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WordPress Paid vs. Free Themes: Which Are The Right Ones For You?

August 16, 2019March 29, 2018 by Paul Salmon

WordPress is undoubtedly one of the most powerful website engines out there. Because of its easy to use features, it takes no time for an unprofessional to build an out-of-the-box site. With this platform, having a site up and running is not a big deal. With elegant and simple layout, WordPress has so much to offer to developers in order to meet both business and personal needs.

How to Make the Most of the WordPress Help Desk TicketLab Theme?

August 4, 2017 by Paul Salmon

To build a strong customer base, it is very important to offer the best customer support. WordPress has various kinds of themes to enhance the appearance and functionality of a WordPress-powered website. You can take advantage of the WordPress help desk theme to deal with customer issues in an effortless, and timely, manner

How to Reduce the Load Time of a Blog by 90%

June 20, 2017 by Paul Salmon

The load time of a blog is a critical factor not only for retaining visitors, but also for performing well in search engines. There are many ways you can reduce the load time of a blog, and in this post I will look at an actual example of how I managed to reduce the load time of a blog by 90%!.

Understanding How WordPress uses MySQL

January 21, 2015 by Paul Salmon

WordPress is arguably the most popular content management software (CMS) available. The fact that WordPress is free, easy-to-use and has a tremendous amount of support available makes it an ideal CMS for creating and managing a website or blog.

While WordPress is designed to be easy-to-use, it also has enough complexity that allows you to create about anything for your website. For the average user, however, you won’t need to manage this complexity as there are plugins and templates to do most of the work for you. For others, you may want to look at what WordPress has to offer.

A WordPress site can be typically divided into two segments:

The general look and feel of a WordPress website generated by logic and templates.
A MySQL database in which all content powering the website is stored.

7 Best Ways to Secure Your Site from Attacks

August 15, 2013May 25, 2012 by Paul Salmon

Ever since, I started using WordPress, I have found nothing that compares to this great content management system. This is because WordPress is versatile, and as such any person can be able to adapt it for use in any manner.

However, this was not always the case. When I first heard of WordPress, around six years ago, I simply dismissed it as one of those fads that come and go in a blink of an eye. But, I was wrong, and quite honestly, it was one of my mistakes, since I came on to later learn that WordPress was simply more than just a fad.

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site for the Mobile Platform

June 7, 2012May 24, 2012 by Guest Blogger

Optimizing your WordPress site for mobile web browsers is a great way to reach a significant portion of the Internet market. In this article we’ll be installing and reviewing a fantastic WordPress plugin that will allow you to publish your WordPress site for the Mobile web.

WordPress Mobile Pack was developed as a complete toolkit that makes the mobilization process simple, and fast. It includes a mobile platform switcher to help you select themes based on the audience visiting the site, mobile widgets, mobile themes, transcoding and device adaption, and an administrator panel also optimized for mobile browsers that will allow you to write new posts and edit the site on-the-go.

WordPress Web Hosting: 5 Must-Know Tips

August 15, 2013February 10, 2012 by Guest Blogger

When starting a blog, WordPress is probably one of the best blogging platforms out there because not only that it has superb, professional themes, but also remarkably fast and easy to use. But if you want to make money out of your blog or website and take it to the next level, you cannot take advantage of the free web hosting option that WordPress has because not only that it has restrictions, but also the disk space and bandwidth is extremely limited. The amusing thing is that there are a lot of best WordPress hosting providers offering fantastic features at an affordable price. There are so many of them that finding the best WordPress web hosting for your website become a tedious task.

WordPress Plugin Review: BackWPup

December 20, 2011December 20, 2011 by Paul Salmon

The purpose of the BackWPup WordPress plugin is simple: backup your entire WordPress blog. There are many plugins available that can accomplish the goal of backing up your WordPress blog, but to me, BackWPup does things better than most other backup plugins.

I am an advocate of regularly backing up data on my local computer and this same train of thought has also transferred over to managing my blog. I have read many stories of people losing their blog because something bad happened and they don’t have a backup to restore their blog’s data. BackWPup provides you with all the options needed to completely backup your blog automatically.