Google Search Consile Error - Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’

Sitemaps are important from SEO perspective. If you have installed the WordPress plugin Google XML Sitemaps, and you have submitted a link to Google via the Google Search Console, you might receive an email from "Google Search Console Team " saying that "your site is affected by 1 new Coverage related issue - Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’". Here is how to resolve it.

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How to add cookie consent notification and cookie policy page to WordPress website ?

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor.

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How to stop spam subscribers on WordPress email subscribe form?

Email subscription forms are very essential for any website to let visitors subscribe to new contents. Email subscription forms will also let website owners collect emails which can be used for online marketing. However, mail subscribe forms may also attract a lot of spam subscribers. In this post, we shall see how to stop spam subscribers on WordPress email subscribe form using free plugins.

Before we discuss how to stop spam subscribers, let's discuss briefly how to include a Subscribe Form in WordPress.

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Useful WordPress PLugin to resolve HTTPS insecure content and mixed content warnings on WordPress

Nowadays, most recent browsers expect websites to have HTTPS in the URL, meaning SSL certificate installed on server, which makes websites which used to be accessible over simple, insecure HTTP protocol to more secured HTTPS. In one of the previous post -I posted about "How to fix partially encrypted/mixed content errors after switching from HTTP to HTTPs (SSL)". In this post, we shall discuss particularly on "How to resolve HTTPS insecure content and mixed content warnings on WordPress Websites?"

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Useful WordPress Plugins for Admin User Interface Customization, Maintenance Mode etc.

WordPress is a pretty easy to use Content Management System (CMS) for blogging and for development of various kinds of websites. WordPress after installation can be used as is pretty easily but there are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that some users don’t need to see or use. Requirement to customize the admin pages might arise to hide certain things that are not required to be displayed to other users granted access to manage the website- such as Authors, Editors and Contributors etc. For example WordPress by default shows some default widgets such as WordPress news in the Dashboard area. This may not be required by some to be shown to Authors/Editors. Similarly, admins may like to hide some post meta-data as too many data can be overwhelming to some. Admins can decide what is appropriate for their users to see or not. For all such requirements, there are plugins available for customization of Admin User Interface.

Some useful WordPress Plugins for Admin User Interface Customization

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How to edit or hide "Thank you for creating with WordPress" link in WordPress admin pages?

If you are a WordPress website admin, you might have noticed that there is a link in every admin page - "Thank you for creating with WordPress"  - at the bottom. Now if you have created website using WordPress, it is okay to give a little credit. But this link is visible only to admins and not to visitors. So it is actually useless. In this post, we shall see how to change or edit the "Thank you for creating with WordPress" link in WordPress admin pages.

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How to Disable or Hide WordPress Dashboard Widgets?

If you have a WordPress website installed, you might have seen that there are some default widgets on the WordPress dashboard as shown in the screenshot above. The WordPress dashboard is the landing page right after an admin logs in. The default widgets (as of WordPress version 4.8 ) are - "At a glance", "Activity", Quick Draft" and "WordPress events and news". There may also be some other widgets available by default from plugins we installed. In this post, we will see how to disable or disable unnecessary widgets from the WordPress dashboard.

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Display YouTube videos in a gallery in WordPress website and how to get YouTube API Key

YouTube Videos Gallery in WordPress

There may come time when we need to show YouTube videos on websites. As most of us may already know, we can easily embed YouTube videos in web pages by simply copying the YouTube embed code from a particular YouTube video and put it in web page to display the YouTube video. Similarly, we can show YouTube library.

In this post, we shall discuss how to add a YouTube videos gallery in WordPress website that I did for one project recently. The requirement is to post videos on a YouTube channel and show the same to the WordPress YouTube Gallery to display.

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How to hide featured image on single WordPress posts and pages content?

The 'featured image' feature in WordPress is a way to assign a separate image to be displayed as post thumbnails in post feeds such as recent content, related content, category posts, etc. But there are times when a developer may want to hide the featured image on individual posts and pages, show on some posts and not on others. In this post, we shall see how to hide featured image on WordPress single posts and/or pages content.

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Must Have Free WordPress Plugins For Any WordPress Site To Get Going

WordPress, which started as just a blogging system, has evolved to be used as full content management system (CMS). A fresh installation of WordPress is just enough to get going but eventually you would need to install plugins to extend the functionality of the WordPress. WordPress is Open-Source and there are thousands of plugins and widgets and themes available to extend the functionality of WordPress, some of which are free and some are premium ( paid).

In this post, we shall discuss some of the must-have Free WordPress plugins necessary to get going with any WordPress sites.

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WordPress: Configure Captcha for Contact Form 7 Wordpress plugin

By far, Contact Form 7 could be the most popular contact plugin for WordPress platform. If we check the plugin's page, there are lot installs and really positive reviews. If you are looking for a contact form plugin, get Contact Form 7. I am also using the same for all websites done for clients on WordPress platform. 

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
- From Contact Form 7 Page

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Free Responsive Mobile Menu Plugin For WordPress

WordPress Plugin for responsive menu

With the increasing use of mobile phones, there is a lot of importance now on responsive web design. In the recent years, there is a lot of emphasis on responsive web design, so that the experience on mobile devices is smooth and user friendly. Keeping that in mind, it is better to have a responsive menu for mobile users instead of the default menu layout even for our WordPress sites. Luckily, there are responsive menu plugins out there for WordPress! There may be a lot out there, but in this post, we'll see one particular WordPress plugin that will enable responsive menu for mobile devices for a WordPress website.

While some WordPress themes takes care of responsive menu in their template design itself, most themes may not. For this example, I am using one of the default WordPress themes - Twenty Eleven. We will see how the WordPress menu looks like on mobile and how the menu is neatly displayed responsively after installing the plugin.

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