There are about 9000 wordpress plugins only in the wordpress plugin directory. Many other are created but for some reason they are not listed in the official directory. For example the paid ones can’t be included. The fact that they are paid does not guarantee quality, but we can hope for good things. If you […]
Things that make wordpress so powerful are: plugins and themes. If you find the right themes and you install the right plugins you can turn your wordpress site in a great website. A great debate among web developers is either to use wordpress, other CMS or to make something custom. Few years ago i was […]
You are familiar with the wordpress Widgets section. You can drag and drop things to your sidebar: recent posts, latest posts. It is a good wordpress feature. What about if you want to edit stuff on other locations of your website directly from the admin panel ? For example a portion of your header or […]
In this video i will show you how to use firebug to improve the proccess of design editing. The most important feature of firebug is that you can change things and see the results immediately. The design is mostly about experiments, you make it and the you take a look. If you like it you […]
You installed wordpress, found a great theme, installed some plugins but you want to personalize the look of your blog. You need to change the copyright text, you want to add a custom header image, you want to make the post titles smaller or other changes. To do that the best way is to quick […]
We are very fortunate that wordpress tell us as how long is the article ( in words ) as we type. Sometimes this can change our mood. After you worked hard to write the article, you look at the word counter and see 200 words it can be frustrating. On the other side, if you […]
Split testing is a technique used by website marketers to find the optimal page layout for maximizing conversion rate. Conversion rate can be a sale, a lead, an user registration, a click somewhere. When you make a change to a website you can’t be sure of it’s impact until you see the results. Before people […]
The greatest fear of webmasters, along the fear with being kicked out from google, is that you lose you website. If you lose 1 article or some work you won’t mind, but if you lose everything it is a great problem. It can be the end. Better safe than sorry. There are small chances that […]
Like all bloggers and webmasters you start either with a shared hosting, wither you ask a friend if he can help you with hosting for your site. You assume that your website will not generate too much traffic. It is true, a shared hosting can be the best choice. A shared hosting means that on […]
If you are on a shared server and you want to prevent your site going down due to massive traffic that comes to your wordpress you may consider installing a plugin that caches your pages. WordPress is keeping all the data into a mysql database. The database connections are very slow sometimes and use the […]