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What is a Wordpress Child Theme and how does it work ?

According to WordPress Codex, a WordPress Child Theme”  is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme “. It is very easy to create a WordPress child theme from an existing theme (which then will become its parent theme). Everything starts by creating a new directory inside the WordPress themes directory, giving it the name we chose for the new child theme. As soon as we put a properly formatted  style.css  file inside that directory a new child theme is born, without having to wait for 9 months (just kidding) and  even if we don´t include any CSS rule at all! The basics That´s right. We only need to include the appropriate comment lines in the information header of the  style.css  file to let WordPress know what is the name of our new child theme, what theme is its parent (acting as a template) and other optional information s...

Top 5 Image Resize Tools Online

The use of an image or images in its blog content is very important for several reasons. An image indeed, if it has been well used: help in understanding your writing often makes reading interesting captures the attention of your readers help with SEO SEO optimization However, images that are too large and heavy in your content pages can slow down the loading speed of your pages and at the same time affect the performance of your entire website. Not only will such a situation cause you to lose your readers who are not ready to wait for seconds to see the page displayed, but it will also affect your SEO. That’s why using online tools to re-size your images/photos before using them in your site is the best option to avoid falling into the trap. We all agree on this: two pieces of equipment of the same nature do not necessarily have the same performance. Just to say that there are several online tools that can do this work for you but the result provided by each of them is d...

How To Create A Website Tutorial For Beginners

So you want to know  how to create a website ?  Well, you have come to the right place!  There has never been a better time to create a website than now.  I still think many people are put off starting their own website as they are under the assumption that you need to know a lot about web coding or have specialist equipment.  Nowadays, all you really need is a computer/laptop and an internet connection and you can be on your way in no time at all. We will list all the things that you need to get started and give you a few pointers on where to go from there.  So, let’s get started. What Does A Beginner Need To Know About Web Design? 1. Grab Yourself A Domain Name First things first, you need a domain name.  This is the URL (or address if you will) of your site, so it is worth taking some time to decide upon this.  This is what people will come to know you as (e.g. Example.com or MySite.com) and what you can build a brand around. Wi...

7 Things I Wish I Did Earlier As A Blogger

For the past 5 years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to earn a living online, and blogging has been a critical part of my business. Over the years I’ve learned a lot from mistakes that I’ve made, and the good news is that as I start new websites and blogs I can apply the things I’ve learned to speed up the growth process. I’d like to share some of the most important lessons that I’ve learned so that those of you who are just getting started with your blogs can get on the right path faster than I did. Here are 7 things that I wish I did earlier as a blogger. 1. Built An Email List When I started blogging there was a lot of talk about how RSS was going to replace email. The main reason was that you didn’t have to worry about spam filters preventing your RSS subscribers from receiving your updates. At that time not many bloggers were focusing on building email lists. If they were offering email subscriptions it was probably through FeedBurner, which is really just a...

why from blogger to static site

Well Blogger platform is really Amazing, easy and free just like Netifly  the only difference is that with static site is that you should have coding skills but you don't need to panic if you don't you can use free themes and use your own admin panel to create posts just like how you do it on WordPress and blogger  ... thanks to  Forstry.io  these guys make it, even more, simpler than ever. so why moving from WordPress or blogger? well, the big here is to stay healthy and get some sleep without any worries about someone trying to hack my google account or high jacking my WordPress database or sites downtime these things really suck when your a blogger who pays programmers to click a button to update your site for wp only. for blogger mmmh, I don't trust google anymore because one day they might even say that we are shutting down a blogger, please export all your files lol know you know a lot of features and a lot of Google...

short story on how to succeed as a blogger

Hey everyone short story my name is John grew up in 2 poorest African Refugee camps were I lived most of my time in an orphanage lol nobody was  willing to adopt a son lol off coz everyone was helpless but years past and I did my school then luck falls upon me 2017 February found myself in Philadelphia in June graduated high school.. July wrote my first code and August started this blah blah !! the lest is history. So as I said, I started this blog back in 20017 when I began my web development career by then I was into making money online and I joined a lot of affiliate marketing platforms like wealth Affiliate and other paid to join forums but it never paid off. I also tried to change things by vlogging on youtube  🔚 well this never worked out because I suck on creating videos so I used already made content by joining best videos that made my  week especially skirts but that did not last I go...

Few easy tips to boost your SEO on google blogspot Blog

Creating your Blogspot blog correctly could be the difference between ranking highly in the search engines and having to struggle to get any traffic at all. When your blog ranks highly in the search engines, it can receive large amounts of traffic without the author having to pay for advertising. By paying attention to a few factors when setting up your blog, it can begin to rank higher and get more traffic. Focus on the Title When writing a new blog post, the title is an important factor in ranking highly. The title of your post needs to include a keyword or key phrase and should be relevant to the content of your article. Search engines look at your title to determine what your content is about and match search engine queries up to titles. If your title matches the keyword typed into a search engine, your site will be more likely to rank highly. Getting Inbound Links The number of inbound links you have also affected your rank. Each time another site puts up a link to you...