Beginners

If you are thinking of selling WordPress products, you have two options: list on a marketplace, or sell through your own site. I’d highly encourage you to sell on your own site, here’s why. Giving Up Control Listing on a marketplace means that you are totally dependent on them for your traffic and sales. This is tempting in the beginning because if you don’t have any traffic they can provide it for a fee. 50 percent of a few sales is better than 100 percent of no sales, right? This is short-term thinking. Consider three years from now when you’ve […]

The smartphone created revolutionary advancements in existing technologies and development processes. Today, the extent of the mobile app development market is large as it encompasses small-scale businesses, leading enterprises, and startups. Though WordPress was primarily thought of as a blogging platform, it is now used for much more than that, including mobile app development. In the article below, I will describe why the two worlds work perfectly together. Why WordPress? WordPress offers exceptional customization to your mobile app’s layout and many mobile app developers use it as a backend for a mobile app. Being an open source CMS, WordPress supports […]

Website and application visitors expect their online experiences to be both fast and secure. This is especially true as websites and applications are more frequently used as the primary storefront for businesses, support transactions with sensitive information, and store private customer data. With over 28 percent of the world’s websites running on WordPress, they are especially vulnerable to attack due to higher levels of visibility. Whether you’re running a small personal blog or multi-million dollar eCommerce shop, this blog post will cover an array of security and performance improvements which all WordPress website owners should seriously consider implementing. When combined, […]

On-page SEO is one of the most important factors when it comes to ranking your web page. However, there is another factor that comes into play and that’s off-page SEO, which as the name indicates is everything not directly on the page. Off-page SEO is one of the main elements in ranking your WordPress site. Search engines see that your pages have a lot of incoming links, therefore they’ll think that your site has high-quality content, thus ranking it higher. Brian Dodge, an SEO specialist at SuperiorPapers says this: ”In order to run a successful business you must always spend […]

If you’re working on your own Internet marketing, you’re probably familiar with the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by now. Websites at the top of the list (namely the first page) of returned search results are more likely to be clicked on than those further down the list. You know that optimizing your website so that a search engine will move it towards the top of the results list is an arduous process that requires knowledge about how search engines work as well as significant research and plenty of patience. Even if you’ve read plenty of articles and blogs about […]

Building a community around your brand can be a powerful way to engage your audience. However, if you don’t know where to start, the technical aspect of hosting a social site can quickly feel like an insurmountable challenge. Thankfully, there are powerful plugins that can transform a plain WordPress website into a fully-fledged social platform. One of the most long-standing, popular solutions is BuddyPress. It only takes a few steps to get your community up and running with this tool! In this article, we’ll show you how to use BuddyPress with WordPress to host a social site. Let’s get you up […]

Security is becoming increasingly important as the digital age continues to mature. If you don’t keep up with the latest security technology, you are leaving your site open to unnecessary risks. One of the standards for website security is two-factor authentication. It is available when logging into the likes of Google and Twitter, for their users’ additional peace of mind. Thankfully, you can easily add two-step authentication to your website using Google’s Authenticator app with WordPress plugins. With the above in mind, in this article we will explain how to use Google Authenticator to tighten security on your WordPress website. Let’s get started! How Two-Factor Authentication Works […]

Cyber insecurity is an increasing factor in the technological world these days. Every good website needs security. If your website is not secured, there are hackers out there who will not only steal your data from the website but also try to destroy your website. Electronic hackers are fast and invisible and will take all the details of your customer from your website along with their bank details. Once done, the damage done by the hacker can never be recovered. This article will cover ways to keep yourself and your data safe. Don’t Use Default Credentials Your password is your […]

WordPress has ceased to become just another blogging platform. Today, it is considered as the most widely used content management system. It is the most popular choice among businesses because it is easy to use and manage, flexible and highly-customizable, SEO-friendly, and given a large number of users, there’s also an existing active community for support. In addition, despite being an open-source, even big brands feel secure when using WordPress. If you are a WordPress user, you’re most probably already aware of the many advantages and benefits of using it to grow your business. However, what you need to remember […]

To make sure that your site remains up to date with these latest practices and trends, you need to make several changes including getting quality content. Outsourcing content creation for your site is a good way to delegate the hard tasks and save time. Also, it’s a great way to get cheap and high-quality content that is SEO-optimized from professionals. You may be great at creating the services and products you offer, but you may not be a good writer or photographer, so you might not have the time to create the content that is needed. But how do you […]