Category: WordPress Tips
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Is your website ready for the holiday traffic?
Holiday traffic is the best kind of problem, until it isn’t. When your campaign lands, your product gets featured, or that email goes out, the visitors you’ve worked so hard to attract can overwhelm an unprepared site. Slow pages, checkout errors, and outright downtime translate directly into lost revenue and trust. This post is your…
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Unlocking Better Performance with Google PageSpeed Insights
Most site owners treat website speed like a utility bill: they know it costs them money when it’s too high, but they rarely read the statement line by line. Google PageSpeed Insights hands you that statement, translated into clear, measurable numbers that affect revenue. The free tool runs a set of synthetic tests, grades each…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Image Optimization in WordPress
If your WordPress site feels sluggish, odds are your images are the main culprit. On most sites, pictures are the largest assets on the page, often outweighing scripts and styles by a wide margin. The good news: you can optimize images dramatically smaller without making them look crunched, smeared, or pixelated. In this guide, we’ll…
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Why 400 Errors Happen and What You Can Do
When a page refuses to load and throws a “400 Bad Request,” it’s more than just annoying, but it’s also giving you a hint about what’s going on. The 4xx class of HTTP responses means the server thinks something is wrong with the request coming from the client (browser, app, script, proxy). A 400 error…
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Self-Hosted vs. Managed Platforms: Which One Wins for WordPress?
Your site has momentum. Traffic’s climbing, marketing is pushing harder, and the stakes are higher than they were when you launched on an inexpensive shared plan. Lately, though, the site feels slower, incidents take too long to recover from, and precious time is being pulled into “just keeping the lights on.” When you’re at this…
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How to Make a Mobile-Friendly WordPress Website That Converts
Mobile traffic isn’t “growing.” It already won. A recent analysis by Semrush found that, among their top 100 sites with the most visits, mobile traffic surpassed desktop traffic by 313%. The result of your mobile site not being up to par? Higher bounce rates, frustrated prospects, and lower return on every marketing dollar you spend…
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Speed Benchmarks Every WordPress Site Owner Should Run
When your website’s homepage takes more than a few seconds to load, the impact can be significant. From an SEO perspective, search engines prioritize faster sites, meaning a sluggish homepage can make it harder for people to discover you. Beyond visibility, slow performance can hurt your brand’s image with visitors often perceiving a laggy site…
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How to Fix WordPress Formatting Issues Effectively
Dealing with a messy layout is a real headache for designers, hurts conversion rates, makes people lose trust, and drowns support teams. For the last ten years, teams have consistently kicked the can down the road on formatting issues until they hit critical landing pages, then they just slap on quick fixes. Below is a…
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How to Align Performance Optimization with Your SEO Strategy in WordPress
In today’s online economy, speed and efficiency are crucial. It should come as no surprise to you that a page that loads slowly can drive visitors away from your WordPress website. A website’s traffic and profitability will suffer if it takes longer than it should to load. As you can see, having a website that…
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A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Shortcodes
Looking to add some slick features to your WordPress site but don’t want to wrestle code? Good news! That’s where shortcodes come in, little gems like or [contact-form] tucked in square brackets. These simple bracketed commands enable site owners to add complex functionality. They’ve served millions of WordPress sites since version 2.5 by providing a…