Don’t we all want to be on Google’s first page? Maybe even the first place? There probably isn’t a website owner out there who doesn’t dream of it. After all, you invested a lot of time and energy to create the best possible website. Why wouldn’t you want your effort to be rewarded? However, you know what’s the first step to getting to Google’s pole position? Getting onto Google at all. Sometimes websites don’t even make it that far. In the online universe, that’s nothing short of a disaster. If you are not picked up by search engines, your website […]

Just like a painter needs a brush, a blacksmith her hammer, and carpenter his saw, WordPressers need their own set of tools. While we have many different WordPress development tools at our disposal, most of the work happens inside a simple text editor. Whether you are a full-on plugin or theme developer or “only” an advanced user, we need code editors all the time: Configuring core files, changing styles, editing template files, you name it — a good chunk of our work is modifying lines of code. Therefore, it’s only good and proper that we use the best tool at […]

For the most part, learning WordPress is a steady process. Every day, we learn a little more, discover new plugins and tricks to get things done more efficiently, and push our capabilities in increments. However, every now and then we discover something big, something that that completely changes our workflow and opens up a world of new possibilities. A game changer. For me, one of those game changers was the discovery of Firebug. “You mean, I can directly change any element on my site in real time without any trial and error in my style sheet, reloading or anything? Woah!” However, […]

When it comes to SEO and getting traffic, the majority of people automatically think of Google. No wonder when the official word for “searching something on the Internet” contains its very name. With more than 50,000 searches per second, Google is definitely the king of search engines. So, from an SEO perspective it makes total sense to set up your site to please them. However, that doesn’t mean it is the only traffic source worth optimizing for. Believe it or not, there are alternative search engines that can also bring masses of visitors to your site. And I am talking […]