It’s the little things that make a difference, right? That’s part of what makes WordPress so great – the number of ways in which it can be customized to meet your specific needs is virtually limitless. Sure you can find plugins to meet just about every need imaginable but if you can find a simple snippet to get the job…. Continue Reading
Improving WordPress Site Performance With Prefetching and Prerendering
The never ending quest to improve the performance of our WordPress sites requires a wide arsenal of tricks, not just caching. Two important and related tools, are telling the browser which domains to be prepared to load, and which pages to start loading in the background. This way the browser is able to load links the user is likely to…. Continue Reading
How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Have on a Site?
Do you have any idea how many WordPress plugins you should actually have on your site? This is the age old question that confuses WordPress beginners and usually creates a bit of a debate between WordPress developers, because all WordPress users are interested in plugins for things like comment spam moderation and landing pages. Plugins are one of the main…. Continue Reading
Built in WordPress Options You Have to Know & Use
WordPress has completely redefined web publishing on so many levels, but mainly by so lowering the entry bar that you can hop on the tube, and create a fully-fledged WordPress site before the next stop. You don’t even need to spend coin to own a blog, WordPress.com has your back covered with a free solution. And should you need more features and…. Continue Reading
Optimus Plugin: Affordable Lossless Image Compression For WordPress
I’m not a control freak, honestly. But when it comes to images, I’ve always felt that manual optimization using old school Adobe Fireworks was the better way to go. While it may not be the most efficient use of my time, with practice I’ve whittled the process down to 30 seconds or less per image. Nevertheless, I was curious how…. Continue Reading
So You Want To Sell WordPress Plugins?
The WordPress economy is growing, and it is growing fast. With new sites being created constantly, and a growing demand for solutions to streamline the process of creating a site there is a ton of room for new products and services in this ecosystem. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to just put something out there and make a ton of…. Continue Reading
How to Add Dummy Content to a WordPress Website
It’s always exciting to install WordPress and your favorite theme on a fresh domain, isn’t it? After just a few minutes of setup, you’re sat looking at a beautiful, unrestrictive blank canvas that you can mold into any type of website – the only limit is your imagination. But not every WordPress user wants a blank canvas, however. This is…. Continue Reading
Top 7 Ways To Make Running Your eCommerce Store Easier
Many have found a large amount of success in starting and running their very own WordPress powered online store. With great tools like WooCommerce and even others like Shopify, building and creating beautiful e-commerce stores has never been easier which means that more people are jumping at the chance to create a money e-store of their own.
WordPress Categories & Tags: Are They Actually Necessary and How Should You Use Them?
One of the WordPress features that baffles newbies and experienced users is Categories and Tags. It’s not hard to understand why – who knew, in the beginning, that every post must belong to at least one category? WordPress does it for you; hence the oh-so-ugly Uncategorized category. There’s no hint to the importance of creating new categories so you can…. Continue Reading
Must Follow Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Groups for WordPress
It’s not often I go a day without checking out my social media pages, and I assume many of you are the same way. Whether you flip through your Facebook feed to click on the onslaught of Buzzfeed posts or you mosey around on Twitter to catch up on the hottest news, there is certainly plenty of time wasted on…. Continue Reading
