It’s been no secret to anyone using a mobile device over the past few years – webpages have become more feature-rich, while delivery speed has been sometimes lacking. While ‘mobile-first’ initiatives have been helpful in bridging this gap, more effort is necessary to bring browsing speeds into the 21st Century.
Smartphone and tablet usage in the US has reached tipping point, with reports suggesting that over 60% of digital media time in the US is spent on our devices. Unfortunately, developer’s attitudes have taken a long time to catch up when it comes to our mobile experience. Concepts such as ‘responsive design’ and ‘mobile-first’ have been steps in the right direction, but work on improving our mobile browsing speed has been lacking.
If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly heard of Jetpack – Automattic’s free plugin that promises to bring much of the power of the WordPress.com infrastructure to self-hosted sites.
WooCommerce is the leading eCommerce solution for WordPress by a considerable distance and their recent $30 million acquisition by Automattic means they’re likely to retain that top spot for a long time to come.
No matter where in the world you are as a site owner or developer, having to put together multilingual sites is an increasingly common requirement. How best to do this using Avada is also a support question that pops up quite a lot here at Theme Fusion. The recommended route is to use the market-leading multilingual WPML plugin to arrange your translations.
WordPress comes with a very basic site search feature. You can add it to your site by using the search widget. This search feature is very basic and it does not always show the relevant results. Luckily, there are some cool alternatives available. In this blog post, we will show you some better search tools that you can use to replace the default WordPress search feature.
There comes a time in the life of nearly every WordPress website – already monetized or not – when the issue of whether to integrate advertising will rear its head. The subject of how best to tackle this, from both a commercial and technical point of view, can be a tricky one if you’ve never faced it before.
