Step-By-Step Guide to WordPress Maintenance
Updates for WordPress and its plugins are released all the time. How often should you update and in what order? Here are some guidelines for DIY WordPress website maintenance.
How to Allow Editors to Edit Gravity Forms
We frequently instruct clients to try to keep the number of users with administrator level access to a minimum. Not everyone who will be editing site content needs to also have access to all the plugins and settings, nor should they. The problem is that by default, giving more limited access to users, such as […]
How to Improve WordPress Website Speed
One of the many things that proper WordPress website maintenance includes is staying on top of the plugins that are installed and any other little “extras” that have a way of piling up. But as the code piles up, it can slow your website down. And when a webpage loads slowly, people leave. That can […]
Service Change Due to Coronavirus? Update Your Web Presence!
Now more than ever, you need potential customers to know how to reach you! When everything possible is moving online, users expect to receive updated information. Your web presence during Coronavirus reflects how your company as a whole is responding. The places a user is likely to check for service changes and updates are the […]
3 Rules for Putting Video on Your WordPress Website
If there wasn’t already enough of an incentive to get in front of your audience with video marketing, the Coronavirus crisis is getting even the most timid people in front of cameras. In fact, according to a Renderforest survey of 1000 last year, 9 out of 10 viewers say that product videos are useful in […]
The ultimate guide to cross-posting on WordPress and Medium to increase engagement while avoiding duplicate content
I love WordPress, obvs. It’s my CMS and blogging platform of choice for so many reasons. But sometimes it seems like a party is happening on other, similar platforms, and FOMO sets in. Cool, cutting-edge people are sharing their smart, insightful thoughts and getting Recommends, Follows, and most importantly…more views and engagement. I’m talking about you Medium. What is […]
I got to talk about the future of WordPress for two hours, and it was awesome. #WPThinkTank
With WordPress powering over 20% of the web, millions are tied into it as it powers their blogs, sites and applications. Along with all those site owners and users, WordPress businesses like ours are among those invested in the future of WordPress. That’s why a bunch of us came together a few days ago for […]
4 Dead-Easy Steps to Protect Your WordPress Site Against Hackers
Newsflash: If you run a WordPress website, you should absolutely take basic steps to secure it against hackers. OK. This is not really news to you and me. The problem is, that if you are like most people, you don’t consider website security to be an exciting topic. You acknowledge it’s important, but, hey, it’s […]
WordPress for startups: what you need to know to make the most of it
More and more startups look towards WordPress to get their website off the ground, and for good reason! WordPress is Open Source, so you’re not locked into one vendor forever; it integrates well with search and social marketing; it’s easy to manage; and the themes are either free or cost very little! It’s many a […]
How to add semantic data to your WordPress site in 20 minutes or less – my talk at WordSesh 2013
A bit over a week ago I was invited to speak at the second WordSesh online conference. WordSesh is a full day of live WordPress presentations from all over the world. The presentations were live-streamed via Google Hangouts, and you can see my presentation and the video at the end of this post. I spoke about […]