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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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How to make your WordPress site GDPR compliant
GDPR is the EU privacy protection legislation that came into force on May 25, 2018. A couple of weeks before that date it was a rush of panic from many of our customers, asking us for help to implement GDPR on their WordPress blogs. I promised I will write an article about GDPR, but I…
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Astra Pro VS GeneratePress Premium
I’m a fan of Genesis Framework, been using it for 3-4 years now. But one of our clients told me to take a look at GeneratePress or Astra. They are great themes and are not as bloated as I might think. Usually, the themes catered to beginners come with hundreds of options. They are not…
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How to translate your WordPress site into multiple languages?
Funny enough, although I’ve been working with WordPress since 2009 I never needed to translate my websites into multiple languages. But I always got questions from clients to recommend a way to translate their sites. So I’ve tested the likes of WPML, Babble, qTranslate or Polylang but was never quite sold on any of them.…