VersionPress Launches VersionPress.com to Fund Open Source Project

The founders of VersionPress have launched VersionPress.com, a WordPress managed hosting service. VersionPress.com is the best of what VersionPress offers paired with features such as, staging sites and backups, on an Amazon Web Services infrastructure. VersionPress is essentially an undo button for WordPress or full version-control. At the click of a button, users can undo an action and restore a site’s database …

How to Properly Compress and Resize Images for WordPress

Getting your images right can be tricky when it comes to improving the performance of your WordPress website. So much so that we’ve had a few members ask our support team about how to properly compress and resize images. In particular, we’ve had a few questions about an image-related recommendation from our Hummingbird performance plugin: […] View original post at …

Adding Custom Images Sizes to the WordPress Media Library

Automatically uploading images into WordPress creates different sizes from the original but, unfortunately, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. The default sizes that are created are thumbnail, medium, large and full-size. But, if you need a different size, such as for products in an eCommerce store, then you can create your own custom size to suit […] View original post at …