Understanding the Add New Post Screen in WordPress
Hello World! Moving beyond your first post on your WordPress website is going to take a little familiarity with the Add New Post screen. It’s pretty straightforward, but if you’re like me then there...
View ArticlePost Excerpt vs. Read More Tag! Upsides, Downsides, and How To’s
WordPress gives you a couple different options if you want to display a shortened version of a post on your website. The Read More Tag and Post Excerpt both look really similar, and both serve...
View Article5 Basic Security Steps to Keep Your WordPress Website Safe
WordPress is growing! If you missed the news, 25% of the world’s highest traffic websites are now powered by WordPress. That’s really exciting news, but unfortunately as WordPress’ presence grows on...
View ArticleLogin Limits for WordPress: Shoring up the Castle Gates
If you’ve ever read any books or watched any movies that involve a medieval or high fantasy style army besieging a castle, then you’re familiar with how a battering ram works. The Siege of Gondor from...
View ArticleStud or Dud? 4 Ways to Spot Quality WordPress.org Plugins
Forty-two thousand, two hundred forty-three. 42,243. That’s the number of plugins in the WordPress repository as I’m writing this. Those 42k+ plugins have been downloaded a total of 1,137,420,007. Yes,...
View ArticleEasy Reading: Using Readability Scores in WordPress
Do you care if people read what you write? That’s one of those questions that defies the “no stupid question” maxim, isn’t it? You wouldn’t be writing on the web if you didn’t want to share what you...
View ArticleFixing the 500 Internal Server Error in WordPress
You’ve broken your website again, haven’t you? The dreaded 500 Internal Server Error is one of the most common “omg I’ve broken everything” type errors in WordPress. This can be an incredibly annoying...
View ArticleDo You Even Post Type Brah? (Kenny on Custom Post Types)
When I first started working with WordPress I kept hearing people talk about custom post types and taxonomies. Since I was new to CMS and web development in general I wasn’t sure what everyone was...
View ArticleAn Introduction to WordPress Multisite
If you’ve been around WordPress for any length of time, you’ve probably heard people talking about WordPress Multisite. It’s a term I started hearing almost immediately after I became involved with...
View ArticleHTML & WordPress: Better Content Made Easy!
If you’ve been writing anything in WordPress for any length of time, you’ve probably clicked over from “visual” to “text” view at some point. To the uninitiated, it’s a strange world where alligators...
View Article10 Sneaky WordPress Features You (Probably?) Don’t Know About
Discovering new features on a familiar toy is an experience we’ve all had. It’s an exciting moment when that new thing clicks: “Oh, I can do that!? Sweet!” There never seems to be an expiration date on...
View ArticleHow to Automate Trello Cards with Zapier
Earlier this week on ninjaforms.com we took a look at how to automate Ninja Forms form submissions using Zapier. Today I’d like to share with you how to automate Trello cards. This idea struck me as I...
View ArticleHow to Change the Default Post Category in WordPress
Repetition can be annoying. If you post on your WordPress site even semi-regularly, then you may share my annoyance with the uncategorized category. You have to remember to change the little guy each...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Hotlinking in WordPress
The internet can resemble the wild west out there sometimes and, let’s be honest, that’s part of the reason we love it. The freedom that people have online gives us all kinds of neat things from videos...
View ArticleTwo Simple Steps to Learn FTP for WordPress!
One of the more daunting things I had to do early on in learning WordPress was figuring out how to use FTP for WordPress file editing. Looking back at it from the perspective of “I’ve done this a...
View ArticleHow to Use HTTPS and SSL for WordPress Websites
Issues like identity theft, fraud, and the mishandling of customer data are a big deal to your customers and visitors. Addressing those concerns in a clear way is a great means of separating yourself...
View ArticleSpeed Up WordPress Part 1: Taking Out the Trash!
Regular maintenance is part and parcel of almost anything that you want to continue running smoothly for you. Cars without regular maintenance collect gunk in the oil pan and and carbon deposits on...
View ArticleSpeed Up WordPress Part 2: 11 Steps for Website Optimization
Nothing serves as a barrier between you and your potential customers or subscribers quite like a slow website. Seconds matter -milliseconds matter- when you’re loading web pages. Time waiting for a...
View Article7 Smoking Fast CDN Services for WordPress
CDN services for WordPress are one of the best ways to upgrade website performance for your users. How important website performance is really can’t be overstated. In the fast paced and often hectic...
View Article5 Easy Steps to a Great AB Test: Science Rules!
Setting up a great AB test that gets you actionable results can be really quick and easy. It can also be a complete waste of time if you goof it up. So how do you not goof it up? You’ve got to channel...
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