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Optimize Images for WordPress: How to Use Shortpixel to Speed Up Your Website

By Adam W. Warner

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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WordPress CDN: How to Enable on Kinsta Hosting

By Adam W. Warner

Using a WordPress CDN is much easier to set up than it once was, but it can sometimes be confusing. Learn what a CDN is, what’s used for, and how I use a WordPress CDN.

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Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting Review: My Experience as a New User

By Adam W. Warner

This post is my Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting review. In it, I detail my experience with signing up for Kinsta and going through the steps to migrate an existing website. This website in fact. The first step in my relaunch plan for this site was to optimize it for speed. It’s a well-known fact that…

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How to Create a Before and After Image Slider

By Adam W. Warner

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

By Adam W. Warner

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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Search, Install, Activate Free Plugins

How to Search For, Install, and Activate Plugins in WordPress

By Adam W. Warner

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)

By Adam W. Warner

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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The “Secret” Social Sharing Tool Combo I Use Every Single Day

By Adam W. Warner

  Creating a full-time business from your blog isn’t just about creating great content. It’s about providing value to your visitors and your followers on social media too. But what if you only post once, twice, or even three times a week? Is sharing your posts a few times a week on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest…

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Video Course Survey Results

Video Course Survey Results

By Adam W. Warner

Last week I published a survey asking what video course I should publish here first. I sent this survey to my email subscribers, Facebook and Twitter followers, and promoted it to the general public. The results are in and the winner is…”Sell Digital Products (ebooks, printables, images, etc.)” Click the image below to see the ranking…

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Use your Blog’s Theme Color Scheme in your Custom Images

By Adam W. Warner

If you’re blogging you know that creating images to accompany your posts is necessary to help give more visual appeal to your posts. Blog images are also an important part of your marketing plan for social media. I’ve already showed you the easiest way to create beautiful images for your blog. I also referenced the…

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