6 Most Popular WordPress Themes at WordPress.org - WordPress.org is still the largest repository of WordPress themes on the web. Themeforest.net is catching up but as it is a premium theme site only there is a natural impediment to growth. While themes with all the bells and whistles are great, most new webmasters are very price sensitive. This is what gives WordPress.org the edge. All themes on this site are free and that is a powerful motivational force for new and expert webmasters alike. As of the published date, we have used only 4 of the 6 themes that are the core of this article. For the other … Continue reading "6 Most Popular WordPress Themes at WordPress.org"
10 Fastest WordPress Themes 2020 - How Do We Evaluate What Is a Fast WordPress Theme? The accelerating rate of WordPress theme development has made it difficult for website owners to make a choice as to which theme to use. The consensus was to just pick what you as a user thought looked good or a theme that had the bells and whistles you felt your site needed. Well that all changed in 2010. Google announced that it was going to use site speed as a ranking factor. The merits of this move have been endlessly debated since by digital marketers but Google has maintained a … 
Gutenberg WordPress Editor - It has been just over a year since we last talked about the Gutenberg WordPress Editor. In that article we explain what Gutenberg is and why it matters. Has anything changed since then? What is Gutenberg WordPress Editor? As we explained in the original article Gutenberg is a new block based editor that comes packaged with standard WordPress. It replaced the old text based editor that had been around since the inception of WordPress itself. So what does blck based mean anyway? In the old editor everything was laid out in a text editor and required that the user have … 
Free Alternatives to Avada WordPress Theme - Are there any Free Alternative Themes to Avada Theme? The short answer is no but keep reading. Avada is the best selling theme in the history of WordPress for a reason. This theme has been around for seven years now and has been in full and constant development the whole time. The team behind Avada is ThemeFusion and they have mostly concentrated on Avada that whole time. At the time of writing there have been 523,508 sales and at about $60 a sale that means this theme has generated $31,410,480 USD for ThemeFusion. That is why they can concentrate on … Continue reading "Free Alternatives to Avada WordPress Theme"
How Do I Find a Great WordPress Theme? - If there is a question we get asked more than any about Themes it would have to be What are the best WordPress themes? Answer: The best theme is the theme that satisfies your needs and looks the way you want your site to look. OK, so that sounds like a bit of a cop out and it is. What we are trying to say here is that there are literally thousands of awesome great themes and new amazing themes are being released daily. The problem is that the above question is not the right question. There are a series … 
WordPress SEO Plugins 2019 Comparison - What is the Best Free SEO Plugin? The SEO Framework is now the best free SEO Plugin for 2019. That is a huge claim so I guess we better justify it. This plugin might not do everything that the big wigs in the WordPress SEO space do but it is not far off. Install it now but continue reading if you want our justifications for this claim. At the time of writing The SEO Framework has had 90,000+ active installs, 800,000+ downloads 190+ five star reviews. So the plugin has well and truly moved past the untested phase of plugin … 
Getting Started With WordPress Theme Development - Why WordPress Theme Development? WordPress is the most popular CMS currently available, so if you want exposure for your project why wouldn’t you develop it in WordPress. If you already know Java, HTML and CSS and already use those skills to make websites then WordPress could be the next logic step. While knowing PHP is a bonus it is not actually required to build a WordPress theme. If you have some Bootstrap skills that can give you are slight advantage but once again it is not necessary. it is not to difficult to build a custom WordPress theme from scratch. … Continue reading "Getting Started With WordPress Theme Development"
WordPress Security Update and Features – Vulnerabilities Have Been Plugged - As of May 7th, WordPress’ content management system (CMS) has a brand-new set of security features which adds a higher level of protection lots of its users say they wanted years ago. These new provisions were added along with the official release of the updated WordPress 5.2, which came out on the same day. The security provisions include support for the following: updates that are cryptographically-signed, modern cryptography library, a section for the backend of the admin panel for Site Health, as well protection for the dreaded White-Screen-of-Death (WSOD), which will allow website admins admission to the site’s backend if … Continue reading "WordPress Security Update and Features – Vulnerabilities Have Been Plugged"
WordPress Xmlrpc.php Why You Need To Disable It Right Now! - What is the Xmlrpc.php File and What Does it Do? The xmlrpc.php file was implemented to let let webmasters interact with their sites. For all intense and purposes it acted like an API. A really bad and insecure one. “RPC” stands for Remote Procedure Call, a method that uses XML passed via HTTP as the transport mechanism. While Xmlrpc.php had many functions, trackbacks and pingbacks are the most widely used and problematic. Other functions allowed webmasters interact through mobile or even load pre-written articles. This was important when internet connections were slow and made editing online difficult. The internet has … Continue reading "WordPress Xmlrpc.php Why You Need To Disable It Right Now!"
5 WordPress Mistakes You Need To Avoid - If you have found this site, then you probably already know what WordPress is and what it does. It is easily the most popular CMS on the web and looks like it will be for a long time to come. Its ease of use, simplicity to set up and modify and the plethora of plugins are what combine to make WordPress so popular. While this is true, it is also what makes it easy to make big mistakes on your website. Avoiding WordPress Mistakes If you are about to use WordPress it is a given that you will be making … 
How to Choose a WordPress Theme? - How do I choose a WordPress theme? Is possibly the most question I am most asked as a WordPress developer. While the answer is not all that technical, what it highlights is that there is a lot of choice and therefore complexity, which leads to confusion. I will be breaking the answer down into 10 simple points to consider when looking for a WordPress theme. 1. Simplicity We have all seen WordPress sites that have flashy images, banners and sliders. Some look great and some look a little bit overdone. One thing they all have is complexity. While not always, … 
Google’s AMP Plugin For WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories - What is AMP? We won’t go to deeply into what AMP is here but as a brief guide it is a Google hosted subset of html that speeds up the user mobile experience on your website. Is it good? Yes it is but it has its drawbacks. It definitely makes the mobile experience much faster in most circumstances. The problem arises with the fact that google tends to host this and as such is in control of your content. The AMP page will most likely not look anything like the original page on your website and there are many html/java … Continue reading "Google’s AMP Plugin For WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories"
Gutenberg Editor vs Classic Editor - Love it or Hate it Gutenberg is here The new Gutenberg editor has divided the WordPress community like no other change in the history of WordPress. Some people love it but many and I would say most people are not loving it. This is partly due to the innate human resistance to change but also because quite frankly this first iteration of Gutenberg is not that great. I am sorry to you Gutenberg fans, it just isn’t. It has some great features and there will be people who are new to WordPress who will know nothing other than Gutenberg. They … 
WordPress Theme Detection - What are the difficulties in detecting a WordPress theme? Having used and played with WordPress for about 10 years one of the most common questions I get asked is. How do I find out what theme a particular WordPress site is using? This sounds like it should be something a person who has been using WordPress for a long time should find easy to accomplish. I can tell you now it is not. There are literally 100’s of thousands of themes and and that is not including the modified variants of themes and child themes. WordPress is by far the …
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