You want to get your WordPress speed as fast as possible, for a few key reasons: Ecommerce shoppers can be incredibly impatient when it comes to page load time. In fact, the average attention span dropped from 12 seconds to 7 seconds between 2000 and 2016. Since performance is so important, focusing on that aspect… Read more »
In the first part of this two-part series, we looked at why user experience (UX) is so important, along with general steps you can take to improve it within your WordPress environment. Examples are functionality and design. This second part examines more specific steps you can take to improve UX – such as fixing 404… Read more »
There would seem to be two sides to user experience – that of the user doing the experiencing, and that of the service provider attempting to create a certain experience or reaction in the user. However, it is a little more complex than that, since there are actually multiple parties on the side of crafting… Read more »
In February 2017, security researchers confirmed that as many as 20 hackers were injecting code into WordPress sites that had not yet updated to the newly released version of the platform, 4.7.2. The flaw within the REST API, fixed by the January 26 update, was making it possible for unauthorized users to change content of… Read more »
WordPress is not an umbrella technology used by the entire web – but it is pretty close. It underscores 29.0% of all sites assessed in the continually updated Web Technology Surveys market-share data. As a tool, WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that simplifies website management. Although a CMS is fundamentally centered on… Read more »
While WordPress excels as a blogging platform because that was its original intended function, it has become increasingly sophisticated as a general tool to build websites. You could create an e-commerce shop, a portfolio, or a business site in this way. Note that you could easily include (either upfront or at whatever point) a… Read more »
The SEO-friendliest CMS Expandable open source Flexibility / customization potential Time-saving Peace of mind Lower cost upfront and ongoing Responsiveness Scalability Simplicity As indicated in our companion piece “Calling All WordPress Haters”, 18.3 million people now use WordPress. That number of users accounts for 59% of the market, more than 8 times the second-place… Read more »