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As I mentioned here and here, both Google and Bing now give mobile-friendly websites an extra boost in their search engine rankings.
That’s why I strongly recommend that you add a mobile-friendly theme to your blog if you haven’t done so already.
If you think your blog might already be optimized for mobile, you can find out for sure by typing your blog’s URL into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test tool.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, May 24, 2022
• Create a Recovery Flash Drive for your Chromebook
• Q&A: What does it mean to ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone?
• Q&A: How can I find out which processor my Mac has in it?
• The ten greatest inventions of Nikola Tesla
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Thursday, April 28, 2022
• Q&A: How do I disable GPS tracking on my iPhone?
• How to disable the ‘Autocorrect’ feature in Windows 11
• An easy way to fool burglars into thinking you’re at home
• Video biography of Jana Jae, “The girl with the magic blue fiddle”
Question from Melanie: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question I have about my WordPress blog.
Is there any way to hide a category from the home page?
In other words I want to keep the posts in this one specific category from showing up on the main page of my blog.
I’ve searched the settings pages from top to bottom and I can’t find a setting to hide a category from the home page. If there is one can you tell me how to find it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Carrie: I have a WordPress blog that averages around 2200 visitors a day.
When I first started this blog the pages loaded very quickly, almost instantly. But now it takes them forever to load, often as long as a minute or more.
I’ve read everything I could find about how to make blog pages load faster and so far nothing has helped.
I’ve cut back on my images quite a bit and optimized the ones I’m still using. I cut the number of WordPress plugins I was using from 16 to 5.
I even ran a malware scan in my blog like you recommended in this post.
I’m at a loss as to what I’m doing wrong. Do you have any idea what could be making my blog load so slowly? [Read more…]