Best WordPress Plugins for 2020
When I say 'essential plugins', of course that's a bit of a loose term as not all sites are the same. For instance, not all sites need e-commerce functionality. So this is a list of the major plugins that regular website owners and developers can't afford to ignore....
5 Important Off-Page SEO Factors 2020
Both on-page SEO and off-page SEO have a big impact on your rankings in the search results. It’s difficult if not impossible to put together an SEO strategy without a focus on both these areas. Both local SEO and national SEO benefit from on-page and off-page SEO. I...
8 Tips to Increase a Website’s Google Ranking
Sometimes SEO can seem like alchemy. Search engines use literally hundreds of different signals to determine rankings, they are constantly updating their algorithms and competition is fierce. But there are a few very solid things you can do that will go a long way....
Introducing Good Nook: A Free Art Deco Font
Introducing Good Nook, a whimsical Art Deco typeface with handwritten character. A friend of mine wrote a door sign by hand and I really liked it, so we collaborated on this new typeface. It has obvious Art Deco influence with tall letters and exaggerated x-height/...
How to Serve WebP Images in WordPress on LiteSpeed
If you're reading this, chances are you already know how important it is for a website to load quickly. But if you didn't, we wrote about the importance of having a fast website, with a free tip for checking how your website performs and getting tips for how to...
The Best Flowchart for Local SEO I’ve Ever Seen
I don't like to be overenthusiastic but this step-by-step guide really is the bees knees when it comes to local SEO. It contains a ton of useful steps that will help your business start ranking appropriately in local search engine results. This flowchart is packed...
How to Change Divi Menu Properties on Scroll
I've recently written an updated post describing how to use Divi's sticky states to achieve this result. A much more elegant solution.As website page builders go I think Divi is pretty decent, and now Elegant Themes have released Divi 4.0 everything's been taken up a...
How to Add Google Ads Goal Tracking Conversion Code to Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a popular WordPress form builder because of how easy it is to extensively customise its functionality, getting it to work hand in glove with other plugins and custom functions. It has a bunch of snippets that admins can add to the Additional Settings...
How to Create Glassmorphism With Photoshop
Glassmorphism is looking to be one of the hot new graphic design trends of 2021. These glassy UI elements use grain, transparency and colour to create slick interfaces that look easy on the eye. However, the idea of using glassy backgrounds in interfaces isn't new as...
How to Automatically Backup and Restore a WordPress Website
If there was a list of ten laws for running a website I’m convinced one of them would be “thou shalt regularly back up thy entire website.”
How to Tell If a Website Is WordPress.com or WordPress.org
As we described recently, there are two flavours of WordPress - the freemium version hosted by WordPress (.com) and the free self-hosted version (.org). But if you’re reading this post chances are you already know that. So with no further ado… 1. Your site is at...
3 Quick Ways to Tell Your Website Needs a Redesign
1. Is it mobile friendly? Right now there’s more mobile traffic on the web than any other type, even more mobile traffic than desktop traffic, by a small margin [source]. If your website looks shonky on mobile devices it’s serving a frustrating or broken experience...