Every WordPress admin menu is looking the same after the installation. That might be a good thing if you work on different sites powered by our beloved WordPress, but if you’re creating a blog for a client, you might want to modify the admin menu to achieve a unique look. Although there aren’t that many options on […] Read the full story
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It’s been a long time since images were something too big to load over the Internet. Today, websites can’t exist without them. Even though Internet speeds have dramatically increased over the years, it’s vital that you take care of pictures on your blog. Just because it’s easy to upload images to your site, that doesn’t […] Read the full story
By default, WordPress speaks English and that’s the language you can expect on every backend page of your system. Since WordPress has become one of the most popular CMS in the world, it is normal to expect the platform to be translated into additional languages. And it is. If you want to install WordPress and […] Read the full story
Before we actually show you how to create your own custom post type which you’ll be proudly using on your new WordPress powered blog, let’s see what a custom post type actually is. A post type is simply a set of rules which are used to describe the way content is presented in your article. […] Read the full story
An excerpt is a post summary that is being used to describe your article in a few short sentences. Those descriptions are a great way of letting your visitors see what’s the post about and decide if they’re interested in reading the rest of it before clicking the button. Also, it is an excellent tool […] Read the full story
OK, so you have decided it is finally time to create your own blog. You already know that starting one up is not rocket science, and you have probably heard of various blogging platforms that are worth researching. But if you haven’t spent some time with each software package before, choosing the right one for […] Read the full story
It is easy to decide that you want to make a blog. You probably already have some ideas about what to write and how everything should look like. Maybe you know a thing or two about blogging, marketing, and website building, but if you haven’t worked on your own site, the chances are that you […] Read the full story
Choosing a simple blogging platform may not be that hard. If you are not interested in building complex web projects, there are great tools that will let you blog without having to worry about technicalities. In that case, we suggest that you take a look at the differences between WordPress and WordPress.com and also see […] Read the full story
Choosing a blogging platform might not be as hard as choosing the entire content management system that allows you to do more complex web projects. Both Joomla and WordPress have some extended functionality but let’s look into how they compare against one another. Here are the features we will compare: Casual bloggers who don’t ask […] Read the full story
Before creating accounts or downloading files, you will probably get all excited about building a website. That’s good, welcome on board! But if you don’t have previous experience with web building systems, it is time for some extra research – which one should you choose as your starting point? As you might already know, WordPress […] Read the full story
Without a doubt, WordPress is the most popular web building platform in the world. But as you probably already know, it is not the only one. Various other platforms offer powerful blogging tools as well, and some of them are quite good competitors. And just like with anything else in life, there are pros and […] Read the full story
WordPress should be simple. That is one of the reasons why our beloved CMS is so popular in the first place. But is it so straightforward as it seems? When talking about installing WordPress, publishing first posts, and managing photos, things are really quite simple. Even complete beginners will agree that getting around WordPress doesn’t […] Read the full story
While you were writing your previous article, you might have scrolled over the Custom Fields area in the post editor. This simple, yet so powerful WordPress feature, might go unnoticed by beginners but it’s actually a feature which can undoubtedly transform your simple and plain website into a dynamic portal which will attract new visitors. […] Read the full story
Images are vital components of every website. Before you start questioning the importance of images, just try to imagine your favorite blog or website without one. Would you be as much interested in reading about technology, cars, food, or fashion and makeup if the website contained no images? When the first websites went online, images […] Read the full story
Although today WordPress is a powerful and versatile content management system that’s capable of practically anything, it’s still mostly used as a blogging platform. Even if a blog is just a part of your website, you will have to have at least one author that will write new content. But the chance is, you will […] Read the full story
Almost every website that you find on the Internet will have a copyright notice which gives basic information about the site. Even though the law has changed and placing a copyright symbol won’t actually protect your work, there is an unwritten rule for web designers to put a notice in the footer of the website […] Read the full story
Whether it is a blog, a simple personal website, or a business portfolio that you are building with WordPress, you are doing it for a reason. You want people to be able to get to the content that you have presented online. Without the audience, your web project doesn’t serve its purpose. So one way […] Read the full story
A one-page website is a site with just one page which the user can scroll through. A lot of one-page websites still have a primary menu. People can click on the menu items, but instead of going to another page, they go to another section on the same page. We already showed you how to […] Read the full story
WordPress is versatile. By choosing different WordPress themes, installing plugins and manually fiddling with code and templates, you can develop any type of website that you want. The style of the homepage depends solely on the theme and your wishes. But even though it has been years after WordPress evolved into much more than a […] Read the full story
With more than 3+ million active installations, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular plugins for the WordPress blogging platform. There are more than 150,000 new downloads each day, and it doesn’t surprise that this free plugin is one of the first choices for new bloggers. Even if you are just starting out with […] Read the full story