Even if you have never heard of geolocation, I’m pretty sure you will have experienced it> especially if you live outside the US or have checked a US website while on holiday abroad. Geolocation is a system that detects your computers current location, either in a broad sense such as country or even down to […]
WordPress itself is a great time-saver: long gone are the days when you needed to write your content directly in HTML! That being said, there are still aspects of using a WordPress site to create content that could be speeded up and improved to help boost productivity. You can take advantage of numerous WordPress plugins […]
Images are pivotal to a good website – without them your site will be a wall of uninviting text. Finding great images for your site is relatively easy as there are many, many sites out there that supply paid for and “free” images. Often though you either don’t have the cash, the desire to spend […]
WordPress is an amazing platform, it provides tons of features and flexibility, and gets better all the time. One area that lacks though is the search functionality, it works but barely. You see it will find a word or a phrase but it doesn’t do it intelligently like Google’s search would. If you want to […]
Sometimes you need to make some minor changes to your WordPress theme but you really don’t want to dig into the CSS and HTML of the theme to make those changes. Since WordPress version 3.4, there has been an additional link in the Themes page, below the currently active theme. This Customize link takes you […]
The What Web designers and developers often recommend caching your website in order to improve its speed and performance, but what is caching exactly? Caching is the act of storing a full web page or elements of a web page for use later. Browsers tend to do this automatically for most types of websites. The […]
When it comes to writing on WordPress the one thing that I tend to find irritating is the post formatting. I’m not sure if you find this as well but it always seems to take me just as long to format it – to add in headers, bullet lists and so forth – as it […]
Figuring out how to install a WordPress plugin manually is one of the key learning steps any new WordPress user needs to learn. First off, what does a WordPress plugin do? A plugin is a modular piece of code that kind of slots into your site to add extra features, and it can be turned […]
Adding images in WordPress can really spice up your website, and add some visual flavour. Images can also help break up large blocks of text making reading your content easier, so lets go through how to add an image to a post or the sidebar Find and Upload The first thing you need to do […]
Widgets are a brilliant feature of WordPress. They allow you to add and remove content and features with just a few clicks. Learning how to use widgets in wordpress is really easy, but lets go over the process and discuss some of the widgets that are built into a standard WordPress installation. Finding Your Widgets In […]