What are shortcodes in WordPress?

WordPress is well-known for being a flexible content management platform that offers simplicity, and takes away the lengthy process of having to write code and stylesheets to create something beautiful. You can see this simplicity in action every time you open the Add New posts page; the WordPress content editor and its usefulness has grown exponentially over the years, but some features are still to…

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WordPress Analytics: How to add Google Analytics to WordPress sites

WordPress analytics provide a wonderful way for you to analyze the traffic and user behavior your WordPress website receives. It’s an important tool for business as the data it outputs can help you strategize the way you handle landing pages, content, sales pages and more. There are a number of different analytics tools you can use and a number of different ways you can implement…

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Lazy Load WordPress Plugins to Speed Up Your Site

Website performance is a very important criteria when it comes to a successful online presence. Every site should load fast, as users prefer their needed content delivered within a few milliseconds. If your site is very slow, be sure that you might loose many visitors and potential (even those existing) subscribers. Search engines like Google also prefer fast loading sites, which is another reason why…

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Monitor your WordPress site speed with these free tools

A fast loading website and optimal performance is an essential factor for any successful online presence. After Google revealed that they are taking site speed into consideration as a ranking criteria, people rushed to tools and tips to increase the performance of their websites. Web Services to Monitor your Website Speed But before optimizing your website, you need to analyze your website performance first and…

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Top 5 Plugins to Enable a Customized Author Box for WordPress

WordPress is for everyone, including your friends, family members, and associates. You might want to let these people to blog a post on your behalf, it happens, we’ve all done it before. The default codex that WordPress uses to display author information is quite lousy – in terms of capabilities – and a plugin is usually required, to give authors the spotlight and credit they…

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Heroic Knowledge Base Review: Why We Use This KB Plugin On Our Sites

Do you and your team spend a lot of time answering basic questions? Do you wish you had a more efficient way to provide solutions to the most common issues customers have with your product? What your site needs is a dedicated knowledge base. There are many different ways to add a knowledge base to a WordPress site, including helpdesk software and a WordPress multisite…

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Things to consider when installing a new WordPress plugin

WordPress has just released a new version of it’s content management system, WordPress 4.2 is dubbed “Powell” and brings forth some interesting features, including better and easier content sharing through the “Press This” button, and also less troubling plugins updates through the new streamlined plugin updates feature. Few days before this update, we also saw some news headlines that highlighted some critical security vulnerabilities that…

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5 Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress Websites

It’s tough enough to get a visitor to read one piece of content on your website, what about getting that same visitor to read more of your stuff? Traditionally, this would be done through using internal links, by linking out to relevant content, but even then – the chances of readers hitting through are quite shallow. What else is there to do, to make our…

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Best ways to optimize a WordPress site for mobile experience

It’s been two full months since Google rolled out its infamous Mobilegeddon update, and while it is important to remember that this update affected only mobile users, a recent report of the impact of Mobilegeddon goes to show that sites who didn’t optimize their interface for mobile visitors have lost as many as 35% of total mobile visits, which can be devastating for a business…

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