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 […]
Bizzy Bizzy is looking for freelance WordPress developers to join our creative team on a project-by-project basis for our 1 Day Websites in Madison, Wisconsin! Sorry, remote working is not possible–these are in-person experiential gigs. Here’s Who We Are Looking For: You are a CSS master with at least 3 years of experience building WordPress websites. […]
This week’s Friday Freebie Giveaway includes an awesome list of WordPress shortcuts! 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)?! These shortcuts […]
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. Read more about the WordPress platform and why it’s the best. Watch the video below for the full tutorial on content planning for your WordPress website. […]
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 […]
Written by Sally Stirn In the words of WordCamp Central “WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.” With a little more than a week of reflection and review I’ve decided to share […]
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 […]
Bluehost, one of the top website hosting companies in the U.S., recently announced it will begin automatically updating their customer’s WordPress websites for security purposes. They sent emails out to their customers with this announcement in August 2015. With the recent increase in hacking attempts on WordPress websites, Bluehost decided to take this somewhat drastic […]
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 […]