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I want to register in different forums related to my interest, but whenever I register, it says registration denied due to spamming, Although it was my first time registration on those forum sites.
Anybody help me in this regard
Thanks in advance.
heres my RayCasting code on VB2010(it can be another programming language, i will get the same bug):
Private Function GetPositionMap(ByVal Position As Double) As Integer
Return fix(Position / ObjectSize)
End Function
Private Sub DrawRays()
Dim StepX As Double
Dim StepY As Double
Dim VertX As Double
Dim VertY As Double
Dim HorizX As Double
Dim HorizY As Double
Dim MapX As Long
Dim MapY As Long
Dim HorizDist As Double
Dim VertDist As Double
Dim WallDistance As Double
Dim RayHeight As Double
Dim RayRadians As Double
Dim RadiansSteps As Double
Dim RayCount As Long
Dim RayCounts As Long = 0
Dim OffSetGrid As Long
Dim PreviousRayX As Double = 0
Dim PreviousRayY As Double = 0
Dim RayX As Double = 0
Dim RayY As Double = 0
'Get viewe Width:
RayCount = 320
'Divide the FOV in a Radians steps by level width:
RadiansSteps = Radian60 / RayCount
'Get the FOV start radians(player minus half of FOV):
RayRadians = (player.Radians - Radian30)
RayCounts = 0
Do While RayCounts < RayCount
If (RayRadians > Radian360) Then RayRadians -= Radian360 'correct some Radians
If (RayRadians < 0) Then RayRadians += Radian360
'Check for horizontal intersections:
'and get the 1st horizontal line intersection:
If RayRadians >= 0 And RayRadians <= Math.PI Then 'Facing down
HorizY = (fix(player.PosY / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) + ObjectSize ' Calculate grid position
HorizX = player.PosX + (HorizY - player.PosY) / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepY = ObjectSize
Else 'Facing Up
HorizY = (fix(player.PosY / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) - 1
HorizX = player.PosX + (HorizY - player.PosY) / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepY = -ObjectSize
End If
StepX = StepY / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
MapX = GetPositionMap(HorizX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(HorizY)
'Get all Vertical intersection lines until hit a wall:
Do
If MapX < 0 Or MapX > 9 Or MapY < 0 Or MapY > 9 Then Exit Do
If MapLevel0(MapY, MapX) = Color.Black Then Exit Do
HorizX = HorizX + StepX
HorizY = HorizY + StepY
MapX = HorizX \ ObjectSize
MapY = HorizY \ ObjectSize
Loop
'Get the Ray Distance:
HorizDist = Math.Abs((player.PosX - HorizX) / Math.Cos(RayRadians))
'Check for vertical intersections:
'and get the 1st vertical line intersection:
If RayRadians <= Radian90 Or RayRadians >= Radian270 Then 'Facing right
VertX = (fix(Player.PosX / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) + ObjectSize ' Calculate grid position
VertY = Player.PosY + (Player.PosX - VertX) * -Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepX = ObjectSize
Else 'Facing left
VertX = (fix(Player.PosX / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) - 1
VertY = Player.PosY + (Player.PosX - VertX) * -Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepX = -ObjectSize
End If
StepY = StepX * Math.Tan(RayRadians)
MapX = GetPositionMap(VertX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(VertY)
'Get all Vertical intersection lines until hit a wall:
Do
If MapX < 0 Or MapX > 9 Or MapY < 0 Or MapY > 9 Then Exit Do
If MapLevel0(MapY, MapX) = Color.Black Then Exit Do
VertX = VertX + StepX
VertY = VertY + StepY
MapX = VertX \ ObjectSize
MapY = VertY \ ObjectSize
Loop
'Get the Ray Distance:
VertDist = Math.Abs((Player.PosX - VertX) / Math.Cos(RayRadians))
'Get the nearst Ray:
Dim clr As New Pen(Color.Blue, 1)
Dim ImagePosition As Long = 0
If VertDist < HorizDist Then
WallDistance = VertDist
OffSetGrid = VertY Mod ObjectSize
clr.Color = Color.Blue
Else
OffSetGrid = HorizX Mod ObjectSize
WallDistance = HorizDist
clr.Color = Color.DarkBlue
End If
'Draw the nearst Ray(4 is the circle\player center):
'imgverticallineGraphics.DrawLine(Pens.Blue, New Point(player.PosX + 4, player.PosY + 4), New Point(RayX, RayY))
