How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)
Want to boost your conversion rates? That’s what hello bars are all about. Whether you want to add email subscribers, advertise special deals, drive traffic to a landing page, or make a site-wide...
View ArticleHow to Add User Ratings to Your WordPress Website
User ratings are everywhere. Every popular eCommerce site provides user ratings for its products. Question and answer sites like Quora and StackOverflow identify the best answers by relying on user...
View Article5 Excellent Ways to Hack the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme
Twenty Seventeen is one of the most versatile default themes WordPress has ever seen. However, the options built into the theme leave a few things to be desired. In this post, I’ll show you five hacks...
View ArticleHow to Set Up VersionPress for Git-Powered Version Control
One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to make sweeping changes to a website in just a few minutes. But with no easy way to revert a website to a previous state, you can lose a lot of...
View Article3 Easy Ways To Install WordPress From a USB Flash Drive
While some actions can be seen as nothing more than “silly WordPress dev tricks.” Installing and running a WordPress site from a USB flash drive isn’t one of them. And as you’ll soon discover, a...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Query for WordPress Development
Let’s say you want to do something unique with the way posts are queried and displayed on a particular page of your website. Maybe you want to have multiple queries — one for featured posts and one for...
View ArticleFree CSS Plugins for Live Editing Your WordPress Site
Fine-tuning how your WordPress site looks on the front-end is faster and easier – not to mention more satisfying – when you can see your changes live as you make them. And the best way to live edit CSS...
View Article8 Must-Do Steps for Securing and Hardening Your WordPress Website
Imagine with me for a moment that you’re a hacker looking for ways to hijack reputable websites and use them to funnel unsuspecting traffic to a nefarious phishing scam. How would you target websites...
View ArticleHow to Create Responsive Tables in WordPress
HTML tables, once commonly used for webpage layouts, are now a layout headache for many web designers. Tables often work best with fixed widths, which means they can wreak havoc on otherwise...
View Article5 Survey Tools for Creating Effective WordPress Polls
Figuring out what website visitors really want can be tough. After all, it’s not like you can just grab their attention and ask them for their thoughts, right? Well, actually, you can. Surveys are a...
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