Making your WordPress site mobile friendly doesn’t stop with responsive design. The user is increasingly choosing to view their favorite publications online via apps, and you can accomplish that same feeling for your WordPress site by taking a few steps to turn it into a Progressive Web Application. In my last post, I offered the […] View original post at …
Use This Test to Find Out Which Plugins are Slowing Down Your WordPress Site
When clients come to you complaining about a slow WordPress site, or you detect issues on your own using a speed testing tool, it’s important to take action fast. For every second your website fails to fully load, it compromises the user experience and costs you conversions. Let’s say you’ve done everything you can to […] View original post at …
How to Redesign an Existing Website and Migrate to Production
If you’re a freelance web designer or developer, or you run an agency, there’s a good chance that a lot of your business will be redesigning existing websites. Most potential clients out there already have a website, but many are old, possibly designed and coded on the cheap, and need a revamp. Some clients will […] View original post at …
What to Do to Merge Digital and Physical Storefronts in WordPress
There was a time a few years ago when I was seeing report after report talking about the impending death of physical storefronts. Working in marketing and web development at the time, I wondered if there was something to that. After all, most of our clients wanted websites that could provide just as robust of […] View original post at …
Get Excited, WordCamp Europe 2018 Is About To Begin
WordCamp is an especially great event wherever it’s held. But, there are some big things happening in WordPress right now, and with WordCamp Europe about to kick off in Serbia, Thursday June 14th, we’re excited to take a look at some of the discussions lined up. If you take a look through the schedule, there […] View original post at …
Should You Start an Anonymous Blog? 8 Reasons to Consider It (And 8 Not To)
There’s no doubt about it: we’re living in a world of over-sharers. Bloggers, social media users, celebrity influencers… It seems like everyone wants to be a Kardashian these days; to give the world a close-up look into what’s happening behind the scenes of their lives or to share every thought that’s running through their head. […] View original post at …
Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags
One of the things I love about WordPress is its flexibility. You can use it to run a simple blog, as a high powered content management system, or to drive custom applications. Within theme development, one aspect that gives you lots of flexibility is the use of template tags. These will dynamically fetch data and […] View original post at …
What Is a Cognitive Walkthrough and Does Your Site Need One?
There are a lot of ways to test the strengths and weaknesses of a WordPress site. And you should be using as many testing methods as possible both before and after launch to ensure that the user experience is always in good shape. Many of the methods for testing the UX of a WordPress site […] View original post at …
Admit it, you still have no idea what GDPR means for your WordPress site
So, you run a WordPress site, and your business is driven by your ability to publish content easily in that system. And today, you’re still not quite sure if GDPR applies to you, and how. You don’t collect any personal data, and you don’t process any transactions. You’re in the clear! Right? Well… Maybe not. […] View original post at …
7 Ways to Optimize Structured Data for Voice in WordPress
You’re already using structured data to improve search queries and results for your site. But have you thought about the use case for structured data as it pertains to voice search? There are a number of reasons why we need to start thinking about this. For one, there’s mobile-first. As more users access your site […] View original post at …