'Avoiding the Fish Effect:
WallDistance = WallDistance * Math.Cos(RayRadians - Player.Radians)
'Calculate the vertical line Height:
RayHeight = (ObjectSize / WallDistance) * 200
'Get the texture vertical line:
'picWall1.DrawTextureVerticalLine(A.MemoryHDC, OffSetGrid, fix(RayHeight * 4), RayCounts, 5)
'Debug.Print(CStr(OffSetGrid))
'draw a vertical line:
'imgLevelMap0Graphics.DrawLine(clr, New Point(RayCounts, 300 / 2 - RayHeight / 2), New Point(RayCounts, 300 / 2 + RayHeight / 2))
'draw the vertical line:
img.ForeColor(RGB(clr.Color.R, clr.Color.G, clr.Color.B), 0, clr.Width)
img.DrawLine(RayCounts, Fix(300 / 2 - RayHeight / 2), RayCounts, Fix(300 / 2 + RayHeight / 2))
RayCounts = RayCounts + 1 'next vertical line
RayRadians += RadiansSteps 'next vertical line angle
Loop
End Subthe result: https://imgur.com/kN8i4lQ
why i get that more width vertical line?
to be honest i have these question in several places and no luck :( .... if i'm expressing wrong or is need more information, please tell me.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the basics of web development. Actually, I’ve been thinking about them for some time now, at least since I started teaching beginning web development in 2020.
I’m fascinated by the basics. They’re an unsung hero, really, as there is no developer worth their salt who would be where they are without them. Yet, they often go unnoticed.
The basics exist in some sort of tension between the utmost importance and the incredibly banal.
You might even think of them as the vegetable side on your dinner plate — wholesome but perhaps bland without the right seasoning.
Who needs the basics of HTML and CSS, some say, when we have tools that abstract the way they’re written and managed? We now have site builders that require no technical knowledge. We have frameworks with enough syntactic sugar to give your development chops a case of cavities. We have libraries packed with any number of pre-established patterns that can be copy-pasted without breaking a sweat. The need to “learn” the basics of HTML and CSS is effectively null when the number of tools that exist to supplant them is enough to fill a small galaxy of stars.
Rachel Andrew wrote one of my all-time favorite posts back in 2019, equating the rise of abstractions with an increase in complexity and a profound loss of inroads for others to enter the web development field:
“We have already lost many of the entry points that we had. We don’t have the forums of parents teaching each other HTML and CSS, in order to make a family album. Those people now use Facebook or perhaps run a blog on wordpress.com or SquareSpace with a standard template. We don’t have people customising their MySpace profile or learning HTML via Neopets. We don’t have the people, usually women, entering the industry because they needed to learn HTML during that period when an organisation’s website was deemed part of the duties of the administrator.”
— Rachel Andrew, “HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points”
There’s no moment more profound in my web development career than the time I changed the background color of a page from default white to some color value I can’t remember (but know for a fact it would never be dodgerblue). That, and my personal “a-ha!” moment when realizing that everything in CSS is a box. Nothing guided me with the exception of “View Source,” and I’d bet the melting Chapstick in my pocket that you’re the same if you came up around the turn of the 21st century.
Where do you go to learn HTML and CSS these days? Even now, there are few dedicated secondary education programs (or scholarships, for that matter) to consider. We didn’t have bootcamps back in the day, but you don’t have to toss a virtual stone across many pixels to find one today.
There are excellent and/or free tutorials, too. Here, I’ll link a few of ’em up for you:
Let’s not even get into the number of YouTube tutorials. But if you do, no one beats Kevin’s incredible archive of recorded gems.
