There are tons of reasons why WordPress plugins are a necessity. They offer a ton of features and functionality that your site doesn’t have otherwise. With plugins, you can customize the site you’ve already built to better suit your needs and serve your visitors. But you’ve probably heard that having too many WordPress plugins on your website is bad. There are over 50,000 plugins to choose from, so it can easy to add a few too many to your pages. But how many plugins is too many? The short answer is that it depends on what your site needs. And […]
How To Test The Emails WordPress Sends
Getting emails through your WordPress site is important. Whether someone is informing you there’s something wrong with your products, or just dropping by to say you’re doing a great job, you need to make sure you receive those emails. Too often, our tests for if emails work on a WordPress site or in a WordPress plugin involve filling out a form, checking our email and seeing if it looks right. That’s not efficient and requires a proactive investment of human time. Let’s write a program to do it better and more consistently instead. This article is about using testing emails. […]
The Hidden Gems Of WordPress
One of the most frustrating things about WordPress is that parts of the WP Admin are difficult to find – if not outright hidden. That makes getting things done not so easy or intuitive. But as with any application, some elements of the User Interface need to be hidden or obscure for various reasons. Usually, it is because a function or feature is not frequently needed until it is. That’s when the hair pulling begins. Don’t end up hunting around for that WP Admin element as if you’re looking for lost treasure. Here are the most common hidden gems of […]
13 Performance-Boosting Site Speed Tips for WordPress
There’s no doubt about it: Site performance is crucial to the success of your website. Today, over 25 percent of users will leave a page if it takes more than 4 seconds to load. And a delay of just a second can compound with dropped conversion rates, decrease your page views, and increase your bounce rate. A delay of two seconds could make your bounce rates spike up 103 percent. All these factors combined lead to user dissatisfaction, and for ecommerce sites, high shopping cart abandonment rates. Most users also expect the same speedy experience from your website on mobile, […]
How to Convince Your Clients to Stay on WordPress
Doing business is almost impossible without being on the Internet. So why do Freelancers and Agencies hear from potential clients that they don’t need a website at all? People strive to simplify their life, so they opt for using services like Facebook Pages, Wix or Weebly. What clients don’t know is that WordPress is just as cost effective as these services, but much more scalable. There are things that prove WordPress is better than the rest. This list is all you need to convince clients to stick with the world’s biggest CMS: Security Backups Updates Tests Security Hardening of […]

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