YouTube, being one of the most popular video sharing portals in the world, has been leveraged extensively by a large number of professionals to showcase their talent, products and services. This number, in millions, gets augmented when you add WordPress users who capitalize on YouTube for marketing and promotional purposes. As professionals use both WordPress and YouTube in a bid to monetize, reducing time-to-market using YouTube videos via WordPress becomes critical. Which is why it…
Every day we engage in some or the other activity, be it counting the calories consumed, steps climbed, the revenue our business generates or analyzing the growth of shares and income. It is very important in all these cases to measure our performance, as performance is a key indicator of growth. When you create a WordPress website, more precisely – a business website, it is important that you choose the right WordPress hosting plan for…
Imagine a broken template or a plugin code, website crash or writing a post and deleting it, only to realize the previous draft was better. But the issue is you cannot go back to the previous version. Scary isn’t it? But don’t panic, with WordPress it’s easy to take backups and undo changes to the code as well as posts alike with backup and restore. In this post, we’ll learn how to undo changes in…
Before starting off with how to install WordPress locally, let us begin with what it means to install something locally. A local installation means to perform a software installation on your local computer. As simple as that. Every time an installer program is opened, you need to select its destination. On opening it, you will be given a choice of saving it either in the hard disk or the directory. Now, if you choose to…
Whether you need to establish a new web presence or redesign your current website, you need to have a content management system (CMS) for maintaining and updating your digital content. It’s critical to select the right CMS that best suits your needs, since after your initial design there is a good chance that it will be your most frequently used web maintenance tool. But how do you make your choice? There are many different types…
If you know the name “WordPress”, then chances are,you’ve also heard of a little company called Automattic. They are the software company behind many of the major integrations and plugins available on WordPress (in addition to the WordPress.com platform). It makes sense that the people who created the WordPress.com hosted platform would have a keen eye for the kind of tools their users (as well as those on self-hosted WordPress.org) would need to make their…
Creating a website is a very obvious first step to taking your business online. Sure, you’ve done your fair share of research and narrowed down on WordPress as the platform to create your website. But the question is, how do you actually go about creating a website with WordPress? In this post, we cover all the basic requirements when it comes to creating your own professional website with WordPress from the scratch. Step I: Platform…
In one of my earlier posts, we debated whether WordPress themes were replacing web designers. While the answer was a resounding no, let’s not discount the potential of a theme by itself. WordPress themes have helped millions of businesses get online. According to Code in WP, in 2014, the total number of theme downloads from WordPress.org was 123,498,018. That is a HUGE number! Does your theme impact your website’s performance? Sure, it does. Your theme…
One of the crucial factors in deciding the theme of your website is the content your website has. For example, if you run a photography website then the focus is more on the pictures but if your niche, like mine is poetry or financial news then photos are secondary as content rules this type of a website. The goal is to make your website stand out visually and aesthetically. A theme determines the look and…
Do you or your client want to shift your/their blog from Blogger to WordPress and move your blog to your own domain name? Are you still confused after having done your share of research? In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to explain the process of migrating from Blogger to WordPress in a simple step-by-step fashion without losing any backlinks. But before we proceed to that, let’s have a quick look at what is…