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
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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
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
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
WordPress.com Versus WordPress.org: Which WordPress Version is Best for Me?
The world loves WordPress, doesn’t it? The headline figures are certainly impressive: WordPress powers around a quarter of the net. If you’re relatively new to WordPress, you might not realize that there are actually two versions of WordPress, though. WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Both WordPress.com and WordPress.org use the same core WordPress software, so it’s easy to confuse them as the…. Continue Reading
WordPress SEO by Yoast vs All in One SEO Pack: Which is the Best SEO plugin?
Fact: Every new WordPress installation requires an SEO plugin to improve search engine rankings. Yes, WordPress already has SEO tools pre-installed, but when you use a plugin it allows you to take full control over what’s being shown to the search engines, and you’re more likely to understand how your articles and website pages look to the search engines. A…. Continue Reading
What is a Gravatar and Why You Should Get One
Have you ever wondered why some people have a nice photo next to their name when they comment on various websites? In some cases, it’s an actual photo of the individual and sometimes it’s a piece of clipart most commonly known as an avatar. And in some cases, the image that appears is a white icon of a person against…. Continue Reading
