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Nick Schäferhoff

Nick Schäferhoff is an entrepreneur, online marketer, and professional blogger from Germany. He found WordPress when he needed a website for his first business and instantly fell in love. When not building websites, creating content or helping his clients improve their online business, he can most often be found at the gym, the dojo or traveling the world with his wife. If you want to get in touch with him, you can do so via Twitter or through his website.

9 Ways to Monetize Your WordPress Site (Including Plugins!)

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June 28, 2016

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Creating and owning a website has never been easier. Thanks to WordPress and other free content management systems like Joomla and Drupal, anyone can start their own site in mere minutes. However, just having a website is usually not the end goal. Most website owners want to earn money with it in one form or another. That’s not an impossible dream. Plenty of people make a living with WordPress websites. Yet, while the goal clear, the means often aren’t. How do you monetize a WordPress site? How can you create a full-time income from a web entity? In this article, […]

All You Need to Know About Responsive Design for WordPress

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June 10, 2016

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Responsive design has become increasingly important in recent years. Today, being fully responsive is a feature that has become all but mandatory for WordPress plugins and themes. Yet, unless you are a web designer, exactly what makes responsive design what it is might still be a bit of a Pandora’s box for you. You are certainly aware that it is important but that’s about it. How it works or how to implement it is still somewhat beyond you. Or maybe your site is even still running a static theme and you want to update it without losing the look you have […]

Yoast SEO Vs. All-in-One SEO Pack: What’s the Difference (And Which One is For You)

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June 9, 2016

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Organic traffic remains one of the most important channels for website traffic and thus SEO one of the most important tools to grow your site. Not everyone is well versed in this area. Fortunately for us WordPress users, there are SEO plugins to help us out. By far the two most popular options are Yoast SEO (formerly known as WordPress SEO by Yoast) and All-in-One SEO Pack. Both of them do a really good job at making WordPress websites search engine friendly. Yet, which one should you pick? The decision between Yoast SEO and All-in-One SEO Pack is one that […]

10 Common WordPress Errors And Problems (And Their Solutions)

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June 3, 2016

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In its thirteen years of its existence, WordPress has enabled countless people to start their own websites, careers, and businesses online. That’s a pretty impressive feat and a testament to the platform’s abilities. However, nobody is perfect, not even our favorite content management system. With so many people using the platform in different environments and for different purposes, things won’t always go smoothly and WordPress users will run into issues on the way. In fact, there are a number of common WordPress problems that most users are likely to encounter at least once. The good news is that with its […]

How To Make Any WordPress Theme Responsive

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May 31, 2016

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Having a responsive website is incredibly important. This tutorial is especially important if you are still running a static theme that you want to make responsive. Doing so can often be easier than taking an already responsive theme and customizing it to fit your design. However, even if you are merely interested in learning how to implement responsive design in practical terms, this is the article for you. How To Convert Your WordPress Theme To Responsive Design First, we need to go over the basics of responsive design: Fluid site grid with proportionate instead of fixed measures Flexible images Implementing design […]

WordPress vs Medium – How to Choose the Right Platform

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May 16, 2016

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Although it is the most successful, WordPress is far from being the only online publishing platform or content management system. I recently already compared it to Drupal, another important player in the game. While Drupal competes with WordPress as a solution for website creation, there is one big area WordPress has long dominated: blogging. And no wonder, all you need is hosting, a domain, the latest version of WordPress, and you can have your own blog up and running within minutes. If you use a hosted version of WordPress, you can even skip the entire server setup. However, in recent years […]

How to Easily Enable Gzip Compression in WordPress (5 Ways!)

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April 25, 2016

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This post was last updated on January 2, 2024. Enabling Gzip compression (also sometimes called HTTP or browser compression) is one of the most effective ways to make your WordPress site load faster. That’s good news because page loading time influences bounce rate, user experience, search ranking, and much more. If you work with a computer regularly, you probably already know about compression from zip archives. They allow you to shrink files, e.g. to send them more easily via email. The same is possible for the files that make up your WordPress website, so that visitors can download them faster […]

A Detailed Guide to WordPress Website Maintenance

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April 15, 2016

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When talking about the benefits of WordPress, the focus is usually on how easy it makes the process of creating websites. Whether you want to build an online portfolio, online shop, or use WordPress to create client sites, the platform has got your back. However, creating and maintaining a website are two very different things. As it turns out, the real work only begins once your site is online. I’m not talking about content creation and site promotion here but the, deceivingly, simple task of keeping your Internet presence up and running, and in good condition. Neglecting basic website maintenance […]

The Ultimate WooCommerce Tutorial For Absolute Beginners

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April 8, 2016

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In this tutorial, we are taking a close look at WooCommerce, which is the most well-known and by far most popular WordPress ecommerce plugin. Not only does it have a 4.5 star rating at more than five million active installs, it also made waves when Automattic acquired its parent company WooThemes in 2015. The acquisition was definitely a good move. Back then WooCommerce already powered 30 percent of all online shops and was an overall clear favorite in the WordPress community. It has only grown more popular since then, and is the go-to choice for many ecommerce sites. So, for […]

How To Use Advanced Custom Fields – An In-Depth Tutorial

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April 8, 2016

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WordPress custom fields are essential for many developers. They allow you to add customized information to post and pages and build tailored solutions for content creation on different types of websites. For example, custom fields can be used to include a dedicated menu in the WordPress editor that allows users to add ratings to movie reviews. Setting an expiration date for your blog posts is another option that can be implemented with their help. However, because this feature is as complex as it is powerful, many non-developers shy away from it and improvise other solutions instead. Thankfully, the plugin Advanced […]

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