Beginners Guide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Content scraping is essentially the act of copying the content from one site and publishing it on another.  If you are publishing content online then there is a good chance that you have been a victim of content scraping at some point. Content scraping is usually carried out in one of two ways. One popular method is to use a…. Continue Reading

Once you’ve been blogging for a short while, you will more than likely start receiving notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. While they both can serve a genuine purpose, they can also cause problems in terms of misleading your readers, maliciously or deceptively adding irrelevant links to your blog posts, and even negatively affecting your site’s position in the search engines….. Continue Reading

Recently we covered how to optimise your images for SEO purposes, in order to help increase the visibility of your site in search engines like Google. Today we are going to look at how to work with your images more effectively in WordPress. While it is easy enough to upload images into your site, ensuring they are optimized to reduce…. Continue Reading