Almost everything you own requires maintenance. Your car, your home, your computer — even yourself. Not surprisingly, your WordPress website is no different. Of course, you could choose to forego maintenance on any one of those items, but doing so comes with a risk. Take for example your WordPress website. When it’s first set up and installed, everything runs smoothly,…. Continue Reading
Small Business Owners: Attract and Retain More Customers With the Power of WordPress
WordPress is the content management system of choice for many small business owners, and for good reason. Whether you’re running an online business or a brick and mortar shop, WordPress has the potential to be a valuable asset — adding efficiency, improving customer communication and boosting your marketing efforts with relative ease. What’s surprising is that very few business owners…. Continue Reading
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website Using Gonzales
Speeding up your WordPress website is like an art form. Everyone is capable of doing it in some fashion, yet everyone has a different way of going about it. Though there is no set consensus on how to achieve the fastest website around, the truth remains that website visitors want fast loading webpages and will go elsewhere if they don’t…. Continue Reading
WordPress and WordPress Themes: Yes, They’re Different. But…
I remember the days when I was just like you. I had no idea what a web host was, what WordPress really was, and terms like themes and plugins were completely lost on me. I’m serious: No idea… If this is you — don’t feel bad. Everyone has a starting point and soon enough you’re going to understand all of…. Continue Reading
16 Useful Code Snippets for WordPress
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
