Dec 17, 2024 0

Main Benefits of Using WordPress to build Your Company’s Website

Ever since, WordPress Content Management System or CMS was launched in 2003 it has continued its journey to become the world’s most popular CMS which is now used to build all kinds of websites. WordPress is an open source CMS. Initially, WordPress was more popular as a blogging platform but in recent years, it has gained immense popularity as a non-blogging platform used for crafting and building various kinds of websites across all fields whether it is e-commerce, travel, booking, news website or more. That’s why WordPress Development has become highly popular now. WordPress is now the most adapted framework and over 30% of all the websites on internet have been built using WordPress. WordPress has a large community of people and developers therefore it is flourishing and growing at an unprecedented pace. This powerful tool has its own knack for editing and designing the websites as per your specific business requirements. The situation has become such that, when a thought of website development comes to the developers’ mind, WordPress hits at the first time as it is the best CMS platform for website development. WordPress has overtaken all other available CMS soon after its launch. Now we will discuss some of the points why WordPress is so much powerful and popular: WordPress is an Open Source Content Management System WordPress is an open source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress Code is open source and anyone can use it and customize it as per their

Nov 18, 2024 0

WordPress 4.8.2, the security and maintenance release is out

Recently on 19 Sept, 2017, WordPress core version 4.8.2 is released for the general public. Actually this is a security and maintenance release and the updates are minor ones. For those people who have enabled the auto updates feature, their WordPress websites will be uploaded automatically. WordPress 4.8.2 features mainly nine security fixes which the WordPress website owners should apply. This year there have been total six updates featuring security fixes. The maintenance side of the update features six other software updates and focuses on the bit where we see five cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws which is a popular attack that refuses to die, directory traversal issues and the one covering an open redirect. Also there is precautionary hardening of the $wpdb->prepare() method for more safety. The WordPress plugin developer can understand this easily as how much important it is to write plugin code without any vulnerability. Actually the main problem is not the vulnerability in the core WordPress software but the main headache is the ecosystem which allows code of WordPress plugins and themes. WordPress states that WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this security issue but we have added more hardening to prevent plugins and themes from causing a vulnerability. Although WordPress has a solid security operation but the large number of third party plugins and themes which offers many benefits to WordPress also add the vulnerability. Recently it was found that the Display Widget plugin which is used by more than 2,00,000 websites was taken off

Feb 18, 2020 0

Gutenberg WordPress Editor: 7 Things You Need To Know About this Editor

Have you been still manually editing pages and posts with the Classic WordPress editor? If yes, then it’s time to say hello to “New Gutenberg WordPress Editor”! In WordPress 0.5, the classic editor has been replaced with the all-new Gutenberg WordPress editor which is highly flexible and versatile to use. Gutenberg editor has not only simplified such things in WordPress but offers you an entirely new way to use WordPress and making editing in text, images, videos far more straightforward. You must be wondering why we are calling it a new editor? Go back to the time when you were using the classic WordPress editor with the old tired interface where there is no flexibility to drag and drop the page block. Instead, you need to manually add the text and images to customize the look and feel of the website. But with Gutenberg, everything is editing with the BLOCK! Apart, Gutenberg WordPress Editor can be a future for WordPress Developers as it has all the features to transform your site into a compelling package. Gutenberg editor has been designed to change the overall editing experience both in the way it works and access by the developers. Let’s dig deep and understand what it has to offer you? 7 Significant Things You Need To Know About New Gutenberg WordPress Editor 1. Gutenberg Is More Than Just An Editor Control the entire website’s layout with a single console as Gutenberg allows you to manage complete website content in well-categorized blocks or

Dec 31, 2019 0

Reasons Why a Website Should have Contact Form

If I say that technology is changing as the years are growing, would you agree with me? Most definitely yes! We see it changing every day. From desktop applications to hosted solutions, different technologies tend to make all the business processes easy. And within these business processes thinking about customers is the first thing. A way to communicate with them has to be the number one priority. Reason: When a user tends to design a website, they are, of course, thinking about customers. The same thought process is acquaintance by customers also. And thus, the user would want that the audience should know about their business and website. There are times when your audience would want to communicate with a particular business to know about the products. And thus, here is when a contact form page comes to the rescue. The Importance of having a business contact forms is well known to all the business owners, and if it is not constructed in a way that makes life easy of a customer, then the purpose becomes hazy. Thus, here are some of the reasons and how a user can bring out the best from a contact form. Understanding the Importance of contact forms in your Business Before you start building up a form and get going with the idea, make sure that you are aware of your audience, ask yourself – What are the customers that you wish to target? Are they filling out your contact forms to get a

Dec 6, 2019 0

HOW TO REDIRECT POSTS & PAGES WITH 301 REDIRECTS

If you want to learn more about 301 redirects and how to redirect posts & pages with 301 redirects, then you’re just in the right place! Now, have you ever visited a site or just clicked on one of your old bookmarks of a site and were greeted with that famous “Oops 404”? If you have, then you might have had the feeling that the site is rubbish and in no good condition in the way of being updated and user friendly. You want to avoid this feeling of inconvenience being felt by your visitors because it may greatly hurt your site that you’re working on. If you don’t deal with such problems early on, then your visitors count will drop dramatically in the long run because they will get the impression that you’re unwilling to or you don’t care about fixing the problem. And, don’t worry; you will not have to go through a painstaking process of redirecting your URL-s manually in order to solve the problem. All you have to do is add a plugin that fixes the problem in a matter of minutes, and most importantly, completely free of charge! What exactly is 301 redirect? Well, to put it in simple terms, it’s basically making the user click one link which redirects them to a completely different URL! This is very useful if you already have an old site and you want to implement it into WordPress without having the deep technical know how to do it. 301

Nov 21, 2019 0

WordPress the Saviour? Can it be used for Web Development?

