WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source CMS used by millions of blogs and websites. As the most popular site-building software, WordPress powers more than 43% of the websites on the internet today.

WordPress is an open-source software written in PHP, which integrates with MySQL databases to provide custom publishing solutions to users. The core of WordPress can be extended using extra code and is used mostly in content management. WordPress.org is open-source software and free to use.

To start a self-hosted WordPress website, you first need a domain name and a WordPress hosting service to store your website’s files.

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Your blog is the culmination of hours of hard work. Whether you are blogging to share personal insights, or as part of a business strategy, you want to make sure that your hard work pays dividends in blog visitors and subscribers. A good site design is one of the ways that you can set yourself…

Getting a new design for your website is both time consuming and expensive.  There are many great options for free themes but too often these themes do not have very many features and require a lot of extra work. Purchasing a theme from premium theme designers or paying for a custom design can not only…

In the beginning of this year, Google, eh, Google Chrome announced that they will be discouraging non-secure HTTP websites. Basically Google prefers secured websites in search rankings and after the announcement the measures were surely going to be tighter. But this time it is not just about the result rankings, if you own a website, especially…

Are you looking for a photography WordPress theme to showcase your photography talent? If you are, you are among the rarest and trendiest of people online. Everybody wants to be a photographer these days, but very few people actually think of ways to showcase their art online. Not many know that building a photography website,…

No matter what, you own a world class website or a simple blog – hackers and attackers will always be against you, trying to access your backend and modifying it according to their needs. Daily hundreds of top-level and thousands of other websites are attacked by the security-attackers. The reason for these attacks can be…

This is a growing list of the best free WordPress themes for writers and poets. All, made with content in focus and a clutter-free experience, are responsive and fully featured. Most of these are one-column, mobile-friendly and support fly-out menus, excellent typography and post-formats. Let’s have a look at them. ↓ Writ  Writ by Gaurav Tiwari is a…

Writ is a WordPress theme specially made for story writers, poets and content based bloggers. Writ is aimed to be completely content focused. It is a Gutenberg first WordPress theme, specially made for story writers, poets and content-based bloggers. Writ is aimed to be completely content focused. Writ is built with SEO in mind and…

WordPress plugins are effective and easier to use. They do what they are meant to do. You can get WP plugins for almost any tweak you want to do with your site. But there are still a few tweaks that can’t be done by plugins. Or, if they could be done — plugins might build seriously more load on your…

Searching on how to create and use dropcaps (big bold letters on the left of the paragraph) in WordPress and Blogger Posts and Pages? Here’s the best resource you could find. Dropcap is mostly the very first letter of a paragraph, which is styled differently with comparatively massive font size. Dropcaps make interesting blends to…

I am an experimental Windows user. I find, install and experiment with several new applications on my Windows PC every week. Most of the applications and tools I have installed are directly or indirectly about desktop publishing. Some of them are aimed to help me with my study and some others are for web development. In…