One of the most requested features of a website is a contact form. But which contact form should you use? If you’re running WordPress I’ve rounded up a list of 8 very useful plugins to suit almost any site.
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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
WooCommerce Code Snippets
This post with WooCommerce code snippets is mostly for myself, but I also answer questions at the WooCommerce Community Boards periodically, and this list of snippets can be useful for answering those questions. /** * Remove WooCommerce Updater Notice */ remove_action(‘admin_notices’, ‘woothemes_updater_notice’); /** * Code to fix HTTP Error on
A/B Testing with Google Experiments on WordPress
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
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?
How To Remove Comments & Trackbacks on WordPress
With WordPress 4.3, WordPress has finally stopped allowing comments on new Pages. However, if you have an existing site every kind of data on your site probably allows both comments & trackbacks. That means pages, posts, media, and any custom data types you have. While it may sound like a
Why Do Websites Get Hacked?
This is a question I get asked a lot. “Why would anyone want to my hack my website?” Your website may not have any eCommerce, may be small, may be just a personal blog, so you wonder why on earth anyone would even care enough to hack your site.
What to do If Your WordPress Site is Hacked
So you just got that dreaded email from your hosting company that says “we’ve detected an issue with your website” or “malicious code or links have been found on your website” or the worst a client emails you and says “your site has been hacked”.
iThemes Security Tutorial for WordPress
iThemes Security is the new incarnation of Better WP Security and it has stellar improvements! In this article I’ll cover the main features of iThemes and provide a basic user guide for getting up and running. Since this is a basic guide I have simplified some explanations.
Scheduling WordPress Posts to Publish Later
Unfortunately in life our ideas for posts, our time to actually write posts, and the times that we’d like to publish them are all different. Fortunately though, there are some features and plugins to help us with that. We’ll cover how to schedule WordPress posts in this tutorial.
How to Use GTmetrix Website Speed Performance Analyzer
GTmetrix is a fantastic online measurement tool brought to you by the wonderful folks at Gossamer Threads. They have combined the results & scores from both Google PageSpeed and YSlow to provide you a handy checklist of where your site does well and where you could improve. They also provide
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