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The Fast Lane: More Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

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And that slowness can mean a lot to a popular blogger trying to retain a loyal readership or, more critically, to someone running an e-commerce site where dollar and cents are vital to staying in business. Remember this always: when a visitor first lands on your site their initial impression is everything.

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Built for Speed: Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Load Faster

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True words no matter whether you’re running on a WordPress site or another platform. Indeed, according to Internet giant Microsoft having even a two-second longer delay in page load time cripples user ratings, click-throughs and—most importantly for those running a money-generating site—lost revenue by nearly five percent across the board.

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Anatomy of My Web Site

Robert Weiner

Several friends who have decided to explore WordPress have asked how I built my site. Robyn installed WP on my existing web host ( dotable.com ). Once WP was running on my web host I could upload a new theme and instantly see what it would look like. 5) Robyn copied the content from my old site to the new one.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

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From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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WordPress 4.8: What’s New and Notable in the Latest Release

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And keep in mind that, unless you enjoy the ease and peace of mind of being on a managed hosting service, you’ll have to manually initiate the update (after creating a complete backup of your site first). Frequent users of WordPress will at once recognize a new element that they’ve been asking for: Media Widgets. The post WordPress 4.8:

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Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 1

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That said, the folks at WP Beginner have compiled an impressive list of creative shortcuts and work-arounds that can really up a user’s game and make the process of designing, launching and administering a WordPress site infinitely more seamless and easy. Here’s part one with seven tips and tricks, stand by for part 2 next week.

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Quick Fixes to Common WordPress Problems: Part 1

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No matter whether you’re a WordPress newbie or a seasoned pro who has been building and managing sites on the platform for years, it’s absolutely inevitable that, at some point, you’ll hit a snag and need some help. This is convenient sure, except that it makes your site look sloppy and amateurish.

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