I’m a woman obsessed. So once I decided I wanted to get that perfect 100 score from Google PageSpeed Insights, I went for it and wouldn’t. Let. Go. I challenged myself to make it happen with a larger site because, well, you gotta just go for it sometimes! I figured it would be easy given […] View original post at …
How to Solve the Parse and Syntax Error in WordPress
There’s a small group of befuddling errors that elbow themselves in, front and center, on your WordPress site, forcefully ripping it down from the world wide web: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected…” “Notice: Use of undefined constant…” “Parse error: unexpected…” All you did was add a bit of code to adjust the look of your […] View original post at …
How to Move Your Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org: Step-By-Step Guide
When you’re ready to scale up your WordPress.com blog or website without limits, migrating to a self-hosted WordPress.org site is the best way to go. You can get full reign over your site’s design and functionality, as well as access help from people in the WordPress community (and us here at WPMU DEV!) when you’re […] View original post at …
Ultimate Guide to WordPress Migrations and SEO: Post-Migration Tasks and Testing
Moving a WordPress website is straight forward enough (if you know what you’re doing, that is – and if not, here’s how). But it’s important to be aware of the possible fall-out and impacts on your SEO. This is part two of a two-part series on WordPress Migrations and SEO. In part one, we looked at how […] View original post at …
How to Back Up Your WordPress Backups for Bulletproof Protection
Of course you back up your websites! But what if something were to happen to your backups? Do you have a plan B in place to cover that possibility? You may think I’m being alarmist, but I think I’m only being realistic. Recent events have shown that the only way to really keep your data […] View original post at …
How to Customize the Free Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme for Business
Twenty Seventeen ships as the new default theme with WordPress 4.7. This business-oriented theme marks a noteworthy departure from the blog-centric default themes of the past and reflects WordPress’ broader transition from a blogging platform into a platform well-suited to creating all sorts of websites. If you plan to try out Twenty Seventeen you’ll figure […] View original post at …
Fixing the Pesky 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress
When your website throws up a 403 error with “Forbidden” plastered across the top in imposing bold letters, it’s just a bit rude, right? I mean, it’s your website and you can’t access it. The nerve! I mean, you’re the site administrator or even the owner and your site has locked you out. Fortunately, troubleshooting and fixing this error so …
Ultimate Guide to WordPress Migrations and SEO: Pre-Migration Prep
There are many reasons you might need to migrate a WordPress site – a change of domain name or perhaps moving a blog from a subdomain to a subdirectory. Whatever the reason, it is important to factor in SEO when considering a WordPress migration. But why, exactly, do you need to keep SEO in mind? There are many signals that can affect organic …
Are Weak Font Choices Wreaking Havoc on Your WordPress Web Designs?
If there were such a thing as the Web Developer’s Dictionary, you’d probably find the word typography defined as “The bane of your existence.” It seems silly really. How could something as small and seemingly innocent as a font cause so much turmoil in web design? Font choices, like everything else in web design, have a significant impact on the …
How I Built a Kick-Ass WordPress Theme With Upfront Builder (And Why I’m Freaking Out)
I am a photographer, a videographer, a designer, a writer, a marketer. I am not a developer… and I’m freaking out because I just finished building a WordPress theme from scratch – without writing a single line of code – with Upfront Builder. Most people I know have no clue what it is that I actually do. They know it has …