Learning how to make WordPress faster is an essential skill for every website owner. Website performance is a big part of usability and a sluggish site one of the best ways to drive away visitors and lose search rankings. We have already published a detailed article on how to make your WordPress website faster. In it you learn why speed matters, what factors influence page load speed and what you can do to improve it. In this article, we want to go a step further. Below, we have listed advanced techniques to improve the performance of your WordPress website. Some […]

If you are anything like me, your website is like your baby. You put in a lot of effort, time, and often money to care for it the best way possible, make it user-friendly, and have it run smoothly. In addition to that, you do your very best to keep it from harm. However, just like parenting, when it comes to website security, you won’t always get everything right. One hundred percent safety is just not achievable. So, instead of trying to do everything right, how about concentrating on not screwing up completely? Avoiding the most common pitfalls can often […]

There are many ways to make money with WordPress. You can become a freelancer (complete with your own portfolio website), open up an online store, or sell WordPress themes and plugins. Another possibility is to build your own affiliate website. Affiliate marketing is an interesting option because you can essentially earn money in your sleep. All you need is a website, traffic, and products you are willing to advertise. The rest sort of happens by itself. If that sounds good to you, in this article you will learn how to create your own affiliate website using WordPress. We will explain […]

Since WordPress allows pretty much anyone to build a website, the playing field for starting a web venture is pretty level. However, while all sites start from the same place, it’s what happens after the initial launch that determines whether or not it’s going to be successful. The skill that makes all the difference is the ability to generate traffic. Because there is no “build it and they will come.” Nobody is going to just start sending you visitors, you need to make a real effort to attract an audience. Thankfully, there are many ways to do so. To help […]

Lately, we have been putting a lot of emphasis on WordPress and eCommerce. For example, with posts like 30 real-life examples of eCommerce websites built with WordPress and how to build a WordPress eCommerce site with Shopify. As it turns out, WordPress is an eCommerce powerhouse. Not just because the leading WordPress eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce, is powering almost 40 percent of all online shops. By now, WordPress offers many different ways to build an online store for all sorts of markets and types of products. For that reason, in this article, we want to take a closer look at the […]

WordPress and eCommerce go hand in hand, and many turn to the WordPress platform to build an online shop. We have already covered how to do this in our WooCommerce beginner’s tutorial. Today we want to show you a different way: Shopify. Shopify is a standalone platform that allows users to open up a hosted online shop in mere minutes. At first it might seem paradoxical to mix the two platforms, however, last year Shopify announced the publication of their WordPress plugin and three free WordPress themes. Clearly, this is a move to break into the larger WordPress community and […]

Many elements make a successful website: Design, content, SEO, mobile-friendliness — to name just a few. Yet, something that has become more and more important over time is website speed. Consumers are impatient. If a website takes too long to load, they move on to something else. How long before they get itchy feet? Two seconds, that’s it. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that visitors are mostly using mobile devices that often have a slower data connection than desktop and laptop computers. As a consequence, WordPress users are hard pressed to make their sites as fast as possible. […]