Disaster strikes and your WordPress website goes down. You try to fix it, but after a moment of panic your remember you have backups. (You do have backups…?) Although there’s a big emphasis on backing up, do you know how to actually restore a site from a backup? It’s a ‘process’ and during a crisis would be the…
If you have a static website, can it be “converted” to a responsive website? The answer depends on several variables, but in most cases the answer is probably “No”! Only a few years ago the layout of a website was designed to fit a larger screens and ‘wow’ us with static images and plenty of…
WordPress plugins are additional “apps” that enhance the functionality of WordPress. WordPress works quite well “out of the box”, but chances are you’ll be installing several plugins before your new site is ready to go live. The best place to search for plugins is on https://wordpress.org/plugins/. These plugins have been tested and assumed to be safe. However,…
Before uploading images or photos to a website, they need to be checked and optimized. This is important not only to avoid long downloads – especially important when viewed on alternate media – and can to boost SEO results. Things to consider and optimize as needed: The actual size of the image in pixels – set it at…
Widgets are an integral part of any WordPress theme, and their locations and options change depending the theme structure. Widgets are small pieces of functionality (PHP code) that can be placed in widget locations within a theme. Widgets can be simple text (a text widget can contain hand-coded HTML or PHP), or ‘WYSIWYG’ functions with…
Populating the WordPress website, adding pages, posts, categories and setting up menus. Pages are static pages that can be edited, but generally remain the same. Pages do not get archived, once edited the old content is overwritten. Posts are texts that are displayed in a post template ‘page’. They are saved in chronological order and (depending…
WordPress uses “themes” to display the content of the database. The theme determines what the end user sees. Deciding which theme to use is determined by the site requirements, and some research may be needed to find the perfect fit. Whether it’s a free or fee-based theme, a child theme is created to contain the…
Gone are the days when a website could get away using simple static HTML code. With the ever increasing use of ‘alternate media’ websites now need to be responsive for a good viewer experience. They also need to be dynamic, easily managed (often by multiple contributors), SEO optimized, and regularly updated. This calls for a CMS installation….
Best ways to install a Facebook Like button Using the Facebook code generator and the .js scrip to the head section of a page, and the code in the body of the page. Facebook offers a variety of coding options. There are also plug-ins for WordPress which make it “easy” for the no-coder but hand coding…
Social media and site promotion. Improving site visibility by using and updating social media such as Facebook, Twitter and others has become an almost required part of successful SEO. Methods for installing the buttons and links differ whether on static pages or CMS pages. See below for some interesting links on the how-and-why aspects. A…