WordPress is currently the world’s most popular content management system (CMS), a fancy say of saying it’s a platform for building websites. If you have a blog on your WordPress site, you can label the posts with different categories and tags. These are ways to sort the articles into taxonomies, so people can find more […]
Do WordPress Tags Help SEO?
Add CSS Class To Single Post Based on Category In WordPress
Published September 30th, 2016
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Here’s how to add a CSS class to the body tag of a single post or post type, based on the post category, in WordPress. Why would you want to do this? Maybe you want to add custom CSS styles to single posts in specific categories, but you don’t want to create a custom template […]
Why You Should Invest In Web Design Retainers
The basis of all great service work is good relationships. Think about your personal life. When you hire somebody like a car mechanic, accountant, or plumber, and you find someone that delivers great work, you keep going back to them. In some cases, you might even keep them on a retainer, like with a lawyer, […]
Get the URL of a Featured Image in WordPress
Sometimes it is useful to get the URL of a Featured Image in WordPress, instead of just outputting the image itself as HTML. When would you use this? If you need to get the URL in order to use it for a background image, as in a header at the top of the page, for […]
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Best Managed WordPress Hosting Companies
Managed WordPress hosting has become a hot product over the last few years. The advantages of good hosting are that your site will load faster, making your customers happy, and helping you rank higher in search engines. Many businesses start out with $10/month shared hosting, which generally sucks. Cheap shared hosting makes money for the […]
Integrating Google AMP and WordPress
In October of 2015, Google debuted a new project called AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages. The project is open-source, with other companies like Adobe, Twitter, Vox Media, BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times also contributing to this project. So what is AMP? And why does it exist? For the last few years, web […]
The Truth About Slow Web Pages
Here’s a truth about slow websites that business owners don’t want to hear. Page speed directly affects how well your website supports your business objectives. There are two critical ways that slow web pages impact your business. First, page speed affect whether your potential customers become actual customers or not. A 2010 study by Gomez.com […]
Add A HTML Sitemap To Your WordPress Site
Most of you reading this already understand the impact of search engine rankings. If you can rank high in Google, more potential customers find your business. The more prospective customers that find you, the more paying customers you should have. Except most of you are frustrated by search engine optimization (or SEO). There are actually […]
Add Advanced Custom Field To RSS Feed In WordPress
One way to move people from being prospects to being customers is to educate them through content marketing. This usually takes the form of blogging, podcasting, videos, or some other form of serialized content, published on your company blog. Many companies use their email newsletter as a way to send their RSS feed directly to […]