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
Beginners Guide
5 Tips to Help Get Your Blog Post Loads of Real Attention
Imagine this: You’ve just finished writing the most epic blog post ever. You’re boiling over with excitement over the buzz your post is going to generate. You hit the publish button and then go watch Game of Thrones. The next day, nobody has visited your blog. Nobody has read your epic post. Why? Because attracting visitors to your blog involves…. Continue Reading
11 Types of Content That Really Drive Traffic
They say that content is king. But to really rule the web, your content has to be epic. Like, really epic. It has to do more than just inform. It has to entertain, grab attention and be able to drive tons of traffic. Unfortunately, a basic blog post isn’t always going to cut it. To fully utilize content marketing, your…. Continue Reading
How to Create a Killer About Page For Your WordPress Blog
The About page is one of the most important pages on your WordPress blog. Yes, the one where you slapped on some info about yourself a year ago and haven’t looked at since. Really, that’s important? Isn’t the About page just something every blogger creates out of a sense of duty? Unfortunately, that is often the case. However, that doesn’t mean…. 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 WordPress Beginners Can Dodge These 7 Common Mistakes
Whenever we learn a new skill, we make mistakes. It’s inevitable. Blogging is no exception. It’s a skill, you’re learning it, and you will make mistakes. But don’t worry about it. The most important thing about making mistakes is learning from them, which is what I’ve done in the five or so years I’ve used WordPress. With that in mind, in…. 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
All You Need to Know About How to Promote WordPress Plugins and Themes
WordPress has given rise to many new forms of business: WordPress developers, designers and content creators (*cough*) to name just a few of them. The masses of people who indirectly make a living through WordPress by using the platform to sell their goods, services and advertise their brick-and-mortar businesses should also not be forgotten. A growing number of WordPresses, however,…. Continue Reading
How To Secure Your WordPress Site: WordPress Security 101
Most hackers don’t want to steal the information you have on your websites. They want to make a stealthy move into your site in order to access the servers. They use these servers to send out spam emails, which in turn potentially helps them profit from gathering financial information from other people. If a hacker sends spam emails from your…. Continue Reading
Choosing a WordPress Theme – The Ultimate Guide
One of the first times I chose a WordPress theme I ended up spending $50 and the theme hardly worked for me. I needed a WordPress theme for a client. This client requested that the theme had fonts and designs that represent their company well, that being a law firm. It needed a space to capture emails at the top,…. Continue Reading