Anyway, my point is that there are more resources than ever for learning web development, but still painfully few entry points to get there. The resources we have for learning the basics are great, but many are either growing stale, are quick hits without a clear learning path, or assume the learner has at least some technical knowledge. I can tell you, as someone who has hit the Publish button on thousands of front-end tutorials, that the vast majority — if not all — of them are geared toward those who are already on the career path.
It was always a bit painful when someone would email CSS-Tricks asking where to get started learning CSS because, well, you’d imagine CSS-Tricks being the perfect home for something like that, and yet, there’s nothing. It’s just the reality, even if many of us (myself included) cut our chops with sites like CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, and A List Apart. We were all learning together at that time, or so it seemed.
What we need are more pathways for deep learning.
Learning Experience Design (LXD) is a real thing that I’d position somewhere between what we know as UX Design and the practice of accessibility. There’s a focus on creating delightful experiences, sure, but the real aim of LDX is to establish learning paths that universally account for different types of learners (e.g., adults and children) and learning styles (e.g., visual and experiential). According to LDX, learners have a set of needs not totally unlike those that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs identifies for all humans, and there are different models for determining those needs, perhaps none more influential than Bloom’s Taxonomy.
These are things that many front-end tutorials, bootcamps, videos, and programs are not designed for. It’s not that the resources are bad (nay, most are excellent); it’s that they are serving different learners and learning types than what a day-one beginner needs. And let’s please not rely on AI to fill the gaps in human experiences!
Like I said, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Like, a lot a lot. In fact, I recently published an online course purely dedicated to learning the basics of front-end development, creatively named TheBasics.dev. I’d like to think it’s not just another tutorial because it’s a complete set of lessons that includes reading, demonstrations, videos, lab exercises, and assessments, i.e., a myriad of ways to learn. I’d also like to think that this is more than just another bootcamp because it is curricula designed with the intention to develop new knowledge through reflective practices, peer learning, and feedback.
Anyway, I’m darn proud of The Basics, even if I’m not exactly the self-promoting type, and writing about it is outside of my comfort zone. If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you, too, work on the front end. The Basics isn’t for you exactly, though I’d argue that brushing up on fundamentals is never a bad thing, regardless of your profession, but especially in front-end development, where standards are well-documented but ever-changing as well.
The Basics is more for your clients who do not know how to update the website they paid you to make. Or the friend who’s learning but still keeps bugging you with questions about the things they’re reading. Or your mom, who still has no idea what it is you do for a living. It’s for those whom the entry points are vanishing. It’s for those who could simply sign up for a Squarespace account but want to actually understand the code it spits out so they have more control to make a site that uniquely reflects them.
If you know a person like that, I would love it if you’d share The Basics with them.
Long live the basics! Long live the “a-ha!” moments that help us all fall in love with the World Wide Web.
Hello Everyone!
I am looking for to outreach someone for link exchange etc. Also I would like to know that how can I index my backlinks sites fast so that I get a backlink?
Thankyou!
Many of our readers are worried that moving a WordPress website or switching to a different SEO plugin will affect their website search rankings.
Search is the primary traffic source for most websites, so you want to be extremely careful when migrating.
In this tutorial, we will share the ultimate WordPress SEO migration checklist. It will ensure that all your SEO settings are preserved during the migration without hurting any of your search rankings.
Here is a list of topics we will cover in this guide:
SEO migration is a set of best practices for maintaining search rankings and SEO settings while moving or making major changes to a website.
Search is the #1 source of traffic for most websites. It would be bad to lose some or all of that traffic during a migration.
Here are some common scenarios when you will need SEO migration:
You need to ensure that you take proper precautions to preserve all your website data and SEO.
Following this step-by-step checklist will allow you to do proper WordPress SEO migration without losing rankings and traffic.
First, you need to prepare your WordPress website for migration. You will do that by setting up proper SEO tracking and making a complete website backup.
First, you want to make sure that you can properly understand how your website is doing in search before you begin the migration.
This will help you compare your search performance after the migration and determine if the migration had any negative or positive impact on your traffic.
You’ll need two tools to track this data.
