Move your WordPress site to a new hosting provider and move the domain registrar

Move your WordPress site to a new hosting provider and move the domain registrar

Problem:

After my 1st year with SiteGround hosting I was more than happy with the service but was quoted a very large fee for my next years hosting and domain name fees.  Rival providers were all too happy to offer me their introductory hosting rates in order to get me to move.  I guess a lot of people simply stay put and cough up the exorbitant fees as they think it is too risky or complex to change hosting providers.  It really inst, I did it on a Sunday afternoon in a few simple steps.  I decided I wanted to learn how this worked so didn’t want to use a plug-in to do the migration (after-all it may not be there next time I o to do this).

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Force Facebook to re-scrape/update your posts with the latest data from your website

Facebook-Force-Update

Problem:
This is just a quick post to tell users how to force Facebook to re-scrape a post they have already made that has had amendments that are not being reflected in post updates.  For example if you have updated your ‘Featured Image’ but Facebook is still looking at the old one you need to do the following.

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