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Is AMP Good For SEO ?

Enabling AMP (formerly Accelerated Mobile Pages) on your website can be a lot of work. You may have to rewrite parts of your web structure along with some of your pages and posts. So before starting this migration for my own website, I asked myself if AMP was really so good for SEO that I…

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Looking for an AMP WordPress Image Gallery Plugin ?

You are in the process of setting up AMP in your WordPress site, and wonder how to migrate your image galleries ? Your current gallery plugin is probably not AMP-ready yet, and their authors do not communicate on a future AMP compliance ? I’ve been there myself, looking for the best solution to migrate my…

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How to Clean Dust from a Fujifilm Mirrorless Camera [COMPLETE GUIDE]

There was a time when I was reluctant to clean dust from my camera. Cleaning the exterior camera body was OK, but opening the camera, exposing and cleaning dust from the sensor was a scary operation for me. I made a lot of research and tries, ended up with my own method and tools. I…

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Fix WPForms CAPTCHA Not Working with AMP (Google reCAPTCHA v3)

Installing a contact page form with WPForms with Google reCAPTCHA V3 in WordPress Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) can be tricky. I spent hours figuring out and setting up test environments. So I thought that my experience could maybe help you save some time ! Here is my checklist and my buglist. This post traces and…

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How to Write a Page with a Grid of Posts in a AMP WordPress Site

WordPress themes often display blog posts in lists. This is the case for Twenty Twenty. I like this theme a lot. It’s elegant and AMP-ready (Accelerated Mobile Pages). However I prefer to show my blog in a post grid on desktops. I looked for a plugin to write a separate page with a grid of…

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How to set Google Image License Metadata WebStatement in Bridge

The new Google Image Licensing feature is based upon two metadata properties : Webstatement and LicensorURL. I tried to set these metadata with Adobe Bridge CC but could only define a Licensor. WebStatement was not in the metadata Panel. Why ? Adobe Bridge only displays a subset of metadata in the metadata panel. By default,…

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Photoshop Guide for Google Image License Metadata : Licensor & WebStatement

Google Image License promotes two Copyright metadata for images and will display them in search results. This will allow web users to easily identify and contact the image licensor. As photographers, how can we set these metadata in Photoshop CC : WebStatement and LicensorURL ? Photoshop allows you already to set WebStatement (as “Copyright Info…

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A Metadata Copyright Example for a Freelance Photographer

There is a lot of Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata for images. It’s a tedious work to scan them and sort them out in order to determine which metadata property to set and how to set it. In this post, I display my medatada settings as a freelance photographer. This is a corresponding table between…

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How to set Licensor and WebStatement for Google License in Capture One

The Google Image License feature reads metadata in your image file. These metadata are WebStatement, Licensor and Licensor URL. However Capture One Pro does not support these yet. I will show you step by step how to set Licensor, LicensorURL and WebStatement for Google Image License in Capture One Pro. You can add the metadata…

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How to Improve Your WordPress Photography Site for Mobile and Speed

We are photographers. We love art, we love good looking pictures and good looking designs. We want also our site to be user friendly on mobile and desktop, and to load fast. As I started to get messages telling me that my WordPress photography site was not always the mobile friendly or fast, I started…