1. Set Up Google Analytics
The easiest way to track and monitor your website traffic is by using MonsterInsights. It helps you easily install Google Analytics on your website, which monitors your website traffic and shows you where your users are coming from.
For more details, see our tutorial on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.
Note: If you haven’t used Google Analytics before, then it will take some time before it starts showing any data.
Once you have set up MonsterInsights, you will be able to see your website traffic performance by visiting the Insights » Reports page.
For more details, see our guide on how to track website visitors in WordPress.
2. Set Up Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool that helps website owners track their performance in Google search results.
First, you will need to sign up and add your website to Google Search Console.
After that, you will be asked to verify ownership of your website. You can do that by adding a code snippet to your site’s header.
We recommend using All in One SEO for WordPress to verify your site’s ownership. It makes it easy to add a Google Search Console verification code.
More importantly, All in One SEO has the most powerful XML sitemaps, which you can then add to your Google Search Console account to improve how Google crawls your website.
Once your website is verified, you will be able to access a treasure trove of data. You can see it in your Google Search Console dashboard under the Performance tab.
It will show you how often your site appears in search results, how many clicks you get, which keywords you are ranking for, and search ranking positions.
For more details, see our tutorial on how to add your WordPress website to Google Search Console.
3. Download XML Sitemaps
An XML sitemap lists all your website content in XML format so search engines like Google can easily discover and index it.
WordPress generates a basic XML sitemap by default. However, this sitemap is quite basic and not customizable.
For better XML sitemaps, we recommend using All in One SEO For WordPress. It generates comprehensive sitemaps that you can customize manually.
For details, see our tutorial on creating an XML sitemap in WordPress.
Once you have created XML sitemaps, you need to download them to your computer.
Simply open an XML sitemap and select ‘Save as’ from the right-click menu.
Repeat the process to download all sitemap XML files.
3. Download URLs Using Screaming Frog SEO Spider (Paid)
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an app for SEO professionals. It allows you to crawl any website, like search engines, and collect important data for SEO.
It crawls all your website URLs, external links, image URLs, JavaScript and CSS files, and more.
Open the app on your computer, go to File » Settings, and change the ‘Storage Mode’ to ‘Database Storage’.
After that, you need to enter your website URL in the top bar and click on the ‘Start’ button.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider will start crawling your website. Wait for it to finish the crawl, which may take some time, depending on your website’s size.
Once finished, your crawl data will be stored in the app’s database.
After the migration, you can crawl your website again and then compare the data to find missing URLs, broken links, images, and other files.
Note: A free version of Screaming Frog software is available for download. However, it is limited to 500 URLs, and most other features are locked. You will need the paid version to perform a full crawl and unlock all features.
4. Compare with Semrush Site Audit (Paid)
Semrush is one of the best SEO platforms used by marketers and SEO professionals.
You can perform a complete site audit before and after the migration, which will highlight the changes in your SEO performance.
Semrush will also let you catch missing files, broken links, URLs that are not indexable, 404 errors, and other SEO warnings.
Note: Semrush has a free version, but it is limited. For a comprehensive SEO site audit, you’ll need a paid plan.
A backup is one of the most important tools in your arsenal for securing all your data.
Generally, you should set up automatic backups on your website so that a complete, fresh copy of your site is always safely stored. This is handy if something bad happens to your website and you need to restore it quickly.
You must also create a complete WordPress backup before initiating major site changes, such as a migration.
There are several WordPress backup plugins that you can use.
We recommend using Duplicator because it is a complete backup and migration plugin for WordPress.
Making a backup using Duplicator is super easy.
First, you need to install and activate the Duplicator plugin. For more details, see our tutorial on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, go to the Duplicator » Packages page and click the ‘Create New’ button.
Duplicator will start the new package wizard. Simply follow the on-screen instructions to create the package.
Once you have created a package, you can download it to your computer.
If you are migrating your WordPress website to a new server or domain name, then you can also download the package and installer files to your computer.
If you are not migrating your WordPress website to a new host or to a new domain name, then you can skip this step.
