Use external cron jobs on WordPress – The right method

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This is part of our WordPress serie which is related to WordPress best-use techniques and administration. Recently we switched over to the caching plugin WP Rocket. Serving cached files directly without calling PHP required us to disable WP Cron and to switch over to an external cron job respectively to the internal cron job which is running …

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Custom css for modern facebook button

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How to get share data in Google Analytics

There are several ways to gather Mashshare share data within your Google Analytics dashboard. The easiest one is to use the add-on Google Analytics Integration. After successful installation of the add-on follow the steps below to get your share analytics. For a real-time overview of whats going on at the moment: 1 .Realtime->Events If you see there any entries …

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Varnish and Pageview Add-On

The Mashshare Pageview add-on is using a custom ajax url which is faster than regular the /wp-admin/ajax.php The path to it is yourwebsite.com/?ajaxmash=mashpvsetviews&id=2 (id depends on the id of the post which is counted) If you are using any web accelerator like Varnish make that you exclude this path from caching. Make also sure that …

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Validate Open Graph and fetch new scrape Information

What does that mean? Ìf you change the open graph description or website content afterwards (when it has been published earlier) You have to “…fetch new scrape Information”  on Facebook. Otherwise Facebook will share the old open graph description when someone is sharing the post. Why is Facebook sharing old open graph information? Facebook caches your  website’s content …

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Use a mail formular for the Subscribe Button

The easiest way to embed a subscribe form in the Mashshare subscribe slide down box is to use a third party mailing plugin like “mailpoet” or contact form plugin like “contact form 7 (cf7)” and copy its integrated shortcodes into the Mashshare settings field for the subscribe button. If you are using “mailpoet” this is …

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