Custom fields are an often under-used aspect of WordPress. But with a bit of imagination and some custom code, you can do all sorts of fun things with them. In this post, I’m going to show you how to combine custom fields (or post metadata if you’re being particular) with the WP_Query class to output […] View original post at …
Adding Icon Fonts to WordPress With Better Font Awesome
People are naturally drawn to the visual aspects of a WordPress website, just as much as they are drawn to the written content you share. In fact, according to internet marketer Jeff Bullas, articles with images get 94% more views than articles without images. That’s a huge increase in pageviews if you ask me. And […] View original post at …
How to Prepare Your WordPress Site for a Surge in Traffic
OK, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for: there’s a huge surge in traffic on your WordPress site. Success! But then you get a message from Hummingbird or your web host or whatever uptime monitoring service you use, and it’s saying your site’s gone down. What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks? Right. So let’s focus on the […] View original post at …
How to Fix “Not Allowed to Access this Page” Error in WordPress
Picture this: You’re working away on your WordPress site and then bam! You see this puzzling and face contorting error: “How is this even a thing?” you quietly shout. “I am allowed to access this page. I’m the admin!” The frustration continues when you realize the fix isn’t so cut and dry since there are multiple […] View original post at …
7 Simple, No-Brainer Experiments for A/B Testing Newbies
Marketers, developers, site admins—whoever you are, you got to love the person who created the A/B test. I like to imagine them sitting at their desk one day, frustrated with how much time they were spending revising a client’s website, but with little payoff to show for it in the end. Then a literal lightbulb […] View original post at …
Working With Clients Who Want a Redesign: A Rebranding Checklist
So, you’ve been approached by a client to help with rebranding their WordPress site. That can be a tricky request. When you’re the one initiating a redesign, you’re prepared for the conversation. You’ve assessed the “suckage” of their website and understand why it’s a fixer-upper.When they come to you wanting a rebrand, it isn’t as […] View original post at …
How to Make WordPress Comments Completely, Totally Stop
For some of the websites you create, comments are completely unnecessary. Sometimes it’s a matter of not wanting people to comment on your pages. Posts are fine, but why does WordPress even think that pages would need comments? Then there’s the fact that some comments present a security risk if they contain suspicious links that […] View original post at …
How to Add Google Analytics Tracking Code to WordPress
When you think about the greatest pairings of all time, you probably think about duos like Batman and Robin, Mickey and Minnie, and peanut butter and jelly. I mean, you can’t find more compatibility than those couples, right? Then again, there is the very modern duo of WordPress and Google Analytics. While they might not […] View original post at …
How to Get Your WordPress Site on the First Page of Google
The question of this generation seems to be: “How do I get more traffic?” One of the biggest pieces of the answer lies in understanding how to get Google’s search hive-mind to find your content and present it in search results, but this can be an incredibly complicated thing to do. There are tons of […] View original post at …
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 …