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Everyone who knows anything about how websites work must have heard about or even used WordPress. Although many other content management systems exist, WordPress is by far the most widely used CMS preferred by owners of almost any type of…

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As an online business, your website is a powerful asset and you need it to make a good first impression. By getting up to speed on the latest web design trends, you’ll be on your way to converting one-time browsers into loyal repeat visitors and paying customers. To set your website up for success, here are four WordPress web design trends to follow.

Why it’s important to follow web design trends

When designing a website, there’s always a temptation to stand out by creating something unexpected….

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As an online business, your website is a powerful asset and you need it to make a good first impression. By getting up to speed on the latest web design trends, you’ll be on your way to converting one-time browsers into loyal repeat visitors and paying customers. To set your website up for success, here are four WordPress web design trends to follow.

Why it’s important to follow web design trends

When designing a website, there’s always a temptation to stand out by creating something unexpected….

WordPress Images Sizes: Easy Best Practice Guide

Getting WordPress image sizes right is essential because they impact a website’s appearance, speed, and user experience (UX).

Large-size images can consume too much space on your WordPress website, resulting in longer loading time and higher bounce rates.

This article will explain everything you need to know about WordPress image sizes to balance web aesthetics and performance. We’ll explain WordPress default image sizes, show you how to change them, and share top tips for optimizing your WordPress…

Do you want to remove unused CSS in WordPress and make your website faster?

A key goal of website optimization is to remove any unnecessary code. This reduces the total size of your website pages and leads to faster page loading times and a better user experience for visitors.

One area where you can greatly reduce the size of website pages is styling. Website styling is controlled through a rule-based language called Cascading Style Sheets, which is one of the core building blocks of the World Wide Web alongside HTML and Javascript.

More commonly abbreviated to CSS, stylesheets can…

A high severity security flaw found in a WordPress plugin with more than 8,000 active installs can let authenticated attackers reset and wipe vulnerable websites.

The plugin in question, known as Hashthemes Demo Importer, is designed to help admins import demos for WordPress themes with a single, without dealing with installing any dependencies.

The security bug would allow authenticated attackers to reset WordPress sites and delete almost all database content and uploaded media.

Wordfence QA engineer and threat analyst Ram Gall explained that the plugin failed to properly perform…

Fast-loading websites enhance the user experience for visitors, improve your search engine presence and increase your website traffic.

A web page contains HTML, CSS, Javascript, and images, and each of these has to be optimized in order to reduce the page load time. Images have one of the greatest effects on page size so it is important to reduce image file sizes using a WordPress image optimization plugin.