Category: WordPress
Get These Valuable Benefits of WordPress: Backups, Portability, Redesign
Many businesses miss important benefits of WordPress: sites can be backed up and moved. We regularly take over WordPress sites. Too often, the site owners don’t have a backup and…
Blog Categories and Tags are Editorial Decisions, Not Technical
In This Article Introduction In WordPress, categories and tags are mostly editorial decisions. Technical factors are relevant, but it’s mostly about how you want to organize your content. Here I…
Fixing Links in WordPress and Seriously Simple Podcasting
We recently published a WordPress website with a blog and podcast imported from Square. We used the plugin Seriously Simple Podcasting, which works really well. Once imported, all the podcast episodes worked…
WordPress and Yoast SEO Data Optimization: Fix for 403, Cookie Check Failed
We discovered this solution to a WordPress/Yoast SEO problem, but we didn’t find the solution online, so we’re publishing it here. Maybe we can help others. This is not necessarily…
The Block Editor Is a Better Way to Build WordPress Sites. Use It.
Starting in 2018, WordPress began a transition to improved tech for theme/site design and content editing. At the code level, it’s a much better way to manage development. That translates…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, Notes and Explanations
Here are my notes and explanations of my Principles of Implementing WordPress. (See the original blog post.) The result is useful and to the point, and a bit tech-oriented boring.…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, The Mind Map
WordPress is often implemented in a bad way, and site owners don’t know it. A bit of education can help resolve that, so I created a set of guidelines for…
Website SEO Checkup: Headlines
Here’s how to check headlines on your website. It’s something you can do during quarantine downtime Why is this important? Headlines are very important to accessibility, and they play a…
Test Your WordPress Contact Forms
You better check your website contact forms. A significant change in the popular WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 (CF7) could break your contact forms if you’re using reCaptcha. A recent…
Top Three Tips for On-Page SEO
Site content is important to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and these three content tips will help Google and other search engines put you near the top. Appropriate Content When your…
Content Management, A Valuable, Underused Feature of WordPress
We manage numerous sites using WordPress software, and one feature that’s underused is content management. It is a tool to handle the publishing of information on your site…text, pictures, video.…