Your website speed determines how your website viewers will initially react; will they be seeing your slick website interface or a loading screen in the first two seconds? If it’s the latter, then your website might be in bigger trouble than you think– there’s a big chance your audience has already left. When it comes to that, image optimizer plugins for WordPress can be a solution.
[Read more…]Customizing WordPress with Branda by WPMU DEV
Why settle for the WordPress default login page when you have the option to customize it? If you’re running a blog that allows users to register or it’s a WordPress membership site, or you have an e-commerce blog, you can leverage the benefits that a customized login page can give.
[Read more…]Cleaning A WordPress Malware Infection For Dummies
If it can happen to your computer occasionally, then it will certainly happen to your WordPress website, perhaps more often. Malware or other viruses and infections or cyber-attacks are a huge mess. Cleaning them us is often tedious too and disheartening. Still, we’re here to help you clean a WordPress malware infection in the simplest way possible.
[Read more…]7 Things Gutenberg Block Editor Does Better Than The Classic Editor
New things are often frowned upon since a sudden and drastic change can disrupt routine and many other comforts we used to enjoy. WordPress’ Gutenberg update is one of those things; it scrapped the WYSIWIG editor (Classic) for a shinier Gutenberg Block Editor. It’s new, sleek, and it also caused a lot of chaos among writers who preferred the good ole reliable WYSIWIG.
[Read more…]8 Best WordPress Membership Plugins
Building up a subscriber base is for your blog or website is easy until you actually get too many of them. As it turns out, winning their attention is only half the battle, the other half is keeping it, meaning taking care of your audience in pretty much all aspects, including security. For that, you’ll need help in the form of WordPress membership plugins.
[Read more…]8 WordPress Plugins for Better User Experience
There’s certain psychology involved in websites regarding user behavior. Apart from the fact that some people have a natural behavioral map for navigating online spaces, some of them are also strapped for time. So, really, it all boils down to their satisfaction or more specifically, their user experience or UX for short. To that end, if your website can have a better user experience, you can bet people will have more incentives to visit.
[Read more…]Top WordPress Plugins for Video
Editor’s note: Post updated in August 2019 to reflect new plugins.
Video has taken over the web, and according to TechCrunch, adults now spend nearly six hours per day watching videos on the internet. For those of us with easy access throughout the day to sites like YouTube, that number can grow exponentially. While, yes, you can easily embed some code into your blog post, there are many WordPress plugins for video. From helping you share self-hosted videos to displaying videos from YouTube or Vimeo in a beautiful way, there’s something for everyone.
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