Steps to Backup and Migrate Your WordPress Site!

As a blogger or business owner with a WordPress site, you have spent so much time and effort to launch your online business. For the same reason, you should have as much control as possible over your online presence.

You’ve chosen a self-hosted platform for a reason, and it would be a shame to lose all of your hard work or become tied to a bad web host because you don’t have a backup plan in place. Continue reading

How Fast is Your WordPress? Optimization Tips and Tools!

Is your WordPress site slow to load? Are you looking for ways to speed up WordPress or get better performance? While WordPress is a fantastic platform, one of its weaknesses is that it can become sluggish.

But, just because your website takes a long time to load, it’s not a signal that you should ditch WordPress in favor of some other content management system (CMS). Having a slow-loading site is certainly something you should address immediately, however. Continue reading

Error Establishing Database Connection WordPress (FIXED definitely)

This WordPress error, establishing a database connection is normal so please do not panic. I want to guide you step by step to fixing it.

I’m going to propose a solution irrespective of your Web Hosting provider. I have seen many guides how to fix this database connection error. But most of these are specific to different hosting solutions.

We will look at salvaging this in 3 different ways:

1. Checking to make sure we are properly connecting to the database
2. Using the WordPress Database repair tool
3. Contacting your host

Again don’t panic. These are very friendly tools and methods and I will make sure even my grand ma can follow these instructions and fix the problem. Continue reading

Beautiful WordPress Themes ~ 2019 Rock Solid Designs!

WordPress is most powerful and easy to use content management system. Whatever type of website you need to create, WordPress has you covered with thousands of beautiful WordPress Themes.

Setting up a website with WordPress is painless as well as cost effective. It will only take a few minutes to set-up a solid website for your business.

However, finding a quality WordPress theme that meets your expectation perfectly is not easy. Below I’ve compiled a cool collection of beautiful WordPress themes that completely suited for almost every business niche. Each of these themes comes with customizable theme option panel that let you design a website that stand out from the rest.

So here is the list of beautiful WordPress themes with rock solid design check out these and see if anything catches your attention. Continue reading

How to create css buttons in WordPress with no ShortCodes!

Shortcodes in WordPress are pieces of code that help you embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line.

They were introduced in WP version 2.5 and since then have become one of the most useful features.

When a shortcode is inserted in a WordPress post or page, WordPress will replace it with some other content while displaying the page/post to the reader. In other words, we instruct WordPress to find the macro and replace it with the appropriate dynamic content produced by a PHP function.

For some simple virtual elements such as buttons, Shortcodes may be a little cumbersome. And to kick the ease out of the way, editing existing Shortcode features is not always so friendly. Continue reading

9 Must-Have Plugins for your new WordPress site!

You’ve just setup a new WordPress site and you are wondering which plugins to install.

I know the feelings because I was once a newbie. But having been blogging and using WordPress for over 6 years, I can tell within the blink of an eye what you need for your new blog.

I don’t even need to know the reasons or niche you are blogging in. There are plugins you must install as early as you have your WordPress blog setup.

Why?

Let’s begin first by looking at some key reasons why you need plugins for WordPress and what plugins are. Continue reading