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25 Plugins vs One-Stop Shop: What Does Your WordPress Site Need?

Opinion 6 MIN READ

Soon after setting up your WordPress site, you’ll find out you need plugins for a lot of the things you want to have on your site, be it SEO or backups or a gallery. Initially downloading a bunch of plugins seems like the easiest and most straightforward solution but could it be that going with one-vendor services is the better way? Let’s examine WordPress history and stats to determine if there really is a shift from single plugins to more unified solutions. WP plugins: history & stats There are more than 50,000 plugins just in the WP directory right now and the number keeps growing. As the general quality of websites keeps increasing, so do the demands we place upon the extended functionality plugins can provide. For example, e-commerce and, subsequently, use of the most popular WP e-commerce plugin WooCommerce has grown tremendously in the last years. WP users integrate…

Website Speed: How it Impacts Your Traffic & Conversions

Opinion 7 MIN READ

Speed /spi:d/ (n.) the rate at which someone or something moves or operates or is able to move or operate. It a drag having to wait for a month to receive a letter from your lover or travelling 3 hours to get somewhere to have your fancy dinner. That’s why speed is considered one of the most important criteria when measuring quality of a service. Your website isn’t an exception. A slow website with blank error pages isn’t what you need, unless you’re, like, trying for zero traffic. Your website speed, often referred to as “website performance” is the average amount of time it takes for the content of your webpages to be displayed on the screen of the browser requesting access. But when can you know for certain that your website speed is good enough? Where is the limit of a user’s patience? To understand the phenomena of the…

Blog or Online Magazine: Which One’s Yours?

Business 6 MIN READ

Set your priorities and decide whether your new WordPress publication is a blog or a magazine. This article will help you find the key differences between blogs and online magazines and give the right name to your website.

Preventing Most Common WordPress Security Issues: Part 1

How To: Beginner 9 MIN READ

Want to learn how to secure your WordPress website? Read our guide on preventing most common WordPress security issues. Use 10Web security service to ensure your site is safe without additional hacks.

What Can I Get from 10Web?

Services 10 MIN READ

Get to know the 10 components of 10Web and the list of the main benefits you’ll get with the company.

How to Manage Form Submissions on WordPress

How To: Beginner 5 MIN READ

This is a comprehensive tutorial on managing the form submissions you get on your WordPress site.

10 Biggest Issues Bloggers Face and How to Tackle Them

Opinion 9 MIN READ

Surfing the blogs of Kate McCulley and Daniel James (from Dan Flying Solo) and reading about how they gave up full-time jobs to start travelling and ended up living a life of luxury, earning a fortune writing about their adventures is guaranteed to be either a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven. Either way, before shouting out to the world that “blogging is the easiest thing on earth” and “anyone can do it” I suggest you think twice. In reality, blogging is a full-time job and requires dedication, patience, creativity, commitment, and more. The sad reality is that there are lots of issues that bloggers face and those cause most of the beginning bloggers to fail. But, it’s true enough that whenever there’s a problem, there is also the solution! So, let’s identify the 10 major hardships for bloggers and talk about the solutions. 1. Not having a…

How to Implement Conditional Logic on WordPress Forms

How To: Intermediate 4 MIN READ

Would you like to show/hide form fields depending on user answers? Conditional logic of the WordPress Form Maker plugin allows you to create smart, user-friendly forms with complex logic. You can show the user only what they need to see and keep the forms short and straightforward. In other words, depending on the options they choose, the users see only those fields that are related to their chosen values. Employing conditional logic renders significantly more simple and comprehensible forms. Keep in mind, however, that conditional logic works only on the premium version of this plugin. If it’s something you will use on your site often, you can read up on the pricing scheme, conditions, and additional functionality on our site. Creating forms using conditional logic Let’s get started by creating the form with the WordPress Form Maker. From the submenu of the plugin go to the > Forms page, >…

What’s the Ideal Backup Schedule for Your WordPress Website?

Services 6 MIN READ

While having a website opens up a lot of doors, it’s also connected with a series of risks, data loss being one of the biggest ones. A Hubspot study has shown that 20% of the companies that have experienced website data loss…

How to Install a WordPress Theme: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

How To: Beginner 4 MIN READ

This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners on installing a WordPress theme. Themes are pretty cool: they make WordPress sites look good with little effort. Installing a theme is just like inviting a virtual designer to quickly upgrade your website’s look. With as many free and premium themes available as there currently are, it may take some time to pick the one that fits. This is what to do after you finally decide on one: 1. Install a theme using WordPress admin theme search This will work only for free themes that show up in the WP theme directory. To install a theme using WordPress plugin search, click on “Appearance” to the left of your WP dashboard and click “Add New:” The page that opens up will have various tabs for organizing themes by different criteria, such as Popular, Latest, etc. You also have the option to click “Feature Filter”…