How to Fix the Sidebar Below Content Error in WordPress

So you’re clickity-clacking away on your keyboard, working on your WordPress website, when suddenly your sidebar appears below your content where it shouldn’t be. Worse still, there’s no clear error message. Zeus’ beard! What happened? Did your theme implode?? Before you get angry and rip your shirt off, Hulk-style, or tear your room apart in a […] View original post at …

Give Brute Force Attacks the Boot with Defender’s New IP Lockout Features

Say good riddance to frustrating and unrelenting brute force attacks with Defender’s all-new IP Lockout features. The latest version of our comprehensive WordPress security plugin now protects your login page from brute force attacks, monitors 404 errors and automatically locks out any unwanted or suspicious behavior. On top of that, it can also permanently ban […] View original post at …

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Post Type Templates in WordPress 4.7

WordPress 4.7 has delivered some fantastic new enhancements to the CMS’s template system. Templates have now been expanded to include all post types, allowing developers to create more nuanced themes and at the same time allowing site owners to manage content more easily. But how does it all work? In this article, I’ll show you how […] View original post at …

How to Give Away a Free Ebook (and Get More Subscribers) with WordPress

If you like ebooks, you can get a boatload of them by signing up for newsletters. That’s because offering a free ebook download as an incentive for signing up for a mailing list is a time-tested strategy to (hopefully) boost mailing list opt-in rates. There’s a good chance you either use this strategy or have […] View original post at …

10 Ways to Find Trending Topics and Ideas for Your WordPress Blog Posts

If you want to write articles about trending topics, then trying to keep up-to-date with everything happening in your niche can be a full-time job in itself. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques available that can help make this process easier. Content about trending topics is beneficial because you know that what you’re writing about is […] View original post at …

Repairing Corrupted, Broken or Missing Files and Databases in WordPress

Have you found that your WordPress site’s on the fritz and all you can say is “I didn’t do anything, I swear!?” Yet, you see errors that say your files or database are broken, missing or corrupted. Anything from posts and categories sporadically disappearing and reappearing to error messages like: “Warning: require_once(path/to/file.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open […] View original post at …