When it comes to building WordPress websites for small businesses, two themes consistently rise to the top: Avada and Divi. Both are excellent choices that can create stunning, professional websites. However, after years of working with both platforms, when clients ask for our recommendation, we typically recommend Avada. Here's why. Both Themes Are Genuinely Excellent ...
Thinking about selling online? Whether you're completely new to e-commerce or currently selling through platforms like Amazon or Etsy, adding a shop to your WordPress website opens up exciting possibilities for your business. The WordPress E-commerce Foundation For WordPress websites, WooCommerce is the clear choice for e-commerce functionality. This free plugin powers over 28% of ...
PHP is the engine that powers your WordPress website. Just like your car needs a functioning engine to run, WordPress needs PHP to display your content, process contact forms, handle user logins, and make all the interactive features work. When someone visits your website, PHP works behind the scenes to: Pull your content from the ...
UTM parameters are a great way to gain insight into how visitors find and engage with your website. It works by allowing you to add additional information to a website URL. When a user clicks on that URL, the additional information is then picked up by the website, including any analytics where it can then ...
One of the many great benefits of using WordPress is that you are not just limited to pages and posts, you can create your own custom post types and display them on your website. However, in some situations, you may not want some of the custom post types you have created to appear in the ...
Disabling the WordPress cron can improve the performance of your website, but you need to replace it with something else, otherwise, WordPress, and any plugins you have installed, will not be able to run any scheduled tasks. What does the WordPress cron do? WordPress has a range of automated tasks that is needs to perform ...
When managing a WordPress website, your top priority should be to make sure you are backing up the site regularly. Without backups you have no way of restoring your site should something go wrong. In this post, I'm going to go through how you use my favourite backup plugin, UpdraftPlus, to backup your WordPress website. ...
Installing WordPress on your PC is a great way to give WordPress a try before you start paying out money for things like hosting. Usually, installing WordPress on a desktop PC is quite a tricky task. However, there is a tool that significantly simplifies the process, and they recently released a beta version that makes ...
Many factors can impact a website's performance, but none are as critical as the content. It is the job of a website to present content in the best way possible. Great content can shine through an otherwise poor website, while poor content can render a great site useless. For this reason, it should be top ...
The popularity of WordPress makes it a popular target for hackers. The WordPress community does a fantastic job of keeping WordPress secure. However, this is only part of the picture. Users are still the most significant vulnerability in WordPress. In this post, I'm going to go through some of the simple things you can do ...
