Author: Saif Hassan

Chief Editor at WP Hive. He’s a passionate speaker and WordPress enthusiast. You can find him talking about WordPress, human-computer interaction, community & open-source projects.

49+ WordPress Influencers You Should Follow Right Now

A comprehensive list of the top WordPress influencers!

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS). One of the main reason of its huge popularity is its large community with users. Though the platform is simple and intuitive, but earning with it will require strong community connections, extensive research, insights, and resources. Among these users some are more experienced and have contributed a lot to the community. And you should follow them, isn’t it?

We would like to call them WordPress Influencers because of their achievements and affiliation within the WordPress community. Let’s take a look at the people you can follow on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube for News, Tips and Tutorial related to WordPress.

Continue reading “49+ WordPress Influencers You Should Follow Right Now”

Best WordPress Channels to Follow on YouTube

25 awesome WordPress YouTube channels you can follow to learn more.

YouTube channel are very popular for learning a vast range of topics. Nowadays its became popular for all sorts of tutorials. There’s a growing number of great YouTube channels that are focused on WordPress. Many YouTube experts are making stellar content on WordPress. Why wait? Start following these YouTube channels to

There’s a good chance that you’re not watching those channels. So we want to make sure that you know about the best WordPress YouTube channels so you can subscribe those channels to get the update video tutorials on WordPress.

Continue reading “Best WordPress Channels to Follow on YouTube”

How to Create a $100 Website for Startups?

Have you ever considered giving your startup? If you have entrepreneurship skills, you can always consider giving a startup. If you have a great idea, you can start for as small as $100.

Not other journeys in the world are as rewarding and interesting as the journey of an entrepreneur. You go through failure, get a countless rejection, search for investors – it’s an exciting journey but there is nothing more daunting than overcoming your mental gap.

One of the reasons it is hard because there is no one tutorial for succeeding. for startups. Different companies had different strategies that worked for them. Not necessarily following Amazon‘s business strategy will work for you.

Continue reading “How to Create a $100 Website for Startups?”

How to Change Domain Name in WordPress Without Hurting SEO

Learn how to change the domain name without harming SEO.

Before sharing this – I want to share a story. Back in 2009, I was using a free .co.cc domain. (free domain – so why not?) After using about a year and having some great traffic (avg 2k unique/day) – I had to change the domain since .co.cc was shutting domain. Since I did not know much I simply changed the domain. After a week, I got hundreds of error messages in Webmasters Tools (aka Search Console now). When I investigated the issue I found out that my traffic dropped to almost 100 – almost 2000% decrease!
changing-wordpress-domain
 
I investigated more and found out that it was happening as I did not do a proper 301 redirect of my old URLs. I know it has been some time but I tried to write down all the things that you should do before changing the domain of your WordPress website.

Finding an ideal domain name for your website can be tricky. After hours of researching, you may find your perfect domain name. Now, you are all set to start your WordPress website.

But what if you realize it’s not the right domain for your website? What if you feel an urgency to change the domain name of your WordPress site? You could be facing issues with your branding. Or you could just give yourself a fresh start.

Changing the domain name is always an option, but the task is a little bit complex. Moreover, changing your domain name could wash away all the hard work you had done for your website’s SEO.

You might be wondering if there’s a way to change the domain name while keeping all the SEO benefits. Yes, there is.

In this article, I will explain to you how you can change your domain name while keeping the SEO benefits.

Before proceeding further, let’s have a look at a few points to keep in consideration when you change the domain name on a WordPress website

Continue reading “How to Change Domain Name in WordPress Without Hurting SEO”

12 Best Free SEO Tools for WordPress to Beat Your Competitors

[Don’t have time to read the full blog on Best Free SEO Tools for WordPress? Scroll to the end of the post and listen to the summary!]

Thousands of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools are out there. As a user, which one should you use? Why use them in the first place?

Well, SEO tools help you to optimize your website. However, if you are not giving efforts on SEO for your business, you are missing out. In this article, you will know about 12 best & free SEO tools for WordPress.

Continue reading “12 Best Free SEO Tools for WordPress to Beat Your Competitors”

Best WordPress Membership Plugins Compared 2020

You want to know the best WordPress members plugin, right?

Building a membership site in WordPress has a significant advantage. It helps to retain your customers for a prolonged period, which translates into getting more recurring revenue.

