My first year of blogging about WordPress
Exactly one year ago I started blogging about WordPress. I've been working with WordPress since 2008, maintaining several sites and starting a few interesting projects. I'd say, enough experience to…
How to engage visitors with the plugin Icegram
How do you engage the people that visit your website? How do you collect their email addresses for your newsletter? How do you get your offer noticed? You can put…
A nicer commenting system for WordPress
The standard commenting system of WordPress looks a bit.. well, standard. You can make it look better, but it still is rather dull. Very little options, just comments and replies.…
Optimize your website before using a caching plugin
Many posts are written about just one thing: speeding up WordPress. Some of them very useful, many of them very obvious, telling the same story in different words. Probably 95%…
Optimize your images with Imagify
Images (and other media) are the biggest parts of a web page. The bigger the image, the longer it takes to load. At worst, you can see the image build…
Secure your website with Shield
Over 20 percent of all WordPress websites gets attacked. Automated spambots, hacks, brute force attacks, malware, you name it. Still many website owners choose to not update their website and…
18 major checkpoints for a healthy WordPress website
Before you launch your website, you want your new website to look and work perfectly. You really want to give your visitors the best experience and want them to return…
Allow PHP in WordPress default text widget
The default text widget in WordPress only supports HTML. You can extend the functionality of the text widget by making it possible to execute PHP. Put this code in the functions.php…