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…
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…
The Twitter’s management team has seen better days for the company, for sure, as the CEO Dick Costolo has decided to pull the plug for his position at the company. The company has seen a significant growth rate in monthly active users since 2011, with as many as 300 million active users every month today. With a lot of discussion going on as to whether…
WordPress as a content management system is built around two important factors: WordPress themes and plugins. Whilst WordPress themes are for organizing and displaying your content in a manner that reflects industry design choices, WordPress plugins are all about expanding your website/blog to new heights with the help of additional features and capabilities. A traditional example would be that you want to optimize your WordPress…
For quite some time we’ve used the Codestyling Localization plugin to translate themes and plugins in WordPress. This plugin was convenient to use and made translating WordPress themes easy, but unfortunately the plugin has not been updated for a very long time and was eventually removed from the official WordPress Plugin Directory. While searching for good alternatives to Codestyling Localization, we’ve found a translation plugin,…
You can’t really over-optimize when it comes to website’s performance and loading speed, those are the two essential things that can always be influenced and changed in some way. And, not that you shouldn’t do it. Optimizing for performance is a very encouraged practice among webmasters, bloggers or website owners and can help you take your website to the next level in many ways. Yes,…
Using modern web technologies such as HTML5, and web API’s, implementing videos into your WordPress website has never been so pain-free. You can transform any standard blog into a fully loaded video website using just a handful of free, hand-picked video plugins. In this article we shall sample a few of these video plugins that can add some form of video functionality to your website.…
Improving the typography of your WordPress website by implementing a new selection of custom fonts is a great way to not only improve the readability of your content, but also create visually appealing elements with comparative ease. The impact of typography on your website visitors is something that should be very high on your priority list and it is a simple way to make your…
Sharing content on Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your site. Yet, the actual Tweet itself doesn’t really provide much information about the content being shared. In best case a standard Tweet would simply contain a small amount of descriptive text written by the user tweeting, a link to the content, a manually uploaded image, and maybe one or two #hashtags or…
Have you enabled Gravatars on your WordPress website? If so, you might want to rethink that decision again. And if you haven’t enabled Gravatars on your website yet, you might want to consider possible alternatives to Gravatar first. Now allow us to explain these thoughts … What are Gravatars for WordPress? What’s the benefit to user avatars? The key disadvantage to using Gravatars Alternatives to…
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