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First impressions count. And if you have a small business, your first contact with anyone new will likely be on your website. That’s why it not only has to look great but also needs to work well – because if it doesn’t, those visitors will bounce before you know what happened. In fact, according to a study by Taylor & Francis, you only have 50 milliseconds to make an impression. 50 milliseconds. Let that sink in.

In the world of WordPress, the focus has been on making the visual editor – Gutenberg – the standard editor for the majority of WordPress users. Within that circle, there are a series of elite plugins that virtually every website—no matter how big or small—introduces into the ecosystem. The Jetpack for WordPress plugin, from Automattic, is one of them.

For users of Yext Answers, there is finally a solution tailored specifically for WordPress websites. 

The Yext Answers plugin allows users to display content from the Yext platform on their WordPress websites quickly and easily. Users get to decide what information they would like to include, how it looks, and where it appears on their site.

Lazy loading: What is it and why should you care?

A beautiful website is great, but not if no one sees it. 

You may have designed a stunning website, but if it doesn’t load quickly, you may be losing traffic. 

One of the things that makes WordPress hosting such a fluid and relevant tool is a consistent stream of WordPress releases. 

These releases ensure the world’s top CMS is constantly up-to-date and relevant.

Becoming a better writer or content creator takes a lot of effort, time, and practice. But if someone offered you a shortcut to instantly make your content work harder for you, would you take it? A table of contents plugin can do just that.

If you’ve ever used a file manager to explore your WordPress site, you may have found something that surprised you in a directory like /wp-content. Taking a look at your site files, you ran across an index.php file containing nothing but:

404 pages are part and parcel of a fully functional website. It’s not entirely bad if your website has 404 pages, especially if it contains tons of pages or posts.

This may be comforting to an extent but doesn’t warrant total negligence, especially when WordPress can redirect your 404 pages automatically. 

Simply creating and launching a website will not lead to online growth. To successfully build and maintain your web presence, you must continually engage your audience and give them reasons to return to your website regularly. 

You may not know much about your cache. And really, you don’t want to know about your cache. When it comes to your website, caching should be a set-it-and-forget-it operation. A cache is typically defined as an inaccessible storage location.