Still, on May 2023, it is common for many of the users to continue using WordPress 4.9, PHP 7.2, Ubuntu 16.04LTS etc. There are several reasons behind the fear of not to continue upgrading them. The mentioned versions had breaking changes which forced them to fight for many hours to get back their site working. Additionally, WordPress 4.9 was the last version with the classic editor and classic … [Read more...]
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Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.
How to Add a Verified Badge to WordPress Author Profile Using CSS
Verified badge is a premium feature of most of the social networking sites including Elon Musk's Twitter, LinkedIn, DeviantArt etc. The reason for charging money is that a verified badge works as social proof to increase the trustworthiness of the author. It is a marketing tool. When you are paying for your own self-hosted WordPress, why not verify your self for free? Especially if you already … [Read more...]
How To Use Adobe Fonts/TypeKit Fonts in WordPress
Adobe Fonts/TypeKit is available from Adobe as a part of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription without any extra charges. Most of the professionals including bloggers and marketers have Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe serves font from highly optimized CDN and the premium fonts are great for typography. Adobe made some changes which made it affordable, and easy … [Read more...]
Which is More Important to Google : PageSpeed or Backlink?
On our website, we frequently discuss page speed-related technical matters since our website is related to software development. A couple of readers got terrified after learning the cost of CacheFly and Fastly in our earlier articles. SEO-optimized content and backlink are the most important factor for a higher rank in any search engine result page. Previously in an article, we pointed out the … [Read more...]
How to Redesign to Speed Up WordPress Site in 2023
WordPress by default includes a HTML file located at /readme.html. This is our site's that readme file. If you test the URL of your site and other's sites, you will get a pretty good idea about how much your server optimization can deliver you the result. For us, that URL on PageSpeed Insights gets a 100% score and loads within 0.5 seconds when tested by GTMetrix and Webpagetest. The bottleneck … [Read more...]
Understanding the Quality of Generated Leads
Lead generation is the first step in lead management. Some companies specialize in lead generation and lead acquisition. In our earlier article, we have explained the basics of lead generation. Quality of Generated Leads The quality of the generated leads is determined by the following factors: correctness, timeliness, the voluntary, conscious provision of the data by the … [Read more...]
Is Persistent Object Cache Mandatory to Enable in WordPress
No. Object Caches such as APC, Memcached or Redis are not mandatory to enable in WordPress by using a WordPress plugin or drop-in. We are talking in the context of dedicated servers. A persistent Object Cache is worthless to use on a single virtualized instance such as one VPS or one cloud server. The reason is that 100% of the RAM is not real RAM, there is swap space i.e. SSD space. When you … [Read more...]
What is Lead Generation?
Lead generation is a marketing term. A lead is a qualified contact with a prospect who, on the one hand, is interested in a company or a product and, is highly likely to become a customer. Generating leads in high data quality is a fundamental task for acquiring new customers, one of the most important goals of companies. In order to build up their own prospect databases of significant size, more … [Read more...]
The Importance of Regular Backups for WordPress
WordPress powers more than 40% of websites on the Internet, including those with and without custom content management systems (CMS). Yet, most WordPress users are ignorant of the value of data backup for their websites. Despite being a reliable platform, unforeseeable events like hacking or server problems could still happen, causing data loss or website downtime. Regular data backups are a … [Read more...]
Reasons Behind Traffic Drop After Site Migration (Change of Host)
Ideally, there should be no change of traffic pattern and SERP after site migration i.e. shift from one cloud server to another cloud server or a dedicated server. But in reality, often there is a temporary loss of traffic of 10 to 30%. In this article, we will discuss the contributory factors which can affect your site after migration. Keeping an eye on these points probably will help you to get … [Read more...]
Fix MySQL is Consuming High CPU (WordPress)
If you have noticed a higher CPU usage by MySQL after running the top command, then you need to investigate the situation. In the case of dedicated servers, these days the CPUs we use are multi-core. For the top command, we have to press SHIFT + i on the keyboard to get an idea of the average load on each core. Alternatively, you can run top -H or top -H -p ID-number to check the actual … [Read more...]