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How To Improve The Time To First Byte (TTFB) Of Your WordPress Site

How to improve the Time To First Byte (TTFB) of your WordPress site

The Time To First Byte (TTFB), or server response time, of your WordPress site can be an important indicator of performance. It doesn’t represent the whole picture, but a very specific part in the process.

Time to First Byte is a measure of how fast your server responds when someone tries to visit a page on your site. Specifically, it’s measuring how long it takes from the time the browser asks the server for the page, to when the browser receives the first piece of data from the server.

Visitors want sites to feel fast, so the sooner some meaningful content is displayed on the screen, the better. TTFB can influence this – the faster the server responds, the faster content can get to the user.

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The Complete Guide To Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

The Complete Guide to Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

Yoast SEO is possibly the most well-known SEO plugin for WordPress and it has a lot of features. But a lot of people mis-use the plugin, thinking that simply installing and activating is all that’s needed, or mis-using features like Focus Keyword.

This guide explains all of the features, which settings to use and how to use important features correctly, to optimize your content. SEO isn’t a one-step process that can be handled with the activation of a plugin. It requires your participation as well!

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How To Go Beyond WordPress Basics

How To Go Beyond WordPress Basics

If you want to become more proficient with WordPress, and develop confidence with, and understanding of, the more technical aspects, this tutorial is for you. It explains some of the skills and knowledge you need to move from a beginner’s understanding of WordPress, to an intermediate level. We’ll look behind the scenes of your WordPress site, explain the file structure and more.

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Maintaining Your WordPress Site

Maintaining Your WordPress Site

Launching your WordPress site is just the beginning of its life on the web. You’ve conceived and birthed your baby… but now you’re in charge of feeding and protecting it.

Owning a website is a responsibility.

There’s a lot to consider, more than most people realize when they are just starting out. Neglecting your site means it could get hacked, suffer from broken links, or an unplanned update breaking your contact form. Any of which could result in lost search engine rankings, decreased traffic and/or lost leads.

Here are some of the main tasks you’ll have to do on a regular basis to keep your site in excellent health.

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Syncing Content Between WordPress Sites With WP Site Sync

Syncing Content Between WordPress Sites with WP Site Sync

In situations where you are working with a development/text site and a live site, there are often times when you want to be able to sync up individual posts/pages, without having to migrate the whole site, or even the whole database. Until now there really hasn’t been a good, user-friendly tool to allow this.
Enter: WP Site Sync
As you’ll see from the quick demo video, syncing content is now a matter of clicking a button!

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