Trying to come up with strategies for enhancing user engagement, boosting conversions, and achieving your business objectives can seem intimidating. It’s a lot of effort to stay on top of all the details. Thankfully, there is a way to streamline these efforts: WordPress A/B testing. A/B or split testing can help you improve the most important aspects of your site. It’s a great tool for optimizing your website performance and conversion rates. If you’re ready to take your WordPress website’s performance to the next level, we’ll show you how. In the article below you will learn what A/B testing is […]
57 Free Marketing Tools: A No-Cost Website Traffic Growth Toolkit
Growing a website is not an easy undertaking, especially if you are on a budget. While there are plenty of tools out there to help you attract visitors to your site, most of them are paid. So, what are you supposed to do as a startup or small business that is strapped for cash? Use free marketing and traffic growth tools. In this post, we have compiled a list of useful tools for increasing website visitors and growing your site that you can use without paying a dime. Some are completely free, some are limited free plans of otherwise paid […]
Hyperlink Design: 9 Examples from Real-Life Websites (Incl. CSS)
Studying examples of hyperlink design is more significant than you would think. Links are what turn the Internet into “the web” and connect otherwise unrelated pages and websites to each other. They also lead visitors around your site, allow them to discover more of it, and dive deeper into the topics they are interested in. Plus, as backlinks, hyperlinks are desired as an SEO signal. In short, without links, websites and the Internet wouldn’t be what they are. We have already talked about how to style links using CSS in a past article. However, just because you know how to […]
ACF 6.1 Adds Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
This week, popular plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), announced the release of version 6.1. This update marks a huge win for functionality of the plugin and WordPress development as a whole. Site developers can now register custom post types and custom taxonomies from within the plugin. Having the functionality directly within the ACF dashboard not only saves time, it cuts down on the number of plugins needed to power a site. This exciting update significantly expands the features of both the free version and ACF PRO. All users can enjoy this historic new phase of ACF. Let’s dive into the […]
Gutenberg Block Editor Review (By a WordPress Power User)
In this post, I will review the WordPress block editor, that has found its way into the platform as part of the Gutenberg project. It has been around for four years and was one of the most controversial changes to ever happen to WordPress. Now that it has had time to mature and because it is a topic laden with such emotions, I thought it would be a good idea for me to weigh in. As a professional WordPress blogger, I spend all day every day not only writing in WordPress but also testing every aspect of the platform over […]
How to Host Fonts Locally in WordPress (Classic & Block Themes!)
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
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)
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 […]
How to Easily Customize the WordPress Search Results Page
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 […]
Top 5 Blogging Trends of 2023 You Definitely Shouldn’t Ignore
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 […]
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