A/B testing is getting more and more popular, but typically in order to do so you had to add plugins to your site or use third party services. Now with Google Experiments, Google has integrated A/B testing right into their Analytics platform. What that means is you can easily test
Author: Gen Herres
Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin Tutorial
So you’re a blogger or content writer for a website/blog built in WordPress but you want help writing articles with search engine optimization (SEO). You do some research and you find WordPress SEO by Yoast is considered one of the best (and free). You install the Yoast plugin and then go
How to Fight Comment Spam on WordPress
If there’s one thing that I hate even more than email spam, it’s probably comment spam. I’ve tried a lot of plugins over a lot of sites, and here is what I’ve found to be very effective.
WordPress Hack Removal & Clean out: A Case Study
A client recently came to me with an issue: one of her friends had a hacked WordPress site, and GoDaddy (their hosting provider) had restored the files, but the site still wasn’t working. Unfortunately this example is far too common — what many people forget is that hosting companies maintain their
How to Perform 301 Redirects on WordPress
You’ve been told by countless SEO guides & Webmaster Tools that if you move a URL you need to use a 301 redirect. But they usually don’t tell you what exactly it is or how to do it. This article will cover the what and how for 301 redirects on
Backup WordPress with BackWPup Tutorial
We all know that we need to backup our website, but the question is always how. This tutorial covers using an excellent and free backup tool, BackWPup. BackWPup also has a paid version if you need additional features (but most people will do just fine with the free version).
How to Move Your WordPress Website
I’m a designer and developer, so I move WordPress sites a lot. Of course I also move clients between different hosting companies, between servers, create duplicates of their sites, and more. So I’ve gotten a lot of opportunities to test out WordPress migration approaches. Here is a breakdown of how to
Recovering from the Hack
So you were hacked, but the good news is you’ve gotten your site cleaned out. So now what happens? How do you recover from this and move forward?
Why were all my plugins deactivated due to an error?
You may have recently seen this message on one of your WordPress sites: The plugin xyz has been deactivated due to an error: The plugin does not have a valid header. What does that mean and why did it happen?
4 Plugins to Make Building Pages Easier
I get this question a lot. What is the best visual page builder plugin? A lot of small businesses and entrepreneurs want to be able to get a beautiful looking website without swimming in the mess of all that code. Definition: A visual page building plugin is a tool installed