Optimizing the WordPress loading time is a must for every website owner, as the loading time massively impacts the perceived quality of your website. This guide will give you a starting point in optimizing your website to get your loading time below two seconds – ideally below one second. I’ve structured it into four different […]
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How to analyze the loading time of your site
You might have noticed that I shifted my business entirely to loading speed optimization services. I’m not building any more websites. In this email, I want to explain which tools we use for analyzing our clients’ loading speed and what metrics we pay attention to. Hint: it’s not necessarily Google Pagespeed Insights. Caspar Hübinger, an […]
A reading progress bar and post share bar for WordPress
Adding a reading progress bar to WordPress enhances the user experience for your readers. You can get more social shares with it, too. To me, these bars are a great way to enhance the usability of your website. They give your readers an idea of how far they’ve got to scroll to read your entire […]
How to build a searchable image archive on WordPress
Recently I’ve been working on a project to build a searchable image archive with WordPress. A client of mine has 1,500+ historic image files he wants to manage in a searchable archive on his community website. And I was given the task to build that search function in a way, that the website visitor can […]
18 Pro Tips On Monetizing WordPress
Brian Gardner – briangardner.com / @bgardner Brian is the founder of StudioPress, the company that created Genesis – one my favorite WP themes ever. Besides designing stunning themes, he writes about reducing clutter from our lives and about living purposefully. There are a number of ways to make money through WordPress, and the good thing […]
3 Things To Avoid When Building A Website From Scratch
When you’re building a website from scratch, there are many mistakes to me made. Let me go through three of the most important things you need to know to successfully build your website from scratch. I learned all of these lessons the hard way, in my past 24 months of creating WordPress sites for entrepreneurs […]