If you are creating a website for an agency offering professional services, then the WordPress themes in this collection will help you get your website up and running in no time at all. Not only are these themes all highly attractive, but they also include lots of features that make promoting the services and key...
Protecting your WordPress site is obviously important. There are plenty of precautions you can take to avoid getting hacked and having your site compromised. One of the best forms of protection is two-factor authentication. If you manage a WordPress site or even several sites for clients, beefing up the overall security of a site is...
Tumblr is a popular social platform, great for microblogging posts that include text, images, links, quotes, audio, and video. While it’s nice for posting quick asides and quirky photos, Tumblr just doesn’t offer the same flexibility as WordPress and the many thousands of plugins WP has available for download. As a result, many bloggers find...
Nothing keeps you on track like a checklist. And when we say checklist, we mean one that’s in writing (as the mental ones can vanish as quickly as they appear). In this article, we’re going to look at some free plugins from the WordPress repository that will incorporate checklists right on your site. The ones...
Most of us are probably used to using Posts as the basis for most of our WordPress content. And that’s fine. But if you ask me, Pages rock. Although WordPress began life in 2003, static pages weren’t added to the software until version 1.5 AKA Strayhorn, back in 2005. Since then the range of uses for...
The WP_Query class is very powerful. It lets you create your own custom queries to run anywhere in your WordPress site – in the main content, in the sidebar or anywhere else you like. It’s something I use a lot, either in custom template files or in areas outside the content such as the sidebar...
If you’ve landed on this post because you’re deciding whether to go with WordPress or Squarespace, let me make your decision easier for you: choose WordPress every time. While both provide a platform for you to build a website, they are vastly different. WordPress is used by over one-third of all websites on the internet...