Why You Shouldn’t Use the WordPress Theme Check Plugin

A fellow WordPress website builder recently suggested that I include the WordPress.org Theme Check plugin in my repertoire of theme evaluation and selection tools. At first, it seemed like a great idea, but the longer I thought about it, the more my opinion changed. Evaluating and picking a WordPress theme is not for the faint 

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Best Practices for Selling Ads on Your WordPress Site

Selling ads is just one of many ways to monetize a website. But it’s not the right solution for everyone. Repeat: It’s not the right solution for everyone. In fact, it’s a downright bad idea for some and can detract from your site’s content. Still, when ads work, they work great and can bring in 

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How I Use WordPress Multisite to Host Client Sites

For the past two years, I’ve been running almost all of my client sites on a single Multisite network and I haven’t looked back. Keeping sites up-to-date takes a fraction of the time, I only have one backup schedule to manage, and if I ever need to move my sites, I know it will take 

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