WordPress is a very robust system for designing websites. The core software provides most of the functionality for basic websites. Themes allow you to change the look and feel of your website. Plugins give WordPress added functionality. With so many options available,...

When dealing with slow loading websites, extra-large image file sizes is always at the top of the list for items that add to the total page size. A large page size means a slower load time. And a slow load time means website visitors will leave your website,...

WordPress is known to be a great Content Management System and many use it for hosting blogs. Even more use WordPress as the foundation for their website. Did you know that with wooCommerce, you can add online shopping to your website? Launched in 2011 by theme...

You have your website set up and running but it is not as fast as you would like it to be. You have followed different speed improvement tweaks, but the website is still not fast enough. What if you could simultaneously host your website content on hundreds of...

I deal with a lot of different web hosting companies in my daily work on client websites. Some clients come with their own web hosting. Some clients have chosen wisely while others no so much. In discussions with clients, the same hosting issues keep coming up. When...

While WordPress provides the foundation, a good WordPress theme provides the look and feel for your website. Some themes are better than others, in fact, there are some themes that I always use while others I stay away from. The themes I don’t like are difficult to...

WordPress is great for displaying your website content. It automatically knows how to retrieve (using queries) and display (using templates) blog posts and website pages. The generic query is enough for these tasks. But what if you wanted more? For example, you want...

Websites use JavaScript (JS) to add more functionality. For example, with JS you can add and remove elements, handle user interaction such as clicks, and change the properties of elements. WordPress also uses JS (most notably jQuery.js) as part of its core software....

WordPress has two types of taxonomies which allow website owners to group blog posts. These are Categories and Tags. What if you wanted to create relationships between posts? For example, let’s say that your website provides reviews of local restaurants and you wanted...

On rare occasions, I run into issues running WordPress on different web hosting providers. Normally, the client has pre-purchased their domain and their web hosting. I develop their website on my testing server and get it to where the client wants it (both in look and...