Like SEO or WordPress back-ups, optimizing images for your blog is one of those things that you hear about all of the time, but few people actually bother to do. Why should you care about image optimization? Using the proper image format and resolution can not only make your website load drastically faster, but can actually improve the quality of images as well. In this post, I’m going to give you 3 tips on optimizing images that every WordPress blogger should know.
The 8 WordPress Plugins That Will Change the Way Your WordPress Site Looks and Performs
The world of CMS has only one king – WordPress. Even the king needs his hands to rule over his domain of 2 million websites, and in this case, the king’s hands are the plugins. Each year WordPress comes up with thousands of new plugins for the users, developers, digital marketers, online entrepreneurs and website designers. Since most plugins in the directory are free, it is quite easy to update their versions from time to time and even switch to a new plugin now and then. However, most developers and marketers remain too busy to pay attention to a perfectly […]
The Difference Between Classes and Objects In PHP
The standards for WordPress development are slowly moving from turns of procedural code that lack proper abstraction to more SOLID and object-oriented code. That’s a step in the right direction, but let’s not forget two important things that often get left out of these discussions: putting code in a class does not make it “object-oriented,” and object-oriented PHP is not, by definition better. Today, we will discuss what what an object is and what its role is. Then we can discuss what we mean by “true object-oriented programming” and whether it really matters if your code is “true OOP” or […]
Three WordPressers Share Their Stories
In just 13 years, WordPress has evolved from a blogging service into a full-service platform that companies like The New York Times and Wired trust with their websites. Like all open-source software, the beating heart of WordPress is the community. Without it, it certainly wouldn’t be where it is today. Today we highlight three different WordPress stories that show exactly how the CMS is changing lives. Tom Ewer Tom Ewer is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of WordCandy, an online publishing agency that specializes in producing content for WordPress businesses. Ewer first started writing about WordPress back May 2011 on his blog, […]
Affiliate Income from Your Own Employer?
Although it seems that many WordPress-based companies are moving away from affiliate programs it’s still not even close to global shift and will always be a big part of growing an online business, whether it’s WordPress or some other digital product. It is, generally speaking, a very successful and strategically-proven method of capitalization. Heck, I’ve tried it multiple times for many different web-offerings and it’s been a good one! But one question that’s come up time and time again is about employees taking affiliate income via their own personal properties and/or projects related to the core business’ product. In other words, […]
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