Intro My previous tutorial on a similar topic has become pretty popular. It covered how to make clickable and highlighted areas on your image easily and for free and use it in your WordPress website. Since this topic is in demand I decided to make a further step so that anyone could take even more advantage of using SVG images on your website. In this tutorial I explain how you can make … [Read more...]
How To Display Additional Information By Clicking Image Components? Easy And For Free (WP, SVG)
October 18, 2018 By 37 Comments
Free Elementor Landing Pages Empowered by ThriveLeads Lead Generation and Email Opt-in Functionality
May 18, 2018 By 20 Comments
The purpose of this article is to let you know that a hot free Elementor plugin for building WordPress pages including custom landing pages can work great with ThriveLeads (email opt-in and lead generation plugin). The highlight of the article is how to power landing pages with very versatile lead generation and email opt-in functionality. The kind of combination is a very cost-effective and … [Read more...]
Looking For a GDPR Compliant Hosting? Forget It! (Practical Thoughts)
May 17, 2018 By 18 Comments
Using a GDPR compliant hosting is a part of your business safety strategy when it regards GDPR thing. But you can forget it. Well, almost. Intro This first paragraph of my post was meant to draw your attention. But it’s actually a true statement. And it’s ambiguous like the whole GDPR thing stated on 260 pages. This GDPR stuff in many ways may look like nonsense and an unreasonable … [Read more...]
Highlighted Areas With Links on Responsive Image for Free (SVG, WP)
August 16, 2017 By 186 Comments
Intro In this tutorial you will learn how to make interactive highlighted areas that you can click on in your image and make this image responsive in WordPress. Easy and for free. An area gets highlighted when you move your mouse over the area. Here's an example of the result (this SVG depicts some popular in-depth articles on my website): Move your mouse over the areas in the … [Read more...]
How to Migrate a Big Website to a New Domain, Subdomain or Another Hosting for Free for Testing (the Easiest Way)
June 15, 2017 By 50 Comments
I'd like to show you how to copy or migrate bigger WordPress sites (more than 500 MB and very likely more than several GB). This method is easy and free. It's great for creating testing copies of your big websites. This method in its core includes using All-in-One WP Migration plugin (a free version) and manually copying media files ('uploads' folder). Also in this article I compare my … [Read more...]
How To Optimize Images: The Strategy To Make Your Site Faster For Free (52 Tests)
May 18, 2017 By 6 Comments
Image optimization is one of the simplest and efficient things you can do to make your website faster. And I want to show how you can optimize images. And I'll demonstrate how useful image optimization is in numbers. Also, I'll share with you several practical and very useful tips how you can optimize your new and existing images for free. This is easy and cool :) Intro and … [Read more...]
Display Images Only When You Need Them (Faster Site With Lazy Load. 50 Tests)
April 17, 2017 By 2 Comments
I've written this article to show you a practical effectiveness of lazy load optimization using a free WordPress plugin. It allows to significantly cut the page loading time (make your website faster). I've run 50 manual tests to get reliable test data. I also focused on Render Start time and Visual Complete time in my research. These are important metrics for a neat user experience that you'll … [Read more...]
Slow Redirect Plugin Or How To Make Affiliate Links Faster (Tutorial)
November 21, 2016 By 19 Comments
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make your affiliate links work much faster. It's extremely useful if you use a redirect plugin or an affiliate link management plugin which started to work very slowly for you (this was exactly my case). Intro One day I found out that my affiliate links started working very slowly. Visitors clicked my affiliate links, and it took tens of … [Read more...]
Don’t look that it is a nice Amazon spider, it might be stealing your content!
July 23, 2014 By 28 Comments
After reading Neil Patel's post about some content marketing tips, I've adjusted my .htaccess file in order to block web scrapers from Amazon Web Services (a platform that can be used for scraping websites). Update: I use now Sucuri Website Firewall which blocks malicious traffic very effectively. If you use this product, you will not need to do such tricks like this one in my article … [Read more...]