Category Archives: WordPress

Troubleshooting slow WordPress sites

How to Troubleshoot a Slow WordPress Website

This post will cover the basics of troubleshooting a slow WordPress site. This can become a rabbit hole if one so desires. However, the entrance to Wonderland still starts here no matter how far your heart desires to take you.

A slow website will is the first impression people will get simply because even if you you are dressed in an expensive suit and looking your best, if you cant get in the door for everyone to see you it simply won’t matter. In fact, most users on the internet have such short attention spans that if your site does not load within a few seconds, they are likely to not visit it again. Furthermore, Google and most other search engines also take website speed as a crucial factor when determining pagerank of a given website. Naturally, you need to fix things if you are seeing a slow WordPress website at your end.

Thankfully, WordPress in itself is fairly nimble out of the box. It does not operate slow of its own accord, and if optimized properly, “slow WordPress website” should be something that you’d never have to deal with. Continue reading

WordPress Migration Plugins

WordPress Migration Plugins – Three Top Choices for 2020

Migrating a WordPress website is often viewed as a hassle by many. However, if done the right way, a WordPress migration can be a smooth journey.

In this article, we will be taking a look at some of the top WordPress migration plugins. In addition to that, we will also be covering how you can use these WordPress migration plugins to easily and successfully migrate your WP site. Continue reading

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10 Useful WordPress Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Site

If you are a WordPress user, you may well be aware of its various features. Even though it began as a blogging tool, WordPress has now grown to a mammoth size, and can be used to power virtually any type of site, be it an eCommerce store, a news site or a personal portfolio. Having certain WordPress tips at your disposal can further ease your task.

That said, often users tend to miss certain key aspects of WordPress, and as such are unable to get the most out of this Content Management System.  Continue reading

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5 Tips for Enhanced WordPress Security

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System with millions of websites using it. Its popularity makes it an easy target for hackers and malicious users alike — creating scripts to compromise WP websites and hampering WordPress security is a lucrative game.

As such, it is not uncommon for us to see several of our clients’ WordPress-powered sites getting compromised every now and then. Most of the time, the cause is something very basic — an out of date plugin, a bad theme, or a poorly-secured database. Continue reading

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WordPress 5.0, the Gutenberg Editor and Other Options

A few weeks ago, WordPress 5.0.2 was released. This particular version, WordPress 5.0 to be precise, is dubbed as the biggest WordPress release so far. Among many other things, it brings Gutenberg to the core as the default WordPress editor. With Gutenberg on board, WordPress 5.0 is being termed by many as a game-changing release for the world’s most popular Content Management System.

But what exactly does WordPress 5.0 bring to the table? We will turn to Gutenberg in a while. For now, let’s focus on the other features that this new release of WordPress has to offer.  Continue reading