WordPressWednesday
When it comes to your WordPress site, every click matters. Attention spans are fleeting and first impressions are paramount. We can’t stress this enough: your website’s theme can make or break your online presence. Think of it as the virtual gateway to your brand. Your theme is more than just…
It’s WordPress Wednesday! Ever wonder how to embed video in your WordPress blog? We’ve got you covered. In fact, all month long in April, Raney Day Design will be giving you tips and tricks about video marketing and how to use it to attract customers and keep them coming back…
Are you still using Gmail or Yahoo for your business email? 📤 Think again! On this WordPress Wednesday, we’re continuing our February theme of email marketing and focusing on domain-level email addresses. Instead of using generic email services, we encourage businesses to use email addresses that end with their own…
Want to transform your website from basic to brilliant? Say hello to PLUGINS! What is a Plugin? A plugin for a website is like adding a special feature or functionality to your site, like how you might enhance your smartphone with different apps. It’s a piece of software that you…
Website Security: Backing Up Your WordPress Site, Part 2 In our last WordPress Wednesday, we explained why it’s mission-critical to routinely back up your WordPress site. If you missed that post, you may want to pop over and check it out before you read this post about how to do…
Website Security: Backing Up Your WordPress Site, Part 1 We wanted to create a WordPress Wednesday post about how to back up your WordPress site, but we decided it was important to first explain why you need to back up your site. We want to stress the importance of backups,…
You may already know why it’s important to add alt-tags to images in WordPress. But maybe you’re not sure how to add alt-tags to your images. RDD to the rescue! Before we get started on how to use the WordPress editor to add alt-tags, let’s talk about how to craft…
Including images on your webpages and blog posts engages people, breaks up text, and helps to communicate your message. In fact, research suggests that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text! So, using images is crucial for your website. In addition, we have two reasons why it’s…
We’ve reviewed how to add media blocks to your WordPress Website, as well as how to add paragraph blocks. But did you know there’s a block option to place media – a video or an image – with text that appears side-by-side? This is handy when you want to really…
Simply put, a widget adds content to your website’s sidebars or other areas like the footer. Widgets allow you to drag and drop blocks of text for specific purposes. Widgets allow you to add elements to your website without needing to know any code. Some widgets are static content, such…