When someone comes to visit your website, the goal is usually to get them to hang around for a bit. Whether they entered your site from your homepage, or found one of your posts through an organic search, typically you would like them to continue viewing your content. But this can be difficult if someone […]
How to Enable Jetpack Widgets in WordPress
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has so many features and settings that you could easily use the plugin for years without realizing that it could let you do something. This versatility allows it to replace some other plugins that perform a dedicated task, thereby letting you reduce the total number of plugins that you have […]
How to Change Which Menu to Use in Your WordPress Theme
Getting your theme set up in WordPress involves a number of different steps, but one of them is almost always creating a navigational menu. This menu can include things like links to your site’s most popular pages, links to your different post categories, or anything else on your site that you think is important for […]
How to Change the Order of Sidebar Widgets in WordPress
When you add a new theme in WordPress or are customizing your current one, an important element of that theme will be the content that you include in your sidebar. Depending on the type of the site this could be things like a calendar, related posts, ads, or images. But you might have added these […]
How to Show Newer Comments First in WordPress
When you have comments enabled on your WordPress site, visitors are able to ask questions, provide additional information, and otherwise interact with the posts that you have created. All of these comments are typically listed together at the bottom of the post, with the oldest comment show first at the top of the list. But […]
How to Enable Site Accelerator in Jetpack and Speed Up Your WordPress Site
There are many things that you can do to speed up your WordPress website. One of the biggest gains typically comes from upgrading your host to one like Cloudways, but you can see significant improvements by serving your image and static files from a CDN. There are a lot of great CDN providers that you […]