Online shopping has got the world and became a stable, profitable, and customizable replacement for conventional stores we are used to. You are about to start making money on your site, but you have no idea how to open an online store? In this guide, we will show you how to turn a regular WordPress site into an eCommerce store using a proven WooCommerce tool.
Hacking and cyber attacks can cause massive server performance problems if not outright interruptions. Many people have no idea how often servers get attacked because they never see the logs. Every server will get attacked several thousand times (sometimes in one hour) every month. Your site might even be attacked right now but you just don’t know it. Securing against these attacks requires a delicate balance.
Every experienced website owner knows the backing up of the website is vital. You shouldn’t think that if something wrong has not happened to your website in the past, nothing bad will happen in the future. Incidents occur unannounced, and when they happen, you realize that they are costly, stressful, and time-consuming. Data loss can happen due to the failure of servers or the crashing of your website.
Today we continue our blog series dedicated to the improvement of website performance using hints from The Ultimate WordPress Speed Optimization Guide written by Johnny Nguyen. This part is going to be about caching optimization: Caching is best defined as saving the processed requests so they can be served faster when requested again. It’s used in every aspect of computer technology since forever, and absolutely essential for speeding up your page load.
While seeking to launch a website, many people choose WordPress. It’s not a surprise: being the most popular CMS on the market, it powers more than 60% of CMS-based websites. In attempts to host a WordPress website, people plan it carefully. Usually, the preparation starts with learning PHP for adding more customized functions and features to the default functionality. Apart from that, additional research on the hosting plan prices and support are conducted.
Having a fast business website is essential for both Google ranking and overall conversion rate. Due to Kissmetrics, 40% of site visitors will abandon a page that takes three or more seconds to load. Earlier, the BBC calculated that they lost an additional 10% of users for every extra second their site took to load.
The WordPress live chat plugin is a smart business tool. Wondering how it benefits your business? Or, how does it help increase customer engagement? Basically, market performance has a direct correlation with customer engagement. Engaged customers have a strong association with your brand. And, this translates to increased sales. However, retaining customers is not an easy task considering the ample market choices available to customers. Hence, customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal of a business.
For many years WordPress has invariably remained the CMS number 1, supporting about half of the world’s websites. All hosting service providers declare compatibility with WordPress – and in most cases this is true. WordPress has no excessive technical requirements. However, it can’t be denied that WP-based websites work better than elsewhere on the servers of certain providers. WordPress will work properly on any Apache or Nginx-based web hosting with a MySQL or MariaDB database.
Sebastian Neef (@gehaxelt) is a IT security freelancer and a top contributor from the Detectify Crowdsource community. In this guest blog, he looks at ways WordPress plugins leak sensitive data in the wild: The OWASP Top 10 puts Sensitive Data Exposure on the 3rd place of the most common web security issues. In this blog post we will have a look at sensitive data exposure that you might not be aware of.
