Favicons are the icons you see on a browser tab when a website is open. Ordinarily this is just the site logo. By default, your WordPress site’s icon is also the WordPress icon. But this can be changed. All you have to do is go the Live Editor and make the changes there. To do so, just navigate to the Live Editor, customize the Site Identity and pick an icon… Read More »How To Add Favicons

Introduction Ever wonder how when you revisit a site, it loads faster than the first time you visited it? That is actually made possible by a process called caching What this process does is that it keeps requested resources and stores them somewhere, so that once the same resources are requested, they don’t have to be retrieved (which can be resource intensive) again. This allows for a smoother and overall,… Read More »How To Leverage The Browser Cache For WordPress

Introduction Seeing the title of this article, you may be asking yourself, “Just what is the .htaccess file?” and also “Why should we edit the .htaccess file?” The answer to the first question is that the .htaccess file is a configuration file found (or created) in the root directory of your WordPress site. What it does, to answer the second question, is that it directs and changes the behavior of… Read More »How To Edit the .htaccess File

Introduction Sometimes the ordinary functionality of our WordPress site needs to be enhanced. We can ordinarily do this with PHP snippets. But did you know, you can do this with JavaScript as well? That’s correct. We can leverage JavaScript and use it on your WordPress site. The process is really similar to the process of enhancing the current theme, but if you don’t know how to do that, there’s no… Read More »How To Add JavaScript to WordPress

Introduction Sometimes the media files we try to upload on WordPress can’t be uploaded because it is greater than the default file size upload restrictions which WordPress has. As a result, we may have to decrease the quality (if it’s an image) or we have to divide it into chunks (if it’s a video). These workarounds aren’t good since they force you to compromise the quality of your media files.… Read More »How To Increase the WordPress Maximum File Size Upload

Introduction Have you wanted to remove the “Powered by WordPress” from your theme’s footer? Some WordPress themes (usually premium) allow you to do that from the Live Editor and others require that you install an extension plugin. Most themes however, don’t allow you to do this without modifying the code. Thankfully, this can be done easily and quickly. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how. Let’s begin! Adding additional CSS on… Read More »How To Remove “Powered By WordPress” on your Site

Introduction The WordPress footer is one of the main features of any WordPress paste or post. However, it isn’t always utilized, especially by those new to WordPress. But more than a visual feature, did you know that the footer can be used for different functions as well? It can be used to store widgets, it can even contain scripts, and even a mixture of both. Knowing this is essential, since… Read More »How To Edit The WordPress Footer

Introduction The WordPress sidebar is one of the most integral parts of your WordPress site. It contains widgets that point to different parts of your website. However, you may find the need to hide it for design or user experience purposes. Deleting the sidebar is usually done by modifying code on your current theme’s PHP files. However, we don’t recommend this, since it can break your site. Instead, we recommend… Read More »How To Remove The WordPress Sidebar

Introduction Most WordPress Posts are text and image heavy. And for a lot of purposes -like blogging, this is fine, But did you know that you can also embed YouTube videos on your Posts/Pages too? Embedding YouTube videos can enhance your site. For instance, if you’re using WordPress as a blogging platform, you may decide to post videos related to the content of your blog post. In another instance, if… Read More »How To Embed YouTube Videos to WordPress

Introduction If you’re trying to increase the traffic on your WordPress site, you can’t ignore analytics. Among other things, you will need this data to know more about your site’s visitors, which pages they frequently visit and when they visit. Thankfully, there is a free and easy to use service available that can help you out with this – Google Analytics. The service collects data from Life Cycle, Users and… Read More »How To Add Google Analytics to WordPress

Introduction Your site’s WordPress header is really important. It is the first thing your visitors will see and more importantly. It is also where we can insert scripts and code to enhance and extend the site’s capabilities and features. Given this, we might find that we need to edit the header of the WordPress site. As we will learn this easy to do. In this tutorial, we will learn how… Read More »How to Edit the WordPress Header

Introduction If you’ve been using WordPress for some time, you would have probably experienced your site crashing and then malfunctioning upon trying to access its contents. As a result, you may have found yourself having to re-install your site and start from scratch because all your data has been corrupted, or worse, lost. To prevent this from happening, or to make recovery easier, it’s best to create a backup of… Read More »How to Backup a WordPress Site