How to create a clickable background image in WordPress

You may have seen advertisements that cover a website’s entire background. These clickable background images are called Takeover Ads as they can literally takeover the entire appearance of a website for maximum exposure. Implementing clickable background advertisements into WordPress themes is a straight-forward process and can be accomplished in no time at all, using just a standard child theme with some simple HTML/CSS modifications. Before…

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Implementing additional fonts for your WordPress 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…

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The benefits and disadvantages of using Gravatars in WordPress

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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Popular online resources for learning WordPress

As it goes, WordPress is one of the easier-to-use publishing tools available to not only install and configure, but to administer on a daily basis. This doesn’t mean it’s easy. However, after many years of constant development, today’s WordPress is a powerful publishing platform without all of the unnecessary back-end confusion that plagues many other blogging and CMS systems. At the beginning, mastering WordPress may…

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How to add Twitter Cards to WordPress websites

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…

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The death of popup ads: Google’s new policy will penalize websites with intrusive popups

Have you ever found a website through a Google search on your phone, and the entire page was covered with popup ads that wouldn’t budge unless you entered your email or took some desired action? Or maybe you’ve been startled by a popup that appeared as soon as you scrolled on a web page. Either way, admit it – they can be annoying. Especially on…

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