You have just three seconds to get something up on a mobile screen before your visitors start bouncing. With a margin of error that narrow, the speed of your website on mobile devices is critically important. That’s where AMP comes in. The Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP Project, is the first to target webpage load speed on mobile devices and to …
How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Issues With Hummingbird for WordPress
Have you ever run your website through Google Pagespeed Insights tool and got the cryptic message: “Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content”? If the answer is “yes,” the good news is you’re not alone. And there’s an easy way to fix it with our Hummingbird performance and optimization plugin. An important part of a good user experience online is …
How to Properly Add jQuery Scripts to WordPress
Despite the fact WordPress has been around for a while, and the method of adding scripts to themes and plugins has been the same for years, there is still some confusion around how exactly you’re supposed to add scripts. So let’s clear it up. Since jQuery is still the most commonly used Javascript framework, let’s take a look at how …
Trackbacks vs Pingbacks vs Webmentions for WordPress
Wouldn’t it be great it there was a standardized way to notify other websites when you link to them? It’d be even better to get an automatic notification when someone else linked to your site. Linkbacks do just that, and there are three different types of linkbacks you can use with your WordPress website. If you’ve spent any time at …
5 Free CSS Plugins for Live Editing Your WordPress Site
Fine tuning how your WordPress site looks on the front-end is faster and easier – not to mention more satisfying – when you can see your changes live as you make them. And the best way to live edit CSS is, of course, with a plugin. Custom CSS plugins are plentiful in the WordPress Plugin Directory. If you’re looking for …
As of Today, We’re Giving Everything Away… For Free!
Happy Friday 🙂 We’re now giving away every single one of our premium plugins and themes 100% free for you to keep and enjoy forever. We’re breaking WordPress. For waaaay too long premium plugins and themes have been constrained by, you know, being “premium.” How do you know whether you like a plugin or enjoy a theme framework when you …
WordPress Multisite Masterclass: Activation and Configuration
Welcome back to our six-part WordPress Multisite masterclass. In part two of this series, you’ll learn how to activate Multisite and get your network up and running. I’ll walk you through the installation process, then show you how to create sites on your network, add users, install themes and plugins and configure your network settings. In this series, you’ll learn …
17 WordPress, Design and Development Email Newsletters You Want in Your Inbox
I read a lot of email newsletters. So many, in fact, that I’m resigned to the fact I’ll never reach inbox zero, and I’m totally fine with that. Why? Because newsletters are awesome, they really are, and I sign up for new ones all the time. I can’t get enough of them. What’s not to like about a curated collection …
Building Customized URLs in WordPress: Permalinks, Query Vars and URL Rewriting
The Rewrite API for WordPress is an important feature that you probably don’t read much about, yet you’re no doubt using without even realizing it. The API provides the functionality for creating your own unique links – permalinks – for your website. In this tutorial, I’ll explain permalinks in-depth – what they are, why they are permanent, their possible structures, …
How to Get More People to Share Your Content on Social Media With WordPress
There’s a formula all of the best bloggers follow: valuable content + proper search engine optimization + semantic relevancy = great rankings in search engine results and high visitor engagement. However, just writing valuable content and following the best SEO and semantic search practices are not enough. In order for your great content to be seen, it needs to be shared. And …