Sliders are mainly used for highlighting important content and load multiple images or videos on website when visitors load up your homepage. Slider allows you to display multiple images, videos and content in a fascinating and attention grabbing way. Presently, there are hundreds of slider plugins available in the WordPress repository. Here I listed the picks of best WordPress slider plugin, with which you can give your website a new professional look. Must-have features Responsive on tablets and smartphones...
If you want to take your WordPress blogging to a whole new level of proficiency, it’s time you learned the many different keyboard shortcuts that are built into WordPress. No plugins needed, this is just another bit of awesome that? is WordPress. Basic knowledge If you want to highlight a word or phrase, you have to lift your palm from the keyboard, grab the mouse (or touchpad), highlight the text, move the mouse over the I button and click it. That’s a lot...
Underneath most blog posts is an area for visitors to leave a comment about each post. Blog comments are a critical part of a successful blog, and an area bloggers must understand and focus on to create a great blog. Blog comments are what make a blog interactive and social. The most popular blogs have a very interactive community who voice their opinions on posts frequently. It’s that social aspect that makes blogs such a powerful component of the social web. People like to feel...
About A photography website is not just a regular website – it is a collection of someone ‘s talent and capabilities. There are plenty of websites that can properly display a photographer ‘s work but WordPress is an option that gives you ample room for customization. This means that you want to ensure that you have the right plugins to make the browsing experience as efficient and smooth as possible. WordPress gallery plugins can be really useful for building a cool...
According to surveys done by Akamai and Gomez, nearly half of web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that isn’t loaded within 3 seconds. 79% of web shoppers who have trouble with web site performance say they won’t return to the site to buy again and around 44% of them would tell a friend if they had a poor experience shopping online. When your website is faster, it...
Reblogging is a convenient way to share what you’re reading and enjoying with your own followers. You can reblog posts directly from your Reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. You can also use the Reblog button in the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. When you click that, you’ll see an option to add your thoughts on the...
Among all the features in WordPress, Press This could probably be one of the least known. Have you heard about it? Even though it has been included since the early versions of WordPress with the name of Press It, not many people use it as a blogging tool Press This is a content sharing tool packaged with WordPress that makes it easy for you to clip text, images and videos from other websites and publish them on your blog. Press This is...
If you have a website, I’m sure you’ve put a lot of hard work and long hours into making it a valuable resource for your visitors. What if your links aren’t working? Have you found a link (or more) on your WordPress website that leads to the infamous “404” error? Try not to panic. This is actually very common – you’ve simply discovered a link that isn’t going where it’s supposed to. Broken links – otherwise known as “dead” links –...
A WordPress theme is a collection of template files which lets you change the user interface, design, look, and feel of the site. A WordPress theme can either just have some bare minimum design changes implemented or might even have some advanced logic showing the most recent post differently than the others or showing the posts from a particular category in a different section on the home page etc. WordPress themes can range from a simple set of files...
When it comes to managing your own WordPress install, sooner or later you’ll almost certainly need to directly access the files on your server — for which you’ll most likely want to use some kind of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. What’s an FTP client? Basically, it’s a relatively small and simple piece of software that allows you to view, edit, download, and upload files located or stored elsewhere on the internet (i.e. on a server — which can be...
