“Is WordPress right for my website?” Anyone building WordPress sites for clients likely has to deal with this question on a regular basis. As it turns out, client education is as much part of this business as installing plugins and writing CSS. For WordPress professionals, the platform is second nature and the benefits of using WordPress for building websites are completely obvious. However, we often forget that clients don’t possess that same knowledge. For some, that really isn’t a problem. All they want is a website and they don’t care about what’s running it. Others, however, do care and sometimes […]
An Introduction To Technical SEO For WordPress Websites
SEO seems to be getting more and more complex with every year. Already a bit of a mystery for many site owners, the fact that this field is constantly changing surely doesn’t make things any easier. Trying to stay on top in order to keep your website afloat in the search rankings can result in lots of sleepless nights. To conquer this feeling of uncertainty, it’s a good idea to take a step back and start from the very beginning. In the case of search engine optimization, that means looking at what is called technical SEO, which is the basis […]
11 Truly Useful Yet Unknown WordPress Features
WordPress has, without a doubt, been very successful. It is by now a powerful content management system powering millions of websites. However, that doesn’t mean that the development of the WordPress platform has come to an end. Quite the contrary, WordPress continues to evolve rapidly, with three majors releases in 2015 alone. Besides code improvements, every new WordPress version also brings new features. Some, like the WP REST API get talked about quite a lot. Others come in more under the radar. Because that is the way it is, in 2014 I wrote an article for Torque on lesser-known WordPress […]
How To Move WordPress From Localhost To Live Server
The ability to set up and use local development is an important one in any WordPressers skill set. A local WordPress installation enables you to work independently of an online connection, test site changes, themes, and plugins without the risk of breaking your live site, and overall makes your workflow more efficient. So much so that I recently wrote an entire article on how to install WordPress locally with XAMPP. Your site won’t do any good, however, if it’s just lying around on your hard drive. Once you are done with the work, you need to figure out how to […]
11 Best WordPress Translation Plugins For Multilingual Websites
With a share of almost 26 percent of worldwide Internet users, English is the most spoken language online (as of November 2015). That means if your WordPress site is set up in this particular language, it appeals to the largest singular group of users out there. The bad news, however, is that you are missing out on the other 74 percent — that’s roughly 2.5 billion people. Yeah, you read that right. That’s two and a half billion who people could be reading your content, buying your product, signing up for your service, and more. If only you (or your […]
7 Reasons That Make Me Say #ILoveWP (What Are Yours?)
You have probably seen the hashtag #IloveWP that is currently sweeping the WordPress nation. It’s a call to contribute to the new WordPress.org testimonial page, which has been woefully out of date for a while. (In fact, some of the testimonials in the version that is being replaced dated back to 2003.) To populate the new page, Matt Mullenweg has posted a call to the community to share your WordPress story with the #IloveWP tag attached and submit them as testimonial material. So, if you’d like your story to be featured on WordPress.org, here’s your chance. Besides a shot at […]
28 High-Quality Resources To Learn JavaScript For WordPress
Learn Javascript, deeply. – Matt Mullenweg Even if you haven’t watched the 2015 State of the Word address, there’s one takeaway that everyone is talking about: The future of WordPress and the web are API-powered JavaScript applications. The new WordPress.com user interface Calypso was already a sign of things to come. Not only is it utilizing the WP REST API but build with Node.js and React powering the whole thing, it is also completely based on JavaScript which will be a key part of the WordPress technology stack in years to come. So, it’s clear that it’s time to learn JavaScript […]
How to Implement Web Accessibility Guidelines in WordPress
When building a WordPress website, you probably already have a laundry list of things that need to be done. Layout optimization, social icons, Google Analytics, SEO settings — to name just a few. Not to mention, content creation when the site has gone online. Probably the last thing you want is to add more to the list. However, here is an important one, web accessibility. What’s that you ask? Making your site accessible means setting it up in a way that anyone can use it, regardless of limitations like visual, aural, or other cognitive impairment, learning disabilities, limited movement, speech disabilities, […]
Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines – What They Mean For Your WordPress Website
Don’t we all want to be on the first place in Google? Getting masses of organic free traffic every month is a dream that is probably as old as the search engine itself. Hell, the entire field of SEO is basically based on this goal. If only we could get a glimpse at the inner workings of Google and how they put together their search rankings. Now you can, with the release of Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines. To understand what they are, you first need to know that Google has hired hundreds of people as content quality raters. Their entire job is to […]
15 Tips To Get Your WordPress Website Indexed By Google
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 […]
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