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How to surface old posts on your WordPress site

If you have an old post on your WordPress site that you think deserves greater recognition then an age-old way is to modify the published date, pushing to the top of your blog. But this isn’t a great way to do it – links can be broken (WordPress is great at directing URL changes to the new location but it’s not infallible), sitemaps may not update correctly and, well, Google is unlikely to appreciate it, as far as SEO concerns.

Instead, some smart coding changes will allow you to easily mark posts as note-worthy and have them listed at the top, all without changing any URLs.
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7th April 2017
What were the marketing companies thinking?

In the last week there’s been a spate of half-arsed attempts at marketing by leading companies which, at their worse, are racist. Of course they all deny trying to offend but I really have to wonder not only what went through their mind when they came up with their ideas but why nobody, at any stage, stopped them.
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6th April 2017
The New Amazon Fire TV Stick

The reason I purchased the new Amazon Fire TV Stick was because of its unique new shape…

Which bit goes into the HDMI port?

Obviously, this isn’t the case. This is a summary box that appeared in my Google Inbox, which obviously used the wrong image.

5th April 2017
Why the Cadbury Easter Story is Fake News

In the last couple of days social media has been outraged by the religious desecration of Easter by Cadbury – a company that’s not even now British owned.

The Church of England has accused the National Trust of “airbrushing faith” after it dropped the word “Easter” from its annual Easter egg hunt.
The Telegraph

As you can see from the image at the top of this post Cadbury have, indeed, renamed the event.
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4th April 2017
Designing WordPress Plugin READMEs for the new directory

The WordPress.org plugin directory has had a massive overhaul and, as a result, plugin information is now shown differently to before. For plugin developers, therefore, a tweak to how you present your README (and associated assets) can ensure your plugin is presented better.
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3rd April 2017