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
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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
WooCommerce Tutorial: Everything You Need To Launch A Store
Are you looking to create an eCommerce store with WooCommerce? If so, you’re making a great decision! But you might need help getting started with the nitty-gritty details of actually installing and configuring a working WooCommerce store. If that sounds like you – then you’re the perfect person to be reading this WooCommerce tutorial. I’ll cover everything that you need…. 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
Beginner’s Guide: How to Add 301 Redirects to WordPress
Struggling with how to add 301 redirects to WordPress? These nifty redirects are an SEO friendly approach that let you re-route traffic to your site in a number of helpful ways. But they’re also confusing for many casual WordPress users. So, to help you out, I’m going to use this post to dig into 301 redirects as they apply 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
Complete Guide: How To Choose And Install WordPress Plugins
WordPress plugins are helpful extensions that let you add extra functionality to your WordPress site. They can handle small things, like showing related posts to your visitors, as well as large things, like turning your WordPress site into a fully functioning social network or eCommerce store. Pretty much every WordPress site uses at least some plugins. So if you’re using WordPress,…. Continue Reading
Complete Guide: How to Install and Set Up a WordPress Theme
Hey there, fellow WordPress user. I’m guessing you’re here because you browsed through the abundance of WordPress themes out there and picked the perfect WordPress theme for your fledgling WordPress site. Now, you’re budding with excitement and rearing to get started installing your chosen theme on your WordPress site. But…what do you do? How do you install a WordPress theme?…. Continue Reading
9 Best Options for Managed WordPress Hosting Compared
Do you really Need Managed WordPress Hosting? Let’s face it: Running a WordPress blog or site is no easy game. You have to take care of all the content, marketing, site design, social media, and so forth. But before you do that, you have to make sure your WordPress site is running smoothly and your current WordPress hosting provider isn’t…. 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
