Site image will be one of the heaviest assets on your child site. The easiest way to speed up a site is to have a CDN compress images when uploaded, and then have the CDN serve those site images for users of the site. One solid Image CDN which has an easy-to-use WordPress plugin is…
Today we are going to talk about three ways to make your WordPress consulting business easier. Notice I didn’t say easy. There is a difference. It isn’t easy to run a WordPress consulting business, but we can do some things that it more manageable. The next time you are feeling frustrated with your business, remember…
Jetpack provides a number of modules which can benefit the site it is connected to. But for Jetpack to be used, Jetpack needs to use a WordPress.com account to connect to your site. What does it mean for your site to be connected to WordPress.com to be able to use Jetpack? What is being copied…
Hummingbird is a caching and performance plugin with over 70k active installs, but the plugin can cause issues and does not work well as a page caching plugins. The plugin deactivation in Hummingbird will not delete the advanced-cache.php drop in it adds, nor will it remove the constant added into your site wp-config.php. The file…
Let me ask you a question. You might want to sit down for this. What do you call yourself? Are you a website designer? Are you a website developer? Maybe you refer to yourself as a digital marketer? We have a lot of titles for what we do here in this industry. You may refer…
If you have comments enabled in the form of comments on posts on a site, or if you have reviews enabled in WooCommerce, spam can be a major issue. There is a solid and easy-to-use plugin to stop spam on your child site, called Stop Spammers. After you have installed and activated the plugin on…
If you want to create a setup so when a user logs out of a child site, they are redirected to the homepage of the site, one easy-to-use plugin solution is the WP Logout Redirect plugin. After the plugin has been installed and activated on the child site, it has no settings to be changed.…
In this month’s World of WordPress, we talk about a big acquisition by WP Engine, an upcoming WordCamp, eCommerce, customizing the client dashboard, and a tweet that set fire. Let’s ride. Let’s Ride WP Engine acquires Flywheel Probably the biggest news of the last month was the acquisition of Flywheel by WP Engine. How big…
A well-known plugin for logging all emails sent from a site is Email Log. The plugin creates a custom database table for storing the log entries of email set in the database table called; wp_email_log If the email log plugin is used on a site which has a decent amount of activity, where a normal…
WP Optimize was originally a plugin that could easily optimize your child site database and site images. In the most recent 3.0.0 release, WP Optimize now includes support for page caching. To access the site caching feature in WP Optimize, make sure you have updated the most current version. From the admin menu, go to;…
