The default WordPress dashboard is pretty bland with only a few widgets that aren’t super helpful. Thankfully with all the free plugins out there you can liven up your dashboard in a jiffy. These are some of my personal favorites that I run on many of my WordPress websites. You probably won’t want all of them but if you do…. Continue Reading
Beginner’s Guide: How to Add 301 Redirects to WordPress
Struggling with how to add 301 redirects to WordPress? These nifty redirects are an SEO friendly approach that let you re-route traffic to your site in a number of helpful ways. But they’re also confusing for many casual WordPress users. So, to help you out, I’m going to use this post to dig into 301 redirects as they apply to…. Continue Reading
How to Fix Broken Links Using the Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin
When you website has a broken link, meaning the link to the content is not working, it typically displays a 404 Error to your website visitors. This can happen because old links are no longer good, something went wrong when you connected the content to the link, or the page you are linking to simply doesn’t exist anymore. Broken links…. Continue Reading
15 Must-Have Real Estate Plugins For WordPress Realty Sites
Launching a real estate website on WordPress is surprisingly simple. You don’t need to know any coding or have much technical knowledge besides basic web hosting. All you need is a few helpful real estate plugins to get started! The real benefit of WordPress is the community. There are tons of great WordPress real estate themes you can setup with…. Continue Reading
How to Setup Cloudflare CDN for WordPress
A content delivery network, or CDN, is a network of worldwide servers that delivers cached web content to users based on their location. Because it takes less time to send data over a shorter geographical distance, using a CDN to host your website instead of a single server can speed up loading times for your website. Cloudflare CDN can also…. Continue Reading
Make Review: A Clean, Enjoyable WordPress Builder Theme
Make is a freemium WordPress theme that brands itself as “your friendly small business site builder.” Essentially, it aims to be a full-service website builder that lets you create a quality business website on WordPress without needing to know how to code. After personally using Make in the past and then revisiting it for this review, I remain a huge…. Continue Reading
The Best WordPress RSS Feed Plugins for Syndicating External Content
RSS feeds are a great way to simplify and congregate all of the great content that can be found on the internet today. And, since most successful website owners aim to provide their loyal followers highly valuable content related to their industry, RSS feeds offer an excellent opportunity to do just that. Maybe you don’t have enough time to craft…. Continue Reading
Modula Review: A Stylish, User Friendly Photo Gallery Plugin
When it comes to WordPress photo gallery plugins, you have a ton of different options. Because of that, I’d like to apologize… Why? Because I’m about to introduce another photo gallery player into the mix. Modula is freemium photo gallery plugin from developer Macho Themes. It helps you quickly create stylish grid galleries from your images, as well as offering…. Continue Reading
How to Keep Track of Post Ideas in WordPress
If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you know that having a list of post ideas is a great way to ensure you never run out of topics. Keeping track of those ideas is just as important to ensure you don’t forget about them. There are plenty of tools that you can use to jot down post titles. You could use…. Continue Reading
9 WordPress Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Site Running Smoothly
Remember that “new car smell” of your WordPress site? Back when everything was fresh, uncluttered, and totally up to date? Yeah, that lasts a few months. Then, the reality of oil changes and flat tires starts sinking in. Just like you maintain your primary means of transportation, you similarly need to maintain your WordPress site if you want to keep…. Continue Reading
