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How to install the Pretty Links plugin for WordPress for affiliate links and link shortening and masking

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On your WordPress website you may use affiliate links or different links that you may want to shorten or mask with a domain link instead. For example if you have a link to a youtube video that you made for your website you may want the link to be yourdomain.com/youtube instead of youtube.com/linktext. There is a WordPress plugin that we use titled Pretty Links. This tutorial has information that may help you with installing that plugin to your website on there. You may want to make a backup of your website before you install plugins like this one.

  1. From the WordPress Admin you can click on plugins > add new in the left menu
  2. In the search bar at the top right you can type in pretty link in it
  3. That should then bring up a list of plugins with pretty links at the top of the list there
  4. You can then click the install now button
  5. Then you can click the activate button
  6. Then you can click on settings > pretty links in the left menu
  7. From that page you can look through the different settings you have available and run the pretty links tool if you want.

You can do settings on the plugin to have it shorten links or mask links when you want to.

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How to install the UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin to your WordPress website

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If you have a WordPress website it is often a good idea to make backup the website often. This tutorial will walk you through how to install a popular WordPress backup plugin UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin from the WordPress plugin page. You may want to make a backup of your website before you install plugins like this one.

  1. From the WordPress Admin you can click on plugins > add new in the left menu
  2. In the search bar at the top right you can type in updraftplus in it
  3. That should then bring up a list of plugins with updraftplus at the top of the list there
  4. You can then click the install now button
  5. Then you can click the activate button
  6. Then you can click on settings > updraft plus backups in the left menu
  7. From that page you can look through the different settings you have available and run the backup tool if you want.

You can do settings on the plugin to have it backup your website when you want it to and it can put the backup on your hosting server with ftp or even have it email it to you if you want. There are lots of settings you may want to try on it.

If you want to do a backup of your website files without using a plugin you can backup your website files manually through FTP on there. If you want to do a backup of your website database manually you can backup the database manually through PHPMyAdmin on there.

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How to add a Facebook Like Button to WordPress

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How to add a Facebook Like Button to WordPressFacebook is a powerful tool for any blogger or site owner. Today’s snack is a Tutorial that shows you how to add a Facebook Like button to your WordPress site in 3 easy steps to help your readers easily share your content.
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How to install WordPress from cPanel using Fantastico

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This tutorial will show you 8 easy steps with pictures to follow in order to install WordPress from cPanel using Fantastico.

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How to disable the Post Revision Feature in WordPress

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The Post Revisions feature in WordPress saves copies of each edit made to a WordPress post or page. It allows you to revert back to a previous version of that post/page. Sometimes, this can be very helpful, and sometimes it can just clutter your Post/Page edit screen. This tutorial will show you how to disable the Post Revision feature in WordPress or alternatively, to specify the number of post revisions.
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How to add custom pagination page navigation to WooCommerce

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How to add custom pagination page navigation to WooCommerceIf you have used the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin for WordPress, you have seen that the default Next and Previous Page links pagination page navigation is not very pretty. Today’s snack is a Tutorial that shows you how to add the WordPress plugin WP-PageNavi to a WooCommerce WordPress site in 3 easy steps to make your product archive page navigation easier to use and improve it’s look with numbered blocks instead of just next/previous links.
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