Duane Blake

How to remove author sitemaps from WordPress

In the WordPress 5.5 release they have added the ability to generate a XML sitemap. XML sitemap are great because it tell search engines such as Google and Bing what pages to crawl. One of the sitemap which the WordPress core creates is a user sitemap. On a WordPress site I work on we didn’t want to use this feature, so I’m going to go through the process how to disable the sitemap.

How to remove author sitemap from WordPress

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Locked out of your own WordPress site and need to create a new user

I recently got asked to look at friends WordPress site. Nothing major just installing a few plugins and changing around the permalinks. However there was big problem it’s been a over year since she’s last logged into the site and she doesn’t know her password. The password reset email also doesn’t seem to be sending out. So I’m going to lists some methods how to get into one of your WordPress site if you locked out.

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Google analytics site search with WordPress

Google Analytics is a great tool for your site. There is loads of areas of the tool which you can learn about user behaviors. In this example we will be looking at how to hook up WordPress Search queries with Google Analytics.

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How to create a hamburger menu with Alpine Js and TailwindCss

AlpineJS is a great lightweight Javascript framework which is very similar to VueJs. It’s quick easy to get up and running. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a simple hamburger menu using AlpineJs.

How to build a Hamburger menu in AlpineJS

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Truncating lines of text in CSS using line clamp

Line Clamp is one of those tools which I wish had existed when I first started to code similar to Border-radius and Box shadow. In a nutshell what Line clamp allows you to do is restrict the number of lines to display based on property value in css.

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