WordPress is most certainly the world’s favorite content management system (CMS). It powers over 70 million websites, which makes a whooping 60% of all websites that run on a CMS. This figure translates to about 25% of all websites on the planet! Travel back in time twelve years, and this wasn’t the case. WordPress was a bare blogging platform that…. Continue Reading
How to Add Google Fonts to Your WordPress Site
The appearance and feel of a website is of great importance in attracting and holding a visitor’s attention. Content on a website can be dominated by text, images, or media. Text, wherever used, whether abundantly or sparingly, must be chosen with care. Typography plays an important part in the overall look and feel of a website. Builtin fonts are available…. Continue Reading
5 Tips to Help Get Your Blog Post Loads of Real Attention
Imagine this: You’ve just finished writing the most epic blog post ever. You’re boiling over with excitement over the buzz your post is going to generate. You hit the publish button and then go watch Game of Thrones. The next day, nobody has visited your blog. Nobody has read your epic post. Why? Because attracting visitors to your blog involves…. Continue Reading
How To Schedule Blog Posts in WordPress
When running a blog, there are a lot many things that are responsible for the success of your blog, but nothing comes close to the importance of proper content on a regular basis. It is, in fact, a very smart strategy to post new content and blog posts on your blog at a regular basis, on a given time, so…. Continue Reading
How to Create a Welcome Mat (Full-screen Call to Action) For Your WordPress Website
I probably don’t have to tell you that every page on your website should have a clearly defined goal and purpose. Yep, every single one of them. Each page should be aimed at getting your visitors to take a certain action — like join your newsletter, leave a comment, click “like” on Facebook or whatever you are trying to do….. Continue Reading
Newspaper Theme Review: Discover the Art of Publishing
Back in 1996, The New York Times released its first online news portal. Do you remember the thrill and excitement of having fresh information that was just one click away? It really got me thinking about the tremendous evolution made from paper print to digital news and of the amazing diversity and speed that powers all of today’s world news…. Continue Reading
Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
A child theme is a set of styling rules and/or functions that are used to add functionality or change the look of an existing WordPress theme. Child themes can be modified without altering the original code of your theme, allowing you to make changes as small as changing a couple of colors, or as extensive as completely changing the look…. Continue Reading
Best WordPress Plugins To Automate Social Media Marketing
As website owners we all know we should be working to create and maintain a presence on social media. However, how much of us really have the time to dedicate to connecting with our peers and reaching out to our target audience on Facebook, Twitter, and whatever the latest social network happens to be? Furthermore, if you’re trying to be…. Continue Reading
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website Using Gonzales
Speeding up your WordPress website is like an art form. Everyone is capable of doing it in some fashion, yet everyone has a different way of going about it. Though there is no set consensus on how to achieve the fastest website around, the truth remains that website visitors want fast loading webpages and will go elsewhere if they don’t…. Continue Reading
Listable – An Easy to Use and Extensible WordPress Directory Theme
Developing a WordPress website that will enable you to showcase and promote local businesses, events, attractions, and services requires selecting the right theme along with the specific plugins required to achieve the desired functionality. In creating Listable, the team at PixelGrade have managed to find a great balance by creating a theme that has all the necessary capabilities, but can…. Continue Reading
