Is anyone else freaking out about how many ridiculous new features the WPMU DEV super devs keep dropping on us? And the madness doesn’t stop. Our security plugin Defender just got a mega upgrade: Audit Logs! Now with Defender, not only can you harden your security and block attackers, but audit logs now hold everyone on your site or network to account …
23-Step Checklist for Scaling Your WordPress Business
If you’re looking for a long-term future in web development, WordPress is the perfect tool to do it. While the content management system itself is free to use, opportunities abound for professionals like yourself to make real money off of it. As a WordPress developer, there are a number of paths you might consider taking your business down: You could …
6 Tricks for Decluttering Your WordPress Site and Communicating More Effectively
When creating a website, it’s natural to want to share as much information as possible. While visitors have come to your website to learn more about those pieces of information, that’s all they really want to see: pieces. This isn’t the first time the shrinking attention span of your site’s visitors has come to the forefront of our conversations on …
Changing Your WordPress Database Prefix to Improve Security
WordPress database tables all begin with the wp_ prefix by default. Security gurus often recommend changing the prefix to secure your site, but is it really worth doing? Or is it all sizzle and no steak? The idea is that changing the database prefix helps avoid nasty SQL injections since hackers usually use queries with the standard settings in their …
How to Change WordPress Multisite to Sub-Directories or Sub-Domains Without Errors
If you have ever set up a WordPress Multisite install and then decided to swap from sub-directories to sub-domains, or the other way around, you would know it’s not as simple as clicking a few buttons. Unfortunately, the “Network Setup” page in the backend of Multisite doesn’t give you an easy way to switch. Yeah, it’s frustrating! If you try …
How to Turn Any WordPress Theme Modification into a Simple WordPress Plugin
One of the first things budding WordPress developers learn is to use child themes for customizing WordPress websites. While this is a sound practice, there will also be times when you want to reuse code you’ve added to a child theme with a different theme or on a different website. The best way to package code for use with any …
Fast Gets Faster as Hummingbird Adds CloudFlare Integration
Another week and another great new feature comes to our performance optimization plugin Hummingbird – full CloudFlare integration! So, if you haven’t already heard of CloudFlare, go take a look .We think you’ll be really interested in their services (we use them for CampusPress, and Edublogs) and as with all our articles, that’s not an affiliate link – we genuinely do like …
10 Simple Ways to Convert Casual Visitors into Paying Customers
We spend a lot of time talking about how you can improve your WordPress website’s design and functionality in order to get your visitors to feel a certain way about it. In other words, you want them to want to convert. You’ve given them a quick-loading site, beautiful high-resolution imagery, and an engaging story to follow… and yet you still …
How to Add User Ratings to Your WordPress Website
User ratings are everywhere. Every popular eCommerce site provides user ratings for their products. Question and answer sites like Quora and StackOverflow identify the best answers by relying on user ratings. Books, movies, businesses, and even college professors are ranked on the basis of user ratings. There are lots of different types of WordPress sites that might want to incorporate …
Nailing the Perfect Navigation for Your WordPress Site
It’s a funny thing. We often place a large emphasis on the creation of great content and on the development of an effective design to wrap around that content. But without as much effort or thought put into your website’s navigation, your visitors may never be able to enjoy all that your website has to offer. A B2B Web Usability …