How to Start a Blog on a Shoestring

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Blogging can provide a good income stream once you’re established but for many people just getting started, money is tight. If you fall into the empty pockets crowd, don’t worry, you can still put together a professional blog that will get you off to a good start. Here’s how to start a blog the right […]

4 Reasons Images May Be Slowing Down Your WordPress

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Many of us feature images on our WordPress sites for both aesthetic and marketing purposes, but could these pictures be hindering your site? Unfortunately, images or their associated plug-ins can be responsible for slowing down your site, a recipe for disaster if you’re trying to expand your audience and convert customers.

How Can Non-WordPress Developers Take Advantage of the JSON Rest API?

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WordPress has unleashed version 4.2 last April 23. This was followed by the 4.2.1 Security Update release a week after to eliminate cross-scripting vulnerabilities. From a blogger and site owner’s perspectives, the update that will make the most impression is the improved user experience when managing your plugins. Users can now download or activate/deactivate multiple plugins on the […]

Tag Maintenance: How to Keep Your Blog’s Tags Meaningful

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If your blog is running on WordPress, you can organize your posts into two classifications: categories and tags. Categories are more subject based. For example, a cooking blog may sort posts by categories such as “Meat Dishes,” “Desserts” and “Breakfast Food.” Its also useful for blogs with many different topics, such as an entertainment blog […]

How to Determine When it’s Time to Use a CDN for your WordPress Blog

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Over the past few years, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become increasingly popular and affordable as websites owners seek new ways to increase speed and improve security. In as few words as possible, CDN’s help to distribute your website’s content across the globe to ensure that wherever your visitors may be, your website can be […]

How to Easily Customize Your WordPress Blog CSS Design – For Beginners

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As a followup to my previous article, 5 Powerful Drag & Drop Page & Layout Builder Plugins for WordPress, in which I discussed how non-developers could easily customize their WordPress blogs with easy to use drag and drop plugins, I’ve decided to delve just a little bit deeper into WordPress CSS customization. This will assist any […]

Back to Basics for WordPress Content Management

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As a WordPress developer, I love to geek out when building client sites. Finding excuses to use shortcodes, leveraging page templates & custom fields to standardize design and imagining better data structure with custom post types are part of my daily joys. Source My clients however couldn’t care less. In fact, most of them don’t […]