What To Do When Facebook Won’t Update Web Page Link Title and Description
It's happened to all of us who manage pages on Facebook: we create a new post with a link to a website page we've just created, Facebook grabs the title, meta description and image, and we realize the info is wrong. After the web page is corrected, no matter what we...
Social Media Image Size Chart – As of Sept 2016
Tired of having your images re-cropped in a wonky fashion by Facebook? Half a hamburger (shown above) and people with their heads missing just doesn't make sense. The charts below should help with getting your images to look the way they're supposed to on social...
Optimal Times For Posting To Social Media Simplified
While searching for the optimal times for posting to social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram), several excellent posts on the subject were discovered; however, I really needed a simplified diagram to compile the information. The diagram...
Create A Free Photo Collage, Facebook Cover Page And More!
While the tiled mosaic gallery function in Wordpress is a great thing, users of Wordpress are well aware of the limitations and lack of control over the appearance of galleries. When exact formatting of a group of images is required on a page or blog post, the...
Email Campaigns Can Cause Big Trouble For Webmasters And Website Owners
Every webmaster hears this request from their clients: “I want to send an email campaign blast to all of my customers and contacts.” The webmaster’s first question should be, “Will the email campaigns attempt to sell or advertise anything to the recipients?” ...
Compress Image Files To Improve Website Performance
Compress image files to improve website performance and make Google's PageSpeed Insights happier, too. Compression in this instance refers to non-lossy reduction of the image file size (JPG and/or PNG formats) by removing metadata, gamma information and unnecessary...
Use Images For Free On Blogs With Creative Commons
Use images for free, rather than paying for stock photography by incorporating Creative Commons (CC) licensed images into articles. One of the most time consuming things about blogging and writing articles is creating or finding images to accompany the text. And...
Speed Up WordPress Sites With Compression
Turning on compression for webservers will help speed up WordPress sites by sending less data over the network. Google's PageSpeed Insights also likes compression when evaluating the speed of websites. It's easy and very quick to do; however, make sure a backup of...
WordPress Plugins – 10 Favorites – February 2016 Edition
These WordPress plugins are installed on most all of the sites I currently manage - they're helpful and behave nicely. To reduce any possibility of site slow down and code bloat, some plugins are deactivated unless I need to use them. I’ve noted the plugins that are...