If you have opened this article, then I am guessing that there can be possibly two scenarios that made you do so! 1. You hold to be a business master that requires a website, but you did not have enough experience and funds to make it happen. And now you need inputs on how to do so! 2. You have a website, but you do not know how to revamp it, or do not know what it should be like! If I have hit right in the middle of the dartboard, then this is the right place for you. WordPress is the answer to your permanent website queries. Business needs a responsive, reliable and secure website. Reason: It is the first thing that their potential audience witness, and hence it portrays the way their business is. A right template can make an excellent impression on your customers. WordPress Web Development is extremely flexible and scalable. It is easy, and the websites that are designed on this platform is secure with the highest coding security and frequent updates. Would you be filled with questions – Why should I choose WordPress? Why do I need to switch from my existing platform to WordPress? What would WordPress bring me? Thus, here are amazing of the details that would help you to uncover these questions and provide you with the answers. Let’s Begin WordPress being the Saviour The excellence of the platform is that it makes the website accessible to anyone. Starting from expert web developers

Nov 12, 2019 0

15 Ways to Improve The Accessibility of Your WordPress Website

Is your WordPress Website INACCESSIBLE for users? If your website has a disability, you are likely to lose 20% of potential users worldwide! W3C Director and Inventor of World Wide Web, “Tim Berners- Lee” says – The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. When it comes to developing a WordPress website, you are likely to think about hundreds of things to put together. From writing quality content, installing the best plugins to implementing a beautiful theme, developers work hard to make it functional and appealing. However, one of the things that often overlooked is an essential element of your site is its “Accessibility”. Now let me ask you the question, what is the accessibility aspect in WordPress Website? Most don’t even know about the accessibility of the WP site! Well, if you are seriously taking your users and design of the website, then you need to think about its accessibility. To quell your stress here, this blog has included a broad discussion on : Before discussing the importance of improving the accessibility of your WordPress Website, you should understand that the website is purposefully designed to meet the needs of the range of people. Hence, when the web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of website’s features. The flawlessly designed website removes the barriers to communication and interaction that many people face in sites. Now, at this moment, you must be curious

Nov 7, 2019 0

Making a Shift for Drupal to WordPress? Here is a Guide that would help you!

The fight between Drupal and WordPress has been long going. While some users are gaga over the features of WordPress, others drool upon the framework of Drupal. One way or another, there is a whole support team for both the CMS. However, knowing that which CMS is best for your business is what makes the difference. No matter if you are operating an e-commerce business or a finance website, choosing the right one for your future ventures is what would set you apart. Even if it means that you need to migrate from one CMS to another, where your current web host fails to fulfil your needs, transferring your website to a new host should be considered. In this write-up, we would be discussing Drupal to WordPress Migration. How the migration would be helpful for your website, and what additional benefits you would be blessed with when you are working with the CMS. Let’s get started But Before the Migration Process Before you hire WordPress Developer, there are various things that the user requires to check before they start their migration journey from Drupal to WordPress. Thus, keep in mind some of the following important points that are necessary before the user migrates the site from one CMS to different. Backing up the website: The very first task that the user needs to accomplish is to back up their site before the user starts up with the migration. Not backing up the website would mean losing up of immense data which

Nov 6, 2019 0

The Definitive Guide for Publishing Your WordPress Plugin

With more than 50,000 free plugins and the number is increasing every day, the WordPress Plugin Directory is the city mall for every user of WordPress. This is the best destination, where a user will find desired plugins covering all functionalities and features for their next WP powered web applications. All the plugins available in the Plugin Directory are free to distribute and use. These are licensed under the General Public License (GPL) and many pioneers have published their plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. If you are planning to create and publish your own plugin in the WordPress plugin directory, then this is a must-read blog for you. Why Should You Publish Your WP Plugin? The reasons people publish their WordPress plugins in the Plugin Directory are obviously varied. Here, I have mentioned a couple of examples for the reasons: You need the functionality in a plugin that doesn’t exist in the directory. You see an opportunity in the market. You want to create a community around your custom plugin. Your desired plugin does not provide additional functionality that you need. You are very much frustrated by how much some of the plugins charge for the extra extensions and you think that you can easily create those features at a much lower cost. You want to simplify some of the functionalities in such a way that does not exist. You want a contribution to WordPress Plugin Directory so as to be a part of the community. All about Subversion version

Oct 14, 2019 0

What will be the Total Cost of Developing a WordPress Website?

WordPress is right now the most popular CMS which powers almost 34% of all the websites on internet as per the W3Techs website. Its popularity is also due to the fact that it is free to use and open source. You can visit WordPress.org and download the latest version of WordPress for free and use it to build your website. Now you may be wondering if WordPress is free to use then why do building WordPress website cost money? We will find out the answer to this question in this article and moreover, we will tell you how much extra cost you need to build certain kinds of WordPress websites so that you can choose the one which comes under your budget. Actually, although WordPress is free but it can’t work on its own. To get a fully functional website, you will need many other essential things like WordPress hosting, a domain name, a WordPress theme, WordPress plugins and more. Many businesses just hire a WordPress Development Company which takes care of all of these tasks. There is no single way to build your WordPress website. Depending on your choices, the cost of building a WordPress website can range from about $100 per year up to several thousands of dollars per year. As per your budget, you can choose the things to be included in your WordPress website. Let’s start this article so that you can know which things you need to build your WordPress website up and running and how