WordPress HowTo

As you may all know Genesis is a popular theme framework for creating a powerful, SEO-friendly, customizable, beautiful website in WordPress. This framework can be extended even further with a Genesis Child theme (also known as StudioPress theme) to design almost anything you want. One key feature found in some of these themes is "sticky header". While sticky header is a cool feature it may not always function properly on mobile devices. Unfortunately, there is no setting in Genesis to easily … [Read more...]

Twitter is a popular social media where we can share content and interact with users. If you are running a website on WordPress like me, you should know how important social sharing is to the success of a business. Twitter allows you to embed Tweets into your site, so you can share what's happening on Twitter with your visitors. But how do you align it? In this article, I will show you how to center a Tweet in WordPress. … [Read more...]

In this tutorial, I will show you how to login to your WordPress administration area on Bluehost and introduce you to the most important tools there. … [Read more...]

Maintenance mode or site offline type plugin is very useful when you are running maintenance work in the backend of your site. Maintenance mode plugin can also be very useful when you are launching a new site and would like your users to know that it's under construction and will be coming soon. In this article I put together a list of of the top Maintenance Mode/Coming Soon/Site Offline/Site Under Construction Type Plugins For WordPress. … [Read more...]

WooCommerce 3.0 named "Bionic Butterfly" has just been released. This version contains some major features such as updated product gallery, speed and performance improvements, addition of CRUD classes, CLI via REST API etc. … [Read more...]

Are you having trouble sending email from your WordPress site? Are you using a free SMTP provider like Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo to send your email instead? Emails are still not getting delivered for some mysterious reasons? SparkPost might be the solution to this email issue. In this article I'm going to show you how you can integrate it into WordPress to send email via SMTP. … [Read more...]

Are you using the WordPress video shortcode to embed self-hosted videos into your website? Are you trying to position a video in the middle instead of it being aligned to the left by default? Today I will show you a simple tweak to center your videos with some custom CSS. … [Read more...]

Resource Hints is a W3C specification that defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch, and prerender relationships of the HTML Link Element (<link>). These can be used to assist the browser in the decision process of which origins it should connect to, and which resources it should fetch and preprocess to improve page performance. … [Read more...]

"rel" is a HTML link attribute that defines the relationship between the current document (the page you are linking from) and the linked document (the page you are linking to). While rel has various usages in a link, one of the important values that it can define is "nofollow". When rel="nofollow" is present in a link, It tells search engines like Google to not follow that link (unendorsed document/resource). This works great when you have an article with various outgoing links and you don't … [Read more...]