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Remove Powered WordPress AMP Plugin

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Remove Powered WordPress AMP Plugin

Install AMP for WordPress

Install AMP in about 5 minutes for your WordPress site. Simply follow these steps:

1) Install the AMP WordPress plugin by Automattic

2) Activate the plugin – what it will do is append /amp on all your pages but what it won’t do is redirect mobile visitors to your /amp pages

3) Submit your AMP pages to Google e.g. you need to append an /amp/ to your usual site URL

It normally takes a day or two for your AMP WordPress pages to appear in Google.

Remove Powered WordPress AMP Plugin

Remove Powered WordPress AMP Plugin – How to remove the powered by WordPress footer in the Accelerated Mobile Pages WordPress plugin. – The plugin authors haven’t made it easy to do this but here is the answer.

You first have to create folder named amp inside your theme. (You may already have this folder.) Inside this amp folder, create a new file called footer.php.

Copy and paste everything from the AMP plugin’s footer.php template file. Currently (AMP Version 0.4.2), it is exactly this:

<footer class="amp-wp-footer">
    <div>
        <h2><?php echo esc_html( $this->get( 'blog_name' ) ); ?></h2>
        <p>
            <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://wordpress.org/', 'amp' ) ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Powered by %s', 'amp' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
        </p>
        <a href="#top" class="back-to-top"><?php _e( 'Back to top', 'amp' ); ?></a>
    </div>
</footer>


To remove “Powered by WordPress,” remove lines 4–6, or add whatever you want in there.

This new file should reside at:

wp-content/themes/yourtheme/amp/footer.php

This will ensure that Remove Powered WordPress AMP Plugin will still remain after the plugin is updated next time.

WordPress Intranet – Company Intranet

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WordPress Intranet – WordPress is the worlds most widely used Content Management Systems and is ideal as a cost effective, easy to use Company Intranet solution.

WordPress Intranet

We recommend WordPress as an Company Intranet Tool since:

  • WordPress is open source hence there are no expensive licenses or software maintenance fees to pay
  • Easy to use, quick to deploy and our Intranet sites looks great
  • Quicker return on investment
  • WordPress is the world’s fastest growing content management system and powers over 19% of the world’s website
  • WordPress is very easy to use and has an intuitive interface.  Adding new pages, blog posts, images, etc. on a regular basis is a breeze and can be done quickly.  Because the technology is so simple, time spent on formatting is greatly reduced.
  • WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software (such as Adobe Contribute or Dreamweaver). You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.
  • No more waiting for your web designer to make simple updates to your site. With WordPress Web Design, you have control of nearly every aspect of your site and can easily make those simple updates yourself.
  • Want to add an event calendar, video gallery, Twitter Feed, Facebook Fan Box, and more to your site? WordPress makes this possible with plugins, most of which are free or very reasonably priced.
  • Your Site Can Grow as your WordPress Company Intranet Grows – WordPress sites are very scalable. You can have hundreds of thousands of pages or blog posts on your site and the performance of the site will not be compromised in the least.
  • In our experience WordPress is the Best CMS
  • WordPress Support from our experienced in-house team

A well designed WordPress Intranet can empower member of your organisation to better do their job by giving them quick, secure access to accurate, relevant knowledge and information.

We know an intranet designed, managed and used in the correct way can not only enhance your employees working life and reduce risk to the business but also assist in growing your business and increasing profits.

 

GoDaddy PHP version 7 upgrade update hosting

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GoDaddy PHP Versions

GoDaddy has had lots of bad press in recent years but is still one of the big players in the hosting market.

However a few clients have come to us recently because GoDaddy is running on old and insecure versions of PHP v5.3 and PHP v5.4

GoDaddy PHP version 7

It’s a serious security risk that large hosting companies like Godaddy are running very insecure and outdated versions of PHP such as version PHP 5.3 and PHP version 5.4. They should be offering all WordPress clients the option to upgrade to PHP Version 7 which is far more secure and also much faster (which can have significant WordPress SEO benefits).

To run WordPress the recommended setup is:

  • PHP version 7 or greater
  • MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater
  • HTTPS support

GoDaddy also charges for HTTPS SSL certificates whereas it’s major competitor Bluehost offers them free to clients – a good incentive (not that we would recommend Bluehost)

Godaddy seems to be adopting an underhand sales tactic here by saying to customers that newer versions of PHP aren’t available on Web Hosting yet and if you immediately need newer versions, you have to migrate to their expensive VPS so you can install and manage your desired PHP version. Of course Godaddy does not offer any simple migration path from web hosting to virtual private servers (VPS).

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GoDaddy Security Issues

PHP 5.4 stopped receiving security updates from Thursday, 03 September 2015 – almost 2 years ago!

This means Godaddy are deliberately putting customers sites at risk by not providing newer versions of PHP.

For a hosting provider security should be a high priority and website owners are often limited in how they can secure their sites and prevent them from being exploited because of a inept hosting provider not taking security seriously

Using extremely outdated versions of core server applications such as PHP and MySQL needs to be called out by the WordPress and hosting community to prevent WordPress sites from being hacked.

Typically of big hosting providers they have no clear complaints policy and their CEO is not listed and therefore not contactable – adding insult to injury!

WordPress SSL Plugin

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WordPress SSL Plugin make the move over to SSL much easier.

Having your website use SSL is now more important than ever. SSL provides an extra layer of security and authentication protecting your website visitors as well as deterring unwanted intrusions.

