If you’re running a website, you must optimize it for search engines to succeed as a blogger, business owner etc. Programmers can have nightmares while making their site or client’s website SEO friendly. If you’re using a content management system, this task is a piece of cake, thanks to the best SEO plugins. If you’re new to WordPress CMS or if you’re site is not...
A theme is responsible for the success of a blogger. Many bloggers end up buying a theme which looks attractive but scores 0 when it comes to SEO. Despite publishing high-quality content on their sites, these bloggers don’t enjoy success and they quit blogging As a newbie blogger, I had committed a huge mistake of trusting a third class theme developer. The developer rolled out an update...
Nexus is a powerful WordPress magazine theme developed by ElegantThemes. For those who aren’t aware, ET is one of the top WP theme and plugin development companies. Some of its most popular products are Divi theme, Monarch social sharing plugin, etc. Nexus template has a beautiful layout and it provides a plethora of widgets. It is a customizable theme that supports full-width layout. It is...
WordPress saves the permalink of the page/post in a database table. It doesn’t generate them on the fly. Hence, you can change the structure of the post/page URL anytime. You should avoid changing permalinks often because it complicates your site. When you change the URL structure, you’ll have to redirect the old URL to the newer URL with a proper HTTP status code. If you don’t...
Sometimes, you may want to display widgets only on certain pages of a site. If you’ve knowledge of PHP, you can show/hide widgets with just 2 lines of codes. The 1st line will have the PHP if else condition to detect the current page or term. If the condition you’ve specified in the if statement is true, then the code inside the if block must be executed. The block must have the...
The Ark theme for WordPress was introduced on Themeforest marketplace in December 2016. Within a month of its launch, Ark has registered 1000+ downloads. It has an excellent rating of 5 from 50+ users. The theme has 200+ customizable elements and 1000+ customization options. Ark was declared the top-selling WordPress theme last month. It has become a popular item on ThemeForest within a month of...
Amazon is one of the world’s most popular affiliate program. Until December 2016, the user had to place affiliate URLs manually in the blog post. The manual method of inserting affiliate URLs in the blog post is cumbersome. The user should first create affiliate link using the Amazon Site Stripe tool or with the AA dashboard. Then, they must use the WordPess post editor to insert the...
Widgets are one of the most impressive and powerful features of the WordPress content management system. They make your website look attractive and user-friendly. Once you install WordPress, the CMS will add up to 10 different widgets to your blog or website. These widgets have limited functionality. Furthermore, they’re not customizable. Free themes may not add new widgets to your WP site...
WordPress is the best blogging software and free content management system. It performs well on a powerful server. If the server has a poor configuration, WordPress may not provide the best experience. Websites hosted on an underpowered server suffers from heavy downtimes. The website takes ages to open on the visitor’s browser. This results in poor user experience. As the first impression...
Themes and plugins are the most important parts of a WordPress website. If the code of the theme is not SEO friendly, your site will not perform well in search engines. Likewise, if the plugin has an erroneous code, it can lead to poor user experience. In worst cases, the problematic theme or plugin may cause high server resource utilization. The search bots will begin to ignore your site. If you...
Planning to launch a self-hosted WordPress blog or site? Your decision is great. WordPress is the backbone of millions of websites. It is the most widely used free blogging software. Although WP is a free CMS, you cannot use it unless you deploy it on a server. You can run WordPress on your PC by installing the NGINX, PHP-FPM, MySQL stack on your PC. The website deployed on localhost is...
Guys, you may have seen the “Leverage browser caching” warning when you test your website’s speed with the Google page speed insights tool. After finding this message, you head over to Google and search methods to increase cache expiry time. After reading a tutorial on increasing expiry time for static content i.e. JavaSript, CSS files, you go ahead and modify the htaccess or...
If you have been waiting for the WordPress Black Friday sale 2016, then your wait is over. The WP BF sale has begun and top WordPress theme and plugin developers are throwing massive discounts on their top products. Hence, if you buy a premium product now, you’ll save huge money by the end of next year. In case you’re not able to find the best deals for WordPress, here is the list of...
Most people use the internet to read reviews of products before they buy them. You may have seen top search engines such as Google or Bing showing star ratings in the search results of its pages. Google doesn’t show the ratings for all websites. It shows ratings only for the portals having schema markups and in-depth content. Writing the content is up to the user, but one can easily add...
WordPress, being a versatile plugin allows you to launch all types of sites. It allows users to install plugins to make website search engine friendly, faster, highly rewarding, etc. WordPress has millions of users. The WordPress repository hosts over 100k plugins of all types. An experienced blogger using WP platform may not difficulty in choosing the right plugin. But the newbie users may get...
A viral theme is one which helps website owners in garnering tons of traffic from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, etc. It should have excellent layout and beautiful social network icons. The icons in a viral WordPress theme must be placed at the best position so as to increase the chances of a visitor sharing the content. If you’re planning to launch a viral...
A viral theme is one which helps website owners in garnering tons of traffic from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, etc. It should have excellent layout and beautiful social network icons. The icons in a viral WordPress theme must be placed at the best position so as to increase the chances of a visitor sharing the content. If you’re planning to launch a viral...
Recruiting a right person is crucial to the success of a business firm. Creating a website that allows you to publish job listings and managing them is not a huge task for a website developer. The developer can take anything between 20 to 50 days to create a job board site and he’ll charge you over $500 as a fee. If you’re are looking for a cheaper option, consider using WordPress...
Today, I have addressed one major issue the WordPress users face i.e. HTTP error on uploading media or image files. I encountered this error yesterday while trying to upload a picture in my latest blog post. The picture uploader tool was repeatedly throwing cannot upload error. I logged into the server and checked PHP error log files generated by the website and PHP web server. The files were...
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