How to Add Reading Time to Your Blog Posts using PHP Code

If you would like to add a reading time to your blog posts, you can install and activate the Read Meter plugin, which works just fine. I was earlier hoping to find a no-plugin solution, and eventually found a way to do it using code.Unfortunately, it still requires me to download the WPCode plugin to insert the PHP code. So, I still end up with 1 more plugin on my website. :pThis is how it looks.If you are interested in using a bit of code for the fun of it, here is a step-by-step guide to do so

How Fast Is Your WordPress Dashboard? Help!

How fast is your WordPress dashboard? How long does it take to open a new page or new post? For me, working on my website here for the past few years, the norm has been about 25 seconds to open a new page or new post and around 10 seconds to wait for saving a change. And then, whenever I made changes for 4-6 times, saving no longer works where the top right corner doesn't show the "Saved" status. I had to close all my working tabs relating to my website and then relogin again via Site Manager.

What Causes My Google Search Console Traffic To Spike Up 800%?

My website practically "died" a few times. It first died maybe around late 2022. And then it revived around Sep 2023 and died again in Mar 2024 (6 months). After 9 months from 18 Dec 2024, traffic started to spike and it has gone up in unprecedented ways for this site. By no means this website is high traffic, but it is nice to see the "pulse" coming back. :pAnd it spiked by approximately 800% to date from an impressions point of view.Below shows the GSC traffic of my website for the last 16 mo

Celebrating my 100th Blog Post Target on my Website

Penning down a milestone here at Wealthy Affiliate that I have reached after a few years here. I have finally completed my 100th blog post on my website today. It has been quite a journey. When I first joined, my personal coach was kind enough to hold a video call with me to show me the way. In that call, he guided me to aim for 100 blog posts to gain traffic... within 6 months.But that was in... 2020. Truth is, as anyone can imagine from the above, I am much slower in writing my blogs than mos

Wealthy Affiliate Email Hosting Server is Functioning Again - A Bad Experience

Perhaps not many members are aware that our email server was down from 18 Oct to 2 Nov (16 days). Or perhaps I didn't follow enough members to know the shared "pain", since we are all on shared hosting.Webmail works intermittently where you can still send emails out, sometimes. But for those using email clients like MS Outlook or Thunderbird, any email that you send using your domain email will just not get delivered to the recipient.I used my domain email account quite frequently and it had be

The Fight against Copyright Infringement

It has been a year long fight for me. My blog contents have been fully copied over to a website(s) without my permission. The infringing website has been copying contents from multiple websites of my niche.I wonder what is the true intention for it to do so. On the surface, it may seem like a good idea to consolidate all the articles in one place, but this is outright copyright infringement. And I believe this is hurting the SEO and ranking of all the original content owners.I asked ChatGPT fo

Exciting 2022 with Wealthy Affiliate Premium Plus!

Looking forward to 2022 having taken up the Wealthy Affiliate Premium Plus membership! It is like buying a new car, I guess. Have a quick play around with the Jaaxy Enterprise, and that feeling is fantastic, like changing from riding a bicycle to driving a car (whatever model works, or maybe an XPENG P7).And I am looking forward to the Premium Plus classes to learn more from various experts to improve my knowledge and take better actions. It should cover most of my training allocation for the y

How To Setup Comment Reply Notification to Improve Engagement with Your Readers in Your Website.

Hello Everyone!Do you notice that when your readers comment on your blog post, and you reply to their comment, there is no way for them to know that you have done so? By default, WordPress does not have this feature. After asking around, I have got my website set up such that whenever my readers comment on my blog post, they will get a notification in their email after I reply.I believe this should help in our engagement with our readers.So this post is to share with you what I have implemented

How to Change to GeneratePress Theme

In this post, I would like to share the steps I took to change my theme to the GeneratePress Premium theme and the "issues" I faced.I hope this post may help fellow WA members now or in the near future who may be in a similar situation as I am. For my existing website, I have been using a theme call Article Lite which has a minimalist look. I like the look and feel, but the PageSpeed Insight is usually on the low side during the first load test. GeneratePress always has a good reputation for it

One Year with Wealthy Affiliate

I had crossed my 1-year old "birthday" with Wealthy Affiliate yesterday. It also means I will soon need to renew my membership. *chuckle* I suppose it is just customary to write a blog post to document down my experience here. Being in Wealthy Affiliate is probably the best starting place to learn the ropes of affiliate marketing. Not just that, it is also a place to learn the foundation of the entire spectrum of digital marketing. Of course, I have not been anywhere else to learn digital marke