When clients come to you complaining about a slow WordPress site, or you detect issues on your own using a speed testing tool, it’s important to take action fast. For every second your website fails to fully load, it compromises the user experience and costs you conversions. Let’s say you’ve done everything you can to speed up your client’s WordPress …
How To Add Security Headers + More New Defender Features
Defender’s back in the ring for round 2.2.2. And he’s coming in hot with three brand new security features – all specifically designed to lay the smackdown on cowardly hackers and bots. Your website’s safety is at stake, so let’s not delay. Defender 2.2.2 recently entered the ring complete with a brand new set of knockout security features. And in …
How to Setup a Free Support Ticketing System With WordPress
Can a Free WordPress support ticket system work as well as a paid WordPress support ticket plugin? It definitely can! Just follow this simple tutorial… A good helpdesk ticketing system should allow your business to handle and rank multiple customer support inquiries and manage these so your customers get faster replies from the right support person or team. Many paid …
A [Free] WordPress Launch Checklist You Can’t Afford To Miss
Website launch day should be about celebrating and congratulating, not stressing and scrambling. To help you avoid oversights and embarrassing mistakes, we’ve put together this WordPress website launch checklist to ensure your (or your client’s) website stands out from day one. The urge to rush a new website launch can be tempting. The development stage is over, you’ve done the …
15 Fun Things To Embed in Your Website Today
Did you know that you can embed almost anything into your website? From the standard Google Map to the more complicated pricing table, you can quickly change your website from merely something to read to a fun, interactive way of engaging with your readers. And with the likes of Gutenberg and a snazzy new tool, it’s easier than you think. Automatic …
Here Comes Hummingbird 2.1 With Compressed Caching & Cookies
From Asset Organization Tours to several new caching features and upgrades, Hummingbird 2.1 is a humdinger. There’s so much to cover, I can’t summarize it all in this teeny tiny paragraph — so let’s just jump right in, shall we? A lot of the features I’m about to detail are only available in Hummingbird Pro, so if you’re not already …
Use This Test to Find Out Which Plugins are Slowing Down Your WordPress Site
When clients come to you complaining about a slow WordPress site, or you detect issues on your own using a speed testing tool, it’s important to take action fast. For every second your website fails to fully load, it compromises the user experience and costs you conversions. Let’s say you’ve done everything you can to […] View original post at …
Is That WordPress Plugin Safe? 15 Warning Signs to Skip Downloading
Even the smallest and simplest of WordPress websites needs plugins. Akismet is a must if the site has a blog. A security plugin like Defender is non-negotiable. And a solid contact form is needed if you intend on collecting leads. For the most part, though, we know that these commonly used and referenced WordPress plugins […] View original post at …
WordPress Plugins to Upsell and Cross-sell in e-Commerce Stores
When a WordPress site is brand new, you’re often just thankful to see people visiting it. Then, you give it a few months, organic and referral traffic starts to build, and visitors start buying stuff from the site. That’s perfect! But now that you have willing visitors and willing shoppers, what do you do next? […] View original post at …
The Slowest WordPress Plugins (and Alternatives to Try Instead)
We all know that performance and speed are a critical part of how visitors perceive their experience on a website. That’s why we use optimized web hosting plans, install CDNs, and utilize caching plugins to keep WordPress sites running quickly and smoothly. For some of your clients, however, paying for VPS or managed WordPress hosting […] View original post at …