If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your to-do list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen...
WordPress powers more than 15 million websites across the web and I’ve got news for you – not all of them are in English. In fact, one of the reasons the ‘Press is so popular is due to its availability in many languages and the ease with which it can be translated. What’s even more...
Does your site load content steadily like the tortoise, or wait until the race is almost over before it kicks into high gear, like the hare? In the race to provide the best user experience, steady is best. That’s why Google PageSpeed Insights measures your WordPress Speed Index to determine how your site content loads...
Optimizing image alt tags can do more than improve your WordPress site’s SEO … in fact, even more important, is the fact that it can, and will, make your content more accessible to every user who visits your site. It’s often said that “an image is worth a thousand words.” But how do you describe...
XAMPP is a popular, free, open-source web server you can install on your computer and use to power local WordPress installations. This makes XAMPP a great option for developers who want to develop sites and test plugins and themes locally before pushing those changes to a live website. Using a local development environment is a...
Meta boxes are a useful feature in WordPress that allow you to add completely custom data to a post or page in WordPress. Say, for example, you’re creating a website for a client that needs to display nutritional information alongside products in a store (as we’ll be exploring in this post). You can add any...
Cron Jobs allow you to run scripts and automate repetitive tasks that can take up considerable time if done manually. In this post, we show you how to set up a cron job in cPanel and how to configure a real cron for WordPress. This tutorial covers the following: What is a Cron Job? Parts...
