There is no denying the fact that remote desktop software has solved numerous hassles just within a few minutes. While you may find a lot of them out there, it is also true that most of them cost a bomb. For a person who often shares the screen…
iThemes Enters the Hosting Space
iThemes is getting into the hosting business after launching three plans that take advantage of its relationship with Liquid Web. The plans are finely tuned around the company’s products and come with free SSL certificates. I reached out to Cory Miller, Founder of iThemes to figure out why…
WooCommerce Custom Product Tables Plugin Now in Beta, Boasts 30% Faster Page Loads
WooCommerce is celebrating 10th years of Woo this week. Over the past several years WooCommerce has grown to become a dominant player among e-commerce solutions on the web. E-commerce Usage Distribution stats from BuiltWith currently rank WooCommerce as the most commonly used platform for stores in the top…
WordPress Multisite vs. Multiple Sites
As an online business owner who owns several WordPress websites, I know how important it is to try to work as efficiently as possible. This not only saves you time but also helps you scale your business and generate more revenue, without all the unnecessary headaches. The problem…
Doc Pop News Drop: WP&UP Promotes Mental Health in the WordPress Community
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s video , we chat with Dan Maby from WPandUP.org about his mission to help WordPressers who…
10 Highly Effective Web Design Tips Backed by Research
On the Internet, web design tips are a dime a dozen. Many people have opinions on what the perfect website looks like. That’s because, to a certain extent, design is subjective. What one person likes, another might find hideous. At the same time, web design is one of…
PWACommerce Review: Turn WooCommerce Into A Progressive Web App
If you’re running a WooCommerce store , you’re probably familiar with the stats around mobile shopping. If not, now’s a good time to do some research because more than 50% of eCommerce sales happen on mobile devices in 2018. That means the mobile version of your WooCommerce store…
What’s the Purpose of a Boilerplate?
Regardless of the library, framework, or code with which you work, you’re likely going to encounter the concept of a boilerplate at some point.
3 Ways To Be Sure You’ve Hired The Perfect WordPress Developer For Your Project
When we invest time and money on something, we want to be assured we’re not squandering our resources. Hiring an outsourced WordPress developer is no exception. If you need a new custom plugin developed , for example, you want to be 100% sure that: It’ll work as you…
How Unicode Works: What every developer needs to know about strings and 🦄
Waaay back in 2003 Joel Spolsky wrote about Unicode and why every developer should understand what it is and why it’s important. I remember reading that article (and have since forgotten most of it) but it really struck me how important character sets and Unicode are. I figured…
DreamHost Shared Hosting Quick Start Guide: Get Your New WordPress Website Off the Ground
There’s an old proverb that states: “Shared joy is doubled joy.” While this is indeed true when it comes to things like candy and laughter, it can just as well be applied to shared web hosting. Shared hosting is an inexpensive and simple way of making a website…
WordPress Theme Development: Adding Functionality with functions.php
This article introduces one of the most important topics in WordPress development: functions.php . The functions file is one of the complex, interesting, and powerful in the arsenal of a WordPress theme. It’s often usefully simplified into being called “a WordPress theme’s plugin.” If you’re interested in under…
How to Create a BuzzFeed Like Website Using WordPress
Recently one of our readers asked if it was possible to create a BuzzFeed like website using WordPress? BuzzFeed is one of the most popular websites on the internet known primarily for its viral content. Its success has inspired many bloggers to follow the same model. In this…
Does site speed influence SEO?
You don’t even have to listen very carefully because SEO people are shouting it from the rooftops: site speed is everything. Not a day goes by without a new article, white paper, Google representative or SEO expert telling us that optimizing for speed is one of the most…
The Vision is Finally Here – Announcing iThemes Hosting
Today we have exciting news about our newest project and service: iThemes Hosting ! The iThemes Hosting project has been under tight lock and key and we haven’t shared it publicly yet … but after months of planning and work, the day has finally arrived when we can…
How Many Website Images Is Too Many?
A page with no images can look barren, but one with too many will load slowly, which might result in a high bounce rate. Kissmetrics reports that 40% of users will abandon a site that takes more than three seconds to load, and that each further second of…
7 Best WordPress Booking Plugins For Convenient Bookings 2018
Many people think that booking is applicable only for hotels and restaurant but it’s not true. There are other firms too, which requires booking and appointments. It’s a very busy world so you just don’t rely only on email and phone calls to do some booking. It will…
Want WordPress Charts and/or Graphs? Here’s a Hands-on Look at 4 Plugins
In today’s Internet-friendly world, finding data on any subject is easy. What’s difficult is putting it all together in a way that’s easy to digest. One way to make your data more comprehensible is to use visual forms of representation such as charts, graphs, and maps . With…
Tackle and Overcome the Common Issues You Might Face with WordPress
It is true that WordPress is the most popular and widely used content management system nowadays, and millions of websites depend upon it. It’s not perfect by any means, and sometimes though, things do go wrong due to some flaws in the system. These flaws might impact the…
32 Best Health and Medical WordPress Themes For Hospitals, Doctors, Clinics & Blogs 2018
The list of the best WordPress themes designed and developed for health and medical blogs and websites. These themes are for doctors, dentists, hospitals, health clinics, surgeons and other type of health related websites. All these themes share premium quality and highly customizable layout thanks to advanced theme…