If you want to design a professional website or blog (especially one that is SEO-friendly), WordPress is an excellent choice. WordPress is 100% free and powers over 24% of websites. There’s amazing selection of themes, hosting, plugins (for adding functionality), and WordPress itself is quite easy to learn. I’ve been designing and optimizing WordPress sites since […]
How I Optimized My Slow WordPress Site To Load In <1s With 100% GTmetrix + Pingdom Scores: A Comprehensive List Of 36 WordPress Speed Optimization Tips (2019 Guide)
Slow WordPress site? I’ll show you how to take your GTmetrix, Pingdom, and PageSpeed Insights report and use them to make WordPress-specific optimizations that improve grades/load times. I’ve already written popular tutorials for WP Rocket, high CPU plugins to avoid, and image optimization. This guide combines everything I’ve done to get 100% scores on almost every one of […]
20 WordPress Speed Optimization Plugins To Make Your Website Run Blazing Fast (Mine Loads In Under 1 Second)
Need a solid list of WordPress speed optimization plugins? Boy do I have the list for you. Cache plugins, image optimization, lazy load, AMP, Gravatar cache, load time monitoring, and plugins that fix Google Font + Analytics errors in GTmetrix and Pingdom. I use many of these speed plugins on my own site and have 100% GTmetrix […]
How To Add Rich Snippets To WordPress (So You Can Increase Clickthrough Rates And Drive Additional Traffic)
Rich Snippets add “extra information” to snippets and make you stand out in search results. You can do this with reviews, recipes, videos, events, user reviews, and other supported data. The easiest way to add rich snippets to WordPress is by installing a rich snippets plugin, using it to markup pages/posts (basically just filling out fields), then testing those URLs in […]
The Ideal W3 Total Cache Settings With Cloudflare + StackPath CDN Setup Instructions (Updated 2019, V.0.9.7.4)
If you’re going the free route, W3 Total Cache is a solid cache plugin. I tested W3 Total Cache with Cloudflare and StackPath CDN (which integrate with W3TC) in conjunction with SiteGround’s hosting who was rated the #1 host in 20+ Facebook polls and also used by Yoast. This got me .5s GTmetrix load times […]
The 15 Most Important WordPress Plugins For SEO, Speed Optimization, Backups, Security And Website Optimization
Obsessed with WordPress plugins like me? Here’s a list of plugins for SEO, speed optimization, design, security, backups, and other plugins for optimizing your site. I use all these on my own WordPress site and they all have a 4+ star rating. I wrote tutorials on many of them including how to configure the Yoast settings, optimizing […]
All In One Schema Rich Snippets Plugin Review / Tutorial: Minimal Plugin That Does The Job, But Has A Boring Design
All In One Schema Rich Snippets is a WordPress plugin used to markup pages/posts with rich snippets. It has good reviews and will do the job for a lot of people. But other people (like me) are picky about how the markup affects the design of the page. Since every rich snippet plugin adds content to your page which is needed for Google to […]
Stop Using Automatic WordPress Internal Linking Plugins (They’re Not Personalized And Use Repetitive Anchor Text)
I get it… internal links are good for SEO. They’re a natural way to build links to your website while providing helpful resources. Which is exactly why you shouldn’t be using an automatic WordPress internal linking plugin… you don’t want your link strategy to be automated. While these plugins do create internal links, your links are suppose to be helpful, personalized resources and should ideally be […]
10 Genesis Framework Plugins For Customizing Themes (Using Sliders, Social Buttons, Layouts, Newsletters, More)
Looking for the best WordPress Plugins to use with the Genesis Framework? Here are 10 Genesis plugins taken from StudioPress, WordPress directory and other sources. I use many of these on my own Genesis-powered WordPress site, others I have downloaded, tested, and inspected thoroughly. All plugins are free (except #8) and have at least a 4.2/5 star rating. Some things you don’t need plugins […]
21 Ways To Create Better Content In WordPress
We’re always being told to create “good” content but besides being a skilled writer, what else can we do? Well I’ll tell you. We need to spruce it up! We need to focus on aesthetics, user-friendliness, optimization, and leveraging all those tools/plugins we have available. You probably know that from an SEO perspective, good content naturally ranks high […]