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What is Featured image in WordPress?

April 20, 2018 by Hyma Leave a Comment

Featured image is a frequently used term in WordPress Glossary. In this post will check about the Featured image in WordPress, enabling support for Featured image, changing the post thumbnail sizes and How to add Featured image in WordPress.

What is Featured image in WordPress?

Featured image (sometimes called as post thumbnail) is a theme feature which allows developers to chose and add a representative image for post, page and custom post types.

A featured image represents the content, mood or theme of the post. A post can have a single featured image.

How to enable support for Featured image:

To add Featured image Support to a WordPress Theme, Login into your WordPress dashboard and go to Appearance > editor. Now click on function.php file and add below code and save the file.

add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

Now, Featured image Support enabled to your WordPress Theme. Go to post edit screen of any post and click on screen option. Now you’ll find Featured image option there. Make sure to enable Featured image option by simply clicking on the checkbox in screen options.

Set the Post Thumbnail Size:

The default image sizes of WordPress are a thumbnail, medium, large and the original size. WordPress allows you to change the media settings under WordPress settings that will affect newly uploaded images.

Once you uploaded the images, WordPress will store the original images without doing any modifications. After it becomes an attachment when it is inserted into any post, the system will modify the dimensions to the original image as per media settings.

In order to change the media settings, go to settings >> Media in WordPress dashboard and configure the image sizes as per your needs.

How to add a Featured image to your WordPress post?

To add a Featured image to your WordPress post, First login to your WordPress dashboard and follow these steps.

Beginners Guide to Google Search Console:

March 28, 2018 by Hyma Leave a Comment

Google Search Console formerly known as Google webmaster tools is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain the presence of your site in Google search results. This Google Search Console Beginners Guide will help to know How to Submit Website to Google Search Console and how to maintain your site’s presence in Google search results.

Google Search Console:

Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain your site’s presence in Google search results. Search console lets you easily monitor your website traffic, optimizing your ranking, in some cases resolving server errors, site load issues and security issues.

Google Search Console Features:

It has the tools that let webmasters can

Submit the sitemap to Google and check if there any errors with sitemap
Maintain and resolve spam or malware issues
Submit new content for crawling and remove content from Google if you don’t want to show in search results
Get a list of internal and external pages that linked to the website
Can check mobile site performance
Write and check a robot.txt file that helps to discover website pages

After launching your website you need to submit your website to search engines in order to index your website. Google Search engine is the most used search engine in the world. Submitting your website to Google helps you to index your website easily and fast also helps to increase website traffic.

How to Submit Website to Google Search Console:

Step 1: Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and log in with your Gmail account.

Gmail account is mandatory in order to connect your website to Google search console. If you don’t have, create one for free.

Step 2: After login to your Google account, type your website URL and click on “Add A Property” button in order to add your website.

Step 3: Now you need to verify your website. Google offers so many methods to verify your website. Simply choose the option and verify your website.

Verification Methods:

HTML File Upload:

You can verify your website ownership by uploading the HTML file to your website. You can use this method to verify your website if you’re able to upload files to your website root directory.

To use this method, choose HTML file upload method on the verification details page. Now you’ll be asked to download the HTML file. Download it and upload the HTML file to your website without making any changes to the file. After uploading the HTML file, come back to Google Search Console and click on verify button to verify your ownership.

Who is Editor in WordPress?

March 9, 2018 by Hyma 2 Comments

This post is the part of WordPress Glossary terms. The Editor is another term in WordPress glossary and lets check Editor role Permissions and limitations within the WordPress website.

Who is Editor in WordPress?

WordPress comes with a built-in user management system that allows you to create a single user website to multiple user websites managed by an administrator. Every user has its own predefined roles with own limitations.

The term Editor refers to a user role in WordPress having access to create, edit, publish and delete posts including other user’s posts.

Editors can edit the comments published on their posts. They can moderate, approve and delete comments. A user with editor role can upload the files and images. They can also manage categories, links and custom taxonomies.

Editor Permissions:

Create, edit and publish the posts and pages
Delete posts and pages of their own including private post and pages
Delete posts and pages of other users including private post and pages
Edit posts and pages including other users
Manage categories and links
Moderate, approve and delete comments
Upload the files and images

What is Database in WordPress and How to Manage WordPress Database?

