The FirstSiteGuide Blog
Welcome to the FirstSiteGuide blog where you will find everything you need to know about blogging. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced blogger or a total beginner, we cover topics of all levels. This blog also includes extensive sections about WordPress.
YouTube is 13 years old and it has definitely changed the way people think about video on the Internet. Although there are few other services which are quite popular among users all over the world, Google’s video service is still number one for many of us. Because of that, WordPress developers made sure that embedding […]
Did you know that there are more than 150 million blogs online? And only a few thousands of those attract a significant and satisfying readership. Building a blog, writing and posting articles is one thing while increasing the blog traffic and maintaining it is quite another. If you have ever wondered how you can increase […]
If you have created a website powered by WordPress, the chances are that you’re are going to publish new content on a daily basis or at least weekly. If so, you will want to hand out your content to users. While many of them will get updates from your site through the site itself and the social media pages you create, you […]
Who is Sue B Zimmerman and how she got involved with social media marketing and became The InstagramExpert? Sue B. is a lifelong entrepreneur with over 30 years of business experience driven to help business owners leverage the power of Instagram to meet (and exceed) their business goals. And, with my extensive knowledge and implementation […]
Have you ever realized that you had made a mistake while writing a WordPress post just to find out that there’s no easy way to search and replace that typo throughout the entire post? What if you’ve been writing a wrong word, phrase or link for the last few months? Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t allow you […]
Once you start writing and accumulate more than just a few articles, you will hopefully get more visitors to visit your site. And when they get there, your visitors will want only the best content and that’s only true if they are interested in the topic. So, even if you narrow the field and write […]
Do you know what blogs are? If you don’t, then you’ve come to the right place. In the beginning, a blog was more of a personal diary that people shared online, and it goes back to 1994. In this online journal, you could talk about your daily life or share things you do. But, people […]
Sometimes an online journal, other times an informational website, a blog is the internet’s way of indulging opinionated writers and coaching curious readers. It’s a place within the online universe where individuals (or groups of them) may voice their thoughts and share them with millions. The blog’s definition is somewhat elusive, and the ways to […]
Menus are one of the most vital parts of every website. They are omnipresent and they guide users through your blog. And while it’s relatively easy to add a navigation menu in WordPress, there’s so much more you can do in order to customize it for your website. Whether it’s a small icon you want […]
Can you tell us something about yourself and DevriX? DevriX was founded late in 2010 and we’re currently a team of 30 providing WordPress development retainers for SMEs and fast-paced startups. With 6 WordPress Core contributors in our team, we’re committed to solving the types of problems that everyone else tries to avoid on purpose. […]
WordPress shortcodes are small tags that are used as shortcuts for executing specific features in posts and pages. You can recognize shortcodes by square brackets that surround a simple word or a phrase. They were introduced in version 2.5 with a mission to help people to execute functions the easy way. As you might already […]
Every WordPress admin menu is looking the same after the installation. That might be a good thing if you work on different sites powered by our beloved WordPress, but if you’re creating a blog for a client, you might want to modify admin menu to achieve a unique look. Although there aren’t that many options on the […]
It’s been a long time since images were something too big to load over the Internet. Today, websites can’t exist without them. Even though Internet speeds have dramatically increased over the years, it’s vital that you take care of pictures on your blog. Just because it’s easy to upload images to your site, that doesn’t […]
When starting a blog, one of the things that you must decide on is the name of your blog (domain). When you choose your blog name, it will be there forever, and this name will be what represents you online. It’s crucial that your name is catchy and easy to remember. A good domain name […]
By default, WordPress speaks English and that’s the language you can expect on every backend page of your system. Since WordPress has become one of the most popular CMS in the world, it is normal to expect the platform to be translated into additional languages. And it is. If you want to install WordPress and […]
Having a website or a WordPress blog without managing titles is quite impossible. If you have ever forgotten to write a title, you quickly realized that WordPress added one on its own. Since they’re important to admins, other users, visitors, and even search engines, you should take extra caution when writing titles. While you should […]
Before we actually show you how to create your own custom post type which you’ll be proudly using on your new WordPress powered blog, let’s see what a custom post type actually is. A post type is simply a set of rules which are used to describe the way content is presented in your article. […]
An excerpt is a post summary which is being used to describe your article in a few short sentences. Those descriptions are a great way of letting your visitors see what’s the post about and decide if they’re interested in reading the rest of it before clicking the button. Also, it is an excellent tool […]
For those of our readers who don’t know, you are the creator of The Smart Passive Income – a very successful site and podcast where you do a really great job of providing quality content and real world examples of your own income. But how did it all started? It started back in 2008 after […]
OK, so you have decided it is finally time to create your own blog. You already know that starting one up is not rocket science, and you have probably heard of various blogging platforms that are worth researching. But if you haven’t spent some time with each software package before, choosing the right one for […]