What we've learned along the way

There are three ways I use to create private pages in WordPress depending on how hard you want to make it for others to use them. No Password To keep things simple you can create a new page on your site and then leave it off the navigation menu. If you don’t want it found…

There are some settings you can enable for Pages that you should know about just in case you need them later. Password Protection You can change the status of your Page to password protected and give it a password that allows visitors to view the content on your page. This is good for creating a…

After choosing a theme you’ll want to create a menu at the top of your site with links to each of the important pages. The way I like to do this is by using the WordPress Customizer. Here you’ll be able to create new pages and add them to your menu without having to click…

Once you have a new WordPress site up the first thing you’ll want to do is change the way it looks. We’ll need to head over to the Themes area in the Dashboard and choose a theme. Dashboard > Appearance > Themes You can either choose a theme that’s already installed on the server, like…

After you install WordPress there are two files that get created on the server. The .htaccess file and the wp-config.php file. Each of these files hold lines of code that tell the server and the WordPress files what to do when people come to visit your website. .htaccess This file controls the permalinks on your…

Came across a post on Facebook where someone was asking where to learn WordPress from the ground up. The comments that followed were all over the place and I found myself wishing I had somewhere to point them. I don’t. At least not yet. If I were going to teach someone about WordPress from the…

You launch a brand new website with beautifully shot photographs and content that was carefully crafted over weeks of sleepless nights. Visitors are pouring in from all over the place to view your masterpiece and as they scroll to the bottom of the page to find your email address so they can send you an…

You may already know that Beaver Builder comes with a selection of templates you can use to quickly create a nice looking landing page or content page, but what you may not know about are “prebuilt rows”. These are smaller sections that are hidden beneath the Rows tab. There are 10 different groups of rows…

There are 2 ways to add an FAQ section to your WordPress site with Beaver Builder. 1. Accordion Module When you drag this module onto your page you will get a place to add questions and answers under the Items tab. When you click Add Item or Edit Item you will see a box to…

There’s a .COM version and a .ORG version. WordPress.com is where you can start a blog for free and pay to upgrade your site to have more features like the ability to connect your own domain name and install your own theme and plugins. WordPress.org is where you can download the free version of WordPress,…

When you first hear about WordPress, it can be hard to understand what it is. And when you start hearing about themes and plugins it gets even more confusing. The way I like to explain how it all works together is with a house. Every website needs a domain and hosting. The domain is like…

The faster you can get your website in front of an actual user, the faster you can get feedback on what’s important to them (not you) and what you need to change. The point of getting information in front of someone is so that they can take action. For a website, that action is clicking…