Showing posts with label responsive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label responsive. Show all posts

Friday, 22 July 2016

A WordPress Platform can even vex the Users. Here's how?



WordPress is considered as a simple to buy a platform. All that one can do is to create a profile and get started. Regardless of endless opportunities of various web development platforms on the internet, WordPress is considered as exceptionally uncommon on the internet. It is fabricated with many plugins and themes which help to meet palatable results. It has powered over 25% of the world’s ten million largest websites and 59% of all websites using a CMS.

Although WordPress website development is easy, it has many shortcomings. Some are vexatious and may give an adverse effect on its users. Here is a list of shortcomings of WordPress platform:

1. Change the username and Password


WordPress website owner needs to change the initial WordPress username and password which is "Admin" as the account can be hacked very easily. The major issue here is that once the account is active, the website owner may face many hurdles in changing the username. This at times annoying. You can modify the username using the phpMyAdmin folder or by using a WordPress plugin.

2. Setting WordPress backup

WordPress is poor in the backup system. It does not have any strong backup system. The website owner have to either install different backup plugins or have to create a create a backup manually. It is very significant to maintain a backup of your WordPress website. A backup saves all your work in case of emergency of website hack. 

3. Solving Login Problems

If you forget your WordPress username or password, you might not be able to recover it and may lock you to use WP Admin account. Or sometimes, you might not be able to login into your WP account because your website is hacked.  And this can be only resolved by phpMyAdmin.

4. Getting Rid of Blank White Screen
It is a general problem that every WordPress website owner faces after installing new themes and plugins. A black and white screen may come to you, and you are unable to login to your WP-Admin. You can solve this problem with the help of FTP. At the time of troubleshooting, you may have to deactivate and activate the plugins. Now in the WP-Content folder, there will be a folder with the name Plugin, where you have to rename the folder. Then, log in to WP-Admin and change the folder name again to Plugins.

5. Frequent WordPress Plugin and Theme Updates

WordPress sends its updates regularly and to prevent its website from hacking one needs to update it repeatedly. To come out of this issue, the WordPress developer can also install the plugins for automatic updates. To do it, you have to add “add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );” this code to the functions.php file of your theme. You may also select good quality themes to meet your requirement.

6. Removal of Uncategorized category

When you are looking forward to publishing any post and forgets to categorise it. The post automatically saves into a category named “Uncategorized”. To overcome this problem either rename the uncategorized folder or put the existing category into default category.

To set up the category, you will have to follow these steps:

Settings> Select writing and change the category. 

So, these were few important glitches behind WordPress, which might frustrate its users. I hope you understood and try to overcome them for easy WordPress experience.




Tuesday, 14 June 2016

How to develop a Responsive WordPress site



Imagine you're searching for some important blog on your smartphone. You tap it to open and wait for its long loading time. But unfortunately, you encounter with a poorly rendered website! How will you feel? This is often a story when blogs are poorly optimized for mobile devices. We often ignore the aspects of mobile optimization, which ultimately result in cursing your blog.

So make sure to design a responsive blog for your visitors which will never turn them off and switch the blog to the competitors website.

As everyone is well aware of the fact that WordPress is an awesome content management system for websites for all shapes and sizes. It is considered the best platform for your business. 50-60% of the WordPress share the global CMS market makes it popular CMS amongst all. According to some researchers, it has been found that in every 6 seconds new posts are published on WordPress.com blogs which mean 342 posts in every minute. 20,000 posts per day!

One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is that it is a responsive platform. So if you're running blog on WordPress platform, your website can easily fit any device irrespective of its size. It is also easy to turn your existing WordPress theme into a responsive WordPress theme. Many WordPress plugins can convert your existing website, just as easy to switch a button.

So before you hire a professional WordPress developer and switch your website to WordPress, here are some suggestions to make your WordPress blog more responsive.

1. Use a Responsive Theme

To make your WordPress more responsive purchase a responsive theme, install and set it. You will not require any hardcore manual settings. The theme will automatically take care of all the optimization aspects.

2. Make use of WordPress free mobile plugins


If you don't have the budget to purchase a responsive theme for your WordPress, you can alternatively purchase few free mobile plugins which can help you. They’ll ensure that your blog is decently optimized for mobile devices.

Here is a list of few plugins which you can consider using.

-  WPTouch
: Million of users are already using this plugin. This plugin features WPTouch themes than your average responsive WordPress website. The free version is available in the WordPress Plugins repository. If you're ready to pay for few extra features and functions, then you may purchase its premium version for $59 per year.

- WP Mobile Detector:
It is a plugin for those users who do not use smartphones. It determines whether the user is using your WordPress blog on its smartphone or standard mobile phone. It already has seven pre-installed themes, great analytics and has more than 5,000 smartphones.

- WordPress Mobile Pack 2.0: This is an excellent plugin and offers a different feeling to its users. It publishes your existing content on various devices, operating system, and platforms. It is a readymade them with six abstract covers and a responsive interface.

3. Navigation is Key

You may consider navigation in your designing. The navigation is important to the look and feels of your site. It is especially worth considering with mobile, because of the size and making it easy to select items with your fingertip. Too large and the design will seem clunky; too small and it will be difficult to make selections.

Conclusion
Converting your WordPress website into responsive is not a big deal. All one requires to create a responsive WordPress website is to make proper planning, selection of responsive theme and plugin for the website.