WordPress is incredibly easy to install, but if you want to move an already setup WordPress site to another server, it can be a bit of a headache. There are several reasons why you might need to migrate your WordPress site. If you started development on a local server and you’re now ready to launch the site, you’ll have to…. Continue Reading
8 of the Best WordPress Testimonial Plugins Compared
Testimonials are essential for many different types of businesses, whether you’re selling a product or a service. Featuring customer reviews prominently on your site will help new visitors to build trust in your brand through the power of social proof, and can increase conversion rates by some impressive amounts. This is demonstrated in several real-world case studies: Adding reviews to…. Continue Reading
The Ultimate Guide On How To Choose A Domain Name
If you want to launch a website, you’re going to need a domain name. Makes sense, right? Domain names are how people find websites on the Internet, so it’s not like you can just skip the whole thing. But as simple as those words in your browser address bar look, they can be surprisingly difficult to come up with. Trust…. Continue Reading
How to Work with the WordPress Database: 11+ Useful SQL Queries
One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it makes it for anyone to have a great looking and functional website without any coding knowledge. It’s perfectly possible to set up a website from scratch, getting it looking exactly how you want it to, and doing whatever you want it to, without writing a line of code. However…. Continue Reading
How to Setup Facebook Instant Articles on WordPress
It’s no longer enough to rely on Google to provide your website visitors. Social media has become an incredibly powerful force for driving website traffic in recent years and has been overtaking search referrals for several years already. It’s important to make your content highly shareable if you want to take advantage of social media. The most important step to…. Continue Reading
How to Setup Cloudflare CDN for WordPress
A content delivery network, or CDN, is a network of worldwide servers that delivers cached web content to users based on their location. Because it takes less time to send data over a shorter geographical distance, using a CDN to host your website instead of a single server can speed up loading times for your website. Cloudflare CDN can also…. Continue Reading
How to Downgrade WordPress Versions, Plugins, and Themes (and Why You Might Want to)
The WordPress core code is updated pretty regularly and in most cases you’re going to want to make sure you upgrade to the latest stable version as soon as possible. Using the latest version of WordPress ensures that you have access to all the latest features and any security holes that have been discovered since the last update have been…. Continue Reading
How to Automate WordPress Installs and Setup
One of the great things about WordPress is how easy and quick it is to setup. Many web hosts now offer management dashboards with one-click WordPress installation, often with the option of pre-installing some of the most popular plugins and themes. Even if you install WordPress manually, the process is pretty simple. However, if you’re frequently setting up new sites…. Continue Reading
How to Troubleshoot WordPress Errors and Glitches
As much as I love WordPress, I’ve certainly done my share of swearing at my computer because the WYSIWYG editor won’t load properly or when I check in on one of my websites and find the theme has decided to self-destruct or there are suddenly database connection errors all over the place. To be fair, the core code of WordPress…. Continue Reading
Local by Flywheel – an Easy Way to Develop WordPress Sites Locally
When you develop a site on your local machine you don’t have to worry about the time and bandwidth used in uploading files, or hiding development sites from view until they’re ready to be published. Having a local version of your site locally also provides you with a staging environment where you can easily test any site changes out of…. Continue Reading
