WordPress Tips

Lazy loading is a website technology that waits to load your site’s assets until they are needed. It enables your website to appear to load much faster because it prioritizes things that are visible immediately. Here’s how lazy loading works and how you can enable it on your WordPress site.

A shortcode in WordPress allows you to create any type of repeatable content quickly and easily. Here’s how shortcodes work and what you can do with them.

Even with a nice design, your website won’t look great without high quality photos to match. These tips will help you select great pictures for your website.

WordPress is a great website platform, but it could always be better. We’d love to see these 5 features integrated into WordPress in 2020.

If you hire a website designer to custom-build a site for you, how can you ensure that you get what you’re looking for? This article provides 3 tips for providing valuable feedback to your designer.

Several companies are offering Black Friday discounts on WordPress themes and plugins, website hosting packages, and WordPress training courses. We highlight some of the best deals here.

WordPress 5.3 brought about some major changes to the platform in November 2019. Here’s a look at the new features and changes, including the new Twenty Twenty theme, changes to the Gutenberg editor, and more.

How could getting involved in a WordCamp event benefit you as a WordPress website owner? Learn about WordCamp and how it can help you here.

A responsive website is essential, but you also need to optimize your website for high-DPI or “Retina” devices. In this article, we’ll explain how.

Is your website traffic coming from mobile devices or computers? Why does it matter? In this article, we take a look at some trends, how to find out where your traffic is coming from, and what it all means for you.

How can you add dark mode to your WordPress website? This article provides three different methods for adding dark mode to your site.

If you’ve noticed your website’s comment section attracts spammers, here are some possible reasons why and some ideas to implement to stop the problem.

A multisite network allows one domain to host several distinct, separate websites. Would a multisite network work for you? Here’s a look at several use cases for a multisite network and why you might want one.

What new features should WordPress implement? Take a look as we examine a wish list of WordPress features updated for the second half of 2019.

You don’t have to do anything to create a blog page, but that doesn’t mean you can’t change it to your liking. One easy tweak is changing the number of posts that display on each page. This article explains how to change it.

WordPress stores a revision history for every post and page, creating a copy of every change you can later restore. This article explains how to make use of this handy feature.

WordPress 5.2 will release on May 7, 2019. This update focuses on several major new features, including the Gutenberg Block Directory, Site Health Project, and Update Package Signing.

If you add a form to your website, ponder these 4 key considerations to ensure your forms are doing as much for you as they can.

This article explains how to repair your WordPress website when you receive the message, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Back in a minute.”

SEO isn’t the only way to increase your website’s traffic. Good reviews can also help. Here, we examine how to use reviews to drive traffic to your site.

Security researchers found a critical exploit that allows an unauthenticated user to remotely execute code through the WordPress comment system. Find out what it means for your website and how to ensure your site is secure in this article.

In this guide, we’ll show how to minify CSS and JavaScript files in WordPress to help your site run faster and get better speed test results.

If you used WordPress before Gutenberg was released and have since upgraded, you have content that wasn’t created with Gutenberg on a site that uses it. WordPress gives you a couple of different ways to manage that content. Here, we’ll examine both.

Learn about the 165 enhancements and updates coming to WordPress 5.1 — including Site Health Check, Gutenberg improvements, and various other developer tools — in this article.

How many plugins does a WordPress website need? Can you have too many? Here, we examine three factors to help you decide how many is right for you.

If you give other people access to your WordPress site, it’s important to understand the difference between user roles so you can give the right people the right permissions. This breakdown of WordPress user roles explains each role in detail.

What are pingbacks and trackbacks? Should you enable them on your site? We’ll examine both of those questions in this article.

One of the most crucial elements to an effective website is ensuring it loads quickly for your visitors. In this article, we examine tools for testing your loading speed and detailed information to provide you insight to help speed it up.

As WordPress 5.0 goes live, what do you need to know before upgrading? We break it all down here in this comprehensive guide.

As 2019 approaches, we put together a feature wish list for WordPress next year. Here are 5 new features we hope WordPress will incorporate in 2019.

Do you find yourself setting alarms or reminders to make changes to your website at just the right time? If so, these WordPress automation tips will help you reclaim your day as you schedule events in advance.

Major details regarding the WordPress 5.0 launch have now been revealed as WordPress has set a November 19 launch date and previewed the new Twenty Nineteen theme.

Since Gutenberg released to the public, developers have released new plugins that add extra functionality to Gutenberg with additional blocks. Here are 4 plugins that impressed us with a bevy of new blocks you can add to your Gutenberg editing experience.

WordPress first released the Gutenberg editor in beta form over a year ago, and it is now available to the public in the WordPress 4.9.8 “Try Gutenberg” preview release. But now that it’s out, what is WordPress working on next? Here’s a preview of WordPress 4.9.9 and 5.0.