Since 2003, when it was released, WordPress has grown from just a blogging platform to an infamous content management system. Daily reports from W3Techs reveal that it powers almost 38% of all websites. Despite its market share, reputation, and a library of thousands of plugins and themes, WordPress is afflicted by certain shortcomings. It’s self-managed. […]

Displaying your posts neatly in grid layout will improve the readability of the content and thus the site performance. Your visitors can navigate easily through information. In this article, we’ll learn how to display posts in a grid layout in the home page of a WordPress website. 3 simple steps to display posts in grid layout. […]

The url of a page plays and important role in improving your rank on search results page. Search engines and users see the full URL when navigating through search results. URL signal the target audience what the contents of a page is about. When set correctly, it allows your readers to have a clear understanding […]

WordPress assign a unique number to each and every item in the site. For example, the User ID is a unique number generated by the WordPress system to help you to identify each user on a website. Sometimes while installing a new theme or arranging multiple items in your WordPress site, you will need to find a […]

WordPress categories are very convenient way to group related posts together. Your reader can find posts in a specific category in one page and read pots of their interest . Setting up categories provide a proper site structure. You can assign one or more categories while creating the post. See fig below. In wordpress  each category has its […]

Since Navigation menu guide your visitors to important sections of your website, it is the most important design element on any page.   In most wordpress themes, this menu is placed as  a horizontal menu  close to the header. Of course, the menu location can vary depending on your theme and some themes support more than one menu locations. When you install […]

We’ve seen a lot of great WordPressSEO tips and tricks out there, but not all of them are practical and easy toapply. In this article, we are going to change that and head straight for theactual, practical steps you can do to make your WordPress site search engineoptimized. Ready to get started? #1: SEO-friendly Permalinks […]

When we think of building a fully-functional website for our business, which is the first CMS that comes to your mind? Of Course, our answer is going to be a WordPress. Undoubtedly, WordPress is the world’s most relevant open source content management system that can help you create a professionally-developed website, without any technical assistance. […]

WooCommerce is one of the most convenient open source tools available for creating an online store and it is one of the major attractions of getting a website built with WordPress. A lot of people migrate from other platforms using services which convert from HTML to WordPress or transfer an existing interfaced from other platforms. […]

Some noteworthy websites like Backpage and Craigslist have already taken the world with a storm with millions of open listing and monthly visitors. The only drawback that’s holding them back has to be their design. The websites have been designed in early 1990s and have not been updated since then. Unless you have upgraded your […]

Writing an e-book? Want to sell it online on your own bookstore website? All you need is one of the best WordPress bookstore themes. The best features of WordPress are its openness and customization. Many developers are trying their hard to make this platform better for authors and readers. When it comes to WordPress plug-ins, […]

Did you know that sometimes monthly newsletters or weekly special offers  from your WordPress site are going to your recipients’junk folders? This is a common problem with emails that are sent from a website via PHP.  Different mailbox providers adopt different techniques to decide when an email is or is not spam. Why does that happen? […]

WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism to create your own menus and menu structure. From your wordpress admin panel click on  Appearance >>Menu. Here you can see existing menus and menu display locations. You can create as many menus as you want. But displaying this menu varies  from theme to theme. This tutorial describes […]

Shortcodes is a special tag that lets you add functionality to your posts, pages, widgets, without actually writing any code.  A shortcode looks like a piece of text enclosed within square brackets. Some examples are given below. [schoolgallery] [slider] [addvideo] When you load this blog page in a web browser, WordPress replaces the shortcode and […]

Functions.php is a file found in your Theme’s folder. To understand the file location, look at the following wordpress theme hierarchy. Adding Code to the Functions File The functions file is where you put various features and functionality within your wordpress theme. You can achieve this by defining your own functions or by calling built-in […]

A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that produce the graphical interface for a wordpress website. You can find plenty of free or premium themes on internet. A good premium theme providers will aggressively Update their themes with new features and functionality Add more security features or bug Fixes Update any browser compatibility issue […]

Spam is a huge problem for every website. Spammers love WordPress sites. Spam comments are irritating, and your readers might lose faith in you. Spam comments can negatively impact your search engine rankings. Akismet is one of the best comment spam filtering service that blocks spam in comments automatically. It is free to use and […]

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