WordPress’ flexibility sometimes means that its settings can be a bit overwhelming. This is especially true of the General Settings page, which houses a long list of seemingly unrelated options. However, the features here are more straightforward than they may first appear. In this article, we’ll walk through the options available on the WordPress General…
WordPress
20 posts
WordPress is an extremely customizable platform. No matter what you want your website to do, chances are high that there’s a way to make it happen. To help you get started, there are a lot of reading settings in the WordPress dashboard that you can configure, some of which determine how your site presents to…
There are many fantastic nonprofit organizations. However, it’s a sad reality that many of these organizations struggle to grow their online presences. Fortunately, there are plenty of WordPress plugins that can help you reach a wider audience. If you install the right tools, you’ll have access to everything you need to organize fundraising events and…
It’s all too common to see WordPress websites with dozens of plugins. During our time, we’ve even seen sites with hundreds of extensions. At some point, you have to ask yourself “How many plugins are too many?”, especially if you’re trying to keep your website running smoothly and loading quickly. In this article, we’re going…
WordPress themes are a staple of the platform, and a key part of what makes it so user-friendly. Since version 2.1, every major release has shipped with a new default WordPress theme, which provides some insight into what’s next for the Content Management System (CMS). In this post, we’ll discuss the role default WordPress themes…
Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. Simply sign up for the affiliate programs that many companies offer and post links to your WordPress website. Alternately, you can grow your sales by creating affiliate programs yourself. Fortunately, there are lots of affiliate marketing WordPress plugins to help with this. In…
If you’re a WordPress user then site security should be at the top of your priority list. As the most popular CMS on the planet, it has more than its fair share of hackers, bots, and bad actors with WordPress websites in their crosshairs. You don’t want malware to creep onto your site, nor do…
One of the best jokes out there about being a web developer is that you spend 20% of your time coding. And the other 80% searching the internet for solutions to problems you run into. It’s not terribly untrue, either, if a bit hyperbolic. Thanks to tools like Can I Use, that time searching can be…
For a busy website owner, the right WordPress maintenance and support service can be your secret weapon. A reliable and skilled partner can handle much of the day-to-day busywork. However, the wrong partner can cause more problems than it fixes. In this article, we’ll help you avoid that problem by introducing you to five of…
When you minify your website’s CSS, HTML, and Javascript files, you can shave some valuable time off of your site’s page load speed. Now we aren’t talking about cutting your page load speed in half or anything, but when it comes to the speed of your website, any little bit helps. How fast your site…