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Increasing your Web Traffic using External Links from UpCity
Every now and then I like to share ways each of you can use to increase the traffic to your website. Increasing Traffic Remember that when your website is linked to from other sources, you increase the probability of more traffic being sent to it. Today, I took the...
Charles Oropallo Awarded for Sponsoring 40+ BNI Members
I have been a member of BNI (Business Networkers International) since September of 2004. It has been a great networking organization and I recommend everyone attend at least just to experience a meeting. You've everything to gain by doing so. I often remind people the...
Using All-in-One WP Migration plugin to back up your website
The All-in-One WP Migration plugin is an excellent plugin for backing up, copying, cloned or migrating your WordPress website. It's become my favorite and we use it here at CharlesWorks extensively. Issues using the All-in-One WP Migration plugin The only time we have...
Fixing a Validation Glitch on the Date Field on a Contact 7 Form
This article would apply to websites containing older code. Generally, the website was built some time back. It may use a theme and contain plugins that are no longer supported (haven't been updated in a while). The site would have had something along the lines of an...
Best Practices for Mitigating Website Hacks
We at CharlesWorks are often asked by our web clients if their site is protected from malware and getting hacked. They also want to know if there site IS hacked, whether there be a charge to fix it. The totally hack-proof website The totally hack proof website has no...
Removing the WooCommerce Product Long Description metabox
In order to remove the product long description metabox, simply add the following snippet to your website's functions.php file: function remove_pages_editor(){ remove_post_type_support( 'product', 'editor' ); } add_action( 'init', 'remove_pages_editor' ); Note: This...
How to Override the WordPress default 45 tag cloud limit
If you have a WordPress website with many tags, you have undoubtedly ran into a situation where you notice they are not always all displayed. This happened to me when adding a new tag and I noticed it was not displayed. Researching this on the Internet revealed a lot...
Gravity Forms Styling for Submit Button
I was having trouble making a nice SUBMIT button on a Gravity Form. Looking for help out on the Internet had all kinds of purported solutions, some recommending getting additional plugins and so on. Luckily, I didn't need to add any plugins! We always want to avoid...
Safe Practices for Installing WordPress Plugin, Theme and Core Updates to Your Website
Since I started CharlesWorks in 1998, it has been abundantly clear as a web developer that there are two types of web clients when it comes to site maintenance: Those who want us to do any maintenance needed as they need it Those who want to try to maintain their...
How to install PHP and the “intl” extension on a Virtualmin Debian server
Not too long ago, I wrote an article indicating Some Great Reasons to use a Local Debian Server running Virtualmin. In it, I mentioned that I had built a Debian 10 server to try out the Virtualmin control panel. Virtualmin is a control panel that allows adding of...
