Category: Tips for Developers
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4 Key Tips: Creating Mighty Mobile Data Visualizations
Never before has it been more important to ensure that your website is responsive across different screen sizes and user interactions. As the number of internet-accessing devices per person multiplies, your data visualizations need to be flexible and intuitive enough for users who might not even be working with a mouse. Take a bar chart,…
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How to Talk to Bots: 8 Technical SEO Tips
SEO is constantly changing and it’s as important as ever to know how to talk to search engine bots. These include, above all others, Googlebot and Bingbot, which play essential roles in positioning your site on their respective search engines. Additionally, developments such as Bing’s Copilot and Google Assistant, driven by artificial intelligence, are increasingly…
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All You Need to Know About DNS
Imagine a world where you had to memorize long strings of numbers to access your favorite websites. Thanks to DNS, that nightmare scenario is avoided. This essential technology forms the foundation of our user-friendly internet experience. DNS translates domain names into IP addresses, bridging the gap between human language and computer code. This makes locating…
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5 Ways to Optimize Your WordPress Site for Mobile
Most people have optimized their site in one way or another, but have you ever done anything specifically for your mobile visitors? These days, more traffic comes from mobile than desktop, and that number is only going to grow. People are using their devices more and more, and they demand that you make it easy…
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A Safe and Easy Way to Add Code to A WordPress Website’s Header or Footer
There may be occasions when you need to customize your WordPress website, and the only option is to edit the underlying code of the theme you are using. The purpose of this customization might be to change the appearance of your website, or perhaps alter the way it functions. Generally speaking, keeping your theme files…
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Need WordPress Help? Check Out These Support Resources
From forums and chat rooms to blog posts and conferences, the amount of WordPress support available truly is infinite; but, with so many resources at our fingertips, how does one find the answer to a simple WordPress question? To sort through all the information, it’s important to know where you can go to ask for…
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Reasons You Should Do a Regular WordPress Check-Up
Introduction to WordPress Maintenance Admit it, you do treat your WordPress installation as a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing, don’t you? Almost everybody does. Literally, the only two things we usually do with a WordPress site once it’s up and running is: (1) publish new content, (2) update the plugins and the WordPress core itself (here…
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How To Create a Sticky Post in WordPress
By default, your newest articles are published at the top of your blog. With every new article published, your existing articles are pushed down a spot — and eventually, off the front page completely. It can be disheartening when your best article drops off the front page. There are two main problems with this: One…
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A Guide to Using WordPress Logs to Track Errors
Use WordPress logs to fix problems that arise on your WordPress instance — or, more accurately, to figure out why they’ve occurred. This feature tracks errors and records them in one easy-to-locate file, so you can get started on the troubleshooting process. There are three basic steps to enable WordPress error logs: In this article,…
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Speed Optimization: the WordPress Plugins You Need
I’ve talked a lot about security over the last few weeks. This week, though, I want to talk about another important website attribute: speed. For anyone who experienced 56k dial-up, you could be forgiven for thinking today’s super-fast broadband connections have solved the problem of website speed. After all, most websites load within a few…