But how about the best WordPress membership plugin? There are hundreds of WordPress membership plugins out there in the wild. Choosing the right membership plugin is crucial and is one of the significant factors for your business. In this article, we will compare and review the best WordPress membership plugins.

When you are selling products or services for one time, it is important each customer is satisfied and convinced about your products and services. This can be done via email marketing, social media. But how about recurring payments? Your customer should have a dashboard where they can manage their settings and feel home.

That is where WordPress membership plugins kick in. WordPress is used worldwide on all sorts of website. Even the most recognized brands are using WordPress to build their websites.

 

Selling once is easy, but if you want your customers to keep paying you will have to take the extra step. Remember the gym pass you never used, but kept subscribing? It’s like that.

Think about Netflix. Everyone has a Netflix subscription nowadays. But what is their customer retention strategy? Sure they are adding content, but they are spending a big chunk of money to create Netflix Originals. Netflix is scheduled to hit almost 17.8 billion on its original shows by 2020.

Now how can you manage a website with recurring payments without having proper membership plugin/website?

Continue reading “Best WordPress Membership Plugins Compared 2020”

Best Free and Premium WordPress Slider Plugins [2020]

A review of the best WordPress slider plugins.

WordPress is widely used for its simple and easy user interface. Setting up a website, blog, or online store is made more accessible with a few steps of installation and configurations.

According to statistics by Codeinwp, WordPress is powering more almost 33% of the entire internet. This simply means more and more businesses are now going live with a website or blog to ensure their web presence.

In the top 1 million sites, WordPress dominates with over 63% market share.

WordPress Marketshare

This opens up new opportunities for businesses to make more money. Since WordPress is the easiest to start, a large number of people are using WordPress for the first time.

WordPress Usage Stats

Continue reading “Best Free and Premium WordPress Slider Plugins [2020]”

WordPress 5.2 Brings Site Health, New Icons and Improvements to Gutenberg Block

WordPress 5.2 includes exciting new features including new site health, changes to minimum PHP Version, new icons and improvements to block managing experience.

Every time a new version of the WordPress is rolled out, WordPress fans get excited about getting to play with its new features. WordPress 5.2, the latest version of popular CMS has been released on May 7, 2019, with several new features and updates.

Codenamed “Jaco” in honor of the renowned and revolutionary Jazz bassist, Jaco Pastorius, WordPress 5.2 is the second major release this year after WordPress 5.1, which was released in February this year.

There is an abundance of new robust tools and features in WordPress 5.2 that will enable the users to work with WordPress more easily. Let’s take a detailed look at them, one by one

Continue reading “WordPress 5.2 Brings Site Health, New Icons and Improvements to Gutenberg Block”

What is WebP and How Can You Serve WebP Images to Improve WordPress Pagespeed

Serve WebP images in WordPress to improve pagespeed up to 300%

When you think of a website, what do you think first? How does it look? How many resources it’s using? Videos? Images? A few of our readers asked us to write a tutorial on the WebP image WordPress plugin. This article will outline the basic of WebP, why it was invented, and how can you implement webp images in WordPress.

Research says that you only give a split second to decide if you are going to read something on the web or not. Images play a big part to catch your attention. Since, the growth of the internet, we are taking billions of images and photos each day. Since May 2017 Google announced that over 1.2 billion photos are uploaded to the Google Photos every day, But images take a lot of bandwidth when you post them online, resulting in a slower than usual web experience.

You know JPEG, PNG, GIF right? There is a new kid in the block. WebP! Yes, that’s right. WebP is a next-generation image format developed by Google, the company we all love for their other products like Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search.

Continue reading “What is WebP and How Can You Serve WebP Images to Improve WordPress Pagespeed”

Why You Should Have an Optimal WordPress Robots.txt File for SEO

Learn how to properly optimize your WordPress robots.txt for SEO

WordPress robots.txt file is an important file for your website’s SEO efforts. It can have a powerful impact on index/de-index particular pages of your website. Google has evolved a lot about how it crawls the web and provides you search results. The best practices from a few years ago often don’t work anymore. This post outlines how you can optimize your WordPress robots.txt file for better SEO.

What is robots.txt File?

In the world of internet, bots are small pieces of software that visit websites on the Internet. The most common example is the search engine bots. These search engine bots “crawl”/scans around the web to help search engines organize data. Search engines like Google use these bots to index and rank your website against billions of pages on the Internet.

Continue reading “Why You Should Have an Optimal WordPress Robots.txt File for SEO”