Category: WordPress Tips
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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…
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Editing Code Directly in WordPress: A Guide to HTML, CSS, and a Touch of PHP
Have you ever wanted to tweak your WordPress site just a bit, like change a button’s color or adjust a page’s layout? WordPress is great for building sites without coding, thanks to its easy dashboard and endless themes and plugins. But sometimes, to get things just right, you need to roll up your sleeves and…
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Why should I avoid free WordPress hosting?
Free WordPress hosting. It’s tempting, right? You’re just starting out, maybe testing an idea or building your first blog. Why spend money when you can get hosting for zero dollars? Here’s the thing though, countless website owners learn this lesson the hard way. That “free” hosting ends up costing way more than you’d think. Let’s…