WordPress is such a popular CMS for website owners that it powers over 30% of websites on the Internet. A WordPress site is a great way to give your brand online exposure but, if you want to launch a profitable online store in WordPress, you’ll need to invest in some
Images are not just on your website for visual appeal, or to encourage engagement with your content; they also play a role in ensuring robust SEO, when properly optimised for search engines. In this week’s must-read, we cover the essentials of image SEO in a WordPress website. But haven’t we
Nowadays, promoting a product or service across multiple platforms is important for increasing eCommerce sales. As a rule, two-thirds of customers use multiple channels for purchases. It makes sense to build your own eCommerce site, from which you can sell your own products (without paying any commission). With WordPress and
There is no doubt that more people will be doing online shopping, this socially distanced festive season, than at any time in history (data from Adobe Analytics shows that the last holiday season saw two years’ worth of ecommerce growth in a single year). While Jeff and the retail giants
Yes, but with qualification. As a professional photographer, or anyone selling images online, watermarking is a good protective measure against the theft of your intellectual property – but it is not something that you should use all of the time, and there are best practices to follow when you watermark
It might be hard for you to know if your website is high-quality. As a website owner, you will want to appeal to your customers. You need to make sure that you are giving them a great experience. That will guarantee that they will stay on your website longer, and
Building a WordPress website is not just about the written content. It also involves images, which can take up around 60% or more of a site’s bandwidth. You might think that adding images to your site is as simple as selecting and uploading them – but it’s a bit more
Online shopping is convenient for its ease and speed, and is becoming more and more popular. And one of the most important factors of online shopping is ecommerce photography. This plays a big role in ecommerce, as a picture is the first thing that a potential buyer pays attention to.
You can buy almost anything nowadays, “from the comfort of your home”. From a website that sells prison apparel to this popular online store for edible insects, more and more small stores and businesses are moving online. This digital migration was underway well before the global COVID-19 pandemic, but the
Your business website is an online platform that lets you reach and sell your products to a wider range of audiences. In order to achieve these goals well, you need to consider a number of aspects before moving your business online. For instance, you have to decide if you want
WordPress is not only a website or blog creation tool, it provides a hosting platform as well. This means that if you are just getting started with your site or blog, or you want to experiment, play around with and test out the many features of WordPress, you don’t need
As a creator, you can’t be lugging around physical copies of your art for showing off. Instead, it’s so much more convenient to display your best works on a beautifully crafted website, that you can easily share with others by providing a URL. But to have such a website, you’re
July’s news that thousands of websites were put at risk following a vulnerability in an essential WordPress plugin has left many users worried about their site security. The vulnerability was discovered by staff at Wordfence, and enabled hackers to upload files to targeted sites. No matter what your site’s purpose is, knowing how
Your website load time has a direct impact on user experience and your Google page ranking. Image file size has a direct impact on your website loading speed. This means that image file size can directly correlate with how many visitors see your site and the quality of their experience.
We live in a multilingual world, and no matter who you’re trying to reach with your website, there’s a good chance you have a similarly multilingual audience. Adding WordPress two languages functionality – or even more languages if needed – lets your visitors choose their preferred language for interacting with
With video becoming an increasingly popular choice for marketing, screen recording isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential. But simply capturing a video isn’t enough; you also need to display it properly by using a plugin like FooGallery More and more, websites and marketers are turning to video, making it one
I’m really fortunate to have a really awesome WordPress Meetup in San Diego that I can attend every month. I’m also super fortunate that the folks who started the Meetup asked me to be one of the coordinators. These same people are the ones who started the amazing Advanced WordPress
Reliably embedding PDFs in a website is not as straight-forward as one might think. This is primarily because each browser handles PDFs differently. Some treat it only as a file, others as media, and Chrome even created its own unique PDF viewer. This means that users in every different browser
Today I’m starting a new series called “Gems of Docs”. I want to use this to highlight some features of our plugins that we’ve documented, but that seem overlooked. I also want to highlight great use-cases for how you can implement them on your site to excellent effect. Custom Captions
We’ve all been there: You’re excited about a new plugin, you download it, install it, and then BOOOM! Your site is a blank white page. Maybe you got the courtesy of an error message. Bottom line: A plugin broke your website and now it’s time to start troubleshooting. Why Does
