The website performance is equally important with the graphics, the content and the way people interact with it. You don’t want a slow website, neither your visitors. They will leave as soon as they will see that the loading speed is not the best. Two major things will happen, you will be penalized in search results and lose important traffic and finally, conversions. You can easily accelerate your WordPress website performance by picking the right tools.

WordPress is an excellent platform and having a rocket fast website is pretty simple if you respect the basic rules and use the best tools in their domains, like Divi, 123FormBuilder, and SiteGround. This package of solutions is well-known for helping literally thousands of people to have a fast and great-looking website. [Read more…]

ThemeShaper is hosting a contest for the next default theme for WordPress, since Ian thinks Kubrick’s gone old (I agree). He’s proposing The Sandbox since it’s easily modified, but it looks like crap so a new default design is still needed.

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So you’ve decided to run multiple blogs after all. Good for you, as long as you’re contributing (or making a truckload of cash) then it’s fine. Or why not just hire someone to blog for you, that always works, right?

Time to install 35 WordPress blogs! Even if that 5 minute install was all that was needed, it would be around 3 hours of work, and that’s not counting setting up your databases, uploading WordPress files, and so on. Then you’ve got your average plugins, API keys to paste into Akismet’s settings, activating the right theme, fixing the permalinks…

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