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If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your todo list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen to run a website with …
When you’re doing social networking the right way for your website it can bring huge amounts of traffic. Social is all about the visuals so if you want to make your content work well you need to use all the right visual cues. But how do you make sure the right imagery – the imagery you want – is being used? …
If you’re anything like me, you obsess over driving more traffic to our websites, which makes complete sense. I mean, what’s the point of spending time and money on your site if nobody sees it? But what about once people have actually reached your site? Are you giving enough thought to what visitors actually do on-site other than having a …
WordPress is the ideal platform for charities and non-profit organisations. It’s free and open source and you have access to a huge community of users and developers who can help you build and manage your site. But one of the most important functions of a website for many nonprofits is to encourage people to donate money. So in this post, …
Running a WordPress business can be a really rewarding experience, but it’s not without its drawbacks. According to a Constant Contact survey, 785 small business owners shared their insights into the personal sacrifices they make for the sake of their business. These were the top three: Feeling as though they couldn’t take time away from the business. Spending more time …
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change the post order, you have three options: change the post publish …
Vincent Van Gogh once said, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” If I didn’t know any better, I’d think he were talking about WordPress tags. In all seriousness though, Van Gogh had a point. Much like his own pointillist style of painting – one which utilized small dots of color …
If you’ve used WordPress for a while, you know keeping regular backups can save you from losing your website (you know, the site you’ve put all that time and effort – literally hours – into building). But have you tested your WordPress backups to see if they actually work? Sometimes, backups could be missing files or become corrupted. It may …
One of the challenges in getting people to visit your WordPress website is ensuring your content can be crawled by search engine spiders. And an even bigger challenge is making sure search engines can understand the relevance of that content in context. What do I mean by the “relevance of content in context?” Well, imagine you have the address of …
One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked by students completing the WordPress Multisite course in The Academy is this: how do you move an existing WordPress site into a Multisite network? This post is designed to answer that question and take you through the steps you need to follow to move a site into a network. I’ll look …
