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The 10 Essential Website Pages You Need to Have
There are a few essential web pages that come to mind when you think of building a website. Think of how easily the home page and the blog page come to mind. But what other pages do you actually need? Every website has an important set of pages. Essential means the...
What Are the Differences in Hosting Types – Shared, Managed, and DIY Hosting?
If you're a new website owner, choosing the best hosting plan for your business can be a little confusing. After all, what are the major differences in hosting types? What choices are available? Shared hosting, Managed hosting, and Do-it-yourself (DIY) hosting are...
What Is Gravatar and Why You Should Consider Using it
We’ve come to accept that an avatar is a visual representation of you online. It's been this way for decades. It’s basically a small image of you, regardless of whether it actually is you or not. This little picture of you is next to your username when you interact...
The Top 5 Best Website Builders
Every business needs a website in order to be successful these days. Websites using the best website builders give businesses a level of credibility that is established well beyond the first sale. Today, more people than ever look a company up online before they can...
Thrive Themes Child Themes
Thrive Themes child themes are one of the easiest child themes to set up. You don't need to enqueue scripts like some of the other theme companies require, just properly reference the parent theme in the style.css file and you're good to go. Here's an older example of...
What an SSL Certificate Is and Why You Need One
SSL is an acronym that refers to Secure Sockets Layer. SSL certificates are small data files that bind a cryptographic key to an organization’s details. The reason why you’d want to bind a key to your organization is that this keeps your website’s information safe and...
Small Fixes and Cleanup for an Established Website
Last time we talked about a few things you can do to setup a new WordPress website. Now let's go over some things to cleanup for an established website. Here's an audit checklist you can go through to finalize your website after you get through Step 7. Just to...
New WordPress Website Settings Checklist
This overview is for a basic, vanilla installation of WordPress (WP). Think of this post as a new WordPress website settings checklist that you can build upon. Depending on what type of website you want to make and the tools you have available, your mileage may vary....
WP PageNavi Style Customization
WP-PageNavi has been a staple for adding or changing your pagination. The problem is that it looks pretty dated by today's standards even though the plugin itself has been kept up to date. Here's one way to customize your WP PageNavi CSS to match your theme. Check...
