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Dan

Hi, I’m Dan. On BeSitePro I share tips about website building, optimization, fixes, novelties and more. I hope my posts help you master websites the DIY way – just as I do. Need help or anything else? Contact me.

  • Why I Don’t Not Use WordPress Backup Plugins

    TLDR: My Approach in Practice I don’t rely on WordPress plugins for site backups at all – because my hosting provider on the server level already provides backing up files, databases, emails, and other stuff by default. With JetBackup 5 running automatically in cPanel, my site is protected without extra plugins, overhead, or clutter. Having…

  • The withgoogle.com Example Shows Why Domain Names Matter

    The first time I came across the withgoogle.com domain, seeing the labs.withgoogle.com subdomain as the home of Google’s experiments, I was baffled. My immediate question was: Is this domain legit? So it didn’t surprise me when I recently noticed on Google Trends that the most searched query related to Google’s own withgoogle.com domain is “withgoogle.com…

  • bbPress Discussion Forum Schema & SEO Rich Snippets – Free WordPress Plugin

    Here’s a useful WordPress plugin if you are running a bbPress forum. The bbPress Discussion Forum Schema & SEO Rich Snippets plugin automatically upgrades your bbPress forum topics with advanced “DiscussionForumPosting” structured data for free. By providing search engines with precise details about your community threads – including active reply counts, author information, and conversation structure…

  • Can’t Change Website URL on Pinterest Profile? Here’s Solution

    If you can’t change your website URL on your Pinterest profile, here’s a solution for the annoying problem. For this guide, I will go to and use pinterest.com in a web browser, but you can achieve the same thing in the Pinterest Android or iPhone app. The website address field on the Pinterest Edit profile settings page is unchangeable…

  • Failed: Robots.txt Unreachable Error in Google Search Console – Solved

    Here’s how I solved the Failed: Robots.txt Unreachable and Robots.txt Not Fetched errors in Google Search Console. The issue itself is serious, since it prevents Google bots from crawling and indexing your website and webpages. The solution I found is to unblock Google bot IPs in your web hosting server’s firewall. Yes, although Google bot…

  • Customize Missing from WordPress Theme? Here’s Solution

    If you are new to WordPress themes based on Gutenberg blocks, such as the latest Twenty Twenty-Four, you may notice that the Customize option in the WordPress’ admin section is missing. Instead, the block-based themes use the Site Editor to customize the look of your WordPress site. Nevertheless, although the Customize button is missing, you…

  • How to Change Link Underline Color in WordPress Using CSS

    The user interface of the WordPress’ default Site Editor doesn’t have an option for changing the link underline color, so it can be different from the link font color. Luckily, with a bit of CSS code added to the Additional CSS section of the Site Editor interface, you can easily change the underline color of…

  • Force HTTPS to Avoid Duplicate Page Indexing by Google

    Having enabled access to both HTTPS and HTTP versions of your website may lead to duplicate content. For instance, the Google Search may index both HTTPS and HTTP versions of your site’s webpages, which may create unnecessary duplicates in the search results like this: Having duplicate pages indexed isn’t good from the SEO perspective. Furthermore,…

  • How to Center TikTok Embeds in WordPress Posts

    If you have a hard time trying to center the TikTok embeds you added to your WordPress posts via the WordPress built-in embedding feature, try this piece of CSS code. My tests show it’s also possible to center YouTube and Twitter embeds this way besides the TikTok embeds, while the WordPress embed feature and the…

  • How to Replace WooCommerce External / Affiliate Product Button Text Using MySQL

    There’s an easy way to replace the default WooCommerce Buy product button text on the External / Affiliate products by editing the functions.php file of your WordPress theme. But, here I show how to change the button text using MySQL. The MySQL method is helpful if you want to keep the ability to have different…