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How to Retain Custom CSS When Updating a WordPress Theme
Themes determine the layout and appearance of WordPress websites. Regardless of which theme you go with, you might need to customize it a bit to suit your specific needs. One way to customize your theme…
WordPress Development: What Are Custom Fields and How Do You Use Them?
WordPress has many advanced features for customization, one of which is the ability to create custom fields. Whether you’re building a blog, a local business website, an e-commerce store, or any other WordPress-powered site, you…
20 Common WordPress SEO Mistakes to Avoid
The importance of search engine optimization (SEO) for any business, big or small, needs no introduction. And when it comes to SEO, WordPress is an excellent CMS choice out of the box. Not to mention…
7 Mistakes to Avoid When Using Canonical Tags on Your WordPress Website
As a professional WordPress designer or developer, you need to be thinking ahead as you build sites for your clients. And, one of those things you need to keep an eye out for is duplicate…
15 Ways to Improve WordPress Performance
Your WordPress site’s performance can be directly tied to your user satisfaction, search engine rankings, and ultimately, your revenue. Yeah, it’s that important. Without proper optimization, your site will get slower over time. However, it…
Collect Those Coins: How to Generate More MRR with Add-On Services
When I was younger – and even today – I was obsessed with the Nintendo game Mario Bros. And, by obsessed, I mean I would replay level after level to ensure I collected every possible…
How to Protect Your WordPress Website From Content Scrapers
Are content scrapers targeting your WordPress website? Consisting of bots that crawl the internet while copying content, they can prove troublesome for several reasons. Content scrapers will consume bandwidth and server resources, which could lead…
WordPress Speed Problems: Is It Your Host or Website?
Think of your website like a building. The structure is your code and database, the land it is built on is your hosting provider or server, and its address is your domain name. In order…
13 Great WordPress Plugins Your Site Needs
There are currently over 75 million WordPress sites available online. If you are putting together or upgrading a WordPress site, selecting and implementing plugins is essential for the development process. The right plugins can help…
How to Increase Your WooCommerce Security
Got a WooCommerce store? You’re far from alone, the plugin powers millions of online stores, with its users running the gamut from tiny one-person operations to huge corporations. Yet there’s one thing that all of these…
10 Pro Tips for Securing Your WordPress Websites
WordPress is one of the most popular site building tools on the market, and for good reason. It offers great flexibility and the power to build the customized site you need. But it’s also important…
WordPress Website Migration Doesn’t Need to be Frightening
WordPress is the most popular CMS platform in the world. It’s easy to sign up, it’s user-friendly, and offers a variety of plug-ins. But there may come a time when you want to migrate from…
3 Reasons to Change Your WordPress Host Provider
Bills that just keep getting bigger. Wait times with support that just keep getting longer. And your websites just never seem to load. Do any of these sound familiar to you? Then you’re probably sick…
Using wp_query to expand your WordPress Site’s Functions
WordPress developers are constantly looking at ways to improve the functionality and performance of their clients’ sites. To aid in this effort, WordPress includes an extensive library of functions that can be used to add features and functionality to…
Why You Need a 24/7 Support Partner and Managed Hosting
One of the biggest changes in the hosting space over the past decade has been the introduction of fully managed WordPress hosting. 10 years ago if you wanted to host your WordPress site, your only…
Page Redirection: How to Set up Redirects in WordPress
One of the biggest reasons why WordPress is so popular is because there is pretty much a plugin to help solve any problem you may have. One of the most common problems we get asked about…
How To Tell The Perfect Customer Story
We asked our friends at Flank, an agency that specializes in startup marketing, to share some of their knowledge about leveraging customer success stories in digital marketing. Unlike interviewing your colleague at the next desk…
7 Most Common WordPress Developer Mistakes
One of the best things about WordPress is that it’s open source. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can get online and begin using it. Heck, with enough coding knowledge and drive, they…
WordPress Performance Issues: Is It Your Server or Your Site?
A website is like a building. The structure is your code and database, the land it is on is your server, and its address is your domain name. In order for a user to have…
GitHub and CircleCI Deployment via SFTP
The tutorial will focus on setting up CircleCI config.yml file to deploy the master branch of a GitHub repository via SFTP. To follow along with this tutorial you will need: 1. A theme or plugin that you…
How You Can Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites
If you’re a developer or run an agency, then you’re probably going to be managing multiple WordPress websites. Managing multiple WordPress sites can end up being extremely time consuming, and that’s not even including the…
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