Content formatting is an important piece of the puzzle that is blogging and content marketing. While you would think that the information inside your posts is what matters most, it turns out that the presentation is just as important. While the content is what gets people on your site, it’s format is what makes them stick around. And that’s important. The longer they stay, the higher the chances they will convert to subscribers or buyers. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? Plus, visitors staying on your site for a long time is a vote of confidence that Google […]
4 Excellent Ways to Add a Favicon to Your WordPress Website
Small details can make a big difference in how your website is perceived and adding a favicon to your WordPress website is one of those tiny details. In case that term causes you to draw a blank, favicon stands for favorite icon. It’s the tiny image that represents your website in a browser’s favorite menu, tabs, and wherever else it is represented visually. Having a favicon is good for brand recognition, giving your site a visual identity and building trust with your audience. For that reason, in this article, we will show you how to include one on your site. […]
How to Create and Use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in WordPress
Scalable vector graphics and WordPress is a slightly complicated story. We all know that using visuals on your website is important. Images are everywhere. Be it to make your content more engaging and shareable, as portfolio images, or maybe just your site logo. Thankfully, WordPress supports many image formats for that purpose, including JPG, PNG, and GIF. However, one it doesn’t support without some coercion is scalable vector graphics (SVG). Yet, they are an image format that is growing rapidly in popularity. In this article, we want to talk about scalable vector graphics in WordPress. We will tell you what […]
14 WordPress Plugins Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. All big tech companies are working on their own version and the topic regularly pops up on the news. Like when one of Google’s programs taught itself how to walk. Then there was the story about how one of Facebook’s AIs started creating its own language (though it was a bit overhyped). Or when 116 AI experts urged the UN to ban killer robots. However, my favorite instance must be when Marc Zuckerberg and Elon Musk squared off about artificial intelligence on Twitter. I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of […]
25 Essential WordPress Plugins to Monetize Your WordPress Website
Most people who start a website do it with the goal in mind to earn money. After all, we all need to make a living and the Internet has become a great place to do it. We already talked about this concept in another article that covered how to monetize your WordPress website. Here, we covered different ways to make money with a website from ads over sponsored posts to affiliate programs. It’s a great place to start if you are thinking about earning money with your WordPress site. Today, we want to get a little more specific. After deciding how […]
Here’s What It Takes to Make a WordPress Website Mobile Friendly
The rise of mobile devices has been one of the most decisive changes on the Internet. These days, no website can do without being mobile friendly or rather, no website that wants to be successful. By now, mobile users represent more than half of all Internet traffic and also make up the majority of all search queries. For that reason, there is no way around catering to this user group. Plus, Google now punishes you in the search results if you don’t have mobile-optimized version of your site. If that isn’t motivation enough, I don’t know what is. However, what […]
7 Enterprise-Level Websites From Australia That Are Built With WordPress
Recently we talked about the state of the WordPress community in Australia on this blog. The tightly-knit community is remarkable for a country divided by lots of open space. In this post, we want to continue with the theme of WordPress and Australia. However, instead of talking about the community, we want to put the focus on the results they produce. By now, a bunch of prominent and large Australian websites run on WordPress. We have already talked about enterprise-level WordPress sites. In this article, we want to take this a little further and showcase a number of these sites. […]
How WordPress Makes It Easy to Combine Content and Commerce
Content and commerce are two of the main driving forces of the online economy. In the end, most websites come down to creating content and/or selling stuff. It makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, we are all here to earn a living. Bloggers need to monetize their site to live off of their writing. Online shops need to ways to market themselves. As a consequence, in many cases content and commerce are dependent on each other to be successful. Thankfully, WordPress can do both and in this article, we will talk about how the platform can help you excel in […]
An In-depth Tutorial on How to Use Yoast SEO (Updated 2021)
Question: Which plugin appears first in Google when you type in “WordPress SEO,” has over five million active installs, a 4.8-star rating in the WordPress directory, and is a regular on the most popular plugins list? If you just answered “Yoast SEO,” you would be correct and in this tutorial, you will learn how to use it correctly. The plugin by team Yoast is one of the best out there. It’s powerful, offers tremendous value, is meticulously updated and supported, and literally millions of people use it. That includes me. I have the plugin installed on basically all of my […]
WordPress and the Internet of Things – What It is and How to Make It Work
The Internet has revolutionized the way we live, communicate, and do business. There’s almost no company out there anymore that doesn’t rely on the world wide web in some sort of capacity. In addition to that, mainly thanks to mobile devices, the online world has permeated our entire lives. Now we can get on the Internet pretty much anywhere and at any time. And now with the Internet of Things (IoT) this connection will become even stronger. The Internet of Things describes the growing number of devices that have online connections. You might not be aware of it but Internet […]
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