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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.

How to Host Fonts Locally in WordPress (Classic & Block Themes!)

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March 29, 2023

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While using custom web fonts is a great way to make your site more unique and distinguish your branding, it can also come with certain problems — from privacy to performance. The solution: host your fonts locally on your WordPress website instead. To help you do so, in this post, we will tell you everything you need to know about this topic. Below, we discuss why it’s a good idea to host fonts locally in WordPress in the first place and then give you a rundown of code and no-code solutions to make it happen in both classic themes and […]

10 WordPress Site Editor (FSE) Features You Didn’t Know About

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March 28, 2023

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WordPress Full-Site Editing, aka the Site Editor, offers a lot of features, not all of which you might be familiar with. That’s because it’s not only a relatively new addition to the WordPress platform but also under constant development with new features coming out regularly. As a consequence, it’s easy to miss out on some things. In order to help you get the most out of the WordPress Site Editor, in this post we will go over some features you might have overlooked. Some of them are bigger, some smaller. However, all of them can help you build better designs […]

How to Create a Blog Comments Policy (And Display It on Site)

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March 23, 2023

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Blog comments are an important way of interacting with readers, collecting feedback, and getting ideas for new topics. However, your comment section can also be overrun by spam and turn into a toxic cesspool of people fighting (you know, like Twitter). In order to avoid that, it makes a lot of sense to set up a blog comments policy. Creating some rules around comments left on your blog is a great way to set some boundaries and expectations toward your audience. It helps raise the quality of comments you receive and, as such, the quality of your site as a […]

Blog Images Best Practices: 10 Ways to Use Images in Blog Posts

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March 7, 2023

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Images are an essential part of blog posts and using visual elements is definitely among the best practices of creating blog content. You probably already know that. But do you ever ask yourself if the way you are using images on your blog is the most effective? In order to dispell any doubts you may be wrestling with, in this post, we will discuss how to use images in blog posts in depth. We will talk about why you should do so in the first place and then give you detailed tips on how to best use blog images. In […]

What is the Creator Economy (And How Can You Join It?)

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March 2, 2023

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In today’s economy, the ability to create is more important than ever. And the rise of the “creator economy” has made it easier for people with creative ideas to share them with the world, and get paid for them. But what is the creator economy, exactly? And perhaps more importantly, why should you care about it in the first place? And what on Earth does Web3 have to do with it? We’ll endeavor to answer all these questions and more in today’s exploration into the creator economy and how you might take advantage of it for yourself. The Creator Economy: […]

How to Easily Customize the WordPress Search Results Page

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February 23, 2023

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There are good arguments to customize many parts of WordPress — but the search results page? What reason could there possibly be to make changes to that? How could this page be any different? The truth is, the WordPress search results page isn’t natively very interesting. This gives you the chance to highlight the articles you want more eyes on and make the page a little more useful. I hereby, cordially, invite you to find out along with me. Just imagine, at the end of this post, we could both be smarter than we were before. Are you in? Why […]

Define Your Target Audience: 15 Tips and Tools to Reach Clients

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February 7, 2023

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If you’re like most people running a business, you probably don’t have a lot of time to waste. The last thing you want to do is spend months creating a product or service that no one wants to buy. So how do you know if your idea is even worth pursuing? The answer: properly define your target audience. Defining and understanding who you are creating something for is essential for any business owner. But figuring out how to go about doing that might seem a tad confusing at first. Thankfully, we’ve gathered a variety of tips about how to define a […]

How to Use Mastodon: A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide (2023)

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February 1, 2023

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Since the acquisition and continued dismantling of Twitter by a certain billionaire, an increasing number of people are interested in learning how to use Mastodon, one of Twitter’s more popular competitors. How popular? Well, the news recently dropped that Twitter now officially blocks links to Mastodon (and other social platforms) and flags them as malware. So, if Twitter’s new owner takes Mastodon seriously, maybe the rest of us should as well? All snark aside, after users started quitting Twitter in droves and looking for a new home, Mastodon is one of the biggest winners of this exodus. If, like me, […]

Top 5 Blogging Trends of 2023 You Definitely Shouldn’t Ignore

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January 25, 2023

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What new trends can we expect to emerge in blogging in 2023? While blog writing has been around for a long time, and its basic premise doesn’t change much (put words on screen, publish), it does go through developments and fads. Some of them come and go, others stick around for longer or become a permanent fixture of the medium. To make sure you stay up to date on what’s going on in the blogging game, in this post, we will examine five of the trends you can expect to encounter this year. Knowing this allows you to stay current […]

8 Best WordPress Gutenberg Blocks (And How to Use Them)

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January 24, 2023

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The Gutenberg editor has completely changed how we build websites and web pages with WordPress. It allows users to create content and layouts piece by piece and comes with many tools to do so. In this post, we want to look at some of the best blocks Gutenberg has to offer for that purpose. The WordPress editor is a complex piece of software. It’s easy to overlook some of the features of Gutenberg, including the many blocks it comes with. Consequently, there might be some that you have no idea exist but that could seriously improve your workflow and make […]

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