Author: Sacramento Web Design Group
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Tips for Building Online Courses with WordPress
Creating online courses has never been easier. Thanks to content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, along with the plethora of available plugins, developers can build courses to fit every need. It’s no wonder that organizations are increasingly moving their in-person educational programs online. But online education isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. For example, a corporate…
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WooCommerce With Apple Pay and Google Pay
Got a WooCommerce store? It behooves you to offer a variety of payment methods. Just anecdotally, I’m sure both you and I have been annoyed and even abandoned purchases when a merchant, online or otherwise, doesn’t take the payment method we want to pay with. That’s just straight-up lost sales for the merchant. But you…
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Best WordPress Search Plugins
A search feature is essential for an excellent user experience on any website. It makes it easy for users to find the content that they are looking for. Easy search on a store reduces friction to sales! WordPress comes with a standard search that offers basic functionality. It’s perfect for simple websites or blogs. But…
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Understanding and Configuring the WordPress robots.txt File
One of my previous tutorials covered the basics of understanding and configuring the .htaccess file in WordPress. The robots.txt file is a special file just like the .htaccess file. However, it serves a very different purpose. As you might have guessed from the name, the robot.txt file is meant for bots. For example, bots from…
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The Good and Bad of Stock Photos
It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when it was rare to find high-quality photography on a typical website. Only the big-budget players had access to compelling images. And even then, they were likely borrowed from existing print materials. Those of us building websites for smaller organizations were often left with…
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Things You Should Know Before Customizing WordPress
WordPress is known for its incredible versatility. The content management system (CMS) provides developers with many ways to customize both the front and back ends. This opens a whole world of possibilities when it comes to forming and function. The ability to create fully-custom themes and plugins offers a path to building virtually any type…
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Core Web Vitals: New Ranking Factor and How to Improve It
In recent years, Google and other similar companies have become increasingly concerned with the user experience (UX); that’s why the UX always pops up in algorithm updates. With 88 percent of online users turning away from websites after one bad experience, it goes to show that UX is vital. Google, being the pioneer, decided to…