March 7, 2018 by Hyma Leave a Comment

A database is an organized collection of data. It is a software used to store, organize and retrieve information. A database structure stores data in a tabular format.

WordPress Database:

WordPress uses MySQL as its database management system. MySQL is a software used to create databases. MySQL is an open source relational database management system used by high profile web properties like Facebook and Youtube.

You require MySQL to install the WordPress on web hosting. All hosting providers offer MySQL in their hosting packages.

During the WordPress installation, it asks you to provide the information like database name, host, username and password. WordPress uses this information to create the tables in your database and stores installation data in tables.

A default WordPress installation creates 12 tables inside your WordPress database. Each table contains different sections, features and functionality of WordPress. Following tables will be created by a default WordPress installation.

WordPress Database Tables:

wp_commentmeta: This table contains comments Meta information about the comments that are posted on WordPress website. It contains meta id, meta key, meta value and comment id.

wp_comments: This table contains comments that are posted on WordPress website. It contains comment author, author URL, author IP, comment date, content post ID etc.

wp_links: This table contains information related to links that entered into the links feature in WordPress.

wp_options: This table contains WordPress admin settings.

wp_postmeta: This table contains post Meta information about the posts and pages that are posted on WordPress website. It contains meta id, meta key, meta value and post id.

wp_posts: This table contains posts and pages that are posted on WordPress website. It contains post name, title, author, status, content, date, type, revisions etc.

wp_terms: This table contains posts categories. WordPress has a powerful taxonomy system, which is used to sort and group the publishing content into sections called terms. Categories and tags are the taxonomies and individual taxonomies are called terms. These terms are stored in this table. It contains term name, slug, group and ID.

wp_termmeta: This table contains term Meta information.

wp_term_relationships: Posts are associated with categories and terms from the table wp_term and this table maintains that relationship.

wp_term_taxonomy: This table describes the taxonomy for the term entries in the wp_terms table.

wp_usermeta: This table contains user Meta information. It contains meta id, meta key, meta value and user id.

wp_users: This table contains user’s information. It contains the username, email, ID etc.

How to add Amazon Affiliate links and products on WordPress websites using Associates Link Builder Plugin? – Beginners Guide

March 5, 2018 by Hyma Leave a Comment

Amazon launched its official WordPress Plugin called Associates Link Builder. This plugin helps you to create and add Amazon affiliate links and products easily on your WordPress Website. Check this beginner’s guide to know How to add Amazon Affiliate links and products on WordPress websites using Associates Link Builder Plugin easily.

What is Amazon’s Associates Program?

Amazon’s Associates Program is one of the best affiliate programs that enables its users to join, refer and earn commission on every sale. An affiliate user can select any kind of product from available categories and refers to its users. Amazon pays up to 15% commission on every sale to their affiliates.

To get started with Amazon’s Associates Program, you need to create an affiliate account. Once your application is approved, you need to add the product unique tracking link on your website. You’ll receive a commission when the person clicks on your referral links and buys the product.

By now, I assume you have already created Amazon Associates account. If not, check this beginners step by step guide on how Amazon’s Affiliate Program works and How to Sign up for Amazon’s Affiliate Program.

You can start earning by promoting Amazon products on your blog once your application is approved.

You can start making money with Amazon Associates by placing their any link type on your website. Amazon offers various links formats and Publishers can pick any ad link type based on their needs.

Amazon associate program offers a variety of tools to create affiliate links which helps to build the links easily from Amazon associate programs dashboard. Check this post to create Amazon Affiliate Links from Amazon associate programs dashboard using a variety of tools.

Amazon has launched its official WordPress Plugin called Associates Link Builder for its WordPress users to create and add Amazon affiliate links and products easily from WordPress dashboard. Let’s check.

How to add Amazon Affiliate links and products on WordPress websites using Associates Link Builder Plugin:

In order to use Associates Link Builder Plugin, first, we need to install and configure the plugin.

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What is Featured image in WordPress?

What is Featured image in WordPress?