WordPress is the most popular website-building platform in the world. Read our top 5 reasons why WordPress is the best, including the open source software, the scalability, the customizability, SEO and price. And also read about the downsides.
You have likely been hearing about Gutenberg, a new editor for WordPress and one of the most significant upgrades in the last several years for the platform. The goal of Gutenberg is to make it easier to design pages with little blocks (Gutenblocks) in WordPress without additional plugins or layout builders and make for a more […]
This week’s Friday Freebie Giveaway includes an awesome list of WordPress shortcuts from iCandy! Download our free PDF of WordPress shortcuts. Print it and post it by your computer and start practicing these handy keyboard strokes. Did you know that “CTRL K” is the shortcut for inserting a link in WordPress (and Gmail and Word and other programs)?! […]
It’s important before building your own WordPress website to plan the pages, text and images that you will have on your site. Watch this video for website content planning techniques. Better description here Watch the video below for the full tutorial on content planning for your WordPress website. Content Planning for Your WordPress Website One […]
This video tutorial shows you how to make a rad looking pages in WordPress with columns, images, text, and all sorts of cool bells and whistles. But these features are not all built into WordPress itself. Most of what we show in this video is coming from the Enfold WordPress theme, which you can buy […]
This all started with you, our customers and followers. At some point, every customer we have built a website for in the past 6 years asked us about search engine optimization (SEO) and wanted to know how to get their business’ website on the first page of Google. Naturally. Who wouldn’t want to know that? The problem […]
If you missed our free SEO (search engine optimization) webinar on Oct. 20, 2015, you can check out this video to hear what was discussed. Learn the basics of SEO within the framework of the garden metaphor and find out how to optimize a WordPress blog article for Google and other search engines using the Yoast SEO […]
Creating a backup of your WordPress website is important before updating versions or in the event your website is infected, corrupted, or lost. You not only need a current copy of the files, but you also need a copy of the database. We like to use a plugin to backup our websites to Dropbox, WordPress Backup to […]
This is important security information about your WordPress website. There has been a recent increase in the past 6 months of global cyber attacks, especially against websites built with open source software such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. In addition, there have been several major new vulnerabilities discovered in popular WordPress plug-ins. The reason why more […]
Have you ever noticed when you embed a video from YouTube into your WordPress page or blog post, there are (sometimes strange) videos that show when you’re video is over? Most of the times you don’t want this to happen because you can’t control which videos are displayed. Here’s how you prevent those videos from showing […]