Working with Blogs

Blogs form a huge percentage of the websites online today. More and more people are using them to get their thoughts out into the world, share their expertise, and even supplement their income. This section contains articles ranging from the basics of starting up a blog to how you can create your own WordPress theme. Dive in!

  • Secure your WordPress website
    2015-12-02

    Secure your WordPress website

    WordPress is the most popular blog and CMS platform available, and as such is also a main target for hackers. There are quite a number of ways to hack or otherwise ruin a WordPress website – which is also true for any other website, but WP being such a widespread system makes it a popular target as well. Considering how large and popular WordPress is, we haven’t covered every possible issue here, but believe we included a few of the quickest fixes and some more advanced options to secure your website.
  • How to make WordPress multilingual
    2015-10-09

    How to make WordPress multilingual

    We were recently asked to create the possibility for adding more languages to an existing WordPress site, which already contained quite a few plugins and custom theme modifications. We started by looking at free multilingual plugins, and especially noticed the popularity of qTranslateX and Polylang, besides WPML which comes with a fee.
  • 2015-07-29

    Speeding up your WordPress Site

    Research shows that each second it takes for your site to load costs you lost visitors and conversions. We have collected a few tips to help you improve the loading time for your pages.
    Speeding up your WordPress Site
  • All You Need to Know About Stock Image Licenses
    2015-06-30

    All You Need to Know About Stock Image Licenses

    Images don't just add visual appeal to your site. They've also been shown, time and again, to be effective at converting users into customers. Fortunately, millions of images are available on the Web.
  • 20+ Free, Responsive WordPress Themes for Your Startup or Small Business
    2015-05-29

    20+ Free, Responsive WordPress Themes for Your Startup or Small Business

    Google's latest update to its search algorithm, the (in)famous "Mobilegeddon," made website owners realize the importance of site responsiveness, more than ever. Websites capable of resizing and adjusting to whatever device a visitor uses to view them stand a better chance at ranking high in search results, which in turn, expose them to more visitors. Every additional visitor is a potential new customer, and for fledgling startups and small businesses, this can mean a lot.
  • 10+ Best Free High-Quality Photos Search Engines
    2015-05-22

    10+ Best Free High-Quality Photos Search Engines

  • 2015-04-06

    Quickly Migrate Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Duplicator

    Migrating a self-hosted WordPress blog to a live server or another web host isn’t something to look forward to. It’s a tedious and time-consuming process of backing up databases and files, editing certain WordPress files and settings, testing for errors, lots of going back and forth, and waiting. You also need to be extra careful as you’d be working with core files – any tiny bit of error when you modify the wp-config.php file will break your entire blog. Clearly, this is not for the tech-challenged, or faint of heart.
    Quickly Migrate Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Duplicator
  • 20+ Free Tools to Help You Become a More Productive Blogger
    2015-02-13

    20+ Free Tools to Help You Become a More Productive Blogger

    Productivity is a must for anyone who is running a blog, whether for personal use or for business. Bloggers are under a lot of pressure to come up with high quality content frequently. Doing this, however, is impossible without a little help.
  • Self-Hosted Ghost: An Easy Starter
    2014-09-09

    Self-Hosted Ghost: An Easy Starter

    If you simply want to blog and WordPress has become too complicated for your needs, Ghost might appeal to you. It’s an elegant open-source blogging platform designed to do one thing really well: creating beautiful blogs quick and easy.
  • Pick the Perfect Theme for Your WordPress Blog: Part 2
    2014-07-29

    Pick the Perfect Theme for Your WordPress Blog: Part 2

    This second half of the tutorial covers the stage when you’re clearer on what kind of theme you’re looking for.

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