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What Do You Need To Know To Run A WordPress Website?
What Do You Need To Know To Run A WordPress Website? So you've found a host, downloaded and installed WordPress, and are ready to fire up your new website. Now what? Before you go beyond, or even get to this point, let's talk about the other things you may need to...
How To Use a Robots.txt File
Exactly what is a robots.txt and what does it do? The official Google definition of robots.txt is : “A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site...
Google Mobile Indexing Starts in March 2021
Google Will Start Exclusively Indexing Mobile in March 2021 This is the WP Wednesday podcast episode 125 : Google Mobile Indexing Is Here! My name is Marv Dorner of BeBizzy Consulting and today we’re going to talk about getting your site ready for use on mobile...
Should I Use Hero Images?
What Is A Hero Image? Wikipedia defines hero image as "a large web banner image, prominently placed on a web page, generally in the front and center." It usually dominates a home page, and can be linked by the visitor to the company or organization's image. Because of...
Does Google Value Hidden Content Less?
Hidden Website Content A fairly common way to display large chunks of content on a website is to use tabs, accordions and toggles. All of these "hide" content until they are clicked or otherwise activated, revealing the content underneath. So how does Google index...
Tech Changes in 2020
2020 Forced Lots of Technical Changes 2020 was weird. There. I said it. The past nine to twelve months has change the way many of you work and live. Commutes, water coolers and being interrupted by a co-worker walking around have been replaced by video meetings,...
WordPress 5.6 Is Available
WordPress 5.6 is Available to Download WordPress 5.6 was released for download and installation on December 8, 2020. On today's episode of the WP Wednesday Podcast we'll talk about what's in the release, and why you should, or should not install it.WordPress 5.6...
Fonts In WordPress
Using Fonts in WordPress Most websites have images. Some have videos. Others have database connections, feeds from other sites, shopping carts, and others item. But it's fair to say that EVERY websites has fonts. From the classic Times New Roman, to newly launched...
What Technology Do I Need to Manage WordPress?
What Do You Need To Manage WordPress? WordPress lives entirely online. The wp-admin portion of a WP site allows the admin to manage everything from one spot. On the admin you can create posts and pages, add media (images, videos, audio and documents), add/manage...
Sending Emails from WordPress Sites
Why doesn't WordPress send emails without any configuration? The easy answer is, it does... sometimes. Some hosts and website work without any editing to the WordPress install or even the plugins to send emails from forms. It' uses the PHP Mail function. But some...
Sending Email From Your WordPress Website
Why Send Email From A Website There are many reasons to set up your WordPress website to send emails. Recover WordPres account passwords Send emails to the website owner, specific people in the organization, and even to people outside the site or business. Special...
Do Headings Affect Your SEO Rankings?
Do Headings Have to be Used in a Specific Way? Heading tags are a great way to format your web pages by giving them primary headlines, separate a new idea or topic, or even easily identify important ideas. But for years it's been widely accepted that these headlines...
Protecting Your WordPress Sites With Good Passwords
WordPress Admin SecurityThe most obvious security issue with WordPress is your administrator account logon information. By locking that down you can protect your website content and install information. But there are other security measures you should implement if you...
Adding Notifications to Your WordPress Site
Adding Notifications Sometimes you need to get specific information out to your customers like operation times, newsletter signups, new product lines, or even business sale or closing messages. There are many ways to do this, and also many things to consider when...
Getting Inspiration For Your Website Redesign
Where Do You Start On A Redesign One of the critical parts of website research is what you do, and maybe more importantly, what you do NOT like on how a website looks and works. Often clients refer to competitors when they point out these likes and dislikes, which is...
Great Website Hosting : InMotion Hosting
Choosing Your Website Host is CriticalThere are so many pieces to a great WordPress website. The WP version, PHP, theme, plugins, images, content, videos... all contribute to the website's performance.But even if everything is optimized as much as possible, if your...
Speeding Up Your WordPress Site With WP-Rocket
What is WP Rocket? WP Rocket is a caching and optimization plugin that takes the code, content, images, videos and other pieces of your website and finds a faster way to present them to your website visitors. That can be storing them on their computers or on a CDN...
Using Digital Marketing Methods in Your Business
Marketing : Traditional or Digital? Most of us have to make some decisions on how to marketing our business. Do we rely on word of mouth and luck? Do we spend money getting print or other media created and run on traditional networks? Or do we spend a little less on a...