SSL is also a Google ranking factor so will also help your site search engine placement.

Some hosts (e.g. Bluehost) provide SSL free to customers and this can be a nice extra incentive (not that we would recommend Bluehost).

WordPress SSL Plugin

The easiest way to setup SSL is via the Really Simple SSL plugin. Once you have your SSL certificate you can activate the plugin and it does the rest for you – updating the htsccess file and WordPress settings.

Contact us if you our team of WordPress Consultants to help add SSL to your WordPress website.

Best Council Website

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The website for Chew Stoke Parish Council in Somerset that we were commissioned to develop went live last week.

In our opinion this is our best council website yet – made easier by the stunning photography scenes available in that part of this world.

A glimpse of the new site is below:

Chew Stoke Somerset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The site is based on a WordPress Web Design that allows the webmasters to easily update core content such as events and local news.

WordPress for Schools

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WordPress is the ideal web publishing platform for schools and education organisations with limited budgets, quick turnaround times and the requirement to easily add new site functionality.

We have developed a number of WordPress Website Designs for schools and these have incorporated some of the following relevant functionality:

  • Easily maintainable school calendars
  • Subscribe to newsletter feature for school news updates
  • Class pages that can be developed and maintained by pupils but controlled by teachers

Examples of some WordPress School websites we have delivered:

Best School Website WordPress

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best School WordPress Website

WordPress Facebook Plugin

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wordpress to facebookWordPress powers more than 16% of the web, and Facebook, aspires  to be the web for its more than 900 million users. So, in that context, the integration makes quite a lot of sense for both parties.

However the integration is not for the in-experienced and involves a lot of terminology so we recommend clients contact us for help.

The benefits of the WordPress to Facebook integration are:

  • Publishing a post on WordPress will share the post automatically to your timeline
  • Link to the page will be share
  • Post to an author’s Facebook Timeline whenever a post is made public
  • Mention Facebook friends and pages. New posts will be published to the timelines of the mentioned account(s) and displayed alongside the post.
  • Like, send, and subscribe buttons can be easily added to a post to drive social distribution with custom settings scoped to your Facebook application identifier.
  • Facebook Comments Box social plugin including noscript fallbacks for easy indexing by search engines.
  • Open Graph protocol integration to help your content stand out in Facebook newsfeed, Twitter Cards, Windows 8 bookmarks, and other consuming agents.
  • Recommendations bar helps visitors discover more content on your site by recommending other articles and encouraging Like shares.

CMS Market Share 2013

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cms market share 2013

WordPress continues to be the dominant CMS with a market share of 59% for Open source solutions and continues to go from strength to strength as Drupal and Joomla start to slip away.

WordPress has an overall CMS Market share of 54% of all websites with a CMS and some 21% of all websites on the Internet and this is clearly continuing to grow and the scope and breadth of the solution begins to gain acceptance amongst corporate clients.

To obtain these figures we have taken a sample of other surveys and then worked out a median market share.

Generally the WordPress platform continues to improve with every release and is the best cms on the web.

WordPress = Best CMS

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Why WordPress?

Here our are thoughts on why WordPress is an excellent choice :

Use: User -friendly
  • WordPress is software for people .
  • True to the motto: “If my dad can publish an article with picture, then you can too! …” 
  • The WordPress admin interface is highly customisable.
Benefits: Highly Flexible
  • WordPress is renowened for its flexibility as a CMS (content management system) – don’t be fooled this is as good for amateurs as it is for pro’s
  • Perfect as a CMS. As a blog anyway. And as a forum. And as a community. And as Member site…CompanyIntranet
  • More than 20,000 free plugins available plus thousands of premium plugins.
  • What is good enough for large newspapers, universities and FTSE companies also works for small and medium businesses, clubs, organizations, churches, schools and individuals…
Benefits: No licensing fees
  • Experience the power of free and open source software. A global user and developer community to improve the system every day. And since 2004.
  • This eliminates dependence on a single vendor / developer
Benefits: safety always in focus
  • The WordPress security team are constantly updating and improving the platform
Benefits: plugins. Plugins. Plugins.
  • One of the great success stories of the WordPress ecosystem.
  • There is nothing that does not exist …
Use: distribution / Transferability
  • For WordPress, there are more developers, suppliers, agents than any other CMS
  • Almost always WordPress developers are cheaper than comparable developers for “Drupal”, “Typo3” etc.
  • The software is free and open source, and thus if you want to find someone else to manage your site then you can, easily
Benefits: Global Community
  • Multilingualism is also no problem with WordPress. 
  • And finally almost 20% of the global Internet runs on WordPress…safety in numbers and millions of other folks can’t be wrong!

WordPress School Website

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We recently completed a WordPress School Website for a primary school in the UK.

Best School WordPress Website

 

WordPress is a fantastic tool for school websites;

  • easy to use
  • no license fees
  • flexible and media content driven platform

Many schools in the UK have been provided with “Dreamweaver” by their local authorities : this is a technical, inflexible and difficult to master website solution for teachers and education. WordPress overcomes these hurdles with it’s rich and easy to use functionality.

 

 

 

WordPress Support

As WordPress experts we have experience in WordPress Web Design, WordPress setup, WordPress Hosting, WordPress plugins, themes … in fact end to end WordPress. Our WordPress Support packages are as follows: Gold WordPress Support Package – £100 per month (yearly contract) Minor changes, updates and enhancements to the website design that Titanium have developed for you […]

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