Now that you have downloaded Duplicator packages to your computer, you can migrate your WordPress website.
Migrating WordPress to a New Host
If you haven’t already done so, you first need to sign up for a new host.
We recommend using Bluehost. They are one of the largest hosting companies in the world and an officially recommended WordPress hosting provider.
They offer WPBeginner users a generous discount on hosting and a free domain name. You can get started for $1.99 per month.
You are ready to migrate your website once you have set up your new hosting account.
Follow the instructions in our step-by-step tutorial on how to move WordPress to a new host.
Migrating WordPress to a New Domain
This section is for users migrating WordPress to a new domain name.
Please keep the following points in mind before migrating a website to a new domain name.
However, you can reduce the impact and quickly recover by properly switching the domain name and following this SEO migration guide.
Continue with our step-by-step tutorial on moving WordPress to a new domain name.
Once you are done, return to this guide and follow the remaining steps.
After moving your WordPress website (either to a new host or a new domain), it is time to perform the post-migration SEO checks.
These steps will prevent any negative SEO impact of the migration and fix potential issues before they become a problem.
If you have migrated your WordPress site to a new domain name, you must redirect users from the old domain name to the new one.
This step is crucial for a successful SEO migration.
These redirects properly send users from your old domain to the new one, and they also let search engines know that your website has moved to this new location.
There are two easy ways to do this in WordPress. We’ll show you both.
Method 1. Set Up Full Site Redirect Using All in One SEO for WordPress
For this method, you’ll need the All in One SEO for WordPress. It is the best WordPress SEO plugin on the market and allows you to optimize your WordPress website for SEO.
First, you need to install and activate the All in One SEO for WordPress plugin on your old domain. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Note: You’ll need at least the Pro version of the plugin to access the redirect manager addon.
Upon activation on your old domain, you need to visit the All in One SEO » Redirects page and click on the ‘Activate Redirects’ button.
Next, you need to switch to the ‘Full Site Redirect’ tab and turn on the ‘Relocate Site’ toggle.
After that, you need to enter your new domain name next to the ‘Relocate to domain’ option.
Don’t forget to click the ‘Save Changes’ button to store your settings.
Method 2. Set up Redirects Using Redirection
You can use this method if you are not using All in One SEO for WordPress.
First, install and activate the Redirection plugin on your old domain name. For more details, see our tutorial on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, go to the Tools » Redirection page and switch to the Site tab.
Under the Relocate Site section, add your new domain name and click the Update button to save your settings.
The Redirection plugin will now redirect users and search engines to your domain name.
Next, you need to perform a comprehensive website crawl to compare all URLs on the new website with the old data.
This is the data you collected in the first step to benchmark your SEO performance before the migration.
1. Compare URLs Using XML Sitemaps
Set up XML sitemaps on your new website using All in One SEO. After that, download the XML Sitemaps to your computer.
Simply compare the new sitemap URLs with the old sitemaps you downloaded earlier.
2. Compare URLs Using Screaming Frog SEO Spider
If you have a paid subscription to Screaming Frog SEO Spider, then you can compare the two crawls.
Open the App and perform a full crawl of your new website. After that, switch to the Mode » Compare tab and select the current and previous crawl.
You can also perform more comprehensive analyses by examining both crawls in different Modes, such as List and Spider mode.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider website has a detailed tutorial on comparing crawls.
3. Compare URLs Using Semrush
Another easy way to compare URLs is with Semrush using the Site Audit tool.
If you have set up Semrush before migration using a paid subscription plan, then you can compare it with the new craw post-migration.
Semrush will automatically report any issues it finds under the Issues tab.
You can also compare before and after crawls automatically.
All you have to do is switch to the ‘Compare Crawls’ tab to compare a past crawl with the latest crawl.
When comparing URLs, you may come across some issues. The most common problems are:
Go through any issues you find and fix them manually if needed.
WordPress SEO plugins save important SEO data in your WordPress database. This includes plugin settings, SEO metadata, redirects, focus keyphrases, and more.
However, since you backed up your entire WordPress website during the migration, your SEO plugin and all its SEO data should start working out of the box.
