Developing websites locally can be an attractive proposition for several reasons. For starters, it’s free. If your Internet connection is non-existent or lost you can keep working. You can use localhost as a testing ground for trying out themes or plugins or creating your own. Finally, your sites remain private until you choose to share […] View original post at …
WordPress Management: Ongoing Costs to Help You Budget
While the WordPress software itself is free (thanks to the GNU General Public License), running and maintaining a WordPress website comes at a price. Technically, you can start a blog for free on WordPress.com and never pay a penny to keep it going. But in order to be truly effective, you need to treat your […] View original post at …
A Quick Guide to Building Restaurant Websites in WordPress
I was recently working on an article about merging a local brick-and-mortar presence with its digital one. As I put together my argument, I decided to use local businesses from my area as examples in the article. However, I ran into a problem when I started looking for restaurant websites. To start, some of the […] View original post at …
Top 30 Expenses You Can Expect When Launching a WordPress Business
As WordPress gains more and more of the global CMS market share, there are a lot of opportunities to help businesses establish a strong digital presence with it. Needless to say, launching a WordPress business in this environment is a smart move. That said, no matter how slow of a start you have with your […] View original post at …
What does the future hold for WordPress?
WordPress has been undergoing some pretty big changes lately. With the REST API promising to revolutionize WordPress development, and Gutenberg promising to do the same for the user interface, it’s not surprising if you find it all a lot to take in. But what impact will these changes really have, and what do they mean […] View original post at …
What does your WordPress business need to grow?
WPMU DEV is proud to write about all things WordPress, to offer free plugins, pro plugins, and courses to help everyone from the new WordPress user to the experienced dev. Now we want to open up our blog to your feedback. Publishing content is hard. You might have a great strategy around it, but trying […] View original post at …
Progressive Web Apps: A Technical Approach
Making your WordPress site mobile friendly doesn’t stop with responsive design. The user is increasingly choosing to view their favorite publications online via apps, and you can accomplish that same feeling for your WordPress site by taking a few steps to turn it into a Progressive Web Application. In my last post, I offered the […] View original post at …
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 …
How to Redesign an Existing Website and Migrate to Production
If you’re a freelance web designer or developer, or you run an agency, there’s a good chance that a lot of your business will be redesigning existing websites. Most potential clients out there already have a website, but many are old, possibly designed and coded on the cheap, and need a revamp. Some clients will […] View original post at …
What to Do to Merge Digital and Physical Storefronts in WordPress
There was a time a few years ago when I was seeing report after report talking about the impending death of physical storefronts. Working in marketing and web development at the time, I wondered if there was something to that. After all, most of our clients wanted websites that could provide just as robust of […] View original post at …