dashboard. Install WordPress theme via ftp. Method 1: Install WordPress theme from dashboard The first way is to install WordPress theme via WordPress dashboard and it is very easy as well. In order to install new theme you need to go to Appearance >> Themes. You will see a list of Themes which have installed. If you want to add new a theme then you need to click on the Add New button: You can see that you can install a theme from this page and you can enter your search keyword as well. You can see that I have added blogging as a search keyword. You can see some other filters like Featured, Popular, Latest, Favorites. Afer selecting your theme you need to click on install button and then click on activate button to activate your selected theme. Now you have your new website ready with new look and feel. Method 2: Install WordPress theme via Ftp The second way is to install WordPress theme is via ftp. You need to connect to ftp via Filezilla or cuteftp whatever you want to use. Firstly you need
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