Category: WordPress Tips

  • How to Create Columns in WordPress

    One of the more common ways to manage how WordPress displays content is the ubiquitous column. And while the integration options have changed in recent years, columns remain easy to add to most WordPress websites. But before we examine the ‘how,’ let’s ask the all-important ‘why.’ Why Add Columns to WordPress? While it may be true that some…

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  • The Anatomy of a CDN: Understanding What’s Happening Under the Hood

    If you’ve been searching for ways to speed up your WordPress site, you’ve probably stumbled upon this quirky little three letter acronym: CDN. Most blogs will tell you something like, “get a CDN to speed up WordPress”. Simple enough…but what is a CDN? And how does a CDN actually work? In this post, we’ll delve…

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  • PressCDN™ – The CDN for those that love WordPress

    Make your WordPress site fly! Pagely is already one of the fastest and most secure places to host your WordPress site. For those that demand even more speed, we have developed a new breed of WordPress CDN service named PressCDN specifically for those that love WordPress. We’ve partnered with top tier providers to bring you…

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  • 8 Reputable Places to Find a High-Quality WordPress Developer

    WordPress centers on versatility, flexibility, and creativity. You can have your pick from thousands of uniquely crafted themes, pair them with hordes of WordPress plugins, and have a website unlike any other on the web today. But that takes a lot of hard work, not to mention knowledge. Sure, most WordPress themes and plugins boast…

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  • The History of Pressing Words.

    Artwork we commissioned from Phoenix based illustrator Jeremy Lederman for a new run of T-shirts. Enjoy. And take a gander at our Pressing Words Medium publication.

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  • 9 Easy Steps for Coding a Custom WordPress Landing Page

    Thanks to landing page tools like Unbounce and LeadPages, creating a custom WordPress landing page is easy, fast, and fun. Since landing page tools are so efficient, they’re great if you have a large marketing campaign with many landing pages, or if you’re looking to save some time However, there are also many great benefits…

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  • Managed WordPress Hosting is 7 years old.

    7 years ago this month, Pagely launched as a service that aimed to smooth and eliminate some of the technical hurdles of launching and hosting a WordPress powered site. It was a brand new category at the time, and now Managed WordPress Hosting is a ubiquitous channel within the broader Hosting industry. Estimates paint just…

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  • Hosting Options, Not Mandates. Deploy and Stage WordPress Your Way.

    Inside the WordPress developer community there is the mantra “Decisions not Options” which when applied to the UX/UI of the WordPress application attempts to streamline the user experience by making sensible choices on behalf the user and reducing confusion and clutter. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make…

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  • How To Create Accessible WordPress Websites

    What is Web Accessibility And How To Create Accessible Websites? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people have vision impairments and around 15 percent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. As websites and mobile applications have grown rich and creative, they have become less accessible to these…

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  • Pagely management plugin now in full release.

    We previewed our new hosting management plugin a while ago, and today we are happy to announce it is now available on all Pagely hosted sites. We started with a small beta group of customer’s and slowly rolled it out across the system over a number of weeks. Tell me why it is awesome. Okay,…

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