Taking care of your SEO is one of the most important tasks for any website owner. By failing to do so, your WordPress site stands very little chance of getting significant organic traffic. However, search engine optimization is a big puzzle with many moving parts. Every little thing has an impact on your site’s performance in search engines. For that reason, it is important to learn how to do an SEO audit of your WordPress website Auditing your site means looking at its most important SEO markers to make sure it’s up to snuff. That way, you are able to […]
Questions To Ask Before Adding eCommerce to Your WordPress Site
WordPress is an incredibly versatile platform that allows users to create a range of site models to fit the needs of their business. If you’re trying to monetize your page, one of its most useful capabilities is the option of adding an eCommerce plugin to your site. While this may seem like an obvious step for those trying to move merchandise online, there are many elements to WordPress eCommerce that are important to consider before making any commitments. How Diverse Is My Product Catalog? It’s worth noting that WordPress is not, in fact, a dedicated eCommerce catalog. There is a limit […]
AngularJS Translations In A WordPress Environment
Lot’s of people, myself included, have been extolling the virtues of using a JavaScript MVC framework, instead of a traditional PHP templating system as a WordPress front-end. While I’m pretty down on how WordPress traditionally handles templating, the one thing it does well is translation strings. WordPress is full of great functions for making text translatable. While angular-translate and other modules are available for localization, they all feel clunky and redundant when WordPress already has great localization built in. In this article, I want to share a simple way to use WordPress to manage localization and avoid using untranslatable strings […]
How To Analyze And Boost WordPress Performance
WordPress is flexible enough to create just about any type of website. It’s also incredibly easy to use, which means the technical knowledge for getting started is pretty low. However, because of this, when issues occur (such as inevitable performance drops) you can be left waving the white flag. Fortunately, there are a few steps you can take to preemptively minimize any serious harm. Depending on the makeup of your site and its content, you can optimize images, dig deeper into caching solutions, and tinker under WordPress’ hood to speed up your website’s loading times. In this post, we’ll present five different ways you can […]
How To Use WordPress To Run A Magazine Or News Website
Running a magazine or news website is difficult, but WordPress comes with a lot of built-in tools and offers plugins you can use to automate the process or make it easier. Let’s see how we can use these tools to run a magazine or news website with WordPress. Use Categories And Tags Properly Using categories and tags properly can help you organize your content in ways that make it easier for readers to find topics they’re interested in. This is especially true if your theme uses a homepage layout that separates content by category. Use categories for main topics, child […]
How To Start A Weekly Newsletter
Dozens upon dozens of articles are published every week in any given niche. It’s almost impossible to keep up with this much content, making a weekly newsletter filled with a collection of the best and latest articles a highly useful resource. Let’s go over a few different ways to create and publish a newsletter of this kind. Publishing A Weekly Newsletter Inside Of WordPress With WP RSS Aggregator WP RSS Aggregator is one of the most popular RSS aggregators available for WordPress. You can use the premium Feed to Post add-on available for this plugin in combination with the MailPoet […]
Why The Future Of Contract Management Lies With WordPress
Contracts can be complicated, long, and difficult but unfortunately businesses need them. Whether a business comes in the form of a massive corporation or a one man development shop in a basement contracts are a necessary part of operations. The world of contracts is changing, and that will directly affect all of us in the WordPress community. Why? Because eSignatures are the way of the future, my friends, and by combining the power of WordPress and online contracts, businesses are now able to have total control of their contract’s life cycles and signer interactions, and will be able to do […]
A Beginner’s Guide to eCommerce A/B Testing in WordPress
Making changes to your eCommerce website design that aren’t backed up with real-world data isn’t an effective way of improving your conversion rates. You could hire a developer and have them make changes based on your guesses, but what if it doesn’t work and you end up losing customers? A/B testing your website can help you arrive at a design that your visitors respond to in the best possible way. The best eCommerce sites understand that there’s always room for improvement, and regular testing plays a key role in paving your path to success. In this post, we’ll show you […]
WordPress SEO 101: How To Find The Right Keywords For Your Site
For many WordPress users, doing SEO in WordPress begins and ends with installing an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or All-in-One SEO Pack (read our comparison of the two plugins.) If you have read our in-depth guide to Yoast SEO you might even fill in the SEO title and meta description, pick a focus keyword, and follow the optimization tips on screen. That’s a good start. However, while SEO plugins can help you optimize your content for a particular keyword, they can’t tell you which keywords to target in the first place. That’s where a lot of people get stumped. […]
The Non-Techie’s Guide to Common Security Threats
Security is ongoing discussion for WordPress site owners of all levels of technical expertise, but it can be an especially hard area for newbies to get to grips with. While security insiders are fluent in the differences between common attack vectors, it can often appear as little more than a bewildering sea of hard to grasp threats for the average Joe. In this piece, we’ll be looking to fill in some of those knowledge blanks by briefly breaking down what some of the more common threats out there are actually all about. Rather than blind you with acronyms and white papers, we’ll concentrate on […]
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