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Beaver Builder vs. Elementor – Which is the Best WordPress Page Builder?
Page builders are incredibly popular tools among WordPress users. In fact, there are many fantastic page builders you can use to put WordPress sites together quickly. For some, it can be hard to decide between all the available options. A lot of page builders share a similar approach, but they all offer different user experiences. …
Will Morris
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How to use Image Optimization to Improve your Site Speed
Images are a great way to make your site more attractive, and can offer depth and context to both your design and content. However, hosting images on your site can have a massive impact on its performance. Forgoing image compression can greatly affect your site’s load times and bandwidth usage, which may lead to increased …
Will Morris
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Guide: What are WordPress User Roles And Capabilities, and How Can you Use Them?
If you’re building a WordPress site for clients, or any type of site that’s going to have multiple users (or both!), you need a foolproof way to control the exact permissions that each user has at the site. For example, you probably don’t want to give a regular user access to install plugins, and I …
Colin Newcomer
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3 Tips for Getting Meaningful Content from Your Clients
The process of gathering content from clients is a bottleneck for almost every web agency. Relentlessly reminding clients and digging through email trails of piecemeal content can be infuriating. It delays payments and in extreme cases destroys profitability by wasting so much time. And you’ve probably got better things to do than chase content. Countless …
James Rose
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How to Protect and Customize Your WordPress Login Page
Keeping your WordPress site safe is vital, and your efforts should begin with your login page. This is one of the most vulnerable parts of your site, after all, since malicious users and bots can attempt to brute force their way in. Improving the security of this page will go a long way towards keeping …
Will Morris
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How to Protect Your WordPress Site Against Malware in 4 Steps
Malware (or ‘malicious software’) is a term that actually encompasses a broad collection of harmful or disruptive programs. These nuisances have been around for longer than the internet itself, and protecting your website against them remains a top priority. In order to keep your site safe, you’ll first need to know what you’re up against. …
Will Morris
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How to Translate WordPress With a Multilanguage WordPress Plugin
Whether you’re an agency working with clients or a solo webmaster working on your own site, you’re probably always on the lookout for ways to improve. And if you can do that with minimal work and maintenance, that’s all the better, right? For a lot of sites, going multilingual offers improvements from both a marketing …
Emily Hunkler
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How To Fix Error Establishing A Database Connection In WordPress
Did you just try to access your WordPress site only to be hit by a nasty message that reads “error establishing a database connection”? You know – the one that looks something like this: It’s definitely a frustrating error because it seems like your site has disappeared. But here’s the good news: Your site’s existing …
Colin Newcomer
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4 Tips for Improving Your Website’s Call To Action
Improving conversions online is all about increasing clicks. When you’re creating a conversion funnel for your site, you’re really creating a road map you want your visitors to follow. However, creating links and buttons is useless if your users aren’t persuaded to click on them. This article will provide plenty of call to action examples, …
Will Morris
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