Naming your media attachments correctly can be important for your site SEO, and there’s not much for search engines to go by to determine what an image depicts if they are named something like DSC10457.jgp for instance. If the image is of a cute cat, then it would be much better for SEO reasons to […]
The Featured Image is what WordPress calls the image you select to represent your post or page. Most WordPress themes will display the featured image at the top of each page or post and they usually add to a nicer layout as opposed to just using simple headers. The easiest way to bulk edit and […]
Duplicating or copying posts or pages is not part of default WordPress functionality, so it has to be added using custom code, or by simply adding a plugin to your site. There are several plugins in the WordPress plugin repository which will enable functionality like this, we will take a closer look at the most […]
When you upload media like images or documents to WordPress, it doesn’t just save the media, it also creates an attachment URL for it. A separate page for just displaying the media document so to say. These attachment pages are quite empty and might not provide much information to your users. They contain the media […]
It’s possible to give someone access to the backend of your WordPress site by simply sending them a URL. These temporary login URLs are usually generated by a plugin and can be useful for instance when you are seeking assistance from a developer, and they need to access your site in order to debug the […]
When optimising your WordPress installation for speed your objective is to keep it as lean and quick as possible. If we use an analogy then it’s a bit like a car; if you load up your car with a lot of heavy bags, it’s going to be slower and consume more gas. The equivalent to […]
Caching plugins can be a great asset in serving your WordPress site faster to end-users, but it’s not always a good idea to have caching active. Here are a few website states where using a caching plugin is not a very good idea: When developing the site When developing your site you tend to do […]
Having been released only five months ago, WOT Cache is a fairly new caching plugin on the market, but it’s already performing like it’s a veteran. The Pro version which we’ll be reviewing in this article is priced at $32 per license. First, let’s look though the features of this WordPress caching and performance plugin, […]