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Tools to Optimize Images for WordPress sites

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When it comes to improving site speed, what solutions you often think of? Optimize caching and efficient coding, remove sluggish plugins or rely on a good host. Very impressive! But chances are, you may forget about optimal image compression. Doing it the right way it will lower uploading time, reduce bandwidth usage and end up speeding up your site loading. Some may argue that compressing your images is a double-edged sword when it takes a toll on the image’s quality. But don’t get panic just yet. We are here to provide you some tips on how to balance between image size and quality. Continue

How to reduce bounce rate for your WordPress site

By Jin - 5

When we talk about web traffic analysis, we normally talk about Visitors, Pageview, Traffic sources then we talk about Conversion and how important it is to spend time and money on increasing it. Yet, we sometimes miss a metric called Bounce Rate.

Bounce rate or Exit rate is a metric in web analysis, showing the percentage of visitors entering your site and bouncing (or exiting) the site. Bounce rate can be interpreted and says a lot about your site. While other metrics like Visitors or Pageview say a lot about the quantity of traffic coming to your site, Bounce rate represents the quality of your site traffic. To illustrate, 100 people come to site A and site B at the same time while there are 30 people exit site B, there are 90 people exist your site A. Clearly that numbers tell something about the site quality that attracts more visitors to stay on site B than site A.

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Get Started with WordPress Plugin Development: Some Useful Resources for Beginners

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In my last post I shared some resources that aspiring WordPress theme developers might find useful. Today it’s the turn of those of who want to get started with WordPress plugin development.

With around 20% of the websites that make up the internet powered by WordPress, creating plugins for this platform gives you a good chance of finding a problem to solve and ensuring your creations find an audience. While there are over 30,000 free plugins available at the WordPress.org plugin directory, many plugin developers have found financial success with their products. Sales of the most popular premium WordPress plugins often run into the thousands. Continue

Resources to Help You Get Started with WordPress Theme Development

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If you are thinking of getting started with WordPress theme design and development, whether to customise an existing theme, or have a go at making your own creations from scratch, then the resources in this post should give you some good information to help you take those first steps.

With a mixture of advice, links to tools, tutorials, and other resources, there should be something to fill any knowledge gaps you may have in this key area of WordPress usage, and help you get started off on the right track.

Hopefully you will be able to save yourself some time and unnecessary effort by picking up some tips on good practice before getting started. You can also find a selection of resources that take care of the design initiation tasks for you, which aren’t always the best use of your time. Continue

How to pick an SEO Friendly WordPress Theme

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If you want to get a steady stream of free visitors to your site from search engines such as Google and Bing, then you will need to make sure that your content is optimized for those search engines.

However, as well as ensuring that your content is Search Engine Optimized (SEO), it’s also vital that the underlying structure of your website is also search engine friendly. If you are using WordPress as the publishing platform for your content, then a big part of your SEO duties are taken care for you already.

While this means WordPress users are usually starting out on the right footing when it comes to building an SEO friendly website, there is another issue they need to consider. With content playing such a massive role in how your site is ranked in the search engines, the role the design of a site can often be overlooked.

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