Don’t forget that your website is saved on a server, which is another computer. Sometimes your data gets corrupted, or sometimes the databases fail. To keep your WordPress database happy, it might be necessary to repair and optimize them. Your web host isn’t always obligated to do this for you, but one of the more
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Ask Nile: What WordPress Theme Will Help Me Get the Best Website Conversion Rate?
To understand a little bit into this question? I was asked via my Ask Nile form on what specific WordPress theme will give the best website conversion rate. The person went on to say that she’d been to some WordPress meetups and had been told repeatedly that one specific theme did this. So, she re-designed
[Continue Reading...]What Do You Do When a WordPress Plugin Breaks Your Site
So, your WordPress site seems like it’s down or has some type of error. What do you do? The first thing you shouldn’t be doing is panicking. Troubleshoot it out. The biggest clue in whether your site is truly down before you check it, is if the browser screen says “No Data Received” or “Site
[Continue Reading...]A Theme Is What You Make of It
WordPress themes can be tricky to learn how to build. There are a lot of great resources explaining how to build a WordPress theme from scratch, but the end result depends on the designer. My philosophy when designing and developing themes is – A theme is what you make of it. There are so many
[Continue Reading...]Implementing Fonts in WordPress Using the @font-face Method
I’m a stickler for telling people to stop using Google Fonts. Everyone knows that some services of Google have been slow or down at times. It’s not often, but it is an annoyance because the end user can’t do anything. Most web hosts allow you to host your fonts in house, so why not do
[Continue Reading...]Change Default Role Names In WordPress
For people who are customizing their WordPress backend, sometimes the little things like how to change default role names are needed. This is good for membership sites, multi-author blogs, companies, and more. By default, WordPress has the following roles: Administrator, Contributor, Editor, Author, and Subscriber. In order to do this, you have to add create
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