The WordPress admin is fairly straightforward to use no matter where you live in the world since it has been translated into many different languages. The trickiest part is knowing where to grab a translated copy. While WordPress can be downloaded in US English by default, the WordPress.org download page doesn’t provide any obvious directions on how […] View original post at …
Learn WordPress and Dream Big: Academy Courses Now Available On-Demand
All courses in our online learning school, The Academy, are now available to enroll in and complete at any time! Yes, we’ve scrapped start and end dates for courses and removed the week-by-week release of units. Now you can join a course at any time, work through the videos, tutorials and assessments at your own […] View original post at …
How to Add Medium’s Most Popular Features to WordPress
High-profile blogging platform Medium has lost some of its shine since one-third of staff were let go last, and this week announcing a paid membership subscription program. These business changes offer a solid reminder that companies come and go, and the wise content producer maintains a home on the web with a platform that will […] View original post at …
12 Steps to Building a Small Business Website with WordPress
Setting up a website for your business can be costly if you are using professional web designers and developers. Fortunately, if you’re anticipating that your website isn’t going to be too complex with too many pages and features, you can design and build your site yourself using several cost-effective tools. In this guide, I’m going […] View original post at …
How to Add and Customize Video Headers in WordPress
WordPress 4.7 introduced the concept of video headers built right into the core software. This visual element is nothing new – we’ve seen it on countless sites and themes – but building it into core makes it considerably more approachable than before. According to WordPress.org: In this post, I’ll walk you through how to use the […] View original post at …
How to Create and Style Callout Boxes in WordPress
If you’re a regular reader of news sites or magazines, you’ll notice that they sometimes use something called “callouts” or a “blockquotes” to highlight key text. These are a great way of breaking up long chunks of text and drawing the reader’s attention to key points and interesting quotes. They’re used a lot in interviews […] View original post at …
How to Easily Set Up a Staging Site for WordPress on Cheap Shared Hosting
If you’re relatively new to developing websites, or you’ve been managing your own WordPress site for a while but haven’t delved into the world of web development, you may have heard people talking about staging sites and wondered what they are. You may have heard people saying that setting up a staging site is best […] View original post at …
How to Restore WordPress When It’s Down or Locked with Snapshot Pro
Losing your WordPress site to a hacker or a silly mistake on your part and then not having a backup to restore it is – say it with me – the worst. Luckily, Snapshot Pro can get you back up and running, even when your site’s down or locked up. Snapshot Pro is a backup plugin that also […] View original post at …
20 SEO Steps to Check Off Before Launching a New Website
You’re about to wrap up work on a new website, and it feels great… for the most part. Sure, the design looks great, the calls-to-action are bold and beautiful, and the copy is incredibly engaging. So, what could be missing? When you get to the end (or near the end) of your web design project, […] View original post at …
Using the Wayback Machine to Archive (and Backup) Your WordPress Site
Sometimes, WordPress backups fail and restoring your many blog posts and pages can become a brutal challenge. Fortunately, archiving them using the Wayback (time) Machine can make them easily recoverable. Sure, you can’t actually go back in time, but using the Wayback Machine isn’t far off. It archives public web documents to preserve human culture for future […] View original post at …