I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer here, but there are just some WordPress projects that have “bad news” written all over them. Unfortunately, they’re not always easy to spot and may leave you wishing you never got involved with them in the first place. To be honest, it’s a tough situation to be […] View original post at …
Adding Styling via the Customizer Without Adding CSS to the Page
The WordPress Customizer is an incredibly powerful and useful tool. By incorporating it into your themes and plugins, you give your users more flexibility and simplify design, layout and content customization. However, it does have its drawbacks. One of these is the fact that any styling you add directly via the customizer will be output […] View original post at …
Getting Started with Google AMP in WordPress [Test Your AMP Pages Here!]
As a WordPress developer, your number one priority is to build engaging and powerful websites for your clients. Oftentimes, however, that’s easier said than done. You understand the different variables that make for a stellar on-site experience, but what do you do when external forces dictate they be done differently? Take the mobile experience, for […] View original post at …
6 Unbreakable Rules for Building the Perfect Contact Form
You do everything you can to build a website that will lead visitors to conversion. As you study the analytics, you’re excited to see that the user journey you’ve created is being taken by those visitors, time and time again. However, there’s something keeping them from converting. The contact form is a critical part of […] View original post at …
How to Setup Live Chat on WordPress
Technology continues to shape the customer service industry in new and compelling ways. Customers with queries or complaints used to have to directly visit a store but when the telephone was invented, customers were able to call the businesses. Although at one point this was an innovation, people quickly grew tired of the problems it […] View original post at …
WordPress Web Design Trends You Need to Know for 2018
Looking back on 2017, I think it’s safe to say that it was a good year for WordPress and web design, in general. Sure, there were stories about security breaches and examples of branding gone bad, but that kind of stuff is inevitable when you consider how many websites are in existence. If you look […] View original post at …
What Should Happen When You Inherit a WordPress Site (and Why)?
It’s always exciting to find prospective clients and secure new business. But it’s extra special when a client trusts you to take over development and design of their WordPress site from someone who abandoned the project or was incapable of fulfilling their needs. Inheriting a WordPress site can also be nerve-wracking. Sure, it’s great to […] View original post at …
Internal Link Building: Why You Need To Do It and How to Get Started
External links and backlinks are an important part of every website’s SEO strategy. They send signals to both search engines and visitors about the quality of content on your site. They also serve as proof of your breadth of knowledge on the subject matter and they help your site “borrow” authority from trusted external sources. […] View original post at …
How to Onboard Contractors to Your WordPress Business
After you start to become profitable, you’ll stop worrying about “making this freelance thing work” and start thinking about how you can be more productive—and make more money. You’ll also begin thinking about the tasks you really hate and how outsourcing them might make you feel more fulfilled in your business. Regardless of your motivation, […] View original post at …
How to Troubleshoot a 504 Error on Your WordPress Site
There are so many things that can go wrong when you run a business, and with so many contributing factors, too: human, environmental, technological. Then you throw a website into the mix and, well, you don’t need me to remind you about all the opportunities for disaster. Ahem… security breaches, undetected downtime, rampant issues with […] View original post at …