Are you struggling with how to add a navigation menu to WordPress? WordPress actually includes a fairly user friendly interface to help you add menus to WordPress without needing to know any code. But unless you’re already familiar with WordPress, it can still be difficult to dive in and create your first menu. In this post, I’ll show you everything…. Continue Reading
WooCommerce Tutorial: Everything You Need To Launch A Store
Are you looking to create an eCommerce store with WooCommerce? If so, you’re making a great decision! But you might need help getting started with the nitty-gritty details of actually installing and configuring a working WooCommerce store. If that sounds like you – then you’re the perfect person to be reading this WooCommerce tutorial. I’ll cover everything that you need…. Continue Reading
Beginner’s Guide: How to Add 301 Redirects to WordPress
Struggling with how to add 301 redirects to WordPress? These nifty redirects are an SEO friendly approach that let you re-route traffic to your site in a number of helpful ways. But they’re also confusing for many casual WordPress users. So, to help you out, I’m going to use this post to dig into 301 redirects as they apply to…. Continue Reading
Make Review: A Clean, Enjoyable WordPress Builder Theme
Make is a freemium WordPress theme that brands itself as “your friendly small business site builder.” Essentially, it aims to be a full-service website builder that lets you create a quality business website on WordPress without needing to know how to code. After personally using Make in the past and then revisiting it for this review, I remain a huge…. Continue Reading
Modula Review: A Stylish, User Friendly Photo Gallery Plugin
When it comes to WordPress photo gallery plugins, you have a ton of different options. Because of that, I’d like to apologize… Why? Because I’m about to introduce another photo gallery player into the mix. Modula is freemium photo gallery plugin from developer Macho Themes. It helps you quickly create stylish grid galleries from your images, as well as offering…. Continue Reading
9 WordPress Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Site Running Smoothly
Remember that “new car smell” of your WordPress site? Back when everything was fresh, uncluttered, and totally up to date? Yeah, that lasts a few months. Then, the reality of oil changes and flat tires starts sinking in. Just like you maintain your primary means of transportation, you similarly need to maintain your WordPress site if you want to keep…. Continue Reading
Oxygen Review: A WYSIWYG Visual Website Builder for WordPress
With the slow collapse of Headway Themes, there’s been somewhat of a void in the WordPress visual website builder space. By visual website builder – I mean a tool that helps you build your entire WordPress site – header, footer, content…everything. Thankfully, we’re due for a breath of fresh air from Oxygen, a new’ish WYSIWYG WordPress website builder from Soflyy,…. Continue Reading
How to Add Font Awesome Icons to WordPress Manually or With Plugins
Ever see those nifty icons on other people’s WordPress sites? The ones that grab your attention and give you added context for what you’re looking at. Pencils, hamburger icons, those sorts of things… You know, the graphics that look something like this? If you haven’t been living in a cave, I’m willing to bet that you’re nodding your head right now….. Continue Reading
Pixel Caffeine Review – Easily Add Facebook Pixel to WordPress + More
If you’ve ever visited a website only to immediately start seeing that site’s ads on Facebook, you’ve probably wondered how that site manages to target you so accurately. Don’t worry – they aren’t tracking you through some grand NSA conspiracy. Rather, they’re using something called Facebook Pixel to track your movements on their site (and then retarget you later on)….. Continue Reading
How to Quickly Reset WordPress Back to Its Default State
If you’re like most WordPress users, you spend quite a bit of your time trying to keep your site functioning well. In fact, you probably spend your days trying not to reset WordPress. Because if you’re happy with your site, resetting it would be disastrous! This post is not for those times. This post is for when you want to…. Continue Reading