Category: WordPress Newbies
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How To Customize Your WordPress Theme With CSS
Since WordPress 4.7 we have the option to insert additional CSS (under Appearance/Customizer/Additional CSS) directly in the WordPress Customizer. This relatively new feature provides an easy way to override or add the default CSS of themes or plugins. Finding out which CSS styles to use, is of course not always…
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The Most Frequent WordPress Beginner Questions Answered
If you want to set up a website or blog with WordPress for the first time, a whole series of questions may form in your mind. Here I answer frequently asked questions to make the first steps to a self-hosted WordPress.org website easier for beginners. If you have further questions…
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How To Move Your WordPress Website To HTTPS
We recently moved our entire Elmastudio WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS. To be honest we should have done this change a long time ago. Of course our contact form and shop pages were already HTTPS and we had the SSL certificate. But since I didn’t want to make any…
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The Best WordPress Plugins For Newsletters
Newsletters are still one of the best ways to keep your readers regularly informed about everything that happens on your website or blog. With WordPress there are fortunately very good options to easily integrate a newsletter form on your website. However, we would definitely recommend using an external newsletter service…
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Most Recommended WordPress Plugins
There are thousands of plugins available in the official WordPress.org plugin directory. It’s difficult to know which plugin you should choose for your website, especially if you are just starting out with WordPress. We put together a detailed list of recommended plugins for WordPress beginners, to help you get started…
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My Top 10 WordPress Plugins
Since our last WordPress plugin favourites list is now somewhat outdated, I have created my current “Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2018” list. Of course the list could be much longer, because there are so many exciting WordPress plugins for vastly different functions. However, I have concentrated on introducing major plugins…