1000s of WordPress websites are hacked every day because the hackers are aware of the security loopholes in plugins and themes that the website is using. Usually, the websites that use outdated or nulled WordPress plugins and themes fall prey to hackers. There are incidents where websites that use powerful WordPress security plugins are hacked. To keep your WordPress website or blog safe, you...
Buying a premium WordPress theme ensures that you’ll be given assistance when you encounter problems with the theme. The theme will have clean code and it will be search engine and mobile friendly. Unfortunately, the premium theme which I used earlier on this blog was a waste of my money. I had bought it when I was a newbie blogger after reading a review. The theme was good initially, but...
Caching of WordPress posts and pages are two of the best way to increase the page speed. While most of the WP users prefer using WPSC or W3TC, there are a lot of users who are always in search for different plugins. For such users, today we’ll share a review on the Cache Enabler plugin. The cache enabler is one of the lightest WordPress plugins. It has been developed by folks at the popular...
The events calendar plugin by the modern tribe is the best calendar plugin for WordPress. More than 20 developers have authored it. The plugin is active on 0.4 million WordPress websites. It is free. Let’s find it out why the plugin is so popular among the WordPress users. The WordPress events calendar plugin review To get started, you’ll have to install this excellent plugin from the...
Mega menus have become a new trend in the world of internet. They make navigation much easier for the user as well makes your website more beautiful. Mega Menus are created with the help of CSS, JS/Jquery, and HTML. Creating them is not an easy task. Only a seasoned developer with good knowledge of the above-mentioned technologies will be able to design and code a perfect mega menu. WordPress...
The image is one of the most important elements of a blog post. It not only makes the post attractive but also helps in improving the website’s search engine visibility. Sometimes, when you update a blog post, you may replace the image/pictures in it with some other pictures. Many users don’t bother to delete the old images from the uploads directory of wp-content WordPress...
Blogging is a type of online business. If you invest money in your WordPress site, your business will benefit from it. In WP, investment is nothing but purchasing premium themes and plugins which help in improving UX. When it comes to plugins, the most important plugin is the one that allows visitors to share blog posts on social networks. Yes! You’ve guessed it right! We’re talking...
WP login.php is the most critical page on a WordPress website. Without it, you will not be able to access the WP-admin area aka the WP dashboard and other users will not be able to register an account with your website. No website owner would ever want a hacker or an intruder to get full access to the WP-admin area. If they do manage to get its access, intruders will delete your website...
WordPress saves the post, settings and other data related to your website in an MSQL database. The DB is handled by the user through CMS with a DB management plugin or through a command line terminal from a remote computer (on unmanaged hosting environment). Sometimes, the WordPress PHP files will not be able to connect to the MySQL server, and you’ll be notified of this error when you try...
Before buying any product from a website or before contacting a business, search engine users will go through the reviews. If the reviews are negative, the user may not communicate with the business or he’ll leave the website without making any purchase. Customers are the best people to judge a product and the best way to get their feedback is by adding a review section to the website...
Some webmasters are concerned about their online privacy, and they will never use a popular third party analytics tool like Google Search Console, webmaster tools, clicky, StatCounter, and others. To safeguard their website statistics, people use a plugin which will create a database to store data related to websites. One of the best plugin to do this job is WP statistics. The plugin works 24 x 7...
The font is one of the most critical elements on a website. Developers make sure that the typography of their website is best in class. If your visitor finds that your site is ugly, he’ll leave it immediately without reading the content or making a purchase. There are 100s of fonts that you can use for free, but you will have to spend a lot of time in searching for them unless you use...
The sidebar is one of the most critical section of a website. It not only helps in improving the revenue of a site by allowing users to place adverts above the fold but also helps in decreasing the bounce rate. On WordPress blogs, you’ll find banners, related/latest/popular post’s widget on the sidebar. The content you add to the sidebar will be visible on all posts. If there are 1000...
The Google Search Console tool make us aware of various errors that Google encountered while crawling our website. 404 errors don’t have any impact on the ranking of a website. But if the error is generated because of change in permalink or its structure, you’ll lose traffic from the search engines as well as the social networks. Page Rank will be lost as well. For the best experience...
Sometimes, you may not like your current WordPress theme, and you may think of replacing it with some other template. Themes allow you to export settings. But the settings you back up will be compatible only with the theme i.e. You can’t move settings of a Mythemshop template to TagDiv NewsPaper or Elegant Themes Divi. When you change your template, you may have to tweak the design for the...
We all know how easy it is to create a contact form page in WordPress. If not, then you might be a newbie who should explore the WordPress plugins repository. A contact form plugin will allow you to create and add a customized form to your WordPress website. The plugin will allow the user to add fields of his choice to the contact form page. WordPress CMS has been built with PHP, the server-side...
Facebook allows the webmasters to add the Facebook comment form, like box or the page feed to their websites. In WordPress CMS, adding a comment form or the like box is easy, but inserting a page feed is usually a tricky task for a webmaster. Even if the user manages to add FB feed to the sidebar, he won’t be able to customize it unless the user knows the working knowledge of CSS. In such...
WordPress supports taxonomies. In the WP CMS (content management system), the user can create as many tags and categories as they want. A category is different from a tag. It is used to build a menu. If you create a treemap of WordPress structure, then the categories will always be the child of index or root page. They make navigation easier for the search bots and the visitors. On a small blog...
Dual factor authentication has become one of the most important security features in the last few years. Major websites like Google Mail, Outlook, Facebook are now protecting user accounts in a better way by allowing them to use a mobile device as their identity. To activate 2 step authentication, the service provider will ask you to install Google Authenticator app (or any of its alternative)...
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