Category: WordPress

  • Ultimate Blocks: Free Gutenberg Blocks Plugin for Bloggers (Features and Setup)

    Ultimate Blocks: Free Gutenberg Blocks Plugin for Bloggers (Features and Setup)

    The WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) is now the default way to write in WordPress. It is flexible, but the core blocks are basic. If you want a table of contents, tabs, review boxes, or call to action boxes, you normally need several plugins. That is why we built Ultimate Blocks, a free blocks plugin made…

  • 7 Best Nofollow Plugins for WordPress (Free Options)

    7 Best Nofollow Plugins for WordPress (Free Options)

    A nofollow link tells search engines not to pass ranking credit to the page you link to. Google asks you to mark paid, sponsored, and affiliate links (with rel=”sponsored” or rel=”nofollow”) and user-generated links like comments (with rel=”ugc”). If you sell links without these tags, your site can be penalized. The WordPress block editor does…

  • 10 Best WordPress Redirection Plugins to Manage Redirects and 404s

    10 Best WordPress Redirection Plugins to Manage Redirects and 404s

    Every time you delete a post, change a URL, merge two articles, or move to HTTPS or a new domain, the old address needs to send people (and Google) to the new one. Without a redirect, visitors hit a 404 page and the rankings and links the old URL earned are lost. On WordPress, a…

  • How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting for Your Blog

    How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting for Your Blog

    Almost every web host says it is “optimized for WordPress”, and most of them can run it. The real differences are in speed, support, what happens when your traffic grows, and what you pay after the introductory price ends. Choose well and you never think about hosting; choose badly and you fight slow pages, downtime,…

  • How to Choose the Right WordPress Theme for Your Blog (+ 9 Best Themes)

    How to Choose the Right WordPress Theme for Your Blog (+ 9 Best Themes)

    Your theme decides how your blog looks, how fast it loads, and how much you can change without touching code. Pick a heavy, outdated theme and you fight it for years; pick a lean, well-supported one and it gets out of the way. The good news in 2026 is that the best themes are faster,…

  • How to Import Google Docs to WordPress (3 Easy Ways)

    How to Import Google Docs to WordPress (3 Easy Ways)

    Google Docs is a great place to write and edit, especially with a team. But moving a finished draft into WordPress used to be messy, with broken formatting and missing images. Today it is much easier. Here are three ways to do it, from free to fully automatic. Method Cost Keeps formatting Handles images Copy…

  • How Much Does It Cost to Start a WordPress Blog?

    How Much Does It Cost to Start a WordPress Blog?

    WordPress itself is free, but running a self-hosted WordPress.org blog comes with a few real costs. The good news: you can start for less than $100 for the whole first year, and many expenses are optional. Here is a clear breakdown of what it costs to start a WordPress blog in 2026, from the bare…

  • 9 Best Places to Find Premium WordPress Plugins

    9 Best Places to Find Premium WordPress Plugins

    Free plugins get a WordPress site started, but the features that make a site faster, safer, or more profitable (priority support, regular updates, and the advanced options) usually sit behind a premium license. The problem is where to buy: a plugin from an unknown seller can be abandoned a year later, or worse, come bundled…

  • Elegant Themes Review: Is Divi Still Worth It? (Pros & Cons)

    Elegant Themes Review: Is Divi Still Worth It? (Pros & Cons)

    Elegant Themes is the company behind Divi, one of the most used WordPress themes and page builders in the world, plus the Extra magazine theme and the Bloom (email opt-in) and Monarch (social sharing) plugins. One membership, $89 a year or $249 for life, covers all of them on unlimited sites. I have used Elegant…

  • How to Edit and Optimize the WordPress Robots.txt File for SEO

    How to Edit and Optimize the WordPress Robots.txt File for SEO

    The robots.txt file is a short text file at the root of your site that tells search engine crawlers which parts of the site they may fetch. WordPress generates a sensible default, and for most blogs the right robots.txt is only a few lines long. The risk runs the other way: one wrong line can…

  • How to Export Emails From WordPress Comments (and Grow Your List the Right Way)

    How to Export Emails From WordPress Comments (and Grow Your List the Right Way)

    Every commenter on your blog leaves an email address, and readers who comment are often your most engaged audience. It is tempting to export those emails and add everyone to your newsletter or contacts. But commenters gave you their email to post a comment, not to receive marketing, and privacy laws such as the GDPR…