Category: Articles

by: Jason Daszkewiczon: in: Articles, WordPress Drama

How & Why To Downgrade WordPress Versions, Plugins, And Themes

The WordPress Core code is updated pretty regularly throughout the year. Everyone wants to upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress as it is stable. We all want the latest features and also immunity from the security holes of the older versions. Yet, even after such extensive research, all the bugs cannot be fixed at once.

This is where the problem arrives. Those bugs which left behind while fixing can really cause a lot of trouble. Also, there are plugins and themes which don’t act nicely in an update. The core developer of plugin and themes need some time to catch up with an update of WordPress. So, till that time, things can go weird.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles

Harden WordPress Security – 12 Actionable Tips for Your Website

You’re probably thinking that you are running a secure and safe WordPress website. The short story – you’re not!

We’re living with the status-quo that our websites are secure enough to not bother with the dirty job of hardening them as best as we can. But the reality is different. While supporting my customers, I personally face every day with shared web hosting servers, outdated(sometimes, ancient) technologies; people are still using the “admin” username, they don’t have a security plugin installed, even if it takes less than 5 minutes.

It’s not your fault. We assume that WordPress is pretty safe to run a website on it. And it is, but threads are everywhere and it’s best to avoid them if possible. And it is possible.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles, Resources

How to Optimize Images for the Web – A Practical Guide

Optimizing images for web is still a little-known practice. When it comes to websites and images, things can get a little complicated. You see, while images are something which all websites simply must have, for many reasons, they increase the overall size of a web page and thus slow down the loading speed of that web page. Above all, this is very problematic because of the user experience that this conveys.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles, Giveaway

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals You Don`t Want to Miss!

It`s that time of the year again!

Instead of bombarding you with tons of deals, I filtered the best from the good and gathered a hand of awesome deals you don`t want to miss!

The criteria used for selecting the deals are following the motto “from zero to hero”! In other words, these deals are exactly what you need to start a new online business for a discounted price.

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by: Sarai Hansenon: in: Articles, WordPress Themes

10 ‘Well-Worth-It’ Benefits of a Premium WordPress Theme

I know what you’re thinking…why would I ever pay for a premium WordPress theme when there are so many free options out there? Well, truth be told, the old saying; ‘you get what you pay for’ rings truer than ever before when it comes to WordPress Themes. Unless you’re a web developer, chances are you may need a little more help navigating your WordPress theme than you would like to admit. That’s where a premium WordPress theme comes in handy.

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by: Zoey Kasdanon: in: Articles, WordPress Drama

How to Tell if Your WordPress Site is Fast Enough (And How to Improve it!)

It seems like yesterday that we were all listening to long, drawn out tones as our dial-up internet connected. Fast forward to now, and speed is everything. Over half of internet users expect websites to load in 2 seconds or less! What does a slow website cost you? Well, visitors for starters, but that’s just the beginning.

Today I’m going to show you just how important your website loading speed is for the ultimate success of your online business or blog. We’ll also look at a few valuable tools you can use to measure your speed and how you can increase your website’s performance today.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles, Business

Beyond Design: Protecting Your Beautiful Websites

Whether you build websites for your own businesses or for your clients, you understand better than most people how our collaborative lifestyles are based on the way we use technology to connect with each other at home, work, and everywhere else. By making your websites as strong on the backside as they are beautiful on the inside, you contribute to this scenario.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles, WordPress Drama

3 Smart Alternatives to WordPress

We all know how powerful and versatile WordPress can be. After all, it`s a content management system, with more than 10 years of continuous updates and features implemented and millions of people behind it.

Starting as a blogging platform, WordPress slowly but certainly turned into a veritable CMS over the years.
Most people find it cool, others call it a great CMS, but there are some people which doesn`t find it a proper solution for their projects.

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by: Madalin Tudoseon: in: Articles, Web Design

A Brief Guide to Understand Responsive Vs Adaptive Web Design

Web design is evolving. Designers are ideating innovative design concepts to cut on the renderability issues, optimize load times and make sites search friendly.

Web design’s new ‘buzz words’ are concepts like responsive, scalable and adaptive layouts.

However, there has been a great debate between the responsive and adaptive layouts, so how should designers, and clients, differentiate these methods and apply them for a website template?

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