WordPress theme development is never easy. It requires a lot of patience, skill and stress. It will probably take you a lot of time and effort to start creating themes from scratch. Not to mention the security dangers and bugs that will come as WordPress updates come every now and then. Of course, if you’re a kick-butt designer, you would…. Continue Reading
Beginners Guide
How Much Does It Really Cost To Start A WordPress Site
Even though WordPress’ services are generally free, managing a WordPress site really isn’t. Yes, while it is true that up to now, WordPress is free there are a lot of costs entailed in the site management side of things that is no joke. Of course, you can always try out a WordPress.com blog and casually create content in it. You…. Continue Reading
How to Install WordPress Locally on a Windows Computer
WordPress is without doubt the best Content Management System on the web bar none, this is coming from someone who has used all of the popular content management systems around. Installing WordPress on your own server is a piece of cake with the simple one-click install, this is something that even non technical and senior citizens are able to do…. Continue Reading
Making a Church Website With WordPress
More and more church websites are being made with WordPress. WordPress powers more than 20% of all websites in the world. This figure is incredible but not surprising. There are many advantages to making a website with WordPress and churches are taking notice. Churches are saying no to expensive proprietary church website solutions and yes to WordPress, a flexible platform that’s easy for church staff…. Continue Reading
Schedule and Automate WordPress Tasks with IFTTT
Setting up automated tasks for WordPress, like taking a backup every time a post is published or sharing posts in social media networks can be a real time consuming process. What if there was a service that could do it all for you? Something like a mute Siri? Just as you could ask Siri to wake you up at 7:30…. Continue Reading
An Introduction to Custom Post Types in WordPress
If you’ve just started tinkering under the hood of WordPress, you’ve probably come across custom post types or you may have noticed that many themes come with their own custom post types. If you’re wondering what exactly a custom post type is and what is it for, you’re not alone! In fact, the phrase “custom post types” is a bit…. Continue Reading
How to Reduce the Bounce Rate of Your WordPress Website
Your bounce rate is a measure of how quickly people are visiting your site and then clicking away straight away again. While this isn’t always a bad thing (if your main goal is to get visitors to click an advertising banner, you’d hope for a high bounce rate, likewise if your website consists of only one page, you’re always going…. Continue Reading
The Best Free and Premium CDNs for WordPress
A Content Delivery Networks (CDN) is a service that you use to speed up your site and decrease its load time by a significant amount. Thanks to the immense popularity and user friendliness of WordPress, integrating a CDN in your WordPress powered site is a piece of cake! In today’s article, we’re going to take a look at some of…. Continue Reading
A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Redesign in WordPress
As design trends come and go so fast, it’s easy for your website to start looking dated if you don’t update the design every couple of years or so. WordPress has made it easy to switch to a new theme without affecting the content of your site – you don’t have to spend days doing an elaborate switchover anymore. However…. Continue Reading
How to Install and Setup W3 Total Cache Plugin and MaxCDN
W3 Total Cache is one of the leading caching plugins available for WordPress, along with WP Super Cache, with both receiving downloads in the millions. These plugins enable you to speed up the time it takes for your site to load, reducing the time visitors have to wait for your content to be displayed. In basic terms, they deliver this…. Continue Reading
