Spring cleaning. I picture perspiring ladies in full-skirted dresses and pearls, beating a rug thrown over a clothesline with clouds of dust puffing into the sky. But spring cleaning is vital for your WordPress site. You use the concept all the time, but you’re essentially doing a hit and run version, eager to complete the few tasks necessary to move …
How to Let a Client Preview Their WordPress Site Before it Goes Live
So you’ve built a beautiful WordPress website that fits your client’s needs, wants, and requirements to a t. There’s just one hurdle left: Your client doesn’t want the site going live until they’ve signed off on the finished product. Presenting a finished site–or, at least, a supposedly finished site–is one scenario in which you may need to come up with …
How to Install WordPress on a USB Flash Drive
Did you know you can install and run a WordPress site from a USB flash drive? Well, you can, and this little-known fact is more than just a neat trick. A portable WordPress installation can actually be quite useful. Why in the world would you ever need to run WordPress from a flash drive? Shouldn’t this be filed away under …
The Ultimate Guide to A/B Split Testing with WordPress
Does the thought of your website keep you up at night? Do all the “what ifs” have you worrying about the design, the functionality, the calls to action, the wording and, ultimately, your conversions?? You could have your designer/developer make changes based on what you think might help with improving the number of site visitors, the time they spend on …
How to Plan, Build and Launch a WordPress Website
A successful web design project involves plenty of work before you type a line of code. Before you can start designing or building a site, you need to know what it needs to achieve, who the stakeholders are, and what you need to do to make it a success. Today, I want to encourage you to take some time to get ready before you …
WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Theme Development in Detail
Interested in taking your WordPress game to a whole new level? Want to further develop your PHP skills and add more complex and exciting functionality to your themes and plugins? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Intermediate users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which introduced you to the fundamentals of developing …
Inside WPMU DEV’s New Blog Design (And Why We Did It)
Say hello to our brand new blog design! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been cooking up this new look to help make reading articles on our blog a more enjoyable experience. In other words, we want you to keep coming back for more (and share our articles, too!). Since our very first post went live back in 2008, we’ve published …
Should You Use a CDN for Your WordPress Site? Your Questions Answered
Site speed is important. Like, really important. In fact, a slow site could be the death knell of your business. That might sound dramatic, but it’s the truth. When a visitor lands on your site, they want to find what they’re looking for quickly. And if your site is loading slowly, they’re much more likely to bounce off to another …
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Caching
As a savvy website owner, I’m certain you understand how important it is for your website to load quickly. And if you run your website on WordPress, you’ve probably at least heard of the need for caching plugins before. Caching is a critical aspect of your website’s performance as it can greatly improve loading times. By a lot. In layman’s terms, a caching plugin creates …
Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked
So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in …