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What’s an XML sitemap? In short, it sends out an update to Google, Bing and Yahoo to let them know you have new stuff. Like an invitation to swing by and crawl your site. Here’s how to make sure that is happening!
In part 1, we learned why and how to use excerpts in our posts. In this post, we will learn how to make sure they show up on our homepage, sidebars and archives.
If you do not have an excerpt, WordPress will take the first part of your post and use it as the excerpt. This does not always make for a very good teaser. Using excerpts is simple. Here’s how to do it.
Inserting a video in your sidebar or your home pages is pretty easy. While there are some plugins out there that will do this, I prefer to use our trusty old text widget. We’ll use a beautiful YouTube video called Murmuration. Tess Wixted introduced me to this video in November of 2011. We’ll place this video into our sidebar. The same procedure can be used to embed the video on your home page.
There are more than a few ways to insert a video into your posts. I use a plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. It’s robust, flexible and easy to use!
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