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Since April 21st 2015 Google will favor mobile-optimized websites in search results on smartphones. So if you don’t want to get left behind in search results on mobile devices, it’s more important than ever to get your website mobile-ready as soon as possible (if you haven’t done so already a long time ago). In case…
Since recently it was considered best practice in WordPress to include the parent stylesheet (style.css) with the @import rule in your child theme’s style.css. However this technique got updated and now it’s best-practice to create a functions.php file for your child theme and use wp_enqueue_style() to include you parent theme stylesheet this way. I will…
What is a widget and what are plugins actually for? Why do I need a database? Which updates do I need to take care of and what exactly is a theme? I still remember the time when I didn’t understand the meaning of common WordPress terminology like widgets, plugins, or themes and all these foreign…
Many bloggers are experiencing issues with their post thumbnails, when sharing WordPress posts on Facebook. Either there is no thumbnail attached to the Facebook post at all or the wrong image is used. Since a Facebook post without images does not look very attractive in most cases, I collected some helpful tips to fix the…