If you regularly update content on your site, you will not be as likely to need an expensive complete overhaul of your whole site. The web design community has a phrase, “Re-align. Don’t re-design.” The idea here is that if you’re constantly making small tweaks to your site that help grow your community and meet your goals, this is likely to keep you site looking and feeling familiar so that when you update the style and content people still recognize your online brand. If you regularly update content on your site, you will not be as likely to need an expensive complete overhaul of your whole site.
If your site is completely outdated though, it’s probably best to redesign the whole thing. Indeed, with Google and other search engines incorporating more mobile into its search results you may want to consider a WordPress redesign to make your site look good on mobile devices. Additional, WordPress design trends come and go quickly and it is important for your site to give a professional and modern look. WordPress has made switching themes easy and without affecting the content of your site. Cumbersome switchovers are a thing of the past. However, keep in mind some things like sticking with the same general color scheme, keeping the navigation in the same place, or even keeping roughly the same content. It goes without saying that you also want to ensure that the site looks better.
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How to Reduce Bounce Rate on Your WordPress Website
/0 Comments/in Beginners, Tips /by Michael DamariBounce Rate is a term that you might have heard before. I know what you’re thinking and the answer is no. A bounce rate is NOT a measurement of times you can bounce up and down on your chair before a page is done loading. Bad jokes aside, a bounce rate IS a term used to describe the percentage of people who visit one of your webpages, and leave without viewing any other pages on your site.
This is based off the first page that is visited, known as the landing page. Many people confuse bounce rate with exit rate. Exit rate is a measure of visitors who left your site from a page. The bounce rate can be found using web analytic tools and is usually expressed as a percentage. If your bounce rate is 80%, then 80% of your sites visitors left after viewing one page. Here are four of the most common bounce rate scenarios:
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WordPress Redesign in 7 Easy Steps
/0 Comments/in Guides /by Tom RandallIf you regularly update content on your site, you will not be as likely to need an expensive complete overhaul of your whole site. The web design community has a phrase, “Re-align. Don’t re-design.” The idea here is that if you’re constantly making small tweaks to your site that help grow your community and meet your goals, this is likely to keep you site looking and feeling familiar so that when you update the style and content people still recognize your online brand. If you regularly update content on your site, you will not be as likely to need an expensive complete overhaul of your whole site.
If your site is completely outdated though, it’s probably best to redesign the whole thing. Indeed, with Google and other search engines incorporating more mobile into its search results you may want to consider a WordPress redesign to make your site look good on mobile devices. Additional, WordPress design trends come and go quickly and it is important for your site to give a professional and modern look. WordPress has made switching themes easy and without affecting the content of your site. Cumbersome switchovers are a thing of the past. However, keep in mind some things like sticking with the same general color scheme, keeping the navigation in the same place, or even keeping roughly the same content. It goes without saying that you also want to ensure that the site looks better.
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Improve WordPress Security With 9 Easy Tips
/0 Comments/in Security, Tips /by Tom RandallWordPress is one of the most popular CMS on the internet. The best thing you can do when building a website through WordPress is make sure that it is secure enough. It is also true that you can never get your website security up to 100% but can definitely go for 99% milestone. This can also be accomplished by considering some small and big security factors while development. Having a WordPress website owner means that you need to take some extra care of your website in order to secure your and as well as visitors data. WordPress website development includes a wide range of free and premium themes, plugins and widgets for different purposes. These themes, plugins and widgets developed by the vast WordPress developer community around the globe. Below we’ll explain some tips to secure your WordPress website from majority of attacks.
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A Complete Guide to Migrate your HTML website to the WordPress
/0 Comments/in Guides /by Tom RandallAre you thinking of migrating your HTML or a Static website to the WordPress platform? There is no doubt over the tremendous benefits of moving your site to the WordPress, which unquestionably is one of the most dynamic Content Management System in the present times and therefore, become the choice of millions. There are many reasons for such an upswing in the acceptance of the WordPress. One of the most key reasons is the ultimate advancement of the websites, it offers through the countless and indefinite benefits such as: user friendly interface, dynamic themes, responsive plugins and most importantly, expansive range of technical support, so that, you can never face any issue or difficulty in handling your website. In addition to this, you can easily update your website or blog post content as well as tweak minor or major settings by yourself only. This way you do not even need to understand troublesome coding, thus saving a lot of cost that you have to pay to Website developers for even tiny updates.
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Beginners Guide to Custom Fields in WordPress
/0 Comments/in Beginners, Guides /by Michael DamariWordPress allows many different ways to store and access data. If you need to quickly add content to a certain area of your post or page, you could choose to add it in the WordPress editor or you could also build a widget but the content would display on your whole site by default. Both of those solutions leave something to be desired in the way of options.
Creating a custom field in WordPress is a powerful, elegant solution that gives you more control over how you want your content displayed. There are many plugins and themes that use custom fields, and you have most likely come across them before even if you aren’t exactly sure what they are. If you are relatively new to custom fields, or aren’t sure how to use them, this article can help shed some light on the subject.
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How to configure WordPress permalink for better SEO?
/0 Comments/in Beginners, SEO, Tips /by Tom RandallBy configuring the right type of permalink, you will be able to make your post adorable to leading search engine like Google and Bing. Adding a custom permalink to your post can also give you an extra edge on your SERP competitors as well. If you are not sure about how to configure your website’s permalink or which permalink setting would bring the best profit for your site, then keep reading this post.
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Best Non Profit WordPress Plugins for Donation
/0 Comments/in Plugins /by Tom RandallGetting the high-quality content free of cost is not less than any gift. The websites developers while writing content keep in view the needs of their users in order to satisfy them. But they are also human beings like us and they need to get satisfied too, and their satisfaction lies in donations that are given by the people who can afford it.
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WordPress Trackbacks and Pingbacks Explained
/0 Comments/in Beginners, Tips /by Tom RandallPingbacks are the comments created whenever one blog is linked to another and enable pingbacks. These are in fact the remote comments.
Something is being posted by a person on the blog. Another person posts something on his blog that is linked to post of some other person. When this occurs a pingback is automatically sent to the first person when both persons have blogs with enabled pingbacks. In order to create pingback, all that is required is to link to someone else`s blog post. In case of that post having pingbacks enables, blog owner sees an appearance of pingbacks in the comments section which they can then approve.
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Build Fantastic Fly-Out WordPress Menu with Superfly
/0 Comments/in Plugins, Reviews /by Michael DamariSliding menus are quickly becoming one of the most popular trends in WordPress web development. They look stunning on desktops as well as mobile devices. These menus are located in one corner of your site. When the menu pops up, the content is moved aside.
Superfly is an awesome WordPress plugin for building fly-out menus on your website. It’s one of CodeCanyon’s top selling plugins, and easily lets you generate a trendy new navigation menu on your site. I was really impressed by the sleek design options and smooth performance. Long gone are the days where you need to suffer through a clunky nav menu to plod through a website. Take a look at the back-end and you’ll see clean code, and some of the best industry standards for animation and smooth performance.
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