5 Simple SMTP Plugins for WordPress: Make Email Easy!
Sending and receiving email from your WordPress website can be a pain sometimes. When an email doesn’t hit its destination, what happened? What went wrong? Addressing the issue to correct it can take...
View Article3 Free Website Speed Test Options: How Fast Are Your Times?
We’ve spent quite a lot of time recently talking about optimizing your website’s performance. We have a 2-part series on website optimization, and a review of CDN and caching plugins that you can...
View ArticleUnderstanding Bounce Rate and Session Duration in Google Analytics
Reviewing analytics for our sites recently, we identified bounce rate and session duration in Google analytics as areas we want to focus on and learn more about. Looking around the web, the general...
View ArticleHow to Add Images in WordPress: A Simple Tutorial
When we were kids, pictures were the chocolate of books. Who wants to eat a meal that doesn’t involve chocolate? Who wants to read a book that doesn’t have pictures? Boring! Now that we’re a little bit...
View ArticleUpdate WordPress Safely in 5 Simple Steps
Been burned by a WordPress update in the past? Worry that something will irreparably break each time you follow that little orange bubble to the update button? Follow this short guide to make sure you...
View ArticleWordPress Sticky Post: Stick Posts to Things!
If you’ve found your way here looking for anything to do with fence posts and adhesive, sorry. I have mislead you. The title made me laugh so I ran with it. If you’re here looking for how to make a...
View ArticleMaking WordPress SEO a Little Easier with Google Trends
If you create content for a WordPress website and haven’t heard of Google Trends, you’re about to be in for a treat. Whether you’re blogging for fun or putting together a professional content marketing...
View ArticleHow & Why to Setup a WordPress Test Site
If you’ve ever hit “Update” in your WordPress dashboard and watched as your entire site is sucked down into the dark abyss of the White Screen of Death[1], you already know why you need a WordPress...
View ArticleFinding the Perfect WordPress Theme Part 1: Understanding Themes
Choosing the right WordPress theme can be a tall order. It’s more than just the aesthetics of your site that are in play with your choice. Your site’s performance, responsiveness, SEO, user experience,...
View ArticleChoosing the WordPress Hosting Plan That’s Right For You
There are few things more important to a successful WordPress website than a dependable, consistent WordPress hosting plan. It’s one of the most important decisions you’ll face. One thing you certainly...
View ArticleBasic WordPress CSS: Beautiful Results in Minimal Time, Part 1
One of the most beautiful features of WordPress, and the reason it has grown to command a staggering 26+% of the world’s websites, is the freedom it gives its users. We all know the stock face of a...
View ArticleWordPress CSS Part 2: How to Write a Simple CSS Rule
Welcome to Part 2 of our 3-part WP Ninjas series on writing CSS for WordPress! In Part 1 we broke down the basics of WordPress CSS and what a CSS rule looks like. If you’ve not read that and aren’t...
View ArticleHow to Apply a CSS Rule in WordPress: Basic CSS Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 of our 3-part series on writing basic CSS in WordPress! In Part 1 we covered the fundamentals of basic CSS and the anatomy of a CSS rule. In Part 2 we showed you how to practise...
View ArticleEasily Embed Facebook Events in WordPress!
Social media has become a huge part of our daily lives for many of us. For those of us running a WordPress website, for business or for fun, so has WordPress! We’ll explore a joining of those two...
View ArticleHow to Add Images in WordPress: A Simple Tutorial
When we were kids, pictures were the chocolate of books. Who wants to eat a meal that doesn’t involve chocolate? Who wants to read a book that doesn’t have pictures? Boring! Now that we’re a little bit...
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