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

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

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

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

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