Tips and tricks for your WordPress website. Please comment with your own tips!
Google is often the ‘bar’ set for how well a website is doing. Top search results for a given search term are highly valued and sought after by website owners. Higher visibility means greater search traffic to your website, and in turn, more conversions and sales (if you are an ecommerce vendor.) And while most … Read more
One of the great features of WordPress is that the content (data) and presentation (look and feel) are separated, making it relatively easy to change the ‘skin’ of your website without making any changes to the content you already have in place. While all of the content for your site is stored in the WordPress … Read more
WordPress is an often overlooked aspect of web design. So much effort and planning goes into creating a visually pleasant experience for our human users that we forget that web crawlers care about actual content rather than presentation. While SEO may seem daunting, implementing it is easier than one might think. Increasing your rankings with … Read more
With 2016 upon us, it’s time for many to try to break old habits, turn over a new leaf, and establish new personal goals. But what about for your website? Below are a few resolutions you should consider for your website. Resolution #1: Make your site work across as many platforms as possible Where websites … Read more
Advanced Custom Fields is my go to WordPress plugin for WordPress customization. There are quite a few plugins that can help you develop custom content for WordPress, but in my opinion this plugin stands far ahead of the pack. It is feature rich, the UI is beautiful, it is stable and easy to work with, … Read more
Getting a large amount of content, data, images and files into WordPress can prove time consuming to say the least. Often people do it manually, carefully setting up each post and page, copy and pasting each bit of content into its new location, and then painstakingly uploading all of the media the pages require. This is … Read more
The core of any site is a good menu. A menu is the primary way that users get around your site, and a well-designed menu can guide your users to the exact pages you want them to see. The default menu options provided by WordPress may be adequate for simple menus, but it’s fairly lacking … Read more
I am often asked to display a set of data that is useful for the site visitor. This often means that the data is to be sortable by one or more fields and easily searchable. In addition, it should have an an aesthetic appeal to make it easier to read. Traditional methods to display data … Read more
Site load speed is one of those topics that rarely gets enough attention. In WordPress, there are about three zillion ways to improve load speed. We use some of these for our WordPress maintenance plans and have had dramatic results in some cases, so we thought we’d share the love. gZip compression gZip compression is … Read more
I’m a relatively new addition to the Watermelon Web Works team, and when they asked me to create blogging content, I was a bit under prepared. I’d never published content for a high end development company before! But I realized it was time to put my expertise down on paper (so to speak), and translate … Read more