Moving from a popular hosting provider – whether generic (i.e. GoDaddy) or WordPress-specific (i.e. SiteGround) – over to AWS can be a bit daunting at first (I know it was for me!). With this handy guide, however, you can get a new WordPress site up and running on an EC2 server in less than 10 minutes, getting familiar with AWS along the way.
You can get a new server setup on AWS EC2 with WordPress installed via Bitnami quite quickly and relatively easily, but actually logging into WordPress itself can sometimes stop people in their tracks.
In this quick guide I’ll show you two ways to get your password for WordPress from your AWS EC2 server.
An SSH connection gives you control over the configuration of your server. From handling folder permissions to simply removing the Bitnami banner that comes enabled as standard, you’ll need SSH access to do a lot of things.
If you’ve installed WordPress on an AWS EC2 instance using a Bitnami AMI but you don’t know how to connect via SSH, let me help you with this quick guide.
There’s no doubt that Google Tag Manager is a great tool. One of the benefits it brings is that, once implemented, it removes the need for (and burden on) developers to implement various technical requirements. In order to get to that point where everyone’s happy, you need to make sure that Tag Manager is even working in the first place.
Facebook Ads is an incredibly popular platform for running advertising campaigns, but in order to get the most out of it you’ll need to make sure that the Facebook ‘pixel’ is implemented on your website. This is where Google Tag Manager comes in as it’s easier to implement the pixel through this as opposed to via the website’s code itself (which can be challenging and may require a developer).
Google Tag Manager can be used to easily track clicks on any button on your website and send usage data to analytics platforms such as Google Analytics. You can then use that data to measure performance and make informed decisions. If you’re not yet measuring feature usage on your site then this is definitely a good place to start.
If you make use of shortcodes and widgets on your WordPress site (which is probably most of us), you might find that they don’t particularly work well together straight out of the box. For example, including a shortcode in a Text widget does not execute the shortcode itself and just displays the shortcode as text (instead of the actual output of said shortcode).
If you need to let someone else have access to Google Tag Manager – whether that be a freelance developer or a colleague – then you can accomplish this in less than 30 seconds. Just follow the simple steps below.
Looking to add Google Analytics to your website through Google Tag Manager? Maybe you have GTM installed but don’t have direct access to the code to place GA directly. Maybe you want to keep all of your tracking scripts in one place, within a GTM container. Either way, here’s how you add the GA tracking code to via GTM.
It’s a given, but first you need to make sure you have a Google account with both Analytics and Tag Manager setup. Assuming you’ve done that, let’s get started.
Here’s another quick tip for reducing the number of scripts that WordPress loads by default. We’ve already looked at emojis and embeds, so this time we’re looking at comments.
If you either don’t want to make use of the comments feature provided by WordPress – perhaps you’re using a third-party plugin like Disqus – or if you’re being really strict on the additional scripts that are being loaded for performance reasons, then just add the following snippet to your functions.php file to disable the comments script.