Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.

  • Pages not working after installing or activating WordPress Multisite i.e WP MU

    Here is the solution to this problem: when you activate wp mu on your single domain, i.e. you add a subdomain through WordPress MultiSite, suddenly your pages are not showing up, and it is through the ‘404 Not Found’ Error…

    404 Error File Not Found

    First thing you have to do is navigate to:

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  • How do I get an E-mail whenever someone enters or submits the Google Forms? Here is how to do it!

    I hope you have already designed your own questionnaire in Google Drive using Google Forms and Google Sheets. I assume you have linked your Spreadsheet to your Google form to collect submitted answers from people.

    So, to generate mail or notification through mail, you have to do the following.

    Step 01
    Navigate to Spreadsheet, which is connected to your Google Forms in your Google account.

    Step 02
    Click on ‘Tools’ in Toolbar, Click on ‘Notification Rules’

    google-form-notification-rules
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  • Search Engine Optimisation for Title Tag & How it works & How it is crawled by Google, A lesson learned from my own portfolio website

    Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years,

    For the last three to two years, I have used ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage, i.e. ‘Page Name | Website Name’. This is nothing more than to explain to people that they can get a complete insight into the website by just looking at the title on Google’s search result page.

    But for the last few days, I got this result when I searched my name on Google. Yes, I was listed first when I searched for a name, i.e mandar apte,

    But the result was something like this: ‘Mandar Apte: Design Portfolio’ instead of my curated title ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’. It seems Google altered my website homepage’s title tag on their search results. I was amassed, wondering why this should happen, and then I contacted Google support for the same.

    mandar-apte-search-results-before

    & I got this answer from them…

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  • Google Adsense Doesn’t Displays Ads on Some post where Unicode or UTF8 based Indian Languages are utilised, I found it why it happens.

    Update: 14th December 2014
    Google AdSense Now supports Websites in Indic Languages like Hindi.
    So, if your website is in Hindi, you should be able to fetch AdSense Ads now.
    See Image below:

    AdSense Now Supports Hindi

    I have a few blogs in English & few others that utilise my mother tongue, i.e. Marathi…

    & It was weird that Ads on my Marathi Blog wasn’t showing Ads at all, All ad slots were appearing blank…

    I even checked the original Adsense ad code back & forth, even rechecked my website’s HTML code, I even revalidated my HTML Code with w3c standards but found no errors, then I reported it to ‘Google Support’ but no use…

    But I found the answers…

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  • WordPress Installation Security & Performance Boosting with easy .htaccess hacks.

    I am writing it down to help you secure your website & boost your WordPress website performance with this simple .htaccess hack.

    Implement or copy-paste this code in .htaccess in your root of WordPress installation to secure wp-include only files.

    # Block the include-only files.
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^wp-admin/includes/ - [F,L]
    RewriteRule !^wp-includes/ - [S=3]
    # RewriteRule ^wp-includes/[^/]+\.php$ - [F,L]
    RewriteRule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php - [F,L]
    RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F,L]
    
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  • After creating WordPress subdomain multisite blog Adsense ads on subdomain blog doesn’t get registered & Data in Analytics & Adsense doesn’t match…

    I have been using WordPress CMS for the last year or two & integrated Adsense ads & analytics without any errors or problems.

    But just after creating a WordPress Multi-Blog System with Subdomain, I started facing problems because my pages were not getting registered or Adsense ads clicks were not getting registered, so I was losing money and analytics data count.

    But after a few months, I found the solution; I got my analytics code rectified & all Adsense ads clicks started getting registered & my analytics code started working again,

    A few suggestions before starting: don’t follow idiot blogs that don’t follow Google’s Rules.

    So here are the steps to integrate the WordPress Multi Blog System with Google Analytics & Adsense.

    Step 01
    Check analytics code
    Go to: All Accounts > Account List > Admin > (Your Preferred Account) > Properties > (Your Preferred Website) > Tracking Code > Section Called ‘Website Tracking’ > Go to Advance Tab > Choose ‘One Domain with Multiple Subdomains’

    Now copy that underneath code & paste it to your WordPress theme…

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  • Useful Free Services for Web Designers

    This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another.

    Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’

    It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System)

    As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS:

    The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for domain names (which are easier to understand and utilize when accessing the internet) into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide.

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  • Essential Plugins to have in your every new WordPress installation

    Here are a few essential WordPress plugins that every new website running WordPress should have in their arsenal…

    WordPress Plugin 1
    Akismet
    Akismet comes installed with every new WordPress installation, ‘Akismet filters out your comment and track back spam for you so that you can focus on more important things.’

    WordPress Plugin 2
    FD Feedburner Plugin
    Free plugin to redirect all your comments & RSS feeds to FeedBurner, ‘Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without modifying templates, setting up new hidden feeds, modifying .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. Instead, all existing feeds become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Tell the plugin your Feedburner feed URL, and you’re done.’

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  • Hello WordPress!!!

    After Searching & Learning a lot on WordPress.org & other websites I started building on WordPress fundamentals…

    This is my Actual First Post in my Articles blog…!!!

    I decided to express my thoughts here, on subjects related to art & design

    Let’s see how my blogging goes…!!! I Hope it will be helpful for peoples…

  • Hello world!

    Hi All,

    I have just started blogging & showcasing my work under my domain name…

    I hope peoples like you will love my website & will follow my posts…

    I hope you thoroughly enjoy my design portfolio & artworks.

    Thanking You,
    Mandar Apte