Plugins

How to view the plugins you have installed on your WordPress website

November 5, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On your WordPress website you may have plugins installed that you may want to view. You can view the plugins you have on your WordPress website from the WordPress admin on there. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you update your plugins on there.

To view the plugins you have installed on your website on there

From the WordPress admin left menu you can click on plugins
From the plugins page it lists the plugins you have installed

Then if that worked it would list the plugins you have installed on the website on there.

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How to update plugins on your WordPress website from available plugin updates

November 4, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using a WordPress website and if you have plugins installed those plugins may have updates available for them from time to time. If you have updates available for plugins that you have installed on your website you can update that from your WordPress admin. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you update your plugins on there.

You can read this post on how to view available WordPress plugin updates on there.

To update plugins from the WordPress admin updates page on there

From the WordPress admin left menu you can click on dashboard > updates
From that page you can find the plugins and view the plugins that have updates available
Then you can click on update for the plugin that you want to update

To view available WordPress plugin updates from the plugins page

From the WordPress admin left menu you can click on plugins
From that page you can find the plugins and view the plugins that have updates available
Then you can click on update for the plugin that you want to update

If that worked for you that would update the plugin on there.

How to check which WordPress plugins have available updates on your website

November 4, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On your WordPress website you may have plugins installed. If you do have plugins installed on your WordPress website those plugins may have updates available for them from time to time. There are easy ways to find out which of your installed plugins have updates available in the WordPress admin. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you update your plugins on there.

To view available WordPress plugin updates from the updates page

From the WordPress admin left menu you can click on dashboard > updates
From that page you can find the plugins and view the plugins that have updates available

To view available WordPress plugin updates from the plugins page

From the WordPress admin left menu you can click on plugins
From that page you can find the plugins and view the plugins that have updates available

To update plugins on those pages you can click on update on the plugin that has an update available and do it from those pages or you can read more information on how to update WordPress plugins on there.

How to use the Pretty Links WordPress plugin to shorten or mask links like affiliate links

October 28, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you use WordPress for your website you may use affiliate links or different links that you may want to shorten or mask with a domain link instead. One reason you may want to do this is 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. We use the Pretty Links plugin for that on this website.

This post has information that may help you with using that plugin to shorten or mask links like affiliate links on WordPress on there. If you have not installed the pretty links plugin here is information on how to install the pretty links plugin on your website. You may want to make a backup of your website before you install or use plugins like this one on your website.

From the WordPress Admin you can click on pretty links > add new in the left menu
On that page you can then add the title for the link
Then you can put in the type of redirection you want to use and 307 temporary is the default on it
Then you can put in the target url which would be your affiliate link or the youtube link if like in the example at the top of this post
Then you can use the pretty link field to type in text you want in the link like we typed in youtube in the example at the top of this post
Then you can click on the copy to clipboard button to the right of the pretty link field to copy the link to use on your website
Then you can put in notes if you want for it
Then you can click on the update button to update the link on it.

Then you can use the shortened or masked link in a wordpress post or page on your website.

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

October 28, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

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.

From the WordPress Admin you can click on plugins > add new in the left menu
In the search bar at the top right you can type in pretty link in it
That should then bring up a list of plugins with pretty links at the top of the list there
You can then click the install now button
Then you can click the activate button
Then you can click on settings > pretty links in the left menu
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.

Top 4 easy ways to make a backup of WordPress website files and database in 2019

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

When you have a website on WordPress it is often a good idea to backup your website files and database often. I have written a few different posts with different methods on how to backup your WordPress website files and database. You can do it manually or with a plugin. The plugin may be the easiest of the options if you want to do that on there. This is my list of the top 4 ways to make a backup of your WordPress website files and database.

Now you can read up on a few different ways to make a backup of your WordPress website.

How to run the WordPress importer tool to import text and images to your website

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On your WordPress website you may want to import text and images to your website from a different WordPress website or from your own website that you did a backup of. You can use the WordPress importer tool to import a backup you made of your text and images using the WordPress export tool on there. This is on way on how to do that. If you have not already done it you may want to install the WordPress importer tool first on there.

From the WordPress Admin you can click on tools > import in the left menu
From that page at the bottom of the page it says WordPress and you can click run importer
From that page you can click on the browse button
From the browse page you can find the backup xml file
When you find the xml file you can click open
From the import WordPress page there is an import author setting you do
There is an option to download and import file attachments like images to it
When you have done the settings you want you can click the submit button
When you do that it will run the import to your website on it

Then if you do that you should have imported your text and images to that website on there.

How to install the WordPress importer tool to your website

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

When you have a WordPress website you may want to use the WordPress importer tool. This tutorial will walk you through how to install a the WordPress importer tool to your website. You may want to make a backup of your website before you install plugins like this one.

From the WordPress Admin you can click on tools > import in the left menu
From that page at the bottom of the page it says WordPress and you can click install now

Then the WordPress importer tool is installed on your website. Then if you want you can run the importer from there.

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

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

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.

From the WordPress Admin you can click on plugins > add new in the left menu
In the search bar at the top right you can type in updraftplus in it
That should then bring up a list of plugins with updraftplus at the top of the list there
You can then click the install now button
Then you can click the activate button
Then you can click on settings > updraft plus backups in the left menu
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.

How to install the Classic WordPress Editor plugin so you do not have to use the Gutenberg block editor

October 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress for your website you may not like the new Gutenberg block editor with the new versions of WordPress. If you prefer the older Classic WordPress Editor you can install a plugin that will let you use that editor instead. You may want to backup your website before you update it.

To install the Classic Editor plugin to your WordPress website you can click on plugins > add new then type in Classic Editor in the search field. Then when you find it you can click on install then activate. Then when you edit pages and posts in your WordPress website it would then have the older editor instead.