White Screen of Death: What it Means and How to Fix It

White Screen of Death: What it Means and How to Fix It

You’re messing around in your functions.php file (courtesy of Appearance > Editor). You type in a bit of code, hit “Save”, then suddenly your whole site goes white. Blank. You can’t even sign in. A lot of people think this means their blog is GONE… […]

The 6 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Blog

The 6 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Blog

1) Optimize and compress your images. Large, uncompressed images can so easily double, triple, or quadruple your site loading time. A 1MB-sized site could become 4MB with just a few uncompressed images. Yikes! Resize images down to the size you actually need. You don’t need […]

What to do Before Switching WordPress Themes

What to do Before Switching WordPress Themes

In terms of ‘under the hood’ changes, switching your WordPress theme isn’t a big deal. Themes are (or should be) about appearance not functionality. So let’s just get one thing straight: Switching WordPress themes will not delete any of your posts, pages, or comments* * […]

Automatically Approve Comments in a Certain Post Category

Automatically Approve Comments in a Certain Post Category

Mohmoh submitted a question about how to approve comments that are made on a post in a specific category: I had used this code to automatically approve comments of a specific category but after the last update wordpress 4.4 this code not work: add_filter( 'pre_option_comment_moderation', […]

How to Choose Your WordPress Web Host

How to Choose Your WordPress Web Host

If you’re moving from Blogger to WordPress or just considering changing hosts, it’s important to carefully consider your host before choosing. Web hosts are generally split into two categories. There are a lot more than two categories if you want to get super specific, but […]

When to Use Easy Digital Downloads Instead of WooCommerce

When to Use Easy Digital Downloads Instead of WooCommerce

WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads are like the two kings of the WordPress e-commerce world. When people first get started with an online business, one of the first questions they’ll ask is “which platform do I choose?” Let me help you out! Both platforms are […]

Create an Image Hover Effect with Text in WordPress

Create an Image Hover Effect with Text in WordPress

Hi Ashley – I want to create a page for specific books, but I want as little text as possible on the page. Instead, I would like to make it so that the book synopsis pops up when you hover over the image (instead of […]

Protect the WordPress Admin Area with htpasswd

Protect the WordPress Admin Area with htpasswd

I receive an awesome WordPress security question from Shannelle: Ashley! You’ve mentioned that you got to do a login page to access the real login page, and I was wondering, how did you do that? I’m being bothered by so many emails about people trying […]

Code Your Own CommentLuv

Code Your Own CommentLuv

When I last redesigned my website I went through this weird phase where I wanted to consolidate all my website features. I wanted to stop using plugins and integrate everything into the one “Nose Graze plugin” I have that’s full of my site’s features. I […]

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