WordPress

WordPress accounts for over 35% of the entire websites on the web as it is the most commonly used CMS in the world. If you are new to the world of websites or blogging, the question that would probably be on your mind is what is WordPress? When you start navigating google search, scrolling down the pages you will come across a large number of websites that are primarily built on WordPress. However, there are other web creation tools available in the market that are providing great CMS features but, no one is quite as popular as WordPress. The manifest reason behind...

When you own your website for a long period of time, you are prone to customizations and changes on daily basis. These are usually small changes, but one day you decide to go all in because you figured out a new angle on how to make your website extra amazing by starting over and building a new one, but without the rookie mistakes this time. You’ve got the themes, you’ve got the plugins, settings, customizations, content, you’ve got it all right; except for one itsy bittsy tiny detail. You will have to change your URL...and nobody will recognize that it's only...

As the years go by, the competition in digital marketing is getting tighter. More and more businesses are realizing how beneficial digital marketing is. This would only mean more competition for your website. And, you cannot just let that pass you by! You need to be competitive and enure you do the necessary things that will let you stay on top. If your website is built in WordPress, then you are one of the lucky people who can have it the easy way! WordPress is a very SEO-friendly platform that can be beneficial especially to those that are still starting out...

Cybercrime and hacking of websites are on the rise each day. Many businesses are facing a challenge on how to keep their websites secure. Millions of new and startup businesses are creating websites for their business every day. Websites are vulnerable to attacks and the right measure to protect your business website and your clients' data is essential. This article will act as a guide on how you can secure your WordPress website and run your online business well. Have Security Updates Plugins and themes get outdated with time. It is essential to update them regularly to secure your website. Your WordPress website will notify...

Without any iota of doubt, one of the best ways to increase the scope of the audience of your website is to grow your subscription rate. With a good subscription base, you would be assured of a constant range of visitors. Nevertheless, getting a long list of email addresses may seem tedious, time-consuming, and slow. And this is why it is always a good idea to try a simple pop-up. Using a pop-up is a good way to get more people to subscribe to your website. Although it may be interrupting and annoying sometimes, trust me, it works. Take for...

Released on December 6, 2018, the WordPress 5.0 is the latest version of the popular WordPress content management system. Previous versions of the editor launched with significant experience-changing features like dedicated media widgets, customizable design etc. The WordPress 5.0 aka "WordPress 5.0 Bebo", however, is more like the mother of all WordPress updates so far as it brings with it a new default editor, new default theme, and a handful of features that changes (almost) everything. This aims to highlight the new additions and modifications that comes with the new WordPress CMS and how to use some of them. WordPress 5.0 Bebo:...

Sharing your thoughts, to reach a large number of audience, has never been this simple, easy and fun. With the rise and growth of different online platforms to express yourself, it takes only dedication,  determination, good content, and the best platforms to project what you have to offer, and who you are to the whole world. Some people have chosen different social media platforms,  such as Twitter,  Instagram, and Facebook, to project their ideas, while others have gone in the direction of creating websites,  to reach a wider and centralized audience. Creating and running a  website can be fun and exciting, ...

An extension of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) allows a secure way of communicating over the internet or any network. In February 2018, Google announced that starting July 2018, Chrome will start displaying a ‘Not Secure’ label in the address bar for sites who do not have an HTTPS domain. Hence, many websites have started moving their websites to HTTPS. In this article, we will offer a step-by-step guide for moving your WordPress website to HTTPS. Step 1 – Create a Website Backup Whether you are moving your website to HTTPS or incorporating any other major...

There’s no denying that WordPress comprises a large part of our Internet usage. With so many people running blogs now, around 20 million websites are connected to this platform in some manner. WordPress might have simply started out as an open-source platform for blogging, but is now a major content management system (CMS). However, when you use this CMS, you must also consider certain practices in order to secure your business. You can exercise more control when you use WordPress on AWS or Amazon Web Services, but you must retain it. Not sure why this is relevant or how to go...

One of the worst things that could happen to your WordPress website is waking up one day to see all your files (read: days, nights, months, and years of hard work)... gone! And there are a number of things that can cause this unfortunate event of website and data loss or breakdown: installing a bad or corrupt plugin, incorrect/accidental clicks, actions of hackers etc. Any website can get hacked or have its data accidentally deleted. Even worse, WordPress websites are particularly almost always at the forefront of several report malicious attacks. However, there are countermeasures you can have in place to...

