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July 11, 2016 by Arun Sarathy Leave a Comment

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14 Incredibly Useful WordPress Codes to Keep Handy [PDF download]

June 26, 2016 by Arun Sarathy Leave a Comment

Here is a list of useful codes that can be used in WordPress editor and 1 bonus tip for your WordPress Dashboard:

1	<sup> tag:	this creates a superscript of letters or numbers. Especially useful when you want to show a copyright symbol like TM. Or to show mathematical notations and ‘to the power of’ numbers.	<sup>text</sup>
2	<sub> tag:	The <sub> tag helps in creating, you guessed it right, a subscript of alphanumeric characters.	<sub>text</sub>
3	<hr /> tag:	The <hr /> comes in handy when you want to insert a horizontal row in your blog posts.	<hr />text</hr />
4		The is that inevitable non-breaking space required in your blog posts. Use   in your code editor and you get an awesome line space. Similar to the <br> break tag in HTML.
5	“CTRL + K” – Keyboard shortcut	When you are in WP editor, just hit ctrl k – it will bring up the ‘insert hyperlink’ option with settings.	None. Just hit the keyboard shortcut ctrl K
6	<a> tag:	<a> tag along with href attribute helps you to insert custom hyperlinks – this is similar to inserting hyperlink option given above but through a different way.	<a href=”https://bloggeriq.com”></a>
7	rel attribute with nofollow value	If you want to avoid your SEO ranking flowing to outbound hyperlinks, use the <rel> attribute with nofollow as its value. This also sits inside the <a> tag.	<a href=”https://bloggeriq.com” rel=”nofollow”></a>
8	target blank	The “target” attributes more often accompanies the “rel” tag. This is used to have the link open either in a new tab or window. Syntax: Target=”_blank”	<a href=”https://bloggeriq.com” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”></a>
9	img tag with src attribute	Insert images from another location using the src attribute.	<img src=”https://bloggeriq.com/folder/image.png”>
10	reorder lists – restart numbering	Don’t want to restart numbering in your multiple ordered lists? Use this trick. Use the start attribute inside <ol> tag.	<ol start=”9″>
11	<code> tag	Want to show a sample code in your WP editor without accidentally inserting a functional code in your blog? Use this tag.	<code> insert code here </code>
12	<blockquote> tag	Want to highlight or quote someone? <blockquote> is the way to go.	<blockquote> insert text here </blockquote>
13	read more tag	Want to show a page breakup between posts so people can click ‘read more’ to continue reading your blog posts? Use the read more tag.	<!–more–>
14	WP Dashboard trick	Just click on the top most header toolbar in WP dashboard that has WP logo, your site name, and that greeting ‘Howdy, username’. It will immediately scroll up to the top.	None. Just hit on the WP header toolbar.
15	rel: external nofollow	This is like combining the points 7 and 8 above. Adding this to your hyperlinks not only opens it in new window but also stops the SEO ranking juice from flowing to the linked site.	rel=”external nofollow“

16. What’s your WP trick? That will be the 16th one for the world to see and learn. Give it in your comments below.

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“There is always something new to learn every day!”

How to Insert, Test and Run AdSense Page Level Ads Successfully

June 24, 2016 by Arun Sarathy Leave a Comment

Page-level ads are the new mode of displaying ads from Google AdSense which is in beta (as of June 2016). This takes care of two things for your visitors if and only if your site is mobile optimized.

Anchor/overlay ads: mobile ads that stick to the edge of the user’s screen and are easily dismissable.
Vignette ads: mobile full-screen ads that appear between page loads on your site and can be easily dismissed by your users.

These are two types of page-level ads for your website. You can activate any one or both, but I would recommend to experiment with just one and then move on to another. Activating both may reduce the user experience for your blog. However, Google has reportedly taken care of the UX piece of page-level ads.

You can activate any one or both, but I would recommend to experiment with just one and then move on to another. Activating both may reduce the user experience for your blog. However, Google has reportedly taken care of the UX piece of page-level ads.

How to Activate Page-Level Ads in AdSense:

Go to “My Ads” in your Google AdSense Dashboard

Select “Page-level ads (BETA)” under the “Content” section

Then turn on the ad formats that you want: a. Anchor ads or b. Vignette ads by clicking on the toggle button given in the Status column.

After activation, go to your blog and insert the given code in your dashboard (click on ‘Get code‘ button) by copying and pasting it in the Head tag section. You can do this by editing the HTML of your blog in blogspot blog. (In WordPress you can do this by editing your theme under Appearances > Editor.)

Next, you need to test if the ads are working by visiting your blog in a mobile device by adding #googleads to your URL. For example, if your domain looks like sample.blogspot.com then you suffix the letters like this: sample.blogspot.com/#googleads

Here’s a screenshot of how it appears on my Android SmartPhone:

At first, it took a while for the anchor ad to show up, and this is what the mobile showed:
When this happens, just wait for the ads to load, if not refresh the webpage.

Otherwise, the ads should somewhat be like these:

anchor ads in page-level ads adsense — Anchor ads in AdSense Page-level ads

vignette ads in adsense page-level ads — Vignette ads in AdSense Page-level ads

How To Add ‘Made With Love’ With Heart To Footer In Genesis – WordPress

June 23, 2016 by Arun Sarathy 4 Comments

I use Genesis Framework – which, of course, is the best framework for WordPress, available in the market, at least in my opinion and many other bloggers and entrepreneurs out there.

You might have seen on some websites where the footer has a neat sophisticated line like the one below:

How to do that – the line with a heart logo which is NOT an image?

It looks easy but we need some plugins and CSS edits to get the job done.

If you are looking to add ‘made with love’ to footer on a regular WordPress website (one that doesn’t use Genesis Framework) then you can read this blog post instead: https://bloggeriq.com/add-made-with-love-to-footer-on-any-wordpress-website-without-plug-ins/

Brian Gardner had taught this a while ago, so I am going to recall and refer to that lesson here.

How to add ‘Made With Love’ on Genesis Child Theme’s Footer

We are going to use http://ionicons.com/ for the heart icon. Open your Genesis Child Theme’s functions.php and paste the following code at the very bottom:

The next step in the process is quite simple as well.

Download, install and activate the Genesis Simple Edits plugin on your website in case you haven’t done already.

Obvious note: Just in case you know, this plugin works only if you have Genesis Framework which you can get from here.

Now add the following code in the Footer Output field as shown in the image above:

Here’s the code:

Now you should be good to go! Check the footer on this site below for a live example.

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