Author: Oliver Dale

Backing up your data is vital. It’s one of the crucial maintenance activities that has to performed on a regular basis. Keeping a backup ensures that if anything goes wrong with your site, you can still restore it using the available backup. This article focuses on how to create a backup of your WordPress database manually without the use of any third party plugins or services. The Importance of Maintaining a Backup WordPress has become an essential part of the web world. It’s ease of operation and simplicity has attracted the attention of people from different professions. However, it’s simplicity…

People usually think of their website as fairly maintenance free after the initial design and build, but that perception is far from the reality. Just like cars engines that need timely oil changes and tune-ups, software and web services also need regular maintenance for optimal performance. Although site owners can perform most of the maintenance tasks themselves if they have the knowledge or they can outsource the maintenance, which allows them to focus more on providing better content and user experience. But with so many WordPress maintenance and support services available and each claiming to be the best, it often…

If you work as a freelancer online, one of the most important aspects for managing your finances is keeping your invoices and customer payments in order. There are a number of commercial apps and systems you can use to do this, however they will charge you a monthly fee or take a cut of your payments. Chances are you already work with WordPress or know how it works, there are a number of free plugins you can use to turn WordPress into a customer invoicing system. A good invoicing system should include features like client management, PDF invoices, reporting, recurring…

You need great blog ideas before creating content that keeps the fire burning on your blog. New bloggers often find themselves overwhelmed with content ideas, making it difficult to set priorities. That’s not something unique to new bloggers as experienced bloggers also sometimes get overwhelmed by the number of decisions they can make. On the other extreme, they find it difficult to generate new ideas that are able to attract traffic and generate revenue. It becomes a lot easier to generate and prioritize content ideas if you have an organized system in place. But things don’t work the same way…

This is our Black Friday WordPress Deals post for 2019 – book mark it now so you can check back for the savings all week! Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the days over Thanksgiving where you will traditionally find the best WordPress deals of the year. Each year many WP companies such as web hosts, plugin and theme companies release special coupon codes and deals for their products which are generally their best offers of the year. If their is a specific product or service you have been wanting, now is the perfect time to purchase as you probably…

Cloudways is a modern web hosting company suitable for designers, developers, freelancers, and agencies. It is considered one of the larger and well established hosting companies when it comes to providing managed cloud hosting for an amateur bloggers to a professional web developers and large enterprise-scale businesses. Managed WordPress hosting is ideal for people who want the best for their WordPress-based website as they have a hosting framework in place which has been optimized for WP sites and they also provide extra features for this CMS such as automatic backups, security measures and expert staff on hand who know how…

When you first install a brand new WordPress theme, sometimes the result you get is not what you were expecting – especially if you have chosen to use one of the more advanced “multi-purpose” WordPress themes which are so popular these days. Because these themes pack a lot of functionality and different styling options, customizations and so on, they will often require a bit more time to be spent setting them up and diagnosing any issues with them. Unless you are a developer, fixing these issues can sometimes be a hassle, especially if the documentation is not very clear what…

All blogs are created with an intention to attract visitors, but getting traction can prove to be a real challenge for new blogs and websites. First things first, there is no shortcut to generating more traffic or a magical formula that guarantees thousands of clicks overnight (unless you are ‘outsourcing’ clicks from offshore). In addition to quality content, new blogs require time, effort and smart management. Statistics show that a very small percentage of new blogs become successful, mostly because people fail to act smart and understand what works and what does not. Many bloggers kill their blogs even before…

If you are using WordPress for your blog or business, choosing the right WordPress theme can be a daunting task. With tens of thousands of themes to search through and pick from, how do you make sure you install the one which will keep the interest of your visitors, and will convert those visitors into customers? There are many things to consider when deciding on a WordPress theme for your website, so to make it easier for you we have created this guide to help you make the right theme decision. Free vs. Premium themes – Which is right for…

The internet has become the platform of choice to share opinions and views about almost anything and review sites are now an important element of the e-commerce space. A vast majority of online buyers (almost 90%) base their purchase decisions after reading online reviews and are greatly influenced by them. For most of these online buyers, online reviews are as credible as personal recommendations as they provide detailed information about a specific product or service. Online reviews have become an essential part of online buying, while small and medium businesses have also started realizing their importance. Popularity of online reviews…