WordPress
Create a free website or easily build a blog on <em>WordPress</em>.com. Hundreds of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.
-
Why to Use WordPress If You’re Serious About Your Online Business
Starting an online business isn’t cheap. I hope I’m not bursting any bubbles. Sure you don’t pay for office space, insurance or a water cooler, but there are other costs involved. One of them is your website. Lucky you! There are so many free blogging sites out there! It’s a no-brainer to choose one of the free options to start, right? Wrong. Here’s the thing: I’m frugal. I’m incredibly frugal. I will move heaven and earth to find a low cost or free option for just about everything. If there’s an inexpensive way to do something, I will let you know what it is. One of the few places I…
-
How Can Developers Build The WordPress Website Like A Pro?
WordPress, the open source CMS constantly astounding the businesses with ever evolving technology, tools, and resources. The platform is moving towards JavaScript and Mean technology stack, which proves to be excellent for the website development in near future. It’s an outstanding platform for the startups or small businesses for its high usability and easy-to-develop ecosystem, which has been used in every corner of the world. According to a research, “The platform enjoys the virtue of powering the top one million websites around the globe.” It signals the content management system has scored great fame for varied size businesses, instead of becoming the preference of just SMEs. The WordPress development services…
-
Widgets – The Benefits to Your Website
Widgets, or web widgets, are small programs that you can put on your website or blog. Widgets have many benefits to your website. They can be used to track visitors, to display advertising, syndicate your RSS feed, or just to provide a fun, interactive experience for your readers and keep them coming back. In this article, you’ll discover a few different types of widgets and how you can use them to enhance your website. Ever seen Google ads on a webpage? Then you’ve seen a widget in action. A widget is just a small piece of code that you place on your website or blog. Other common widgets that you…
-
5 Signs Your WordPress Site Was Hacked (And How to Avoid It)
Advertisement Your WordPress site is suddenly behaving oddly. Perhaps a drop in traffic, or a changed theme, or maybe even new content. And now you can’t log in. The answer to this mystery is simple: your site has been hacked. Here’s what to look for, and what to do about it. 1. You Don’t Recognize Your Website You have a routine, as the owner of a website or blog (WordPress is suitable for either Forget Blogging: How To Power Any Website With WordPress Forget Blogging: How To Power Any Website With WordPress Have you heard? Blogs are old news. I hope you didn’t jump on that particular bandwagon. Yep, static…
-
7 Differences That May Surprise You
In the worlds of web hosting and site building, there are few names bigger than WordPress and Squarespace. Both are popular choices that offer a lot of functionality. So how do you decide which to use? Why Squarespace vs. WordPress Isn’t a Fair Fight When comparing Squarespace and WordPress, it’s important to remember that the two have somewhat different purposes. As we’ll see, Squarespace offers highly packaged solutions for hosting sites on their own servers. WordPress, on the other hand, is a content management system Everything You Need to Know About WordPress and Other CMSes Everything You Need to Know About WordPress and Other CMSes For the average internet surfer,…
-
Importance of Child Theme in WordPress
Hello friends. You might have heard a lot about WordPress child themes. But you won’t have much idea about what it is. In this article we are going to explain the concept of a child theme is very easy to understand way. Using Child Themes You might be aware that if you have customised your WordPress theme, it gets lost when the update is released and installed on the website. Now, if you want to adopt an existing theme but still want to be able to make updates to that theme without losing your work, creating a child theme will be a better approach than editing the theme itself. You…
-
Increasing PHP Memory in WordPress
Increasing memory allocated to PHP The WP_MEMORY_LIMIT option allows you to specify the maximum amount of memory that can be consumed by PHP. This setting may be necessary in the event you receive a message such as “Allowed memory size of xxxxxx bytes exhausted”. This setting increases PHP Memory only for WordPress, not other applications. By default, WordPress will attempt to increase the memory allocated to PHP to 40MB (code is at the beginning of /wp-includes/default-constants.php) for the single site and 64MB for multisite, so the setting in wp-config.php should reflect something higher than 40MB or 64MB depending on your setup. WordPress will automatically check if PHP has been allocated less memory than the entered…
-
The White Screen of Death in WordPress
Both PHP errors and database errors can manifest as a white screen, a blank screen with no information, commonly known in the WordPress community as the WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD). Before resorting to desperate measures, there are some reasons for the WordPress white screen of death: A Plugin is causing compatibility issues. If you can access the Administration Screens try deactivating all of your Plugins and then reactivating them one by one. If you are unable to access your Screens, log in to your website via FTP. Locate the folder wp-content/plugins and rename the Plugin folder plugins_old. This will deactivate all of your Plugins. You can read more about manually deactivating your plugins in the Troubleshooting FAQ.…
-
5 Gift Ideas for the Bloggers and Vloggers in Your Life!
Hey, listen – blogging is serious business! Like literally – it is! And if you friend, family member, loved one or spouse is a blogger (or vlogger/video blogger) then you know just how serious it is to them! I began blogging in the early part of 2000, while it was still in its infancy. Back then, it was still taboo and most people kept their online hobby on the down low. Now here we are, a decade later, social media has taken over the internet and blogging has become a way of life for many. As we approach the holidays, birthdays or other special occasions – you are probably asking…
-
How To Build A Successful Webshop From Scratch?
First thing which platform should I choose? I think the easiest way to build a webshop is to use a CMS system. Because the CMS systems are very popular and well-tested systems. And these systems are easy to use and easy to customize. I advise you to choose WordPress. Why? I’m a software developer, so I can use any CMS system easily, but my customers can’t use most of the CMS systems. My experience is my customers can learn WordPress in a short period and they can use it easily without my help. And you will see at the end of this article WordPress is very user friendly. Second thing…
-
12 WordPress SEO Hacks to Boost Your Business Website Traffic
We all want websites that are search-engine friendly. But sometimes when you are busy it’s easy to publish a new blog post and be off to the next thing on your to do list. Over time, this can really hurt your SEO efforts. That’s why I’ve put together this short hit list of things you can do to boost your WordPress SEO. Schedule these tasks in your calendar to make your blog traffic soar! 1) Post New Stuff Regularly Google has a bias towards fresh content. Part of Google’s algorithm looks at how new the content is and gives preference to more recent results. So publishing original content on a…
-
Benefits of WordPress Website Development
Among all the web development platforms available today, WordPress Website Development is among the fastest and simplest tools to create an operational website within a matter of minutes. All one needs to do is install WordPress that is, in reality, a free blogging platform and start customizing its look to suit your requirements. If exploited in the right form, it plays a crucial role in your internet marketing effectiveness and your overall business growth. It has been proven time and again that sites made on the WordPress platform are interesting and effective marketing tools. It is typically a free pre-designed website which enables businesses of all sizes to mark their…
