Images are essential for improving the UX of websites. A well-placed image is really worth a lot of words. WordPress-ers, particular bloggers and marketers often overuse images, and some posts and pages are just several scroll-lengths of images. The problem worsens when all these images are not optimized for performance. Performance is a key matric…
What is WordPress? WordPress is a web publishing application, a Content management system (CMS) used by the user to create a blog and other related web services. WP can be used to build or create a dynamic website, customize and manage from its back-end integrated applications and components. WordPress is using a programming language called…
There are a lot of things to consider when creating a WordPress website, whether for a personal blog or business. You need to create good plans and strategies before you can even start filling your website with contents. Speaking of contents, you need to have the best articles if you want your website to gain…
Ah, that Search Engine Optimization! Also known as SEO, it has been bugging everyone trying to make a living online. Getting ranked on the first page of Google search results is one of the must do’s, which requires a bunch of know-how and quite often, the whole team. The truth is, no one ever clicks…
Have you thought about starting your own blog? If that is the case, then you should probably stop hesitating and start working on that as soon as you can. These days, setting a blog takes just a couple of minutes thanks to platforms like WordPress. Of course, if you are thinking about monetizing it in…
If you are to randomly ask a group of web developers about their favorite Content Management System, chances are high that WordPress would top the list. This open-source platform is widely used by companies to improve their productivity. It is also a host of many intuitive features that help developers easily navigate through murky development…
Setting up a WordPress site on your own is an incredibly creative and rewarding experience. Yet there are so many aspects that you need to keep tabs on that you are bound to overlook something. So, before you hit that launch button – and even after you do – revisit these best practices to make sure…
When looking into starting a new site, aside from the idea of what you’ll look to do, it’s crucial to have a sound foundation from a technical standpoint that can keep up with your ideas. Ideally, it would be a solution that is at the same time robust enough to provide you with various solutions…
Whether you code your website from scratch or you use a content management system like WordPress, your site can benefit a lot from minifying your HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. This is because when developers code they try to make the code as easy on the eyes as possible. They add white spaces, or they…
You may have noticed a trend toward creating monthly subscriptions in just about every industry you can think of—books, video games, movies, television, music, apps, services, food, clothing—you name it, there’s probably some sort of subscription option associated to it. You can even get razor blade deliveries with an automated, monthly subscription option! Think…