Plugins

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…

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…

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…

You got your RSS feed set up (woohoo!). But when you test it, there’s a line at the bottom that says “The post appeared first on”  It shows in your MailChimp emails, MailerLite, in feed readers. And it’s annoying.  Mostly because you can’t where it’s coming from. So where did the text come from?  The Yoast…

A blog series is a great way to build engagement and create repeat visitors for your blog. What exactly is a series?  Remember how TV shows used to occasionally end an episode in “To be continued…”?  And then you couldn’t wait until next week to see what happened?  Each episode was still an episode, but those…