When considering SEO plugins for WordPress, the most popular appear to be Yoast SEO and the all-in-one SEO plugin that at one time had little competition. However, the WordPress SEO Ultimate plugin is now available and Squirrly has been introduced as a viable alternative. Is this true, and what is the difference between them? A great deal depends upon your requirements, the depth …
WordPress
WordPress is widely regarded the top blogging platform available online. When they first enter the exciting world of blogging, many people start with a hosted blog such as Blogger, WordPress.com or one of the minor blogging platforms such as Tumblr or Medium. This is fine, but if you want to maximum control over your blog, or have a desire to blog professionally, you need something better.
The top self-hosted blogging platforms are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal – all are excellent and all are free to use. Of these, WordPress is the most popular (wordpress.org – the self-hosted version), largely because it is the easiest to use and has most themes and plugins available. Non-technical bloggers with limited coding knowledge can use WordPress immediately, and build their site as they go along.
If all you want to know is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org then the information is here. If you want more advanced information, then we can focus on the self-hosted wordpress.org which is used worldwide by serious bloggers. Self-hosted WordPress offers an excellent introduction to serious blogging and once professionals have used it they very rarely switch.
Creating a WordPress Blog
In this category, we can answer just about any question you have about creating a blog from scratch using WordPress. We can introduce you to some shortcuts and useful tips on WordPress blogging, compare templates and themes, discuss plugins and help you create a competitive good-looking professional blog.
We discuss everything from domain name registration to switching your WordPress blog between web hosts and even changing its name (these are not as easy things to do as you might think). You will be shown how to set up a test site to try out new ideas before transferring them to your main site. We discuss MySQL databases and other technical aspects of blogging that wannabe professional bloggers must understand.
The WordPress category is not only about all things WordPress, but also makes mention of other options such as Blogger. However, since we promote WordPress as our blogging platform of choice, it is the main focus of our site.
5 Useful WordPress CAPTCHA Plugins
Having trouble with spammers and trolls on your blog? Even though WordPress is one of the best blog platforms for preventing spammers and spam bots from posting blog comments and messing with the community on your blog, you may still need to install a CAPTCHA plugin to help get rid of spam on your blog. Be sure your settings have you using the official assassin AKISMET plugin, and then …
CleanTalk — the no-CAPTCHA yet Effective Way of Spam Fighting for WordPress
It has been a long while since SPAM has lost its effectiveness, when it comes to link-building and other stuff! In spite of these facts, there is no difference in the number of spam comments, spam registrations that you get on your blog or website even though you might be using some of those not-so-effective spam protection solutions! Majority of such solutions want you to keep an eye on …
How to Speed Up WordPress Site: Complete Guide
It’s important to know how to speed up WordPress site for two main reasons. The first is to prevent your visitors from leaving too soon due to long load-up times, and the second is that this is one of Google’s ranking factors. The loading speed of any website, whether a blog or a regular site, can be a critical factor in your success - or your failure. Many know that WordPress is an …
Free WordPress Themes for Your Blog
Are you looking for some awesome free WordPress themes? Well, you've reached the right place to find them! There is a huge choice of WordPress themes available for WordPress blogs and websites, and it is often difficult to choose one to suit you. Many are free, but that does not mean that they are of low quality – on the contrary. Many of the best WordPress themes in use today are …
Genesis – A WordPress Theme Framework by StudioPress
The Genesis framework has been developed by the StudioPress subsidiary of Copyblogger, and knowing the success of the latter, it was certainly worth looking at. It was immediately apparent that this WordPress theme is a great choice for those that simply want to start blogging with the minimum of fuss, and what's more you have a choice of dozens of child themes that offer a high degree …
How to Install WordPress Using cPanel
In our previous article we showed you how to install WordPress on a local server. Now we'll move one step forward. Let's say you just bought your new hosting server which uses cPanel and you want to install WordPress on it. How will you do that? There are multiple ways to do this, all of them are pretty easy and can be done within a few steps. In this article we'll show you how to do it …
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