Is Gutenberg any good for eCommerce? The new editor has been out for quite a while now, nearly three years in fact, and has been the default since WordPress 5.0. Reception at the time was and still is mixed; some people say the new editor is much better, while others simply hate it. These polarized opinions have made many people hesitant to make the switch, especially store owners who have their entire eCommerce shop riding on their decision. With three years of development and feature updates, and three years for plugin authors to experiment with the newest WordPress editor, has […]
13 Best WordPress GDPR Plugins (Cookie Compliance & More!)
Since the GDPR came into effect in 2018, website owners have been scrambling to get their site up to par and avoid hefty fines. While the race to GDPR-proof the Internet has calmed somewhat, it’s important for new sites and existing ones that skipped out to start taking steps to protect user data. Three years later, GDPR fines are continuing to be issued, and small businesses are certainly not immune. While you’re likely to receive a warning before being fined, there’s no reason to take chances. If you haven’t taken steps to protect your site yet, you need to do […]
How to Improve WordPress SEO Via Your Categories and Tags
Can you use WordPress categories and tags to improve your website’s SEO? That is the question we will explore in this post. Why would that be relevant in the first place? Because while WordPress taxonomies are a way to bring order to your content and make it more accessible, using them also automatically creates archive pages that will show up in search engines. In order to help you make the most of them, in the following we will talk about the differences between categories and tags, their effect on SEO, and best practices on using them. Let’s get to it. […]
Evergreen Content: What It Is & How to Use It to Grow Your Traffic
Evergreen content is a powerful tool for building traffic, earning links, and improving rankings. If you want to create a successful blog, it should be part of your content strategy. In case you don’t yet know what evergreen content is, how it can help your marketing, and – most importantly – how to create it, that’s exactly what we will cover in this post. Stay tuned! What Is Evergreen Content? The term “evergreen” comes from the world of plants. It describes those plants that don’t lose their leaves with the seasons and instead stay green all year round. That is […]
Customize the WordPress Admin Toolbar: Why and How to Do It
The WordPress admin toolbar comes with a standard look and set of functions that are generally very useful, so why customize it? Well, sometimes the standard layout doesn’t suit the needs of every WordPress user or developer. Perhaps there are menu options listed you never use. Or maybe it doesn’t have links to your most-used dashboard sections. No matter the specific reason, making customizations to the WordPress toolbar can streamline your workflow and improve how WordPress functions for individual users, teams, and developers. For that reason, today, we’re discussing why someone might want to customize the admin WordPress toolbar and […]
Media Queries in Responsive Design: A Complete Guide (2021)
Welcome to the beginner’s guide to CSS media queries. In this article, we will take a deep dive into what media queries are, how they work, and how to use them correctly. Contrary to popular belief, they go beyond responsive design (even though this is what will focus on here). In the end, we want you to walk away with the knowledge of how to implement your own media queries to customize the way your site behaves. What Are CSS Media Queries? Media queries are basically a way to write conditional CSS. That means CSS markup that the browser will […]
Ecommerce Mobile Website Design: 10 Tips to Do It Right (2021)
We recently published an article on eCcommerce UI design. In it, we mentioned that when talking about eCommerce website design for mobile devices, you could fill an entire separate post with it. In the following, we will go over best practices to create a mobile friendly experience on your eCommerce website. We will start off with some statistics why it matters and research on common UI issues that keep mobile users from completing their purchases. We will follow that up with different techniques how you can make the design of your eCommerce website more appealing for mobile users. Why Care […]
31 WordPress Maintenance Tools to Keep Your Site in Top Shape
WordPress site maintenance is a key component of owning and operating a site in the first place and having the right tools makes it much easier. However, what those are can vary a lot from person to person. That’s why we’re spending time here today outlining essential tools that speed up the maintenance process, make it more efficient, and offer greater stability. We’ll be covering things like FTP clients, database management tools, and third-party platforms as well as a variety of other tool types that you may find helpful. Let’s dive right in. Code Editors The first maintenance tools for […]
Home Office Burnout? 6 Ways to Help You Recover (Covid Edition)
The share of people working remotely and from their home office have skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic. This definitely had some positive impact on work culture and is something that the majority of people want to continue. At the same time, something that’s also on the rise is home office burnout. How can that be? Well, despite what companies feared, remote workers actually work more at home. On average an extra three hours per day. In addition, besides the usual work stressors (not to mention, feelings of insecurity while experiencing a global pandemic), working from home and the pandemic-imposed isolation […]
8 Proper Ways to Hide Elements on Your Website With CSS (2021)
There are certain times when you just don’t want every aspect of your website hanging out in the breeze. That is, you don’t want every templated aspect of a page, post, header, or footer shown in every instance it appears. And while it might seem as though you have to rewrite the template or theme code for each time you want this omission to occur, that’s not actually true. In fact, you can hide elements on your website quickly using just CSS. And it’s actually pretty easy. Today, we’re discussing eight different ways to do so. Each of these options […]
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