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Mediavine Grow is a great tool that can help you increase engagement and build your email list. (Plus, if you want to start using Journey by Mediavine ads, setting up Grow is also a requirement.) It’s how you get those share buttons that you see in the bottom corner of blogs, making it easy for…
If you’re a food blogger using Webflow, you might have noticed some limitations that can slow down your growth. There are some designers out there who work only with Webflow, so they might try to convince you that you can succeed there (not knocking them, they just aren’t experts in SEO or food blogging so…
A new version of WordPress is out. Let’s talk about updating it. As always on the internet…there’s so much drama around the question. “Updating will break your site!” “If you don’t update yesterday you will get hacked!” If someone has stressed you out about it, let’s just breathe first. What’s the truth? What’s the worst…
Perfmatters is a REALLY great performance plugin for your blog. It’s lightweight and speeds things up so well. It’s also very easy to set up. I use it on all of my clients’ sites, in addition to their caching plugins (usually WPRocket). I’ll walk you through my settings here, but they can and should be…
WP Recipe Maker and Tasty Recipes are both solid plugins, both have everything you need for SEO and functional, good-looking recipe cards. As a food blog developer, I get asked about these two plugins a lot, so here’s a rundown for you of the differences, pros, and cons. (And which one I recommend.) 1. Ease…
Should you switch to the new editor? Isn’t it hard? Isn’t it limited compared to the Classic Editor? Read the post to find out!
In a previous post, I explained why I highly recommend the WP Rocket caching plugin for WordPress bloggers. It can make a huge difference in your site speed (and perceived speed), which will give you a big boost for your SEO and also make your visitors happier. A blogger client recently asked what the best…
Instead of sharing your own usernames and passwords with us, adding us as administrators is the most efficient and most secure way for us to work together. That way your passwords are safe, you don’t have to change them, and in many cases the actions we take can be tracked back to us…so we’re all…
There is A LOT that goes into a blog business. 99% of the time, it’s way more than we realized before we started our blogs. In the beginning, you have to do the job of probably 4 or 5 different people all by yourself–because you’re not making any money yet to pay someone to do…
Editing your WordPress menu is TOTALLY something you can handle yourself, no need to learn to code or hire someone. There’s a video and written instructions below and you’ll see how easy it is to add pages, categories, sub-menus (drop downs), blog posts, and even links to your menu.
Reusable blocks are one of my favorite features of the new WordPress editor. They can save a ton of time and can be used for so many things. This post is about ways to use and how to make reusable blocks in WordPress. But what is a reusable block? It’s a set of elements you…
Updating plugins can be a little nerve-wracking, especially if you’ve had a problem before. Ideally, you click the update button when you see it, and your blog only improves. That’s not always how it works though. Updating could do something as small as losing the functionality, to as big as the dreaded “White Screen of…
If you’re using Google Analytics, you probably already know what a massively helpful tool it is for bloggers. But when it’s recording your own views, it can totally skew things (and either make you think you’re suddenly super popular, or that your visitors have really weird reading habits…). Either way, it won’t leave you with…
Your website–just like all of the internet–is made up of pages of code. Those pages get filed into folders so we developers can keep everything neat and tidy. It’s your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, hopefully not Internet Explorer) that translates those thousands of lines of code to an interactive and good-looking website. So to…
For bloggers who want to go pro (or already are), site speed is HUGE. And it’s one of the things I’m asked to help with on blogs weekly. There are SO many factors that go into site speed, and I plan on blogging about a lot of them, but I wanted to start with my…
Categories are super important to your blog. Unfortunately, almost nobody tells that to new bloggers (especially those “Start a blog in 20 minutes!” posts). Special side-note request since I can’t help it: please don’t ever start your blog in 20 minutes. Take a proper amount of time, do research, and plan before you dive in…
Don’t care about details? Skip to the 2 second summary. It’s a little tricky to understand at first, but I’m going to try to make the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org easy. Let’s start at the beginning. Forget about .com and .org right now and let’s talk about WordPress alone. What is WordPress? WordPress itself…
Guys. Does your blog need any upgrades? 4 of my very favorite website and business tools are having huge Black Friday sales. And I may be jealous if you get to take advantage. Here they are (and they are affiliate links): SiteGround If your site is slow, if you’re having security issues, or are just…