You may be considering the idea of building your own website rather than hiring a team of developers to do it for you. If so, good for you! It’s a great idea. By building your own website you can take advantage of many benefits you would otherwise miss out on. By building your own website…

There are many good reasons why WordPress has evolved into the world’s most popular content management system. Inspired by a long-forgotten weblog tool known as B2/cafelog, WordPress has grown into a near-universal solution for website design and maintenance. This streamlined package offers huge numbers of customizable pre-designed templates, with over 56,000 standalone plugins handling a…

Considering the fact that it was launched in 2003 as a standalone program, the subsequent diversity of WordPress plugins is quite breathtaking. There are now over 55,600 separate plugins, which augment the basic WordPress framework. Some of these are frivolous, while others could best be described as being of niche appeal. However, many have been…

Meta tags are little snippets of information that live inside of your HTML code. They help search engines understand your content. When Google or Bing sends crawlers over a page, meta tags help them understand what the content of the page is about through the use of meta tags. Meta tags are typically used in…

So you’ve decided to build a website. Chances are you’ve pictured it in your mind a hundred times. You probably have a very specific plan of attack once it’s built and ready to go. However, achieving the finished product might have you stumped. Transferring an idea from inside your mind onto the actual internet can…

Since it was launched as a blogging tool in 2003, WordPress has remained fairly true to its original architecture. The addition of plugins in 2004 gradually bolstered the platform’s versatility, enabling users to construct increasingly complex or multi-faceted websites. And yet, users from the early 2000s would find today’s user interface and adjustable templates reassuringly…

One of the internet’s greatest attributes is the way it levels out the playing fields. Social media grants an equal voice to everyone, regardless of their background or circumstances. Blogs enable anyone to self-publish their life stories or celebrate something they’re passionate about, without needing a publisher or sponsor, and online technology is constantly evolving…

As the world’s most popular website-building platform and content management system, WordPress needs little introduction. Sadly, that’s also true for the internet’s less wholesome occupants. Sheer popularity has established WordPress as a key target for cybercriminals, its open-source nature making it ripe for exploitation. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to improve WordPress security. They’re…

In 2005, WordPress was created for anyone who had something to say and needed a website to do so. It requires almost no setup or technical know-how. The design is simple and the user interface is intuitive enough for beginners. Since its launch, WordPress quickly became a world favorite, and currently supports 75 million websites….

As well as powering a quarter of the world’s websites, WordPress is blessed with an abundance of plugins. The WordPress.org portal currently hosts over 55,000 separate programs, each designed to perform a specific role. Many of these plugins are focused on improving website SEO – helping sites and their constituent pages rank more strongly in…