Want to start a membership-focused platform for your business or subscription service? If yes, the next best thing to do after hosting your website with one of the best WordPress hosting provider is to install a WordPress membership plugin. Or perhaps you want to convert your regular WordPress website into a fully functional membership platform? You'd need to have a WordPress membership plugin installed. Amassing a list of loyal registered members and followers comes with many advantages and these membership plugins possess the required features to grow and manage your followers and platform. Membership sites are fast growing to become the next big...

WordPress or not, pretty much every website on the internet used images or gifs. Incorporating images in your websites helps pass some messages across to your readers and visitors better than texts would. Interestingly, WordPress, as the best and most used content management system (CMS), comes with some photo gallery features built-in as a part of its core functionalities. However, as with many core functionalities of WordPress, the default image gallery that ships with the CMS lack some basic and advanced features users might need. Luckily, there are plugins that allow users do much more than a standard WordPress gallery. Asides adding basic...

A crucial part of digital marketing is ensuring that your website is visible to anyone who is searching for solutions online related to your industry. After all, a website doesn’t serve its purpose if there are no visitors to it. There are a lot of things you can do to get visitors to your website. One of them is the most obvious. In fact, you should not launch your website if you are not doing WordPress SEO. Basically, it is optimizing the WordPress site and observing SEO measures from the backend of your website. In this article, we will share a...

If you own a website, you know that running it is a tiresome and time-consuming job. But you need to understand that you don’t have to do everything by yourself. If you’re running your website on the WordPress platform, there are multiple plugins to help you automate your website and save some time. Some processes like scheduling, monetization, publishing frequency, and marketing can take too much time, but they can all be automated with the help of certain WordPress plugins. So let’s take a look at the top 5 WordPress plugins that will help you automate tasks on your website. 1. BackupBuddy for...

You probably have heard that WordPress is the best content management system to use on your website. And best case, you have registered your domain, hosted your WordPress website, and beautified it with the best WordPress themes and templates. Now you're looking --perhaps too hard-- for the best free WordPress plugins to have on your website out of the numerous must-haves. These free WordPress plugins can do a lot for you as a website owner: save money as they are available for free at zero cost, helps improve your site's functionality, enhance SEO, create contact forms, add more beautiful pages to...

What are the Best WordPress eCommerce Plugins? Years ago, building, maintaining, and running an online store was a very complicated task that required a lot of technical know-hows. Today, it is so easy that with the click of a few buttons, you can create an online store for your business in hours. Better yet, you can even convert your existing blog to an e-commerce platform with the right tools. These tools are called eCommerce plugins. So, let's say you run a blog or a website on WordPress, and you want to make more money online by selling some of the books...

With the Best WordPress SEO Plugins, you can improve the visibility of your website on the internet. Search engines have grown to become one of the leading sources of traffic for many websites and businesses. Not just traffic, but also for improving lead conversions, growing your business' customer base, as well as increasing income. Millions of internet users are actively searching for solutions to a problem, answers to a question, and all sorts of information as each second passes. To divert these info-hungry users to your website, your business undeniably needs a reliable SEO strategy in place. But since SEO trends...

Are you looking for the Best WordPress Security Plugins? You are in the right place. It is a known fact that WordPress is the most used content management system (CMS) powering almost a hundred million websites in the world. Due to this popularity, it makes senses to naturally believe that WordPress website are always at risks from being penetrated by the bad guys. Albeit WordPress uses one of the most secure frameworks in the world and regularly receives security patch updates, your WordPress site is still very much vulnerable to all kinds of security threats. So, in light of the above,...

You have freshly hosted your website one of the best WordPress hosting companies and newly installed WordPress to be the back-end CMS system of your new website. You have also picked out the best theme and template for your site to run on from one of the best WordPress theme marketplaces. Everything's looking good. Next step is to get your website into action by lacing it with some extra tools and functionalities to help get your platform in the right direction. Yes? That's where plugins come in. WordPress plugins are extensively vital tools to successfully running your WordPress websites. And while there...

If you want to start a blog or build a website with WordPress, getting the best WordPress theme for your blog or website will be one of your top priorities. Here, we will be taking a look at some of the best places to find paid and free WordPress themes for your new website or blog. A theme is also referred to as a 'template' and installing one is vital to publishing webpages and ultimately, setting up your e-commerce website, blog, or any WordPress powered website in general. In lieu of building your website from the ground up (a time and...