WordPress has been a phenomenon since it was first released in 2003. Today, it powers over 30% of the entire web and is used every day from personal blogs to enterprise CMS systems. Because it is an open-source project, thousands of volunteers devote their time and energy creating and improving the code every day. There are tens of thousands of themes, plugins and code snippets to enable you to build any kind of website you can imagine.
Within this category we discuss how to set up WordPress locally in 5 minutes, how to add code snippets yourself and describe how to give your site a much needed health check.
Creating a website for your startup or small business is now more important than ever because 71% of businesses already have websites.
But, that’s not all.
About 50% of potential customers will abandon your site for a competitor’s website if the user experience is poor.
This is why you need to create an attractive and performing website to promote brand visibility and sales.
While it may have started as a blogging platform, WordPress has long since morphed into a full-functioning content management system. Part of what makes it full-functioning is a robust system of WordPress roles and capabilities that help you control exactly what registered users can do at your site.
Whether you’re working with a team of authors or creating some type of site that accepts public registration, understanding WordPress roles and capabilities is essential if you plan to give anyone else the ability to register at your site.
To help you learn how to make WordPress roles and capabilities work for you, I’m going to cover three topics in this post:
While it’s a dry topic, I’ll try to make things as helpful and actionable as possible. Let’s dig in…
It’s almost time – you’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into your WordPress website, and now you’re ready to share it with the world (ok, maybe not a lot of blood involved, but your finger might be tired from clicking the mouse a lot!).
Before you click one more button to make your site live, though, what are the most important things you need to check to make sure your site launch is a success? What’s your website launch checklist?
That’s what we’ll cover in this post – we’re going to list out 16 important things that you should check and/or configure before you launch your WordPress website.
Ready to go? Here’s your WordPress website launch checklist…
If you want to keep your WordPress site running smoothly, there are some routine WordPress maintenance tasks you’ll need to undertake.
But…what are those tasks? Which tasks are actually important, and which are a waste of time? How often do you need to perform them?
To help you better understand how to effectively maintain your WordPress site, we’re going to take a deep dive into WordPress maintenance tasks and also break them down by the frequency you should perform them.
You’ll learn what you should do:
And that knowledge should help you keep your WordPress site healthy without wasting time on tasks that don’t matter.
Ready to go? Let’s start maintaining things!
Looking for podcast hosting to share your content with listeners everywhere?
Podcast hosting can feel like this complicated thing, but it doesn’t have to be…
With the right tool in hand, creating and managing a podcast is just as simple as writing a WordPress blog post.
To that end, I’m going to show you how to create your own hosted podcast via WordPress using a tool called Castos. Then, after I show you how Castos works, I’ll also share some other options that you can use to get started with your podcast.
