Transitioning your WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS has plenty of benefits. For one, it will remove that “Not secure” message next to the website URL in your browser. Additionally, it will begin encrypting sensitive information, making logging into WordPress and processing payments more secure. For that reason, it’s mandatory for using any payment plugins […]
How to Debug in WordPress
Every developer knows code is never perfect. Even at its best, it can be tweaked and optimized. In contrast, code can be riddled with bugs, syntax errors. typos, and generally poorly written and executed. This simultaneously causes nightmares for webmasters that use it. As a result, both groups need tools to catch errors and bugs […]
How to Fix “Your PHP Installation Appears to be Missing the MySQL Extension which is Required by WordPress” Error
Opened your website frontend and saw the “your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress” error message? Although things look grim, don’t panic. Unlike messages that manifest similarly such as s “This site is experiencing technical difficulties“, this one isn’t as tough to figure out with a little […]
How to Update PHP in WordPress
Upgrading PHP to a newer version has multiple perks: speed and performance increase, resource usage reduction, support for newer functions, and most importantly, better security of your website. Unfortunately, if some of the currently used functions aren’t supported by the newer PHP version, you run the risk of breaking your website. While that can be […]
5 Killer Ways to Increase Website Speed
Boosting your website speed is a prerequisite to becoming a successful blogger. Research shows that just 1 second of delay in loading results in 11% fewer views, 7% conversion rate loss, and 16% customer satisfaction decrease. Also, a survey shows that over 47% of customers find 2 seconds or less to be the ideal website […]
How to Serve Scaled Images in WordPress
Uploading properly scaled images can significantly boost the loading speed of your posts and pages. This in turn improves user experience, SEO rating, and reduces bounce rate, making your website more successful. Plus, there really is no reason to upload images that are larger than needed. You’d be wasting precious resources, primarily your limited storage […]
How to Hide a Page in WordPress
There are plenty of reasons you’d want to restrict the visibility of a WordPress page. It can be due to privacy, the page not being relevant or ready for the public, or website design alterations. This ensures that the page content isn’t released to the public and read by visitors, and/or indexed by search engines. […]
How to Hide Page Title in WordPress
There are plenty of reasons to conceal a title of a page, but the common ones include redundancy and design improvements of the installed WordPress theme. As an example, having Home, Contact Us, About, or Services titles on a page that already has it displayed in other ways or makes it obvious from the top […]
What is Web Hosting
Web hosting is an online service that allows individuals and organizations to publish their website or a web application to the Internet e.g. World Wide Web. By doing so, they make it accessible by other computers on the network. Service providers, also known as web hosts, sell or rent a place on their servers, and […]
Different Types of Web Hosting
Web hosting is a term that’s often thrown around on the Internet, usually through incessant ads for website builders. You can also hear it from entrepreneurs, eCommerce gurus, online businessmen, and even a friend who wants to succeed in blogging. But if you start reading about it, you might encounter unknown terms such as bandwidth, […]
How to Embed PDF in WordPress
Want to insert PDF files into WordPress pages and posts? Unfortunately, the CMS (Content Management System), does not allow this functionality by default. You can upload and link to PDF in WordPress but have no way of displaying even a preview of the PDF in question. This is a bit surprising since you can embed […]
How to Upload and Link to PDF in WordPress
Seeking instructions to upload and link PDF files in WordPress? Can we assume you’re trying to post longer guides or simply PDF versions of existing WordPress pages and posts? No? Did you begin marketing and need to build a mailing list by offering free eBooks in exchange for an e-mail address? If that isn’t it, […]