The Gutenberg editor was the hype of early 2019, and endless armies of developers have expressed their opinions about it. Clearly, the new visual editor is the most transformative change in many years. Willing or not, both theme developers and average users should adapt to the new paradigm. A few months after Gutenberg stole the […]
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The Beginner’s Guide to Git and GitHub
More and more top employers, including Google and Microsoft, are focusing more on Stack Overflow, Git, and GitHub accounts than on resumes. These accounts say a lot more about your knowledge and skills than a CV because they effectively reveal what you’ve worked on. Past or side projects, contributions to open source works, and your […]
Back to Basics: Design Principles for Crafting a Stellar Site
A decade ago, many internet users impatiently checked out Smashing Magazine to read the latest web design articles. Lots of actual web designers found their passion for website creation through these posts. It was a time when the principles of web design determined a productive debate amongst designers—both beginners and experts. Nowadays, there are significantly […]
What to Do Before Updating Your WordPress Site
Updating your WordPress website may seem trivial and even unnecessary at times. After all, if your website is working properly and without any fuss, what is the need to update it in the first place? As it turns out, consistently updating your website is a must. It improves your website’s performance, addresses unresolved security issues, […]
8 Google Analytics Tips for Intermediate WordPress Users
Google Analytics is the most used analytics tool by a huge margin. It provides a massive amount of data to get a better search ranking. It’s not the most user-friendly product ever created, but even less-experienced users can extract actionable data at first sight. You will enjoy using it once you get more experienced. Google […]
Going viral – a little story about a birthday
It was his mom’s birthday, and he thought he’d do something special. Really special. So he posted his mother’s phone number on his Facebook wall and asked his Facebook friends to send her a text with “Happy Birthday!”. Some people thought it was weird to share a personal phone number on the internet, but most […]
WordPress security checklist for website admins
Are you wondering why we have published a WordPress security checklist if other bloggers have done it before exceptionally well? The shocking truth is that the average WordPress user doesn’t care much about security, and hackers focus on WordPress vulnerabilities. 70% of all WordPress sites in the Alexa Top 1,000,000 are vulnerable to hacker attacks. […]
Blog optimization – another case study
Aghiuta.com is a media monitoring and politics blog written by Florin Popescu. Here’s our WordPress optimization we did for this blog. Before optimization First page loading speed was 4.3 sec. The homepage has 86 requests and 1.3 MB. 14 javascripts – 505.6 k 20 sites stylesheet – 41.1 k 23 files – 601 k JS […]
How to avoid getting penalized by Google
You put a lot of thought in writing compelling content, the traffic rise each month and readers turn into leads and customers. It looks like everything works fine until one day the traffic drops significantly for apparently no reason. The chances are that the traffic drop is the result of a Google penalization – the […]