How To Setup A WordPress Instance On DigitalOcean (Step by Step Guide)
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing company that gives you great control over the way your site operates, much more than traditional web hosts. With that said, there are a lot of advanced options included with DigitalOcean that...
12 Ways To Optimize And Speed Up Your WordPress Website
WordPress can be super quick if you have it configured correctly, but usually what happens is that it gets bogged down over time by inefficiencies – so I wrote this to help you find out what could be slowing your site down,...
Solution: WordPress Website Displays 404 Errors On All Pages Except Homepage
Recently I ran into the issue where one of my WordPress websites was only allowing visitors to visit the homepage. Clicking on any other page inside the site resulted in a 404 Error hosted by BlueHost, my hosting provider, and...
How To Turn Off Wordfence Admin Login Alert Emails
I use Wordfence as the plugin of choice when it comes to security for some of my WordPress websites. The tools works great, but it does have the annoying feature of enabling email alerts every time someone logs into your website,...
[Guide] How To Disable Ad-Blockers For Webmasters
If you’re like me and run sites that make money primarily through Google AdSense or similar advertising platforms, it can be very frustrating that a portion of the users visiting the site circumvent the ads with ad...
What are WordPress Pingbacks? How do you disable Pingbacks?
Occasionally you will receive a notification or even an email that informs you that a post on your blog has a “pingback” from another website. I’ve had a lot of these in the past and noticed pretty quickly that...
How to publish your blog posts to social media automatically
So once you’ve created content on your WordPress blog, it can be a bit time consuming to go to each social media website and copy and paste the link over and over again to promote your content. If you’re looking for...
How to choose the right theme for your WordPress website
When you first setup your WordPress blog, the standard WordPress theme will be installed and active for you automatically, but the beauty of WordPress is the ease at which you can customize the site to your style and...
5 must-have WordPress plugins for niche websites in 2015
Niche websites have become increasingly popular especially for people who want to earn a bit of side income or those who want to write about a hobby they are passionate about. This post will breakdown 5 must-have WordPress...
[GUIDE] How to build your own website from scratch
Most of us use websites every day. You’re using a website right now. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc are all websites that started somewhere from scratch by someone who had the same idea as you do: “I want to make a...