WordPress is a household name in web accessibility, with statistics showing that it powers over 35% of all websites. Many reasons make WordPress a popular option, including no license fees, it can be used for simple websites, a reasonable learning… Continue Reading →
When you’re on top of your game, you get different demands from different clients. And no matter how difficult the challenge is, you can deliver every time. In our new YouTube series, “Winning with WordPress, ” we bring web designers… Continue Reading →
With billions of Google searches every single day, if your site isn’t on the first page of results and, more specifically, among the top five or so results, well, your site might just be lost in the shuffle. Time to… Continue Reading →
Page speed is essential for online stores. The faster your ecommerce pages load, the better the shopping experience for your visitors. This not only leads to more orders, but also an improved reputation, better SEO, and higher customer retention. In… Continue Reading →
This post was originally published on Oct. 30, 2020, and updated on Sept. 6, 2022. At the height of the Covid19 pandemic in 2020, everyone was talking about digital learning. Though most schools have returned to in-person education in 2021… Continue Reading →
WordPress is fun yet powerful. And there are so many things you can do with it. But don’t just leap in with both feet and start WordPressing with reckless abandon. There are best practices one needs to partake in to… Continue Reading →
WordPress is a great platform that can create a website or blog. And it has become the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. But there are some reasons WordPress might be slow, and addressing these issues can… Continue Reading →
The internet has revolutionized the business world and changed how we conduct business. Any business that aims to increase its visibility and boost profit needs to pay much attention to top ranking factors, including local SEO — which introduces the… Continue Reading →
A sticky floating navigation menu stays on top of the screen as a user scrolls down the page. Some WordPress themes have this feature built in, as an option in their settings. But if your theme doesn’t have this cool… Continue Reading →
WordPress is the most popular platform for blogging and website development, and it’s easy to see why. It is free to use and adding WordPress plugins can help you improve your website and make it more functional. However, there are… Continue Reading →
If you have a site with posts that are frequently updated, then it behooves you to let your visitors know the articles they’re reading are current. By default, WordPress just displays the date and time when the post was created…. Continue Reading →
Web analytics is critical for your website. No matter the kind of website you run, the need to know your visitor’s behavior cannot be overstated. Google analytics helps get data on who is visiting your website, what they are doing,… Continue Reading →
One of the greatest things about WordPress is how easy to use it is. On the other hand, because of this simplicity, many users don’t feel the urge to step outside of their comfort zone and learn new things. Deployment… Continue Reading →
As you may know, WordPress is written with the PHP coding language, which requires updates to the latest version in order to remain secure and running its best. But before getting on the latest version, it’s important to test PHP… Continue Reading →
A perfect UX design involves deep design knowledge, technology, and human psychology. It involves knowing the qualities of a good product and what drives people to a website (and keeps them coming back). More specifically, an excellent UX design process… Continue Reading →
In WordPress, transients are a particular way of caching data for a certain period of time. Instead of storing data in the object cache, transient data in WordPress is stored only temporarily, with the hopes that it will be updated… Continue Reading →
As GoDaddy continues to establish itself within the WordPress community, our engineering teams look for new ways to improve processes and products such as Managed WordPress and Managed WordPress Ecommerce. One of the most anticipated developments was support for PHP… Continue Reading →
If you’re in the know, you are well aware of the fact that AI is all the rage these days. In fact, the adoption of AI is picking up very quickly, as highlighted by a 2022 report from the Computing… Continue Reading →
Images enhance the user’s experience and help get a message across, all the merrier. But while it’s tempting to start throwing images everywhere, avoid rolling like a mad imagery scientist. With images, less is more. And a sound strategy for… Continue Reading →
Google Analytics can help understand what people do when they enter a WordPress website, how long they stay, and which part of the website converts the best. You only need to install a Google Analytics plugin on a WordPress website,… Continue Reading →
WordPress is a powerful web application and is used by up to 43% of the internet, to date. But with great popularity comes great threats. With numbers like these, many would-be attackers are constantly on the lookout for weaknesses in… Continue Reading →
If you’re looking to offer a more affordable (and easier to build) solution for a client’s business, online portfolio, and much more, you may want to consider a one-page WordPress website. One-page websites are simple, popular and — when built on… Continue Reading →
With over 55,000 known plugins available for WordPress, it can get just a little confusing — to say the least — knowing the essential plugins for a WordPress site. There are plugins for functionality, SEO, security, and more. While there… Continue Reading →
At GoDaddy Pro, we’re super-pumped to finally (finally!) be back in person at this year’s WordCamp Europe, which runs June 2 to June 4 in Porto, Portugal. We sure missed being around our fellow WordPressers, but we weren’t snoozing during… Continue Reading →
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) isn’t just about making Google happy. LCP optimization is key to providing better user experiences, as visitors are more quickly presented with useful content. This can give you quite a competitive advantage over sites where content… Continue Reading →
Mobile search makes up more than half of all searches on Google, and for many advertisers, most traffic comes from people on their mobile phones. That means, to make certain the WordPress sites you design are accessible to more people,… Continue Reading →
WordPress has a host of very cool automated features at its disposal, like auto-posting, security scanning, site health checks, and auto updates. So why would you want to interfere with automation and start manually updating WordPress for clients? Well, sometimes… Continue Reading →
WordPress custom post types (CPTs) are the best resources for structuring content in a logical and coherent manner in the CMS. To create custom post types, you can use special WordPress functions or plugins. The second option is much easier,… Continue Reading →
