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Parallax Pro Theme

Parallax Pro: A Mobile Responsive Scrolling Theme from StudioPress

This new WordPress theme uses a newer website technique which helps you, the site owner, to tell a story and mesmerize your audience. Many of us have been awaiting this new theme eagerly. The theme is called Parallax Pro, and it comes from StudioPress. Why have we been holding our breaths for this new theme? …

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Why WordPress Headings Matter for SEO

WordPress headings affect your search rankings. Fortunately, WordPress makes them easy to use. According to WordPress search engine guru Yoast: “The heading structure of your pages is one of the very important aspects of on-page SEO. It defines which parts of your content are important, and how they’re interconnected.” Joost de Valk, to give him his …

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The outside of your WordPress house - widgets

How Easy is it to Change from Three Columns to Two in WordPress?

Recently a reader emailed to ask me, “how hard is it to change from three columns to two columns?” The answer is, it’s simple — depending on your theme. Some themes offer only two columns, some offer three, some offer both. Some themes will offer options on the home page that aren’t available on the …

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The outside of your WordPress house - widgets

What Should I Put in my WordPress Sidebar?

Adding, moving and rearranging elements in your WordPress sidebar is easy peasy. With widgets and plugins it’s simple. No sweat. But knowing what to put there? That’s another story. First, understand there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. Millions of different sites in tens of thousands of different categories, businesses and interest areas, need different stuff (a highly …

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Why Use a Theme from Elegant Themes?

“WordPress Unleashed” is how Elegant Themes describes their designs.  In their flagship theme, Divi, they claim to have created “the ultimate visual page builder.” What does that mean to you? (Elegant Themes is one of two theme design companies I rely on — the other is StudioPress. Because I like and trust their themes, I’ve …

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WordPress Site Structure — Don’t Let the House Fall Down!

Some people are organizational whizzes. All their paper documents are filed neatly in cabinets, all their virtual documents are in the proper folders, and they can find anything in no time flat. The rest of us? Not so much. But no matter what level your organizational skills are, you need to structure your WordPress site …

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