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How to Grow Your Google Plus Followers with 3 Smart Tips

Google Plus is the new social network in town and it has become the go to network already for many on the web.

Everyone from blog owners to business mavericks and lots more in between use Google Plus for outreach, marketing, content sharing and or to mix and mingle with like minded peers.

Whatever your reason for becoming a Google + fan, one thing is clear. Without followers you’re not going to have too much fun.

So the adage as is usual in social media is that the more the merrier. But how does one grow their Circles? How does one go from ten followers to hundred and more?

Below we present a few ideas and tips on how to do just this via a few simple methods and tricks.

1. Do Outreach From Your Blog

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functions.php or a Functions Plugin – Your WordPress Functions

By Bes Zain in Online 2 Comments

I recently came across yet another idea of using a plugin instead of your functions.php file.

It’s interesting reading such viewpoints, since many theme developers insist that you put all your functions in their theme’s functions.php files.

Your own custom WordPress functions allow you to extend WordPress in your own way, with or without external plugins or scripts.

Your WordPress theme functions.php file gets loaded at the same time as your site, so your functions get loaded instantly. The theme functions.php file is one of the most common venues to insert your own functions into WordPress.

I always put my functions in my WooTheme’s functions.php file, allowing me an easy way to manage all my custom code. That does make me depend on the current theme a bit.

Functions plugin or a theme functions.php

New Solution: Use a Functions Plugin Instead

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Use Tasker to Trigger Your WordPress Crons

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WordPress Crons do amazing things. From allowing you to schedule automatic full or database backups of your WordPress to having posts published in the future, Crons allow you to do almost anything you can think of.

WordPress Crons, however, do require some visit to any public page of your main site to trigger the cron to run. That could create problems for many people, specially Multisite owners where Crons are set to run on a Multisite level for all sub-sites, and yet where the main Multisite domain may not get any traffic.

Among the thousand other things Tasker can do via your Android phone, Tasker can also easily visit your website.

I’ve been using Tasker for a long time, and since last week started using Tasker to trigger Crons on Multisites which don’t get much or any traffic. And it works beautifully.

Since you can use Tasker to visit any website at any time automatically, once or regularly, you can use Tasker to trigger your WordPress Crons. Here’s how to do it.

Use Tasker to trigger WordPress crons or visit websites automatically on your phone