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…
Regardless of the size of your WordPress website, scheduling posts offers a variety of benefits that can help you increase productivity and traffic. Let us take a look at these benefits, and what options you have to further enhance the core functionality that WordPress offers for scheduling your posts. Peak-Time Publishing Reaching as many people as possible with your fresh content is a vital ingredient…
There are a handful of WordPress forum plugins available that allow you to create fully integrated online communities using WordPress. Long gone are the days of having little option but to install an entirely separate forum board solution which requires users to endure another membership registration and login process. You can of course still opt in for this method of providing visitors an area to…
A common practice amongst modern WordPress websites is to stickify certain elements to the top of the page when the website visitor scrolls down past the sticky element. There are numerous scripts and guides available that will allow you to implement a sticky header or menu yourself. However, it’s not always the simplest of tasks to carry out and could take up lots of valuable…
