When you think about all the elements on your site that contribute to a content-first strategy, does internal site search spring to mind? Probably not. After all, search bars are there to improve your visitors’ experience as they try to find what they need while navigating around your site. How could it have any effect […] View original post at …
WordPress Multisite: Subdomains or Subdirectories?
When you activate Multisite on your WordPress installation, there are a number of things you need to consider and decide, such as whether you’ll let your users create their own sites, what themes and plugins you’ll make available and your registration settings. But the one decision that’s very difficult to reverse is whether to use […] View original post at …
10 Steps to Finishing a Website Project So Everyone’s Happy
Approaching the finish line of a web development project is an exciting time. Knowing that you’re almost done is part of the excitement, but there’s also a sort of rush you get as you tick off those last pieces before launch. As any good project manager will tell you, though, a live website is not […] View original post at …
The Most Complete 101+ Step WordPress Checklist Ever
Some might say that it’s easy getting a WordPress website up and running. And truth be told, it is. But when you’re actually creating a new WordPress website from scratch, for a client, well, things tend to get a bit more complicated. This is the last WordPress website creation checklist you’ll ever need. Today, we’re […] View original post at …
9 Stunning CSS Button Libraries and Collections for WordPress
Think about how many times you click or tap or press on something over the course of a day. In fact, it’s probably so ingrained in you to click before trying any other action that it can be confusing to encounter something that looks clickable but in actuality doesn’t do anything. Buttons are generally the […] View original post at …
Smush Now Lets You Optimize Images Stored in the Cloud
We’re celebrating Smush surpassing 800,000 active installs with a killer new feature! Now you can Smush and optimize images that you are storing on Amazon S3. Smush is the clear choice when it comes to WordPress image compression and optimization. Thanks to your support, it has been named the 2017 plugin of the year. So with 1 million […] View original post at …
User Testing Your WordPress Site or Product on a Budget
There are a lot of different tests you can perform on your WordPress website – A/B testing, mobile/responsive design testing, browser testing. And then there’s usability testing. Usability testing is a hot topic for web design and SEO, and for good reason. Bad usability impacts how a person uses your website, which can affect conversions and, ultimately, rankings […] View original post at …
15 Ways to Get High-Quality Backlinks to Your WordPress Site
Do you remember when black hat SEO was a major problem? Google eventually caught on to these unethical SEO tactics employed by shady (and, let’s be honest, lazy) people, so it may not have had a chance to get too close to you. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever had a client ask if you knew where […] View original post at …
What the New Webmention and Annotation W3C Standards Mean for WordPress
Commenting on blog posts and other website articles is a divisive topic in web circles. WPMU DEV has as many articles about dispensing with comments altogether as it does with fostering conversation through WordPress! I am firmly in the blogs-as-conversation camp, so I was excited to learn about two new standards seeking to enhance conversation […] View original post at …
Building a Successful Self-Service Support Website with WordPress
Have you been inside a restaurant like Applebee’s or Red Robin lately? Well, if you haven’t, I’d urge you to do so because a lot has changed in the past few years what with rising costs. One of the ways these restaurants have been successful maintaining profits? By removing the human element and installing self-service […] View original post at …

