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Why Do I Have a High Abandonment Rate for My Shopping Cart?
Seeing that a customer has added items to their shopping basket and then abandoned their purchase can be incredibly frustrating. If this is happening on a regular basis, you need to get to the bottom of where you’re going wrong. Below, we are going to take a look at...
How to Clean a Hacked or Malware-Infected WordPress Website
Malware can ruin your website. Not only can it insert ads or redirect users to a different site, but it can also get your site blacklisted from search engines and other online services. Fortunately, the malware is usually coded in a file such as within a database, in...
What is the Best Pop-Up Plugin for the Divi WordPress Theme?
Popups are a great way to show content on your website. They can display special offers, show information, and lots more based on triggers that you control. There are three popular popup plugins for Divi: Divi Overlays, Divi Popup Module, and Divi SOS. All three...
Getting a New Logo on 99designs is Difficult and Cumbersome
99designs? Try 800! These are the the pitfalls and struggles of getting a logo through 99designs. It's not all bad, but it's certainly not the wonderful opportunity that 99designs and many of their proponents trumpet. I just want you to know what you're getting into,...
The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins (2019)
Ever wanted to add a lightbox gallery to your WordPress website? In this post, we’ll take a look at the best plugins you can use to easily and quickly add a photo, video or animated GIF gallery to your website. Modula These are some of the best WordPress gallery...
The Biggest Pain Points of WordPress Website Owners & How to Fix Them
WordPress recently passed the 33% marketshare mark. That means 1 out of every 3 websites is now powered by WordPress! Crazy. It's by far the most widely used content management system in existence with 60% of all websites where the CMS used is known. It’s a free,...
Creating Custom Post Types Layouts in Divi & Interlinking Them with CPT-onomies
We recently had the law firm of Hepworth Holzer become a wpXPRESS member. Their site looked and worked great for visitors and SEO. Unfortunately it was a bit of a pain to update content, especially if we wanted to add a new block of content to a page or something. It...
The Things We Did for Our Members in 2018 – Year in Review
I remember one of the first times I got paid to do computer work. I don't remember exactly what I did, I think I added some new hardware to upgrade a computer and maybe fixed some software issues as well. This was back in the Windows 3.1 days or maybe Windows 95's...
What to Look for in a Good WordPress Hosting Company
Hosting is an essential part of a website. Without it, your website would just be a bunch of code, but not actually be accessible. A hosting company places your website on their server where others can view it. In this article, we talk about some of the top features a...
How to Add HTTPS (SSL) On Your Entire WordPress Website
I recently wrote about the new changes by Google and the need for most websites to add SSL to their site. That article is the "why" this one is the "how." You'll need to add an SSL certificate on your host your host as we outlined in my previous post. If you've done...
What in the World Wide Web Does that Mean? – A Guide to Website Terms and Acronyms
Website terminology can be confusing, but knowing a little bit can save you a lot of time and maybe even a headache. We have listed common terminology you will hear when working with a hosting company, a domain manager, or a web designer. Domain: A domain, also known...
This is Why You Need SSL by July 2018 – Google Changes
In February 2018, Google made an announcement regarding SSL certificates, also known as https. This announcement said: For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year,...