WordPress help blog
If you have a website chances are you are interested in getting as much free traffic from Google as you can. That’s where WordPress SEO or Search Engine Optimisation comes in. It’s a complex topic, but like anything there are some major low hanging fruit ideas you can implement to put you ahead of most people.
Having been in the WordPress space for 15 years I’ve seen my fair share of WordPress problems. In this post I’ll run through a few common ones, a general approach to fixing them and some tips on avoiding them. There are a number of common WordPress errors that users may encounter. Here are a few of the most common: How …
We’ve all been there, the website has crashed and you’re freaking out! Take a deep breath and read on. First off check your internet connection is OK by either going to a big popular site that is unlikely to be down (like Google), or just by doing an internet speed test. Often sites appear down due to temporary issues with …
I’ve written quite a bit on this blog about the importance of keeping WordPress up to date. But one specific question that comes up often is how often you should run WordPress updates. The answer to this is pretty simple – you should update it as often as you can. As part of our service we log into our customer’s …
I better start with some honesty here, I can’t directly answer this question in a blog post. You could have one WordPress website that costs nothing, and another that costs hundreds of thousands. That said, I can provide some context as to why things cost what they do, and lay out some options for you if you wanted to save …
I’ve mentioned on this blog many times before that fast load times are critical for a WordPress website. It’s a bad user experience to have a slow website, it reflects poorly on your brand, bounce rate goes up, engagement, conversion and sales go down. Plus Google is obsessed with speed, so the faster the site the better the Google rankings. …
In the 16 years I’ve been working with WordPress websites I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff. One thing I see regularly and to this day is unnecessary files clogging up and slowing down websites. A lot of the time people who administer or own websites don’t see the back-end files. But developers do so you end up knowing what …
In a recent post I ran through 5 plugins I’d install on almost every WordPress site, and I included a drag and drop page builder in the list. Drag and drop page builders are one of the biggest advancements in WordPress over the last few years. The launch of the Gutenberd editor in 2018 was a step in the right …
WordPress has been the dominant website CMS platform now for many years, but one area where competitors have gained serious traction is with online stores. In the early days of WordPress, the platform was primarily known as a popular content management system (CMS) for creating blogs and websites. While it had some ecommerce capabilities through plugins and themes, it was …
When I launched my first WordPress support business WP Curve in 2013, it was the first of its kind in the world. We offered unlimited small jobs for a low monthly fee and we operated world wide 24 / 7 from day 1. Having been out of the game for so many years and now back in it, the changes …
