As functional as it may be, your WordPress site’s sidebar is also one of the most important of the entire site. But if you were to be honest, chances are you haven’t really given a great deal of thought to your sidebar at all as of late…if ever. Sidebars serve a variety of helpful purposes … Read more
Whichever way you look at it, WordPress has put the power of professional website development and management in the hands of more newcomers than any CMS to date. But just because WordPress is (in a comparative sense at least) an extremely simplified approach to website design, this doesn’t mean it’s impossible to go wrong. Quite … Read more
Content management systems these days are…well, let’s not say ten a penny, but there’s certainly a ton of them to choose from. Nevertheless, even with hundreds of very capable rivals it almost always comes down to a choice between WordPress and Joomla – the world’s two favourite open-source CMSs. But when all’s said and done, … Read more
The fact that there are so many WordPress plugins available is both a blessing and a curse at the same time. You have a catalogue of no less than 30,000 to browse through and given the fact that they’re all somewhat ‘homemade’ and competing for the same attention, knowing which to side with can be … Read more
It’s easy enough to get a WordPress site together these days and to make the whole thing look pretty impressive top to bottom. However, it’s not until the site is starting to come together that you might say the real work begins – and by that we of course mean making sure folk get to … Read more
WordPress has for most of its life been considered nothing more than a simple-to-use blogging platform. Of course, the fact that it was launched as a blogging tool in the first place makes such a definition anything but surprising, but even to this day with so many powerful websites having been crafted with WordPress, it’s … Read more
When you’re on the market to pick out a new WordPress theme for any kind of site, you’ll find yourself presented with literally thousands of options which at first glance at least look the part. However, assuming it’s a free theme you’re after and thus one you really won’t be able to complain about afterward, … Read more
It’s pretty hard not to be in love with WordPress – the humble blogging platform that grew from a niche tool for the opinioned to the driving force behind millions of successful business ventures in no time at all. For the vast majority of everyday small business ventures, WordPress makes the perfect CMS choice above … Read more
Responsive design used to give your website an edge over the competition – these days it simply means you won’t be driven out of business in a heartbeat. There’s no way of getting away with non-responsive web design any more as with each day that passes, thousands more web users are primarily or exclusively accessing … Read more
Get it right with a WordPress site and you can hit the kinds of highs usually reserved only for big businesses and their ultra-complex websites. However, as WordPress is a CMS that’s primarily associated with amateur web designers and small businesses, it’s inevitable that certain mistakes will be continually made and hold back the efforts … Read more