For a popular content management system like WordPress, security is of paramount importance. Millions of people use WordPress to share information with people all over the world. And since WordPress makes this so easy and gives you complete control over your content, there might be cases where you’d like to share your content with a select few people. Perhaps you want to share a wedding photography album with your guests or share selected articles with only your subscribers. Whether you need to...
If you run a WordPress site most likely you have already met with the dreaded "Error Establishing a Database Connection" error message. Your site content has completely gone and displayed nothing else but a blank page with the message. Although "Error Establishing a Database Connection" can be caused by different reasons and it takes some time to investigate the problem, it's a more or less routine WordPress management task. What "Error Establishing a Database Connection" Exactly Means ... In...
The purpose of this article is to help WordPress website owners comply with the GDPR regulation. The author is not a lawyer and this article should not be taken as a substitute for legal advice. If you run a WordPress website and are worried that the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is going to affect how your website handles user data, you are not alone. Individuals, businesses, and websites around the world are preparing themselves for a new era of data security and privacy protection....
There are so many websites on the Internet that look pretty much the same. The good news is that if you’re using WordPress, you’ll be able to customize the appearance of your theme and personalize it by tweaking its style sheets. There are many ways you can modify your site’s CSS. And in this post, we’ll show you four different ways to customize your WordPress site’s CSS – using the built-in theme customizer, editing your theme’s style.css file, using a plugin, and child themes. We’ll...
Have you ever thought about buying something and immediately headed over to YouTube to see how it was supposed to be used? A lot of the time, the copy on your landing page isn’t enough to highlight the main use case scenario and the important features your product has to offer. This is where explainer videos come in. Typically, they’re short videos that are designed to help you introduce your product, explain how it works, and advertise its standout features. Explainer videos make for excellent marketing...
If you want your site to show rich snippets in search engine results pages (SERPs), you need to markup your posts/pages with Schema.org. Schema.org uses something called schemas to take care of your site’s structured data needs. You can use these schemas to markup your reviews, recipes, contact information, and products so that popular search engines can make sense of your content and help it stand out in their results pages. In this post, we’ll explain what rich snippets are and the SEO benefits...
There are a number of different ways you can load new content on your site’s search results or blog pages—previous/next links, load more buttons, infinite scrolling, or numeric pagination. And while you get previous/next links by default from most themes, load more buttons are easy to implement, and infinite scrolling is (arguably) better for mobile traffic; numeric pagination still stands as the best pagination solution for SEO, user experience, and usability. In this post, we’ll cover...
As a WordPress developer, you’re always looking for ways to speed up your development workflow while making sure you don’t compromise on quality. And one way to make sure you’re delivering your best work is by using a theme framework. WordPress theme frameworks give you the core feature set you need to build powerful, functional websites and the freedom to design it however you see fit without risking losing modifications every time the theme updates. In this post, we’ll cover everything...