This step is for users who want to switch their WordPress SEO plugin and want to migrate SEO data from one plugin to another.
For example, a while ago, we switched from Yoast to All in One SEO, and preserving all our SEO data was crucial during the switch.
Luckily, all good WordPress SEO plugins come with built-in SEO data importers.
For instance, All in One SEO will automatically detect other WordPress SEO plugins and will give you an option to import SEO during the setup wizard.
You can also manually import SEO data in the plugin settings.
Simply head over to the All in One SEO » Tools page and switch to the ‘Import / Export’ tab.
Under the ‘Import Settings From Other Plugins’ section, choose your older SEO plugin and then check ‘All Settings’.
Click ‘Import’ to continue, and All in One SEO will import all your SEO data from your previous SEO plugin.
Other WordPress SEO plugins like Rank Math and Yoast SEO also have built-in SEO data importers and exporters that you can use.
Now that you have completely migrated WordPress while preserving SEO, you need to ensure that you are tracking important marketing data, including analytics and Google Search Console.
If you didn’t change your domain name, then your older Google Analytics and Google Search Console integrations will continue working.
Keep an eye on those reports to monitor your website for any post-migration traffic loss or drop in search rankings.
On the other hand, if you migrated WordPress to a new domain name, you will need to reconfigure Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
Reconfigure Google Analytics
Those using MonsterInsights can go to the Insights » Settings page and scroll down to the Google Authentication section.
Click the downward arrow to expand the Website Profile section, and then click the ‘Reconnect MonsterInsights’ button.
MonsterInsights will then reauthenticate your website to Google Analytics and automatically add a new data stream configured with your new domain name.
Users who have manually installed Google Analytics in WordPress will need to add their new Domain Name as a Data Stream in Google Analytics.
Login to your Google Analytics account and click the gear icon at the bottom left corner to switch to the admin view.
Next, go to the Data collection and modifications » Data streams and then click on the ‘Add stream’ button.
Select Web as your stream type, and then add your new domain and website title.
Click the ‘Create stream’ button to save your settings.
Google Analytics will now start tracking data from your new domain name.
Reconfigure Google Search Console
Next, you need to reconfigure Google Search Console and inform Google about the change of address.
Note: This step is important because otherwise, Google may consider your new site a mirror or duplicate, which will make it much longer to rank for your new domain name.
First, add your new domain name as a new property in Google Search Console. Simply follow the instructions in our guide on how to add your site to Google Search Console.
Important: Ensure you use the same Google account you used for your old domain name.
After adding your new domain to Google Search Console, switch to your old domain name profile in Google Search Console.
On the next screen, you will be asked to set up 301 redirects from your old domain to your new site address. You have already done that earlier, so you can move on to the next step. If you missed that step, we suggest going back and doing it now.
Below that, select your new domain name from the drop-down menu and click on the ‘Validate & Update’ button.
That’s all. You have now informed Google about the change of address.
This may take a while, but gradually, your new domain will start appearing in search results instead of your old domain name. During this time, you won’t lose any traffic due to the 301 redirects you set up.
Following are some of the most commonly asked questions about SEO migration for WordPress websites.
1. How do you do an SEO migration?
First, back up your website and track performance with Google Analytics and Google Search Console. Then, move your website data, including SEO data.
If you are migrating to a new domain name, ensure that you set up 301 redirects. Finally, use the Change of Address tool in Google Search Console to notify Google about the new URL.
2. How can I migrate my website without losing SEO?
By setting up proper redirects and using the Google search console, you can migrate your website easily without losing SEO.
3. Will domain migration increase SEO traffic?
Depending on the domain you use for migration, it may cause an increase in SEO traffic. For instance, if your new domain is more relevant to your website topics or you are using a country domain to reach a more targeted audience.
We hope this WordPress SEO migration checklist is helpful in migrating your websites. You may also want to take a look at our complete WordPress SEO guide for a more detailed SEO walkthrough and our expert picks of the best domain name registrars if you are looking to switch to a new domain name.
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