Driving traffic to a new website is not an easy task, especially for newbies. If you are stumped at where to begin in order to capture audience for your site, here is a systematic list of short-term and long-term strategies that can get you started. Go through them and [...]

This is the first part of a tutorial series on modifying the login experience on a WordPress site. While traditionally, only the admin had access to the login area of the site, various types of websites now find it necessary for their users to be able to have accounts. [...]

Many events and functions, that too, of international reputation, have increasingly been hosting their sites on WordPress. But it doesn't stop there. Many of them now sell the tickets for those events through their sites. So, what makes such ticket selling sites tick? Learn more about the plugins behind [...]

From its humble beginnings, WordPress has come such a long way in the past twelve years that Matt Mullenweg's goal of 50% market share doesn't look that far fetched. This article curates the history of this enormously successful content management platform. To read the full article, click on this [...]

There are many plugins out there for backing up WordPress sites. But which are the best among them? This post gives the answers from the horses' mouths. 21 professional bloggers and developers share with us their favourite backup services. To read the full article, click on this link: https://proplugindirectory.com/best-backup-wordpress-plugins/

WP Video Robot is a premium WordPress plugin that searches through your listed sources for video content and posts it to your website automatically. It is highly useful whether you are creating a video website to curate your favourite videos or adding relevant video content to your site. The [...]

Creating custom content is of prime importance for your site to stay relevant to your audience. But if the coding aspect is stopping you from custom content types, worry no more. CustomPress is the plugin made just for you. Learn how to use it from this post. To read [...]

If you have noticed your site becoming more and more sluggish, it could very well be due to an overflowing database. Cleaning it up and getting rid of all the unnecessary tables that have accumulated over time will bring back the spring to your site. Follow the tips here [...]

Once your WordPress site grows big, the maximum upload size becomes very limiting, especially if your site needs to hold a lot of media. The PHP memory also has the same issue. Get to know some effective methods to overcome these size limitations on your server. To read the [...]

A lag in your website to load a page could be all it takes for a visitor to turn back. Hence it is important to assure that your site loads as fast as possible and caching is of great help here. The 3 best caching plugins available are compared [...]

Ghost is one of the leading platform  among the new breed of WordPress competitors focusing primarily on blogging, reasoning that Wordpress has become a general purpose and pretty complicated CMS. Is WordPress at peril and is Ghost any better? Here is a thorough review and the takeaway for WordPress [...]

Though testimonials are said to be the ultimate sales pitch that you can get, case studies go even a step further. These seemingly technical write-ups about your previous projects provide first-hand impression and expectation for potential customers. The article discusses in depth on generating case studies and adding them [...]

As a WordPress user, if you're like me, you're always looking for new analytics to see how your site is performing. I just got this email from WPEngine -- one of the best WordPress hosting companies out there -- about their new SpeedTest tool. It's pretty awesome.  It gives [...]

Here is a great infographic from our hosting partner, WPEngine.  It shows how important it is to have a fast website. We offer WPEngine hosting plans that are better, and less expensive, than if you went to them directly.  Our large-scale plan is working on a dedicated environment (as [...]

Check out this awesome infographic powered by WP Engine, our hosting partner, that puts spotlight on some of the hottest music festivals in the US and UK using WordPress. The GeoIP feature helps you  to present different versions of the same infographic to visitors based on their location. To [...]

When we first started creating websites for small business owners, primarily jewelers, we were recommending that they go with GoDaddy’s shared hosting services, as the price was right (about $8/month).  For the size websites we were creating and the amount of traffic that was going to the sites, it [...]