One topic that comes up time and time again in the comments on our Multisite posts is SEO. People often want to know how running a Multisite network will affect SEO, both for the main site and for other sites or blogs in the network. There isn’t a simple answer to the question “How will Multisite affect my SEO?” The way in …
WordPress Will Only Recommend Hosting Companies Offering SSL by Default in 2017
In October, Let’s Encrypt was managing more than 10 million active SSL certificates. That number doubled to 20 million in November as large providers continue to partner with the organization to manage their customers’ certificates. In 2014, Google announced that HTTPS is a ranking factor. Earlier this year, the Google Chrome security team announced that Chrome 56 will mark HTTP sites that transmit passwords or …
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 …
27 Solutions to 14 Forgotten WordPress Page Speed Problems
About 50% of your visitors will abandon your website after 10 seconds or less. Yes, that’s the reality we’re faced with. The good news, however, is that there are many performance-boosting tips you can draw on to help you avoid becoming just another unfortunate statistic. At this point, I should let you know that since everyone’s website is different, it’s near …
Elizabeth Shilling Awarded the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship
The WordPress Foundation has announced that Elizabeth Shilling, one of three co-founders of the Women Who WP meetup group, is the second recipient of the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was created in 2015 to remember Kim Parsell and provide an opportunity for a woman who may not have the financial means to attend the largest WordCamp in the US. …
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 …
PDF Image Previews Among the Improvements to Media in WordPress 4.7
Among the many enhancements in WordPress 4.7 are improvements to the media component. Previous to 4.7, users who uploaded files to the media library and changed the title could not search for them by file name. Four years since the ticket was created, users will be able to search for media by filename. PDFs are easier to preview as the …
How to Write Winning Case Studies That Will Score You More WordPress Work
So there’s this guy who runs a business. Let’s call him Joe. Joe runs a contest on 99Designs and has shiny PSDs for his soon-to-be-built WordPress site. But he needs a developer and somehow he lands on your portfolio and he likes what he sees. He browses through your website and notices a resource called “How I helped ABC turn …
4 Quality Survey Tools for Creating Fun and Effective WordPress Polls
Figuring out what website visitors really want can be tough. After all, it’s not like you can just grab their attention and ask them for their thoughts, right? Well, actually, you can. Surveys are a tool you can use to stop beating around the bush and just ask for the information you need. While there are many strategies you can …
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 …










