Moving a WordPress website is straight forward enough (if you know what you’re doing, that is – and if not, here’s how). But it’s important to be aware of the possible fall-out and impacts on your SEO. This is part two of a two-part series on WordPress Migrations and SEO. In part one, we looked at how […] View original post at …
How to Back Up Your WordPress Backups for Bulletproof Protection
Of course you back up your websites! But what if something were to happen to your backups? Do you have a plan B in place to cover that possibility? You may think I’m being alarmist, but I think I’m only being realistic. Recent events have shown that the only way to really keep your data […] View original post at …
How to Customize the Free Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme for Business
Twenty Seventeen ships as the new default theme with WordPress 4.7. This business-oriented theme marks a noteworthy departure from the blog-centric default themes of the past and reflects WordPress’ broader transition from a blogging platform into a platform well-suited to creating all sorts of websites. If you plan to try out Twenty Seventeen you’ll figure […] View original post at …
24 JavaScript Libraries and Resources for Becoming a Better Web Developer
In Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey Results of 2016, JavaScript took home top honors. Not only did it land at the top of the list for full-stack, front-end, and back-end technologies, but 55.4% of people now say they use it over other programming languages. JavaScript is an extremely powerful programming tool for any WordPress developer to have […] View original post at …
Fixing the Pesky 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress
When your website throws up a 403 error with “Forbidden” plastered across the top in imposing bold letters, it’s just a bit rude, right? I mean, it’s your website and you can’t access it. The nerve! I mean, you’re the site administrator or even the owner and your site has locked you out. Fortunately, troubleshooting and fixing this error so …
A Guide to Choosing the Right Query for WordPress Development
Let’s say you want to do something unique with the way posts are queried and displayed on a particular page of your website. Maybe you want to have multiple queries — one for featured posts and one for recent posts. Or perhaps you want to exclude certain categories of posts from your blog page. Whatever your goal, you decide to …
WordPress Multisite and SEO: All Your Questions Answered
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 …
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 …
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 …