The WordPress Angel Blog
Backing Up Your WordPress Site
Disaster! Something’s gone wrong with your site. Maybe you’ve been hacked. Maybe your site is serving up errors or something happened to corrupt the database. Maybe an update didn’t complete successfully. The bottom line: your site is broken. Did you know backups are...
Your Website Isn't Created in a Vaccuum
This is something I’ve come across a time or two (or three) in my time in this business. And every time I encounter it – it makes me want to scream. I filed this under Marketing & SEO because, guess what? You can’t Market or SEO without content – it’s all related…...
Tools to Test Your Page Speed (Site Speed) Online
Here are several online services that will help you test your site speed. Want to know how fast your page loads, they'll tell you that and a lot more. These services all offer a free version, some offer paid options for monitoring and ongoing reporting. Pingdom...
The Importance of Page Load Times / Site Speed
Site speed (also called page load speed) is a measure of how quickly your site’s page or a URL on your site loads in a visitors browser. Each URL generates a number of requests to your web server, asking for the files, media and information that make up that...
Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Site speed is important to the success of your site. Faster pages equals more conversions. Faster pages equal happier visitors. Happier visitors are more likely to share your site socially and spend more time on your site. There's really not a downside to having a...
Premise Landing Pages and Shortcodes in Video Embed Field
If you're using the Premise Landing Pages plugin, and are doing video landing pages you may have run into this problem. (this is no longer available.) Out of the box, shortcodes from other plugins can't be used in the Premise video embed field. Here's what the field...
Need Help? I'm a WordPress Coach
I decided to put up an official page for WordPress Coaching services here on WordPress Angel. It's something I've done for a while, just not formally. Over the last few months, after I've done a fair amount of coaching so I thought I'd make it official. Here's some of...
WordPress 3.3 is Coming
WordPress 3.3 is coming and there are a number of changes that improve things behind the scenes. One thing I'm really glad to see is the change with permalinks. /%postname%/ will no longer be a custom setting that you manually enter. It will be a selectable option....
WordPress SEO Session
Back from Vegas and Pubcon, can't say enough good things about this conference! Here's a quick recap of what I talked about on the panel and a list of some of the plugins I mentioned. The gist was this: be aware of what plugins you are using on your site. Check out...