WordPress is a darling of many. Absolute beginners, tech-savvy business owners, bloggers, web designers, and seasoned developers – name it – all have a thing for the platform. Everybody is pining for WordPress, and that’s because it’s versatile, full of options, and ridiculously easy to learn and use. The platform comes with a million and one themes plus plugins that…. Continue Reading
How to Fix Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress
When you start using WordPress, you’re bound to encounter a number of errors, some grievous, other not so much. It’s inevitable; it can be your fault, at times systems break, someone fails at their job, natural calamities strike – anything could cause an error. Even something as good as an increase in traffic can break your WordPress site, leaving you with…. Continue Reading
Top 13 Free WordPress Themes They Don’t Want You to See
WordPress is growing bigger by the day and with it the WordPress theme repository. Developers are hard at work churning out theme after theme like the world is ending tomorrow. For this very reason, the collection of free WordPress themes in the repository, and on the internet in general, is expanding exponentially just like our very own galaxy. This throws…. Continue Reading
How to Install WordPress: The Complete WordPress Installation Guide
WordPress, WordPress, WordPress. Lately, you have heard this term thrown around a lot. You’ve been hearing great things about WordPress, the most popular of content management systems (CMSs). Now you’re curious. You want to dive in. You’re ready to take full advantage of the WordPress platform to power your website. But there’s a problem. You don’t know what to do…. Continue Reading
History of WordPress: A What You Must Know Guide
WordPress is most certainly the world’s favorite content management system (CMS). It powers over 70 million websites, which makes a whooping 60% of all websites that run on a CMS. This figure translates to about 25% of all websites on the planet! Travel back in time twelve years, and this wasn’t the case. WordPress was a bare blogging platform that…. Continue Reading
How to Build Product Hunt-Style Website Using Plugin Hunt Theme
Websites pushing curated content have become quite the internet sensation in recent times. From huge websites such as BuzzFeed and Product Hunt to instant hits such as ViralNova and ViralForest among others, webpreneurs are profiting left, right and center using a business model that’s everything but conventional. What I mean is most content curation sites don’t create products or even their own original…. Continue Reading
10 Best Free Photo Gallery Plugins for WordPress
Beautiful imagery adds color and life to your WordPress site. I mean, a website without images is, well, kind of drab. Unless it’s some powerful research database such as Nasa’s Dataset. Oh wait a minute, these folks have great imagery going on for them as well, so yeah, perfect imagery is good. In other words, images help you to grab…. Continue Reading
Top 12 Tips for Attracting More Comments on Your Blog
Do you pull as many comments as you’d like to your WordPress site? Have you been wondering why no one leaves comments on your blog, even after spending hours on end creating content? Are you craving for more comments, more interaction and heated debates in your comment section? Are you ready to kill for at least one extra comment? If…. Continue Reading
How to Create WordPress Themes from HTML
Would you believe me if I told you that you can build your very own WordPress theme without learning PHP first? What if I told you it won’t take an eternity but just 15 minutes. Would still believe me? Let’s say you already have an HTML website that you wish to migrate to WordPress since you’ve been hearing many great things…. Continue Reading
How to Backup Your WordPress Site with blogVault
Just the other day, one of my clients and a close friend had a nasty run in with hackers. They threw DDOS attacks at his website, and as a security precaution, his web host shut him down for a couple days. From the emails we exchanged, I could tell it was a frustrating and horrifying experience for him. Luckily for him,…. Continue Reading
