Karol Krol is a writer, content strategist, and WordPress figure-outer with over 20 years of experience rooted in website building and web technologies. With his expertise underpinned by a master's degree in computer science, he authored "WordPress Complete" - the ultimate WordPress handbook for newbies. His work has been published across numerous industry websites. He leads the editorial team at WPShout.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a constantly growing and changing field, moving as fast as the internet itself. Keeping abreast of changes in the world of SEO can be an enormous task, but it doesn’t have to. In this post, we’ve gathered the most interesting – one might even say spectacular – SEO stats for modern marketers to know.
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When was the last time you saw a website without any images on it? “Never” would be the right answer. Images are just too essential. And this isn’t even about that cringe-worthy stock photo to go along your “10 online marketing tips” post. Images are useful for multiple purposes.
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Hosting a Node.js application is quite different from hosting a traditional (LAMP stack) website. Instead of simply uploading files to a shared server, Node.js apps run as independent processes, each listening on its own port. This means you need a hosting solution that can manage these processes, scale efficiently, provide sufficient memory and CPU resources, and maintain reliability.
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What is SSL is a question that you probably kind of know the answer to. Most people dealing with websites do. Or, at least, they pretend they do. It’s okay. These things have a level of complexity to them, and all these three-letter abbreviations do require some time getting used to. So here’s an all-you-need-to-know guide to SSLs and all things related. We also tell you how to enable SSL on WordPress step by step.
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Trying to move WordPress to a new host or server can be an intimidating task, and not just for beginners but even if you’re a fairly seasoned WordPress user. That’s all because moving WordPress from one host to another is an entirely different type of challenge than launching a 100% new site.
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When you view a category page on your WordPress website, its URL usually has a /category/ segment in it. For example, a URL for the “News” category will look something like this: https://example.com/category/news/
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The terms UI and UX (design) are very often used interchangeably. Even up to a point where many people/designers/clients refer to them as “UI/UX design” – a kind of all-in-one combo.
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If you’re an international website person, excuse the term, then you’re probably aware of the unique challenges that come when choosing the right WordPress hosting for your specific scenario. In other words, are the usual suspects of the WordPress hosting industry still a good choice if your audience isn’t in the US? More specifically, since it’s the topic of today, what if you’re looking for the best WordPress hosting in the UK? Are the SiteGrounds and WPEngines of this world still good for you?
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“Best standing desk?” Doesn’t seem like exactly the perfect-match topic for a “WordPress advice” blog, does it? Well, actually, it kinda does. Two reasons:
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In this guide, I’ll present some creative ideas on how you can use HTML tables / data tables in WordPress, make them look pristine ✨, and also make sure that they’re optimized for mobile and are SEO-friendly at the same time.
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You don't need to start from scratch. There are solid, free React Native templates out there that are ready to be dropped right into your app. For this list, I pulled together a selection of the ones that developers actually use. The ones with good docs. The ones that aren't broken.
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Here's how to toggle auto-updates on/off for all your plugins and themes at once - via global rules. Or, you can also pick individual plugins to auto-update.
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The day has come! If you’ve been to your WordPress dashboard today, you’ve likely noticed a new (major) update waiting for you … yes, WordPress 5.0 has landed!
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When I first saw the terms, “headless WordPress hosting” and “WordPress to static,” I didn’t know what to make of it. I was like those poor Westworld hosts saying, “doesn’t look like anything to me.” Nevertheless, the idea – also known as serverless WordPress – is quickly catching on, and we now have two exciting companies aiming to bring serverless WordPress to the masses.
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Keeping your website's performance in top shape is one of the keys to its success. This includes optimizing your images so they aren't a drain on your site's resources. However, it can be hard to choose among the top tools for doing so - such as deciding between Imagify vs Smush vs ShortPixel vs Optimole.
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Figuring out which are the best fonts for logos might not be the easiest of tasks. For instance, even the directory at DaFont.com alone lists a staggering 36,000+ total fonts. And that's surely not all that's available out there. You can probably find just as many fonts in other places, or even more.
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What are the best email marketing services and tools available? If that’s the question on your mind right now then you’re in the right place. We’ve been wondering about that too. So to find out who actually rules the space of email marketing services, we’ve signed up for six of the best options out there and tested them thoroughly. Here’s what we found.
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Email marketing automation is a cool concept, and one of those things that can give you lots of benefits without costing you much effort on a day-to-day basis. This is where this comparison comes into play. Here are the best email marketing automation tools compared and tested.
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The whole WordPress.com vs WordPress.org thing is really confusing. For everyone. First off, and it needs to be said right away, WordPress.org and WordPress.com are two entirely different websites / organizations / web solutions. Here's everything you need to know.
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If you want to be the worst WordPress designer on the planet, search no more! This is the only guide you'll ever need! Here's how to achieve your majestic goal in eight steps or less! If you're an aspiring WordPress designer, you should read this. It'll protect you from some of the common mistakes.
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We love WordPress. It's cool enough! But it's also not for everybody... At least it's not for the kind of people who might be susceptible to WordPress' *charm* in certain areas.
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It’s difficult not to be amazed at how significantly WordPress has evolved since its humble beginnings in 2003. What once started as a simple blogging platform is now the most popular website management system of them all, running nearly 30% of the entire web.
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Keeping your WordPress site up to date is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve its overall security and prevent any compatibility issues in the future. In this quick post, I'll show you how to update your WordPress site from start to finish. The operation itself is quite easy. However, a couple of things are worth doing before and after to ensure everything works as expected.
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Here are the results of 8 of our WordPress hosting surveys - from 2014 to 2024 - aka. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of WordPress Hosting."
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RSS is dead, long live RSS! Granted, people haven't been excited about RSS for a long time. The technology is surely past its prime in the eyes of the public, but it's still very much in use behind the curtains. What's more, you can still achieve pretty great things with it for your WordPress site.
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WordPress is a wonderful project, but as with any software you may find yourself wishing you had some kind of backdoor access to your code and database. Thankfully, there is a solution that can help. The WP-CLI project gives you command-line access to your WordPress installation. In this article, we'll introduce some of the typically irritating tasks that WP-CLI makes almost a fun experience, and show you how to accomplish them using the tool.
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One of the great things about WordPress is the ever-growing community of people that surrounds it. People who are not only willing to extend the software itself, but also share their knowledge and experience with everyone else via some brilliant WordPress tutorials.
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Web hosting for small business is not something that we usually focus too much attention on. I mean, even when building a website for a small business client, we are still very likely to recommend a popular overall hosting solution, like WP Engine or SiteGround.
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Looking for the best eCommerce platforms is kind of like looking for the best car. There really isn’t one. I mean, sure, one car is going to be the best for your specific needs, and another car is going to be the best for someone else’s specific needs. But there’s no universally best car for everyone. I’m sure we can agree on that.
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