Don’t reinvent the wheel. Why use WordPress instead of coding your own CMS

Posted by HostAsean Editor in Coding & Web Development, WordPress

You shouldn’t need much convincing, WordPress is a great tool for a lot of website projects. But sometimes you might consider rolling your own CMS. Maybe you’re early in your web development career and still think it won’t be so hard, or you think your latest client project has too…

WordPress alternatives and its rise in popularity

Posted by HostAsean Editor in Coding & Web Development, WordPress

WordPress is an extremely popular CMS (Content Management System) in 2019. It is currently in use by about a third of all websites (32% of the top 1m, 35% of the top 10k websites in the world. Stats from BuiltWith). It’s popularity is in part because it is user-friendly for…

E-Commerce Website Software: WooCommerce vs Magento vs OpenCart

Posted by HostAsean Editor in E-Commerce & Online Payments, Online Business, WordPress

We are often asked what is the best e-commerce website software to start an online shop to facilitate the sale and delivery of physical goods. The short answer is probably WooCommerce, but read on to see if Magento or OpenCart are a good fit for your needs. The website isn’t…

Best WordPress SEO Plugins to Improve Rankings & Performance

Posted by Mr WordPress in Online Business, SEO & Marketing, WordPress

Here are our picks of the best WordPress SEO plugins to help you improve your search engine rankings and website performance. We use and recommend these plugins for almost every website, but the configuration can have a learning curve. In our eyes, SEO also includes website performance these days – so we’re…

The Best WordPress Security Plugins for Securing Your Website

Posted by Mr WordPress in Website Security, WordPress

This post was last updated on 30th July 2018.When it comes to having a website, one of your main concerns is how to keep it safe, secure, and free from hackers, malware or hijackers. These WordPress security plugins can help you keep your data safe – as long as they…

Top WordPress Plugins – Time-saving Tools & Utilities

Posted by Mr WordPress in Coding & Web Development, WordPress

Save yourself time when building your website with these top WordPress plugins. We use and recommend these tools and utility plugins for almost every website. While it’s not recommended to overload your WordPress website with plugins, these are all tried and tested and will enhance your website not slow it…

Hardening WordPress: Security Tweaks & Code Snippets

Posted by Mr WordPress in Coding & Web Development, Website Security, WordPress

Looking for quick and easy ways to improve your website security by hardening WordPress? Here are some WordPress security code snippets to better secure your website. We’ve previously shared other useful WordPress code snippets, SEO code snippets, and general website security code snippets so take a look at those posts for…

Useful WordPress Code Snippets for Developers

Posted by Mr WordPress in Coding & Web Development, WordPress

We’re continuing our series of posts where we are sharing useful code snippets for website development. We’ve already covered useful SEO code snippets and .htaccess security code snippets. Here we have collected together some of our most used WordPress code snippets. Some of them are handy database queries, some are snippets…

Using WordPress on Mobile Devices

Posted by Mr WordPress in WordPress

I’m typing this post on my mobile phone, an inexpensive Samsung Galaxy something with a 5″ screen. After playing around with the WordPress admin interface a bit, I’ll start by saying that most things work absolutely fine. If you are logging in with a specific need to update something quickly or…

5 Reasons To Use WordPress For Business Websites

Posted by HostAsean Editor in Getting Started, Online Business, WordPress

WordPress powers millions of business websites and is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) on the entire internet. The WordPress platform enables you to create anything from single landing pages to smart corporate websites, expansive listing portals, and almost any other purpose built applications that you can dream of.…