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Q&A: How can I speed up my WordPress blog?

Posted on November 24, 2023

Question from Sam: Hello Rick. I need some advice if you don’t mind.

I ran some page speed tests on my blog and found out that it takes almost 8 seconds for my home page to finish loading.

I know I need to make my pages load faster but I don’t know what else to try.

I’ve already removed all but the most important images from my posts and cut the number of WordPress plugins from 37 down to 24.

I’ve noticed that your Rick’s Daily Tips blog loads lightning fast. What did you do to get the pages to load so quickly?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Should you use a managed WordPress platform?

Posted on October 20, 2023

The best WordPress hosting services consider updates, security, and support. In the best case, you won’t have to worry about updates, hardware, servers, and other technical aspects.

Instead, you can focus on improving your content and design and reaching out to visitors. This is all possible with managed WordPress hosting.

Managed WordPress hosting offers several advantages over general web hosting plans: [Read more…]

Q&A: How do I fix a ‘500 Internal Server Error’ on my blog?

Posted on September 13, 2023

Question from Bobby: I need some fast help, Rick. I updated a plugin on my WordPress blog and now none of the pages will load!

When I visit the site all I get is a blank page with the words “500 Internal Server Error” on it. I can’t even log in to the dashboard to disable the bad plugin!

Can you tell me how to fix this error and get my blog back up? [Read more…]

Q&A: Why isn’t LinkedIn including a photo when I share my blog posts?

Posted on August 24, 2023

Question from Gwendolyn: I write a WordPress blog where I talk about women’s issues and I always update LinkedIn with the URL to every post I write.

I’ve been doing this for over two years and LinkedIn has always displayed a photo from the post along with the title and text snippet, but lately it’s been omitting the photo about half the time.

Is there a setting that I might have inadvertently changed to cause the photo not to be displayed on some updates? Am I doing something wrong? [Read more…]

How to password-protect (or even hide) a post or page in WordPress

Posted on August 17, 2023

If you write a WordPress blog you probably want your posts and pages to be read by as many people as possible. After all, the entire reason for blogging is to share information with others.

But that being said, there might be times when you would like to make a certain post or page available only to a select group of people.

The purpose of this post is to explain how to limit who is allowed to view a post or page that you don’t want to make available to the general public. [Read more…]