Category: WordPress
3 Basic Steps to Setting Up WordPress
For many people, setting up a website is a bit scary. WordPress has worked hard to make this as painless as possible, even for novices. Your host service, which puts your website up on the World Wide Web and keeps it there, has a lot to do with how easily you can get started with […]
Continue ReadingWordPress.com vs WordPress.org: What’s the Difference?
WordPress is the world’s most popular content management software. It’s used for blogging and to create websites. According to Torque, WordPress sites hosted by WordPress.com or external hosts* published 17 posts every second in 2014. That’s a lot of websites. Who’s providing all this WordPress hosting? There are a lot of website hosting services out […]
Continue ReadingHow to Speed Up Your WordPress Site: Part 2 – Page Caching
← Part 1 – WordPress Hosting Have you noticed that certain pages on your WordPress site take longer to download? This is not an unusual problem. Some pages will have more information than others to download. Graphics are a common reason for slower downloads, along with poorly-written codes. Page caching can help speed up download […]
Continue Reading5 Ways to Improve Your WordPress Newsletter
Your newsletter subscribers will be delighted with your content when you use great plugins. If you have a blog or website, you need an email newsletter. Newsletters are the single best way to keep readers updated about new posts, new products, and sales or other promotions. Newsletters can be personalized to create a connection with […]
Continue ReadingHow to Speed Up Your WordPress Site: Part 1 – WordPress Hosting
Businesses that use WordPress have freed marketing staff and writers from relying on outsiders to manage their content. With WordPress, it can all be done in-house. This also raises expectations for results. Marketing staff and content writers scrutinize Google Analytics for site statistics and conversion rates. One item they may not have paid enough attention […]
Continue ReadingRecurring Payments in WordPress
How to setup recurring payments in WordPress? Ecommerce sites that use WordPress already have a leg up on the competition because they’re using software that’s extremely responsive to customisation. Shopping cart software is essential for stand-alone ecommerce sites (those that do not work through platforms like Amazon and Etsy). Trouble is, many software packages are […]
Continue ReadingProtect WordPress with Google reCAPTCHA
Using Google reCAPTCHA for security in WordPress and even in PHP is extremely easy. What is Google reCAPTCHA? reCAPTCHA is a security captcha that checks if a user is not a bot by requesting verification. The user responds to the captcha and then the response is validated to ensure that the user is human and proceed […]
Continue ReadingReplace WordPress Cron with Real Cron for Site Speed
How to replace your WordPress cron job with a server cron job to increase site speed. We can all relate to a slow WordPress website with a very long request times. Most of us have also seen the WordPress “Missed Schedule” error message for content such as future scheduled posts that were supposed to be […]
Continue ReadingWordPress Browser Caching
Speed up your WordPress website drastically with the use of leverage browser caching, also known as expires caching. Many speed optimisation and test providers will refer to this as “Browser Cache“, “Leverage Browser Caching“, “Expires Headers“, “Cache Headers“, “Cache-Control” and “Web Cache“. As indicated by Google PageSpeed Insights, GTMetrix and MaxCDN follow this guide to […]
Continue ReadingBest WordPress Comment Form
What is the Best WordPress Comment Form? Everyone says it’s important to engage with your website users in order to build your brand and make more sales. Blog comment threads are a great way to engage with site users, because they give you information on what your visitors are interested in, and may allow you […]
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