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14 Ways to Speed Up WordPress and Decrease Page Load Time Copy

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July 19, 2022

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Don’t you love the feeling you get right after setting up a fresh WordPress installation? The way it loads within the blink of an eye, unburdened by any content, plugins, or sidebar widgets? Pure bliss. So, why doesn’t it stay that way and why the need to learn to speed up WordPress? Unfortunately, over time most WordPress sites will grow slower and slower as they accumulate bloat. Plugins, images, custom code—everything starts to eat up resources. If you are also one of those people who neglect basic site maintenance, soon it will feel like someone poured sand into the gears […]

4 Ways to Create Better WooCommerce Product Pages

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September 8, 2020

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There are many moving parts involved when it comes to creating and maintaining a WooCommerce site. Product pages are a key element that is easy to overlook, but vital to the success of your online business. Fortunately, there are a few techniques you can implement to significantly improve your product pages. Since they’re a primary driving force behind most customers’ purchasing decisions, it’s wise to do all you can to enhance their effectiveness. In this post, we’ll discuss why product pages are so important to the success of your WooCommerce site. Then we’ll share four strategies you can use to […]

How to Make Embeds Responsive in WordPress

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July 28, 2020

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Responsive web design is essential for delivering a positive, mobile-friendly User Experience (UX). Unfortunately, when you embed certain types of content on your WordPress site, particularly YouTube videos and iframes, they don’t always translate well. Inline frames aren’t responsive by default. However, there are simple strategies you can use to make your embeds responsive in WordPress. Whether you’re a tech-savvy developer or a WordPress beginner, there is a quick and easy solution for you to use. In this post, we’ll briefly discuss the importance of making your embeds responsive in WordPress, then walk you through the two different methods you […]

Yoast Creates Free Online Course for WordPress Beginners

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November 7, 2019

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Update: Yoast has added a new course all about the new Block Editor. Learn what it is, how to use it, how to publish a post, how to add more blocks, how to switch from classic editor, and what the future holds. Getting to know WordPress can be quite daunting. Especially if you don’t have a background in engineering. That’s why we — team Yoast — created a brand new free online training course to teach you how to get started with WordPress. We’ll cover all the basics from “What is a page builder?” to “How do I install a […]

9 Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment in WordPress

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July 23, 2019

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Finding ways to reduce shopping cart abandonment is one of the main challenges in running an e-commerce site. Research suggests that up to 75 percent of all online shopping carts are abandoned before making a purchase. Of course, this phenomenon has serious consequences for your bottom line. Because of that, in this post, we will talk about how to tackle this problem. You will learn the main reasons for shopping cart abandonment as well as solutions to stop it from happening to you. Note, this stuff will also help if your site is not built with WordPress. However, some of […]

Managing WordPress: The 4 Best Practices Your Clients Need to Know

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June 25, 2019

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WordPress makes it fairly easy to set up and run a website. However, this doesn’t mean there’s zero upkeep involved in managing your site. It doesn’t matter if it’s a blog, a business site, or even an online store – they all involve a lot more ongoing work than your clients might anticipate. For example, your clients will need to take care of creating regular backups for their websites. That can be a time-consuming task, especially if they don’t know the right way to approach it. Whenever possible, helping your clients learn and automate this type of work before setting […]

10 Easy Tips to Successfully Take Over an Existing WordPress Website

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June 10, 2019

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Taking over a website from another designer sounds like good deal. No need to build anything from scratch, just get the login information, check in every once in a while and write regular invoices. Easy money, right? However, when you do take over an existing website, the reality is quite different. Websites don’t exist in a vacuum, there are lots of moving parts and many steps to it. To help you avoid forgetting anything and make the process as smooth as possible, we wrote up a checklist of what to keep in mind when taking over administration of a finished […]

Why and How to Create a Gutenberg Block – A Tutorial for Beginners

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May 7, 2019

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Learning to create a Gutenberg block is a good future investment. No matter where you fall on the Gutenberg debate, the block editor is here to stay. Even if you have reverted back to the classic editor, chances are good that at some point in the next few years you will also start creating web pages in the form of blocks. More and more themes, like Twenty Nineteen, will take advantage of what the new WordPress editor has to offer. Plus, soon you will also use blocks in other parts of WordPress like the navigation menu or widgets. Therefore, you […]

How to Speed Test Your Website (Metrics, Tools, Optimization Tips)

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March 26, 2019

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As a site owner, it’s important that you learn how to speed test your website. Page loading speed influences many things, from user experience over conversions to SEO. That’s why we have already covered how to improve it in these posts: 14 Ways To Speed Up WordPress And Decrease Page Load Time 10 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Website [Case Study] However, the basis of putting any of these tips into action is that you have a proper understanding of the current state of your site. While there are many software solutions to test site speed out there […]

The WordPress Coding Standards: An Introduction

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March 18, 2019

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We often talk about how important it is to write quality code when it comes to creating WordPress products. However, that isn’t just about professionalism and pride. Practically any site can break due to poor-quality code, which could do serious damage to your professional standing. Fortunately, what ‘quality’ means has been distilled into the WordPress coding standards. These will help you ensure that your code is up to par, and give you a roadmap of sorts to follow when working on important projects. In this post, we’ll look at the WordPress coding standards in more detail. We’ll also introduce the […]

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