Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Top 10 Ways to Make Money with WordPress You have a website or your thinking about creating a website or blog. You might be wondering, how can you make money with your site? In the video above, I share with you, the top 10 ways to make money with a Read full article…
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WordPress 5.0 aka Gutenberg – December 6th 2018 Release Date
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress 5.0 aka Gutenberg is now scheduled to be released on Thursday, December 6th 2018. That’s right, Gutenberg is almost here. Are you ready for this major update to the most popular blogging and website creation tool used by over 32% of modern websites online? Over the past few months, Read full article…
The WordPress Loop & How To Customize The Loop
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress makes it extremely easy to create content on your website and blog. All you have to do is log into your WordPress Powered Website, head over to the Add New Post and start blogging away. The Actual Steps of crafting your blog post are as follows: (I know, you Read full article…
Learn How To Code 10X Faster – Tips from a Full Stack Web Developer
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Learning to code can be one of the most difficult, yet rewarding decisions a person can make. The world around us is changing at a rapid pace, primarily because of our technological advances. Everything around us is connected in some way, to the internet and has a built in processor Read full article…
Troubleshooting WordPress – Error Establishing Database Connection
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress is an amazing Content Management System that uses a database management system called MySQL or MariaDB. But if you’ve surfed the web, you’ve probably come across the Error Establishing a Database Connection. Sometimes database’s can get corrupted, run into issues or your server can get overloaded. There are numerous Read full article…
Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion – Is WordPress Next?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Another Multi-Billion Dollar Purchase by Microsoft This past week has been good for Microsoft. With the latest reports highlighting the company’s value at $753 Billion which makes it one of the most valuable companies in the world (it’s been at the top for almost my entire life) and it’s purchase Read full article…
Yoast SEO Update Causes Search Rankings to Drop in Google
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Have you heard the Latest SEO News? The number one SEO plugin for WordPress, Yoast SEO, accidently created a bug in the 7.0 update which caused some websites and blogs to tank in the search results. How did this happen to the Premiere SEO Plugin? Mistakes happen, especially when major Read full article…
GDPR & WordPress – Is Your Website Ready?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Is your Website GDPR Compliant? GDPR aka General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect today, May 25, 2018. You might have heard about this over the past few weeks as you’ve opened up your email to find numerous updates to privacy policies. So the question is what should you focus Read full article…
How To Use The Duplicator WordPress Migration & Backup Plugin
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube As a WordPress Developer, I’m always creating new websites for myself and clients. Part of my workflow is I first create the website on my local development environment. I choose or code the theme, install the plugins I’ll be using on the live website along with some development focused plugins Read full article…
What To Look For in a WordPress Theme – A Developers Perspective
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube My Thoughts on Choosing a WordPress Theme Choosing a WordPress Theme can be difficult with all the options available. In the video above which is from my YouTube Channel, I share my thinking of what people should look for in a WordPress Theme. When choosing a WordPress Theme, you have Read full article…
Should you learn WordPress in 2018?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube This question seems to come up every single year because people want to know if WordPress is here to stay. The basis of this article, is whether or not a person should consider becoming a WordPress designer, developer or consultant. As a freelance WordPress developer, I spend a significant amount Read full article…
Two WordPress Updates in 24 Hours 4.9.3 to 4.9.4 What Happened?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube As many of you might have noticed, this week we had two updates to WordPress from 4.9.2 to 4.9.3 and then in less than 24 hours 4.9.4 was rushed out. Why did we have two updates back to back? WordPress 4.9.3 This update resolved 34 bugs in WordPress 4.9 including Read full article…
Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2018
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube The Best of the Best, WordPress Plugins 2018 One of the greatest things about WordPress is the sheer number of themes and plugins available, for free, on the official WordPress website. There are tens of thousands of free plugins that empower you to extend the functionality of your website with Read full article…
WP Optimize vs WP Sweep vs Optimize Database vs Advanced Database Cleaner
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress Database Optimization Plugins, faceoff! Having a well optimized database is extremely important for those who own and manage dynamic websites. Fortunately with WordPress, there are several really good WordPress Database Optimization Plugins that do a really good job of making the whole process, easy. In this post and the Read full article…
How To Prepare Your WordPress Website for 2018 – Speed Security SEO Social Media & Email
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube It’s amazing that 2017 is already coming to an end. The count down begins and next thing you know, we will be diving right into 2018. So what should you do for your WordPress Website to get it prepared for the upcoming year? There are a number of things that Read full article…
How to Add a Custom YouTube Video Header in your WordPress Theme
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Have you thought about using a YouTube Video as a Custom Header on your WordPress Powered Website? The basic steps are you would go to: Appearance then Customize then proceed to the Header Section and place the URL to the YouTube Video you want to display. Seems easy enough right? Read full article…
What’s New in WordPress 4.9 Tipton?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Watch the Latest WordPress Features Video Above WordPress has just released version 4.9 named after Billy Tipton after the Jazz Musician and band leader. This is the last major release for the 2017 calendar year. With this latest update comes some much anticipated and sought after improvements in the WordPress Read full article…
How To Code a WordPress Theme with Bootstrap 4 & Underscores – DevWP
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress Theme Development Video Above WordPress is an amazing Content Management System that makes it really easy to own a website for very little investment. For just a few bucks, you can own your Domain Name and get Web Hosting. This gives you the ability to actually own a piece Read full article…
Speed Up WordPress – Improve Performance with Autoptimize Plugin
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Website Performance Matters WordPress can be either a slow CMS to use for your website, or it can be blazing fast when properly configured. While there are many factors at play when determining the performance of a WordPress Powered Website, some complex strategies that require server tweaks, deep analysis of Read full article…
Top 10 WordPress SEO Plugins To Boost Your Google Rankings
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress SEO via Plugins – Video Above Search Engine Optimization is one of those topics that seems to always be a hot topic of discussion and for good reason. Owning a website can open the doors to communicating with millions of people all over the world or it can be Read full article…
How To Use MailChimp With WordPress Via a Plugin
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress is a great platform because of the amount of ways you can use it to market your ideas to the world. You can share your articles via social media and you can easily build up your email list by integrating your WordPress Website with MailChimp which provides you with Read full article…