Tag: installation

Creative Essentials: Professional Tools That Make My Work Better

My name is Suzanne Scacca and I am a tool snob.  Before I became a writer, and before I entered the world of marketing and web design, I was a long-time project manager. And although I could’ve stepped into any of my project management jobs and simply executed the tasks employers asked of me, I… Continue reading Creative Essentials: Professional Tools That Make My Work Better

How to Make a Website for a Restaurant With WordPress (Quickly)

Running a successful restaurant is no small feat. But, in order to be successful, you need a constant stream of patrons who will visit your venue on a regular basis.  The best way to ensure this is to create a website for your restaurant. By doing so you will be able to share your menu,… Continue reading How to Make a Website for a Restaurant With WordPress (Quickly)

12 Best CMS for 2019

2019 is half over, but don’t let that stop you from trying something new… specifically, a new CMS. “But Ezequiel, good buddy, I don’t have time to check out a whole new content management system. I have websites to make!”, you say, in those exact words. That’s fair, but you should be keeping an eye… Continue reading 12 Best CMS for 2019

20 Best Construction Company WordPress Themes for Building Websites

If you want to land more clients for your construction company, you need a website that can showcase the range of services you offer and convince potential clients that you have the skills and know-how to deliver on their expectations. One of the easiest ways to create a beautiful website is to use WordPress. More… Continue reading 20 Best Construction Company WordPress Themes for Building Websites

Organic & Green WordPress Website Templates

Are you going to build a website for an eco product, organic food store, olive oil, vinegar, honey production, vegetarian food, farming, smoothie, juice bar, bakery, or any other similar business? We are here to help you simplify the process. Don’t try to do everything from scratch. Below you will find 20 incredible organic and… Continue reading Organic & Green WordPress Website Templates

How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

In this post, we’ll explore the WP Mega Menu plugin which allows you to create content-rich navigation menus on your WordPress site. We’ll go through the different aspects of this plugin and we’ll also build a real-world example for demonstration purposes. A sticky menu stays at the top of the screen, so that however far… Continue reading How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

Code a Burger Menu for Mobile Users in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating If you want your site to be responsive (and who doesn’t?), then it’s important to make sure that your main navigation menu works well on small screens. Large navigation menus can take up too much space on a mobile phone, or if they don’t, they can be too small to read… Continue reading Code a Burger Menu for Mobile Users in WordPress

How to Use Firebase Firestore in an iOS App

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to manage data in a Firebase Firestore database. For some background on Firebase and instructions on how to get your Firestore database set up, please read my earlier Introduction to Firebase post. Data, Documents, and Collections Working with Firestore, data, documents and collections are the key concepts which we need… Continue reading How to Use Firebase Firestore in an iOS App

How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

Creating a website has never been easier thanks to platforms like WordPress. Not only is WordPress very easy to learn, it’s the perfect platform to create any type of website.  Thanks to the huge number of themes, you can get your site up and running in a matter of hours, whether you want to launch… Continue reading How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

How to Make a Drop-Down Menu in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are having a bit of a moment in the spotlight. From burger menus for mobile through mega menus for stores to sticky menus for enhanced user experience, there’s a great choice in the way you can present your navigation menu in your WordPress site. But what if you want… Continue reading How to Make a Drop-Down Menu in WordPress

Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress

Envato Elements, as you may already know, is a massive repository of creative digital assets. By subscribing to it, you gain access—with unlimited downloads and commercial rights—to over a million premium themes, templates, plugins, and other handy items that facilitate website development. In an attempt to make this repository more accessible to WordPress users, Envato… Continue reading Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress

How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites

WordPress remains THE most popular platform for blogging and content management, with a a full 30% of websites on the internet using it. As a result of this popularity, hacking attempts and other instances of cybercrime, especially ransomware attacks, are on the rise. Starting in 2017, analysts began to see an increase of the EV… Continue reading How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites

8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

Since the Android Marketplace launched in March 2012, the size of the average Android app has quintupled. Some of this increase makes sense: the memory available to the typical Android device has increased, so why not use this extra memory to deliver a better user experience? However, there is a point where all of those… Continue reading 8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

How to Install, Configure and Secure Your Own Website Server From Scratch

If you’ve ever owned or run a website you’ll be familiar with one important part of it: quality hosting, good servers. And whilst there’s a huge number of hosting companies available, finding the best option can sometimes be tricky. This intermediate level tutorial will help you understand hosting with a VPS or dedicated server. Who is… Continue reading How to Install, Configure and Secure Your Own Website Server From Scratch

Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

What You’ll Be Creating Sometimes you want your blog posts to appear on more pages in your WordPress site than just your blog. You’ve already got the option of using category and taxonomy archives, as well as tags. This can help you divide up your content and add a variety of sections to your blog… Continue reading Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re switching to WordPress from a static site, from a site builder provided by your hosting provider, or even from an old WordPress site, you’ll want to ensure that your old site still works while you’re setting up the shiny new WordPress installation. The good news is that you don’t… Continue reading Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating People like pictures. They like looking at them, they like clicking on them. So it makes sense to use them in the navigation for your site. You may already use featured images in your archive pages, letting users get a greater insight into what a post is about and making your… Continue reading Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you… Continue reading Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images—for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of… Continue reading Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it.  However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript. Google itself is leaving no stone unturned to attract more developers to… Continue reading Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

When it comes to professional website building, using WordPress is undoubtedly a reasonable solution. The platform comes with a powerful feature set, abundance of design customization tools, themes, plugins and extensions. It can boast a trusted user community, the members of which are always ready to provide any kind of web design assistance to newbies.… Continue reading 5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

Migrating a WordPress Website In Under 10 Minutes: The Ultimate Guide To The Duplicator Plugin

Thinking about migrating your WordPress site? Most people aren’t aware of how they can migrate their site and then upon searching, they come across so many complex ways that they decide to not to do it altogether. But, then there are a few ways that can help you in moving the site to the server… Continue reading Migrating a WordPress Website In Under 10 Minutes: The Ultimate Guide To The Duplicator Plugin