The simple way to enable Wordpress post by email on a self hosted website (yahoo,gmail,exchange,pop,imap)

ISSUE: I want to be able to email my posts into an email address and have them post automatically to my Wordpress site.

There are a tons of sites that talk about this subject and many different ways on how to do it, there are actually some plugins that can set this up for you, but I wanted to simplify this process since many of the users that use wordpress don't know how or want to edit the code.

SOLUTION:  First we need to understand how this actually works.

When you send a post by email what happens is that it goes into the inbox of that address wordpress will then run a job to pull those emails into the wordpress site.

When I first set this up my biggest misconception was that I was actually emailing the wordpress site directly and that is completely incorrect.

What actually happens is that Wordpress connects to the mailbox and pulls the messages into your website as a POST

STEPS:

Wordpress and Wordfence Security is the best solution for Invalid Login, Server Errors, Slowness and DDoS attacks on your WordPress Website or Blog

ISSUE: If you own a wordpress site you know its a constant battle to prevent Robots and Spammers some of the key issues are Preventing Invalid Login, Server Errors, Slowness and DDoS attacks. and scanning harmful links

SOLUTION: After searching for several anti-virus plugin for WordPress I finally found one that protects all my websites, form these attacks in addition it also has a falcon setting to increase the speed of your website.

You can download a copy of the plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

The settings I suggest is after 5 invalid logins, or password recovery attempts block the user for 6 hours, enable the falcon settings under performance and enable auto update. 

These settings have prevented a huge number of attacks on my sites. 

Fix mobile usability issues found on your website http://xxxxxxx.xx

ISSUE: Seems like google Webmaster tools is running a huge email blast to notify their users if a website is compatible with mobile devices, even though 98% if my websites are currently using wordpress. I  have a few sites still using the DotNetNuke CMS system. I plan to migrate them over soon here is a copy of the email that I got form them

Fix mobile usability issues found on

http://yourwebsite.com/

To: webmaster of http://yourwebsite.com/
Google systems have tested XXX pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these XXX pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.

I will update this post after my migration is complete, and see if I hit any bumps on the road my current migration would be from Managed.com (aka PowerDNN) using DotNetNuke to Godaddy.com using Wordpress.

How to remove the comments TEXT BOX from your WORDPRESS pages

ISSUE: When creating new pages in wordpress they show the following comments box. If you are like me you will not see any reason why someone would allow comments on a static wordpress page, here is what shows up at the bottom of all your wordpress pages:

SOLUTION:

1. Login to your wordpress site

2. go under PAGES > ALL PAGES 

3. hover over or select all the pages you want to make the change to

4. click "Quick Edit" 

5. unheck the box for "Allow comments" 

Strange that this option is nowhere else in WordPress but here: 

I hope this helps anyone that is having a problem locating that option. I had to search all over the place to find it. 

The simple way to publish an MP3 audio file in to youtube, as a youtube video with a JPEG cover and TEXT

There are many different ways to do this.

ISSUE:

My friends ask me all the time about how to do this, How do i upload a mp3 file into youtube? so they can share it online.


QUICK SIMPLE SOLUTION:

I found the quickest way instead of downloading any software or using windows media to convert the file into a video is simply to use a webbased online application here are a few of them and they tend to work great!

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
http://www.vidtomp3.com/
http://convert2mp3.net/en/

The third one: http://convert2mp3.net/en/ i find to be the best, some actually allow you to upload the file directly into your youtube account bypassing the possibility of having to download and then upload the mp3 witch now is a mpeg4, avi or another video format.

The Google Policy Team - We have now verified that we are no longer detecting PII

ISSUE: Got this strange email unexpectedly from Google Adsense

Publisher ID: ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Dear Publisher,

We have now verified that we are no longer detecting PII being passed to Google from the account(s) under your control.

Thank you for helping to resolve this matter.

Regards,

The Google Policy Team

NOTES: I got this email after enabling the Google Adsense Plugin, I also added a few new sites to webmaster tools so I'm not sure why I got the email 

RESEARCH DONE: 

It seems like the notifications were sent in error overall but my own personal feeling is that it does come from Webmaster tools, not google adsense and it has to do with connecting your website to a wordpress plugin or another app that transfers your personal google account across the internet.

SOLUTION: 

I don't think this is a publishers security breach. I would love to hear what anyone else has to say about this issue for the time being I'm going to leave this one as resolved on my end and will blog more if I get any follow up notifications

Godaddy Timming out when trying to access Hosting Account

Here is the error when trying to access the hosting account using Google Chrome:

Google Chrome could not load the webpage because gateway.godaddy.com took too long to respond. The website may be down, or you may be experiencing issues with your Internet connection.

Check your Internet connection

Check any cables and reboot any routers, modems, or other network devices you may be using.

Allow Chrome to access the network in your firewall or antivirus settings.

If it is already listed as a program allowed to access the network, try removing it from the list and adding it again.

If you use a proxy server...

Check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server: Go to the Chrome menu > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... > LAN Settings and deselect "Use a proxy server for your LAN".

Error code: ERR_TIMED_OUT

REASON:

Browser Cache issue

ISP/Internet connectivity issue reaching the site

Godaddy is having an issue Overload etc..

ANSWERS: 

1. Try flushing your DNS locally on your computer 

by opening up command prompt>ipconfig /flushdns

That will refresh the DNS cache

2. Try a different Internet Browser

3. Reset your Internet connection

4. The one that fixed it for me is waiting about 10 minutes and trying again

Google Adsense and Wordpress Removing the yellow background from your ads

QUESTION: Some of my ads have a yellow background when they don't cover the whole space.

QUICK FIX: This is a quick simple fix in the Style Sheet .css page just do a find (Control + F) for fff9c0 and replace it with any color you like I changed mines to white by adding ffffff