For the WordPress newbie, .htaccess may be a new or unknown. But, let me tell you, it is a heart of the server. The .htaccess file is a powerful configuration file to control the Web Server of the website. This file centralises the security of all directories and sub-directories. Thus, it is used to secure the file from the hackers and different vulnerabilities. The popular use of .htaccess includes authorization, blocking, MIME types, set Charset, page redirect, and others.

So, we’re going to reveal the crucial .htaccess snippets for WordPress sites in this article. Read more…

Pagination (Page Navigation) is a very important tool to enhance the readability of your WordPress blog. It enables your visitors to navigate through your older entries easily and increase the SEO of your site by providing more links to your content. As you know, the default WordPress pagination only limited to “previous” and “next” links, it would be great if you can display a better looking and more user-friendly pagination.

Below are 12 excellent WordPress pagination plugins for you to consider. Read more…

We all know that we can make changes to a WordPress website by exhausting some good web development skills to improve the aesthetics of the website and optimize the visitor journeys to improve the conversions. But what should you do if your business is not receiving the anticipated number of phone calls, emails or orders? What wrong are we doing by creating a fancy new website with a blog, while the previous simple website had been bringing in more conversions than the new one? Let’s read on!

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Believe it or not, quite a few doctors actually strive to go online with their business every year. Many hospitals and clinics already have working websites that have an online booking system to help patients in booking appointments with their physicians at convenient times. But a website is much more than a simple online portal. It is the online persona of a physical business that needs to be as professional and sophisticated as the original one.

Online websites can be of a wide variety and can serve thousands of purposes. So it is important that you find one that has all the qualities you are looking for. You can start by simply choosing one WordPress template from our list of medical templates tailor-made for dentists and other medical professionals. Read more…

Undoubtedly, User Experience plays a vital role in deciding the success of any website. While the benefits of an attractive web design with excellent and relevant contents are well-known, other key aspects like loading speed and hindrance-free navigation are not to be overlooked.

Use of Pop-ups remains a debatable topic in the web developers’ community. While the pioneers of the industry agree that pop-ups degrade the user experience largely, businesses still cannot refrain themselves from using few of them in their websites. Why? The answer to this is obvious. Pop-ups are a great way to drive more traffic, create larger brand awareness and most importantly make money. So, we have not seen much businesses compromising on this front till now. Read more…

What sense will it make to have an outstanding portfolio and a beautiful theme which is not search engine optimized? Yahoo, bing, and Google could be care less about your web design and pretty photos. They usually care about keywords, file names, tags and thousands of other extremely boring tech oriented things. But understanding of these “boring tech things” could really help you in achieving business success. Misunderstanding them could really put your business down.

Search engine optimization – SEO can help in improving quality as well as volume of traffic to your web site with the help of search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Google etc. through the unpaid or natural search results on these search engines. Read more…

Facebook have more than 1 billion active users and it is one of the most important social sites to build your online presence. How can you take advantage of this to increase your website traffic and have more engagement with your readership?

Some of these plug-in allow you to display text, images, videos, events and more from your Facebook in your WordPress website! Impressive isn’t it? And another one will auto publish your posts on Facebook as soon as they are published on your website. Read more…

If you run a WordPress website, you’d probably know the limitation of the basic search functionality it comes with. Visitors not always find it easy to locate a particular thing on a website that has hundreds and thousands of articles. Therefore, it is always a bright idea to provide them a powerful search feature that allows them to find what they are looking for. Fortunately, WordPress has millions of plugins available to help you integrate advanced search functionality.

Here is the list of 20 WordPress plugins to enhance the search function of your WP site: Read more…

WordPress themes are a plenty, finding the right theme for your website is possible in no time. One problem with these themes, however, is that a theme may not contain all the functions and features that you need for your site. Good thing, we can customize WordPress themes so we can add other important features on our site. The question is – to what extent of customization is allowed developers to perform?

Here’s a list of the theme customization do’s and don’ts. Read more…

Category and tags are the two most talked about topics among WordPress users when it comes to optimizing posts for better performance. The benefits of maintaining a well collected category and tagging system can effectively help in the better performance of blogs as well as posts within WordPress category.

At one hand, where users are provided improved and well-constructed navigation facilities, these elements also count for increased web traffic. Thus, if you are interested in improving the traffic towards your website, read on more to find out the well-proven strategy with the use of categories as well tags. Read more…

WordPress was basically sprung up as a blogging platform, but it was soon being started to use for building robust and easily manageable e-commerce websites. The efficient plug-in architecture of WordPress makes it possible for any business owners to convert their ordinary website into a fully functional virtual store.

A lot many people have WordPress websites and blog these days, and if you are planning to turn it into an e-commerce website, you might get baffled which e-commerce plug-in suits best your needs. Therefore, to help you choose the perfect e-commerce plug-in for your website, we have prepared a list of top 5 free and best WordPress e-commerce plug-ins. These plug-ins are totally free, and are superb for creating any type of rich WordPress shopping website. Read more…

WordPress is enriched with some arguably important features that are either widely misunderstood or completely ignored by developers who’re engaged in handling multiple WordPress development projects. Whether it’s about mediocre WordPress development or professional WordPress development, a detailed know-how about the customized administration filters is something that will help you in implementing your projects with a broader outlook.

Simply put, the basic reason behind using bespoke admin filters is to allow you to avail the amazing flexibility of extending, customizing and enhancing your WordPress web development efforts via the use of specific APIs. So, let’s get started and learn everything about these customized WordPress Administration filters that offer the much-needed spark to your WordPress web development initiatives. Read more…

In the recent years, more and more people browsing web through their mobile devices instead of desktop computers. So if you are really serious about running a website successfully, ‘mobile web design’ is the trend that you can’t afford to miss. Comparing to conventional web design developed for desktop’s web browser, mobile optimized websites significantly reduce page load time and give great browsing experience to mobile device users.

If your website or blog is powered by WordPress and you would like it to go mobile, then you can check out our previous post that recommends some WordPress mobile plugins for you to create mobile version website in minutes. Read more…

Blogging and commenting go hand in hand. Irrespective of how informative your blog is, if it hasn’t received any comments, it’s actually lagging behind. Most of you (here, I’m referring to bloggers and website owners) would agree that comments play a significant role in helping a blogging site grow. And that’s not all, greater the number of comments, the greater would be count of readers visiting your site. Having said a lot about the pros of commenting, it is worth noting that the concept has also witnessed some unimaginable consequences for websites.

There are online entrepreneurs who’ve faced some really bothering issues in relation to comments posted for their corporate blogs. It is under such situations that a little comment tweaking can work as a magic wand. Dedicated to all WordPress users, this blog throws light on some time-tested comment tweaks which have saved websites from the harsh after-maths of spam commenting/mismanaged commenting systems. Read more…

It’s never an easy task when it comes to moving a WordPress blog to a new web host. There are plenty of reasons for changing a new web host. May be you’re unsatisfied with your current host provider’s features and supports. May be you found cheaper offers elsewhere or perhaps you simply need faster and more reliable web host to cope with your increasing web traffic. Regardless of any reason, many considerations need to be taken when you want to migrate your site from one web host to another otherwise the process could be frustrating.

To help insure a smooth moving process and to avoid unnecessary mistakes, below we’ve shared some valuable tips and advice. By reading through the blog post, we believe you can smoothly switch the web host without your visitors’ notice. Read more…