How to Add a Featured Image to a Genesis Post or Page
Most Genesis templates provide the ability to add a WordPress Featured Image to a post and to display the Featured Image on the Blog page. But what if you also want to display a Featured Image on a single post or page? And what if you want to use a Featured image with...
WordPress Development for Beginners: Learning PHP
Becoming a WordPress developer goes hand-in-hand with learning PHP, the popular server-side scripting language WordPress is built on. Originally created in 1994, PHP is a powerful and free open source tool for creating dynamic and interactive websites. This is the...
Google Better Prepares You for Its Big Forthcoming Change
February is getting closer, and you know what that means. Google announced last month that in late February, it would begin sending traffic to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Google Search. Have you looked into setting up AMP yet? If yes, how has the experience...
12 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Site You’ve Probably Overlooked
WordPress security is often referred to as “hardening.” Makes sense. After all, the process is like adding reinforcements to your castle. It’s all about bolstering the gates and putting lookouts on every tower. But that term doesn’t always allow you to realize the...
4 Quick Ways to Lower Your WordPress Site’s Bounce Rate
So I launched a WordPress blog a couple of years ago. I threw everything into it for a few months. I wrote article after article, focusing on high-quality content; all the while dreaming of the success it would become. Then, as the same old story goes, I became...
4 Ridiculously Obvious Mistakes I Made Building WordPress Sites for Clients
It was New Year’s Eve in the port of Saint-François in the Caribbean. It was hot, and the town was buzzing with preparations for the evening festivities. And I was working on finishing a WordPress site for a client. Not a good way to be spending your time hours before...
Compromised WordPress Sites Spread Spywares And Potentially Unwanted Applications: What You Should Know
Researchers reveal that some compromised WordPress sites are unwittingly spreading potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), as well as spyware. The spyware and PUAs are being sent to users through fraudulent browser plugins and bogus Flash update messages. The hacked...
How to hire a WordPress developer when you know nothing about code
Of all the WordPress users, I’m pretty sure the majority of them don’t know everything about what’s happening behind their website, e-commerce, or blog built on this open source software. Sure, some of them might know HTML and CSS; others are even able to hide post...
The 10 People in Almost Every WordPress Professional’s Life (And How to Deal With Them)
As WordPress professionals, we deal with certain constants: The havoc a missing semicolon causes, the panic of hardware malfunction, the seemingly never-ending parade of updates. However, some commonalities take the form of humans – both clients and acquaintances. For...
Alpha Release of Bootstrap 4: What’s New in the Latest Framework Version
Bootstrap celebrated its 4th birthday on August 19. To congratulate the framework community on such a joyous occasion, the company made an alpha release of Bootstrap 4. If your web projects are powered by this framework, read our post to find out how you can update...