Have You Created A WordPress Frankenstein Site That Breaks All The Time?
Is your WordPress site moody and unpredictable? It might be a Frankenstein build. Here’s how these monster sites happen—and what to do about it.
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How to Choose the Best WordPress Theme in 2025: A Smart Guide (No Developer Needed)
Choosing a WordPress theme that’s right for you can feel overwhelming. This guide tries to make it simpler – and point you in a direction that will not box you in or have you reliant on developers. Based on over 20 years of experience.
Why Wordpress? Why Not Wix, Weebly or Squarespace?
Heard you should be using Wordpress? Here’s why it is better than Wix, Weebly and Squarespace. And how you can make Wordpress just as simple to use.
How To Automatically Import Posts From Multiple Sources Into One Site
I created a “hub” site which I wanted to automatically list content from my other sites. Here’s how I built it using “off the shelf” plugins.
How To Show Your Site Analytics Inside WordPress (Without Big Tech)
Here’s how to get your site analytics in the WordPress admin panel using an alternative to Google Analytics.
Blog Content Strategy: How To Structure Your Entire Blog (So It Will Actually Work)
This guide will show you how to plan a blog content strategy that will serve you into the future by providing a structure and global plan for your entire blog.
Blog Bounce Rate: What Is It And How Do You Reduce Your Bounce Rate?
The bounce rate can often be a matter of concern for a lot of site owners. Is your’s too high? What is a normal bounce rate? What can you do about it?
Ultimate Guide To Blog Comments: Best Practices For Handling Comments On Your Blog In The Modern Era
Do blog comments positively affect your traffic? Are they worth having at all? And, if you do enable comments, what are the best practices?
The Challenge Of Converting From A Page Builder To Gutenberg Blocks For Your Whole Site
I recently finished converting my site from a page builder (Elementor) to Gutenberg blocks. Here’s how it went… and the results.
Page Builders Vs Gutenberg Blocks: Why I’m Switching Away From BuddyBoss To Kadence Theme
Which is better: Page builders or Gutenberg blocks? After a lot of hesitation, I’ve made my conclusion. And here’s why I’m about to make a theme switch…
How To Organize Your WordPress Media Library Into Folders
A simple plugin that will enable you to organize your media library into folders, just like your computer. Nice!
How To Separate Your Email From Your Web Hosting (For Best Web Hosting)
Many high-performance web hosts (like Cloudways) don’t include email inbox hosting. Here’s how to separate your email from your hosting, so you can get the best hosting for both.
4 Core Principles For Choosing Software and Plug-ins For Your Site
22 years of experience in using different software and plug-ins for my business resulted in these 4 important lessons. Perhaps they will save you some time.
Is Your Website Annoying To Your Visitors?
So many websites in 2022 are highly annoying to visit due to all the popups, cookie notices and more. Is your site one of them?
How To Clean A Bloated WordPress Media Library
5 rules for how to properly manage your Wordpress Media Library… and some tools I used to shrink a 5GB library by about 45%!
The Most Powerful Membership Site Plugin For Wordpress That Often Gets Overlooked
In my opinion, the most powerful membership site plugin isn’t really even a membership site plugin. See what I mean…
How Many Wordpress Plugins Are Too Many? Surprising Answer…
Is there a max number of active Wordpress plugins you should try to stay under? Here’s the truth… and how to run more plugins without affecting site performance.
BuddyBoss Blog Layout: How To Easily Create Custom Blog Post Templates
The BuddyBoss blog layout is quite simplistic. Here’s how to use Elementor to visually design your own custom blog post template to use with BuddyBoss.
Wordpress Document Library: How To Cleanly Embed PDF Files And Create A PDF Library
Here’s how to cleanly and simply display full PDF files and create your own Wordpress document library. Great for Wordpress membership sites.
Big Update To My Membership Site – What I Did And Why
I recently reworked my Wordpress-based membership site yet again. Here’s the behind-the-scenes look at what was done and why.
Wordpress Security Plugins: Is It Really Necessary To Use Security, Malware, Or Spam Plugins?
I’ve seen many cases where Wordpress security plugins cause conflicts, site slowness, server errors. So, is it even necessary to run a security plugin?
Cloudways Migration Tutorial: How To Migrate Your Sites To Cloudways Hosting (Step-by-Step)
A walkthrough on how to migrate your sites to Cloudways web hosting. Including managing your domain and moving your email (if necessary).
Presto Player Review: Could This Be The Video Player You Always Wanted For Sales Videos And Online Courses?
Taking a look at Presto Player, a video player plug-in for Wordpress that can be used for online courses, marketing videos and more. And save you some money over the third-party services.
Building Your Online Business Platform: Taking Payments On Your WordPress Site Versus Third-Party Platforms
When you want to accept payments, is it best to use a third-party platform or build your own with Wordpress? Let’s compare… and look at some software combos that might work for you.