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  • This isn’t a WordPress question. However, I’ll point you in the right direction. Read Are you on Google?

    This isn’t really a WordPress question, but I’ll give you some pointers.

    You can check if your site is indexed by searching for site:www.tandprothese-vangoethem.be in Google. Your site isn’t.

    Read Are you on Google? for advice on how to get indexed.

    At the end of the article, it recommends having a Sitemap for your site. If you install the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin this will create an XML Sitemap for your site.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Sitemap Problem

    The error occurs because you’ve got HTML code which shouldn’t be there at the beginning of the sitemap.xml, and this makes the XML invalid.

    The HTML code is this part:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
</head><body>
<br>

<br>

</body></html>

    However, I’m not sure why the HTML code is there.

    Do you have a cache plugin activated in your WordPress instance?

    Is your blog hosted on WordPress.com?

    One solution is to put the HTML code for the Twitter follow button into a page, post or text widget. It’s not quite as neat as plugin and shortcode, but it works (tested on WordPress 4.0).

    Get Twitter follow button code
    1. Browse to https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons#follow
    2. Set Button options as required
    3. Copy HTML code from right hand side

    To add Twitter follow button to existing page
    1. Browse to your WordPress admin site
    2. Click Pages
    3. Click page you want to put twitter button into
    4. Click Text tab
    5. Paste HTML code where you want the button
    6. Click Update button
    Your Twitter follow button should appear on the page.

    To add Twitter follow button to existing post
    1. Browse to your WordPress admin site
    2. Click Posts
    3. Click post you want to put twitter button into
    4. Click Text tab
    5. Paste HTML code where you want the button
    6. Click Update button
    Your Twitter follow button should appear on the post.

    To add Twitter follow button to the sidebar
    1. Browse to your WordPress admin site
    2. Click Appearance > Widgets
    3. Drag a Text widget to the Sidebar
    4. Paste HTML code into main text box on widget
    5. Click Save button
    Your Twitter follow button should appear on the sidebar.

    The link you included for the Twitter Follow Button was for the WordPress.com service.

    To do the same in your self hosted www.ads-software.com site, you would need to have the Twitter Follow Button WordPress plugin installed. I’ve provided the instructions to install the plugin below.

    Installing the plugin:
    1. Go to your WordPress admin site
    2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
    3. Search for Twitter Follow Button
    4. Click Install Now button
    5. Click OK to install
    6. Click Activate Plugin to activate

    Once the plugin is installed, you don’t need to do any other configuration, you just need to put the short code into a page or text widget.

    However, having tested it on WordPress 4.0, I don’t think the plugin is working correctly. The configuration options in the short code e.g. screen_name or show_screen_name don’t work. Instead the button just shows the plugin authors screen name and follower count.

    Assuming instead you want a preview image of a web site to be displayed by default without user having to hover over a link, you can do that with the ShrinkTheWeb (STW) Website Previews Plugin.

    Step 1 – Register for a ShrinkTheWeb account:
    1. Register at https://www.shrinktheweb.com/user/register

    Step 2 – Install the WordPress plugin:
    1. Go to your WordPress admin site
    2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
    3. Search for ShrinkTheWeb
    4. Click Install Now button
    5. Click OK to install
    6. Click Activate Plugin to activate

    Step 3 – Configure the WordPress plugin:
    1. Click Shrink The Web bottom of WordPress admin menu on left hand side
    2. Copy Access Key from your ShrinkTheWeb Lobby page into Access Key Id field
    3. Copy Secret Key from your ShrinkTheWeb Lobby page into Secret Key Id field
    4. Click Save ALL Settings button

    Step 4 – Add web site preview to WordPress page

    Non-hyperlinked preview of a web site
    Include this in your page, replace the URL with the one you want the preview of:
    [thumb]https://startingwp.com[/thumb]

    Hyperlinked preview of a web site
    Include this in your page, replacing both URLs with the one you want the preview of:
    <a href="https://startingwp.com">[thumb]https://startingwp.com[/thumb]</a>

    Assuming you want a preview image of the web site to appear when you hover over the hyperlink in your WordPress page, you can do that with the ThumbSniper WordPress plugin.

    Instructions to install the plugin:
    1. Go to your WordPress admin site
    2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
    3. Search for ThumbSniper
    4. Click Install Now button
    5. Click OK to install
    6. Click Activate Plugin to activate

    Now, all external hyperlinks on your WordPress site will show a preview when you hover over the hyperlinks.

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