Category: WordPress Tutorials
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Udemy: Free and Premium Online Courses for Learning WordPress
Udemy offers on-demand online courses covering a wide range of topics from software development to speed reading. Once you ‘enroll’ and become a member you are then able to pick and choose from the published courses and start learning at your own convenience, with unrestricted repeat access to the content. There are even mobile apps…
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How to route Pagely site backups to your own S3 bucket
All of your WordPress sites on Pagely are automatically backed up nightly and made available for download via your Atomic dashboard interface. Did you know you can set it up so your backups also automatically accrue under your own Amazon S3 account? There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this,…
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Four Tips for Customizing the WordPress Admin
If you work with WordPress regularly, the WordPress admin will feel like a second home — I know it does for me, at least. Although the default design, layout, and settings work exceptionally well, it’s possible to make small tweaks to the WordPress admin to help you work more efficiently. Today, I want to share…
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How to Find the Post ID in WordPress
Introduction to WordPress IDs When I first started using WordPress several years ago, I remember a plugin asking me for a post ID. I thought I was picking up WordPress quite quickly, but this one had me stumped. I could see the name of my post, I could find the URL – but I had…
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This Post Title is Still Loading… and So Is Your Slow WordPress Site
You know when you've written an awesome blog post about optimizing #WordPress sites for speed but can't figure out the right title for it because you don't want it to sound all clickbatey? That's us right now. — Pagely (@Pagely) November 12, 2020 Across the various WordPress community groups and forums, there’s no doubt that…
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To WWW or Not to WWW? How to Add WWW to Your URLs in WordPress
There are a number of reasons you might need to change the URL of your WordPress site. Say a change to the brand, or the required switch from HTTP to HTTPS for security purposes. Then, of course, there’s the matter of updating a website from www to a naked (non-www) URL. In the following tutorial,…
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How to Use Facebook Debugger to Control How Your Site Looks on Facebook
Have you run into a situation where Facebook doesn’t display the right image or text when someone shares your site? In this post, you’ll we’ll show you exactly how to use the Facebook Debugger tool to fix that! First, you’ll learn how Facebook decides what information to display when someone shares a link from your…
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The Complete Guide to Building a WordPress Speed Optimization Plan [Updated 2019]
Imagine you have a big meeting your team has been preparing for all month. You know where the meeting is, when you need to be there, and what to bring. However, the employee responsible for collecting all the materials for the meeting–the presentation, data you’ve compiled, the project proposal, and even the laptop you planned…
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5 Ways to Use the WordPress .htaccess File to Improve Your Site
Web servers use configuration files to enable or disable functionality. One of the most important of these files for WordPress users is the .htaccess file. The WordPress .htaccess file enables you to customize aspects of your site’s functionality. For example, you can use it to ban specific IP addresses from accessing your website or password protect specific…
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A Definitive Guide on How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress
WordPress’ default post types are useful for creating blog posts, pages, attachments, and other standard elements of your website. However, if you’re looking to facilitate streamlined and efficient content creation for your business site, you may find the default post types somewhat restrictive. This is where WordPress custom post types come into play. You can…