Will Morris

5 Ways to Reduce Your Site’s Loading Time Now

There are a lot of tasks involved in running a successful website. You need to come up with a design people like, create engaging content, communicate with your audience, and more. However, one aspect a lot of people tend to overlook is the need to keep your site fast. Fortunately, you don’t need to ‘dumb ...

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February 4, 2019

5 WordPress Errors That Can Derail Your Day (And How to Fix Them)

While WordPress is a generally solid platform, and should rarely throw any serious errors your way, issues can still arise. Some of these errors may take even the most experienced user by surprise. If you’re reading this post, you’re probably one of the unlucky few to experience one of them. When an error occurs and ...

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November 13, 2018

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4 Top Translation Plugins for WordPress

Thanks to the internet, the world is now smaller than ever. People from all over the globe are communicating directly, using hundreds of different languages. However, a majority of sites only offer English content, despite the fact that billions of users have another native language. The good news is that even if you’re only versed ...

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November 8, 2018

How to Create a ‘Coming Soon’ Page for Your WordPress Site

As a business owner, you can’t afford to have visitors see a generic ‘under construction’ page or an error page on your website. This devalues your brand and can lose you potential customers. If your WordPress website isn’t ready for public viewing, whether the site hasn’t been built yet or is still under development, creating ...

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October 23, 2018

5 Common WordPress Errors (And How to Fix Them)

Encountering any type of error on your site is never a fun experience, especially if you’re not sure how to fix the underlying problem. While WordPress is usually relatively free from errors, when one does occur it can sometimes be frustratingly difficult to interpret. Fortunately, most common WordPress errors can be addressed by almost anyone, ...

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October 11, 2018

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What Is ‘Readability’ (And 7 Ways You Can Improve It in Your Content)?

Writing high-quality text isn’t just a matter of combining well-researched facts and insightful commentary. In fact, many people make the mistake of overlooking a very simple aspect of good writing: your text must be easy to read. Put simply, if readers find your text difficult to understand or follow, all your hard work could be ...

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October 4, 2018

The Beginner’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing in WordPress

If you’re reading this, how to affiliate market or how to be an affiliate marketer is probably one of those techniques you’ve heard of but haven’t explored. After all, it’s difficult to know where to start. What is an affiliate marketer anyway? How do you find all those people to make referrals, promote your products, ...

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August 16, 2018

How to Run a Crowdfunding Project with WordPress

Crowdfunding is an excellent way to generate funds for a project, since it enables you to speak directly to your intended audience of would-be customers. It’s also easier than ever, thanks to dedicated sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. However, these external sites take a share of your generated income, and require you to adhere to their ...

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August 14, 2018

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How to Start Developing for WordPress (In 3 Ways)

WordPress is built on the work of thousands of volunteers. In fact, literally anybody can contribute to the platform. This openness offers a perfect opportunity for eager developers to join in and help shape the future of WordPress. What’s more, getting started with WordPress development is surprisingly easy, and there are tasks available to those ...

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July 18, 2018

The WordPress Newbie’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Implementing a strong Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy can help improve the amount of traffic to your site, and positively affect both your brand awareness and conversion rates. This article will look at WordPress SEO and why it's important. We’ll also show you how to implement it on your own site!

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May 14, 2018

4 Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible (And Why You Should)

If you have even a moderately successful site, you’ll be visited by all kinds of people every day. However, you may have inadvertently alienated a large portion of your potential audience, by designing your site in a way that makes it difficult (or even impossible) for them use it. Accessibility is an often overlooked but ...

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April 24, 2018

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Caching

Speed matters on the internet. Every second counts for your visitors, so you can’t afford to present them with a sluggish site. If you don’t want to risk driving people away and increasing your bounce rate, you need to make sure that your site loads quickly every time. One smart way to speed up your ...

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March 26, 2018