Beginners Guide

Are you looking for a way to embed Google Maps in WordPress? It’s a good skill to have – using a map is an awesome visual tool that allows you to quickly communicate a whole variety of information. If you’re a business, you can use it to show prospective customers where you’re located. Or, if you’re a blogger, you can…. Continue Reading

Are you struggling with how to add a navigation menu to WordPress? WordPress actually includes a fairly user friendly interface to help you add menus to WordPress without needing to know any code. But unless you’re already familiar with WordPress, it can still be difficult to dive in and create your first menu. In this post, I’ll show you everything…. Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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