Plugin Tutorials
Optimize Images for WordPress: How to Use Shortpixel to Speed Up Your Website
Learning how to optimize images for WordPress is a necessary step in the overall strategy of optimizing a website for speed, ensuring fast page load times for your visitors. Website optimization involves several subjects and is critical to building a successful website. The faster your content loads, the better user engagement you will create. That’s why I use Kinsta hosting and documented my entire…
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How to Create a Before and After Image Slider
Have you ever wanted to show before and after photos on your WordPress website? There are many reasons why these kinds of images might make sense for your blog. Perhaps you blog about crafts, fashion, makeup techniques, exercise, home remodeling, or even plastic surgery. Whatever you blog about, it’s likely you can create a compelling…
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How to Upload and Activate a Plugin Zip File in WordPress
In my previous post, I showed you how to search for, and install plugins from the official WordPress.org plugin repository. In this post, I’ll show you how to upload and activate a plugin .zip file. Why You Might Need to Upload a Plugin Zip File There are thousands of freely available plugins hosted on the…
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How to Search For, Install, and Activate Plugins in WordPress
In this tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to search for new free plugins from the official WordPress.org plugin repository. I’ll also show you how to install and activate these free plugins. If you’ve purchased a premium plugin and need to know how to install the plugin .zip file, learn how to do that in this…
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How to Blog from Your iPhone (without typing)
I recently used my iPhone to write and publish a few blog posts. Once I discovered the process, I took it one step further by using the built-in speech to text option of iOS. The best part is that there weren’t any technical “tricks” needed to get this done and no complicated software. In this…
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