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By Michael Hawkes / Posted on24 August 2021

Adding Featured Images to WordPress feeds

In WordPress and other CMSs, a Featured Image is an image used to represent an article. Ideally, it’s unique so that each article has its own. How a Featured Image appears on a WordPress blog depends largely on the theme Continue Reading …

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By Michael Hawkes / Posted on15 August 2021

How to use feeds as a content creator

RSS and Atom feeds, as well as other types of content syndication feeds, are mainly driven by text. Search engines look to the text of blog posts to determine the content and context. Scanning the content and determining its context Continue Reading …

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By Michael Hawkes / Posted on31 July 2021

The need for feeds

I feel the need. The need for feeds.— No pilot, ever What’s a feed? Feeds have been around almost as long as web pages, but their use has waxed and waned over the years. At various times they’ve been incredibly Continue Reading …

A photo of a laptop displaying the Dashboard of a WordPress Blog. The laptop is on a wooden table. To the left of the laptop is a notebook and a pen, while to the right of the laptop are a smartphone and a cup of espresso.
By Michael Hawkes / Posted on15 July 2021

Creating a blog

In a previous post, I wrote about why someone in academia should get a domain name, and in a subsequent post I wrote about using the domain to setup personal cloud storage. This post builds on these ideas and will Continue Reading …

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