The first time you step foot inside the WordPress dashboard, you can’t help but marvel at how simple it all appears to be. A management sidebar on the left. A clean interface to work within in the center. Notifications at the top. But once you start digging deeper into WordPress, you may feel overwhelmed as […] View original post at …
Creative Website Menu Designs and Best Practices
Site usability should be one of your top considerations when building or maintaining a website. If your website is difficult to use, people will be discouraged from using it—or ever coming back. Furthermore, in many cases, good usability directly translates to better results when it comes to SEO. Some of the hallmarks of good website […] View original post at …
Get the Most Out of the Hummingbird Plugin and Maximize WordPress Speed
One of the things I really love about WP Checkup is how it streamlines the process of scanning a WordPress site for performance issues. Because, while you might be able to surmise why your content isn’t loading quickly enough or why Google says your mobile page speeds are abysmal, WP Checkup tells you exactly what’s […] View original post at …
How to use RobotNinja to Automate WooCommerce testing
WordPress has certainly come a long way since the early days of being a quick way to setup a blog. These days, one of the hottest industries is ecommerce. Whether you’re selling physical goods, digital stuff or services, you should already be taking orders online. If you’re not, you’re losing out on a lot of […] View original post at …
Finance Management Tips and Tools for WordPress Freelancers
It’s always exciting when a new year rolls around. So many new opportunities abound and, if last year’s analytics taught you anything, you’re about to have an even more profitable year of business if things keep up. But finance management as a WordPress freelancer is the pits. It’s just another task that distracts from your […] View original post at …
8 Server Issues That Affect WordPress (and What to Do About Them)
We always have such a laser-trained focus on our WordPress site that sometimes it’s easy to forget that problems with it may not stem from conflicting plugins, a hacked login, or a bloated theme. Sometimes it’s the underlying web server that’s at fault. In my experience, web hosting companies aren’t always the easiest to work […] View original post at …
What’s New in WooCommerce 3.3.1 (And What Even Happened with 3.3)?
When WooCommerce 3.3 was initially released on January 30, 2018, there were many reasons to get excited about the upgrades that came with it. However, it wasn’t available for very long before WordPress removed it from the repository, citing issues for users who had WordPress themes that conflicted with the update. Thankfully, WooCommerce stayed on […] View original post at …
Get the Most Out of Defender and Maximize WordPress Security
Anyone who owns, builds, manages, or hosts WordPress sites should be obsessed with security. It’s not that WordPress isn’t a safe platform to build websites with. It’s just that, being the most popular and widely used CMS in the world, WordPress is an easy target for hackers. This is why WordPress blogs can’t and shouldn’t […] View original post at …
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Page Templates
One of the templates that I always include in any theme I code is the page.php file. This is the template that WordPress will use for creating static pages. It’s useful to have a dedicated page.php file instead of falling back to index.php because you’ll need your pages to display slightly different content from single […] View original post at …
Learn How to Add Custom JavaScript to WordPress the Right Way
You’ve taken time to learn how to use JavaScript in WordPress. You’ve also picked up a number of useful JavaScript libraries and resources along the way to streamline coding with it. But now what do you do with the skills you’ve acquired? There are a number of reasons why you might want to add custom […] View original post at …

