This year’s WordCamp Europe was the largest WordCamp ever. The event was hosted in Berlin and featured speakers and attendees from all over the world. We had the chance to talk to several WordPressers in these short videos.
Gaining visibility for your site by ranking well on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) is a goal worth pursuing. However, there are probably a few pages on your site that you would rather not direct traffic towards, such as your staging area or duplicate posts. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to do that on your WordPress site. Using a robots.txt file will steer search engines (and therefore visitors) away from any content you want to hide, and can even help to bolster your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts. In this post, we’ll help you understand what a robots.txt file is and how […]
Your website is like a home – secure if you take the appropriate precautions, but vulnerable to burglars if you don’t. In the website world, however, sites don’t get burgled, they get hacked. The number of sites that get hacked every year continues to increase. How do WordPress sites get hacked? And, is it possible to safeguard your site? The following tips will arm you with the knowledge to protect your site from malicious attacks and keep your data and content safe. 1. Brute Force Attacks It’s easy to imagine someone trying to break down the front door of a […]
No one likes a slow website. In fact, many users would rather leave your site rather than wait more than two seconds for its pages to load. That’s why it’s crucial that your site is optimized for performance. Fortunately, there are many ways you can start tackling slow loading times and get your site in shape. Some are related to your content, others to your server, and still more to your site’s JavaScript and CSS code. In this article, we’ll explore why website performance optimization is so important. Then we’ll explain how to optimize JavaScript and CSS for your website. […]
Generating passive income from blogging is something like the holy grail of online entrepreneurship. Imagine a life in which you are able to spend your time doing what you want, taking vacations when you feel like it, sleeping and working on your own schedule. No office to go to, no boss, no meetings to take. All the while, your blog generates a full-time income 24/7, whether you are at your computer or sipping colorful drinks at the beach. What sounds like a fantasy for the average person, is a reality for many. With a large enough audience, it’s absolutely possible […]
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