Posts by Jackie Latham
How to check your WordPress site for plugin conflicts
So there you are one day trying to add your latest funky photo to your beautiful new WordPress website, and something weird’s happened. Try checking for plugin conflicts as your first step to fixing any odd problem on your site.
Read MoreHow to move from wordpress.com to self-hosted WordPress
The basic wordpress.com package is free but often new website owners rapidly find out that they want to do more than this package allows. At this point, the question then becomes: Should I upgrade and stay with wordpress.com, or should I move to self-hosted WordPress?
Read MoreMoving to a Self-Hosted WordPress site
By Nathan Platt of Solidblueliquid Okay so this post is all about self-hosting WordPress, but before we begin telling you all the wonderful benefits let me sort out a few common misconceptions. WordPress.org, wordpress.com and self-hosting Across forums and the internet everyone gets confused with the differences between them all, so let’s address them all…
Read MoreI deleted a blog post accidentally – how do I get it back?
One of the things I like best about WordPress is that it’s actually quite hard to make a total mess of things. Every change you do to a post or page is stored so you can easily go back to previous revisions, but did you know that it also uses a recycle bin? If you…
Read MoreWhat is Alt Text and why does it matter?
What is ‘alt text’? ‘Alt text’ is an extra little bit of information that can be added to media items like images. It’s there for use by screen readers, which are used by people who have vision problems. When the screen reader comes across an image it will read the alt text, so the more…
Read MoreAre blog post titles important for SEO?
Yes, they are, which is why when you’re writing a new blog post you need to choose the title carefully. If you’re blogging to improve your SEO then the title of the post is possibly the most important bit of text in the whole post. Try to incorporate one of your target keyword phrases, but…
Read MoreDoes duplicate content affect my site’s SEO?
You may have heard that copying content either within your own site, or from someone else’s site, can cause your site to lose Google points. Is that true? Well, yes and no. If it’s done maliciously (like you copy a whole site because you can’t be bothered to create your own and want to steal…
Read MoreIs there a quick way to speed my site up?
Site speed ups can be very complicated and involve a lot of tweaking, but if your site is loading really slowly have a look at the filesizes of the images on your pages. A large filesize will slow your site down considerably, particularly on mobiles which have restricted bandwidth. You should be aiming for images…
Read MoreCan I change the way a single image looks on my site without affecting all the others?
Yes you can. The ‘Additional CSS’ functionality in the customizer is great if you want to change how an element, like an image, looks on the whole site. But what if you only want to change the look of a single occurrence of that element? To do this you need to know a little bit…
Read MoreDo I really need a firewall and anti-virus on my WordPress website?
Yes, you do, particularly if you’re using cloud hosting (which most of us do) rather than your own servers or virtual private servers (VPS). Most hosts provide some sort of firewall protection, but on cloud hosting the firewall runs around the cloud space, rather than around your individual website. That means that if any one…
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