Category: Tips & Tutorials
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The Nuclear Option: Setting Up WordPress Backups with Dropbox and UpdraftPlus
This blog post is actually from my wicked-awesome WordPress for Small Business Owners course. If you dig it, you should sign up for the whole thing. It’s totally free! Take the Free Course! It’s pretty hard to break a WordPress site. But just in case, one of the first things you should do with a…
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Stop Jetpack from Slowing Down Your WordPress Site
When you install Automattic’s Jetpack plugin, it comes with a ton of features enabled by default. While it has a lot of great features, you probably don’t need all of them. I recently installed it for a client in order to use WooCommerce Services and USPS shipping calculation. I got the shipping information just like…
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Fix My Slow Website! Part 3: Plugins
This is part 3 in my series on fixing slow websites. Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2! First off, if you’re following this series as a non-WordPress developer, you might skip out on this particular entry, as it’s very WordPress-oriented. Might I suggest finding something else on the blog? Most WordPress sites…
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Fix My Slow Website! Part 2: Optimizing Images
This is part 2 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them. Read part 1 here. Big images are all the rage in web right now. Seems like you can’t turn around without finding high-res hero images and videos. And there’s nothing wrong with these. They generally look great and,…
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Fix My Slow Website! Part 1: Why is my Website Slow?
This is part 1 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them If you ever review a job board for web developers, you’ll see many variations on “my WordPress site is slow, what do I do?” I have got 6 websites. The load speed is very slow. Looking for…