How to Show YouTube Video View Counts in WordPress

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Follow the tutorial below on how to display YouTube video view counts in WordPress on any page, post, or custom post type. You will end up with a shortcode that you can easily use wherever you want. This tutorial uses the latest YouTube Data API (v3) as v2 is now deprecated. Show YouTube View Counts … Read more

How To Fix Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress

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Are you getting the dreaded “error establishing a database connection” message? If you are familiar with WordPress, you must have seen this message at least once. It is one of the biggest headache of a webmaster and God forbid your website visitor sees this message, you will lose that visitor and the revenue you could … Read more

How to Bypass the Twitter Phone Verification for New Account

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If you are like me you are probably always creating new Twitter accounts. Whether it be for personal projects, testing, or for clients. The other day I needed to create four new twitter accounts. The problem? After I created one account Twitter would no longer let me create a new one without verifying a phone … Read more