Category: WordPress Tips
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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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Top 8 Mistakes You’re Making in WordPress
Choosing WordPress as a CMS brings about an unmatched sense of freedom and approachability, allowing users to build and manage websites with unparalleled flexibility. With the platform’s versatility and massive plugin ecosystem, it’s no wonder why WordPress attracts millions of users and accounts for 43.4% of all websites. But that doesn’t mean it’s all smooth…
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9 Reasons to Migrate to a WordPress CMS
Maybe you signed up for Drupal, Joomla, or another content management system a few years ago when you first started publishing content, and have now outgrown the solution. Maybe you’re looking for different functionality or more themes and widgets to play with. Whatever the reason, you’re ready for a CMS upgrade, and you’re considering WordPress…
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Can Your Site Benefit from a WordPress Reverse Proxy?
While explaining how it works is a little more difficult, the essence of what a WordPress Reverse Proxy does is simple. It allows your WordPress site to be viewed through another domain, so that your visitors have no idea they’re on a different site or system. For example, let’s say you have a WordPress blog…
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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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The Complete Guide to Creating Custom Shortcodes in WordPress
In this post, we’ll take you step-by-step through the process of creating and using your own custom shortcodes. We’ll go over what shortcodes are, walk you through the entire process of creating a new shortcode, and show you how to modify and control the shortcode attributes and functions. Please note that this is a more…
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IPv4 vs IPv6
IPV4 vs IPV6 Understanding IP Addresses: The Basics This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This tenth post in the series is about the IP address system, and in particular IPv4 and IPv6 and why knowing about…
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WP-CLI Basics
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics…
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WordPress Multisite vs. Managing Separate Installations
A critical decision often looms large: should you opt for a multisite setup or manage separate installations? This choice holds significant sway over the efficiency and scalability of your web presence, so it’s crucial to grasp the distinctions between these approaches. In this exploration, we’ll delve into the nuances of choosing multisite versus managing separate…
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Stay Online This Holiday Season with Managed WordPress Hosting
The holiday season is upon us, and for websites running on WordPress, it’s time to prepare for the annual surge in traffic. As an industry professional, you know that managing excessive traffic can make or break a website’s performance during this critical time. In this post, we’ll delve into the essential services offered by managed…