Is there an ideal blog post frequency that drives traffic?
How often should you blog? You know what people say, publish more often and your traffic goes up. But is there any research to suggest it's actually true? HubSpot, looking at more than 13,000 companies and their blogs, determined that, ...
How do I use Gutenberg blocks?
This is all I ever wanted from Gutenberg You may recall a few weeks ago when I wrote about dynamic content – using some conditional logic and a plugin (if-so). But then I told you about my holy grail of ...
Can Jetpack Speed Up Your WordPress Site?
If you've heard of Jetpack, you either love it or hate it In the early days of Jetpack, many of the folks I know thought it could be helpful. Then, it got bigger and bulkier and most folks thought it ...
Reusable Content Blocks with Gutenberg & the Blocksy theme
The holy grail of Gutenberg for me has been Reusable Content Blocks What do I want? Reusable content blocks? When do I want them? The minute Gutenberg was announced (which was a bit ago). Initially I was confused by Gutenberg, ...
Endangering Ecosystem Flexibility
What made WordPress incredible (and helped it grow) If you were around in the old days, like 2005, there were a lot of different blogging platforms. You could find them using a variety of different programming languages (in case you ...
The Best Ways to Learn WordPress
WordPress adoption is increasing rapidly I don't know if you noticed but WordPress continues to grow – and in the last year, it's grown at a rapid pace. Adoption over the last few years has been good, but nothing like ...
Want to get started with dynamic content in WordPress?
What is dynamic content? Dynamic content is the opposite of static content. When you show the exact same content to every single person, and it never changes, that's static content. So dynamic content is content you can change based on ...
How to use WordPress with Amazon S3?
Speed is everything. So people will try anything. If you're anything like me, you've run at least one test on your own website to see how fast it loads. Whether it was Google's Page Speed Insights or GTMetrix, the point ...
Five Questions to Answer before Migrating a WordPress Site
Migrating a WordPress Site Should be Straightforward If you've never migrated a WordPress site, from one host to another, it shouldn't be difficult. After all, WordPress has been around for a long time. So it's not like you're splitting apart ...
Choosing the Best WordPress Hosting for You
How do you know which WordPress hosting is right for You? By now you've heard of WordPress and that it powers a massive number of websites across the globe. You've heard that it's pretty flexible and easy. And you may ...