So, you are here because you need to migrate from WordPress to Jekyll. You are at the right place! I’ll explain to you how to do that in just 3 steps (Approximately 30 mins). Why Jekyll over WordPress? The main reason is cost. When using WordPress, you have to pay for a domain, hosting, developers (if something breaks and you aren’t a dev), plugins, etc.. In Jekyll (with Github Pages), you’ll only need to pay Read more…
Articles/posts are the heart of a blog. Quality and perfect articles have the power of giving success to a blog. When it comes to thinking that how you should improve your blog, the first and the very thing is the content. The content is the most important part of a blog. In addition, remember that it is what makes your audience bad or good. Most of the bloggers these days struggle with the problem “how Read more…
On the one hand, you can set up a fully-functional CMS like WordPress as your blog. On the other hand, you can set up a static site, such as Jekyll or Gatsby, and have a simple but blazing fast blog. This article guides you through the process of setting up a blog site with Jekyll and Github Pages. First, we’ll set up the Jekyll blog locally and then we’ll deploy it on Github Pages. Introduction Read more…
The success of a blog relies on the niche. No doubt, no arguments!😊 However, most of the beginner bloggers/bloggers suffer from the problem of choosing a potential blog niche. Are you one of those who are struggling? If you are nodding your head, just know that you are not alone. I am here to help you from A to Z. I am writing this article specially for newbies in blogging. But, if you have get Read more…
In digital marketing, content marketing takes a huge place. Creating quality blog content is the key to success in content marketing. While the quality of the content is important, consistency is also a huge factor that helps you build trust with your audience. However, creating quality blog content consistently isn’t an easy thing. It requires dedication. In this article, I’ll share 4 tips that will help you with it. 1. Join Online Forums True, online Read more…
Can search engines actually filter articles that are easy and natural to read from bad ones? However, the search engines don’t have a feature to rank articles based on their readability. But how? This is how it goes! How does readability affect SEO? The common direct things that search engines can rank your article for are: Keyword density Keyword decorations Meta tags Image alt tags Grammar of your article Page title URL In this case, Read more…
You publish a post on your blog after dedicating much time to writing quality content. Then, you tweet it and share it on online forums. Now, you need to share it with your Medium followers too. But, there’s a problem: Duplicate Content. The solution is using Canonical URLs. Does Medium allow publishers to publish content with canonical URLs? Yes, they do. There are two ways. Importing your posts to Medium Manually adding canonical URLs in Read more…
Every blogger has an aim to have a prodigious audience on their blogs. Reaching that goal has a list of tasks: not only tasks but also critical thinking. On the way of reaching an enormous audience, bloggers ought to use several techniques including social promoting and backlink building where guest posting takes a huge part. In this article, we will discuss what is guest blogging and how guest posting services can help you with it. Read more…
Blogging has become a major trend and it is highly beneficial. According to Susan Gunelius at Lifewire, there are many reasons why people prefer blogging. Such as financial purposes, hobbies, educational purposes, etc. Consequently, this situation has caused many people to drag towards blogging from anywhere. Starting a blog is not as easy as it seems unless you follow the right tips at the beginning. It is beginner bloggers’ responsibility not to mess at the Read more…
Static Site Generators like Jekyll, Gatsby, and Hugo are on the rise for various reasons such as speed, version control, data protection, and security. As a result, many bloggers, especially ones in the technical field, are gradually switching to Static Site Generators for their blog sites. Even they use static sites, they usually expect one dynamic thing: comments. So, in this article, I’ll be explaining how to add comments to your static site. When to Read more…
DNS stands for Domain Name System. Because of the numerous options/features of it, it’s easy to get confused. Let’s demystify! Table of Content What is DNS? How DNS works? What is DNS Caching? DNS Records FAQ What is DNS? DNS converts a hostname (example.com) to an IP Address (93.184.216.34) When you connect your computer to the internet it gets a unique number that identifies it on the internet. This is called Internet Protocol Address, or Read more…
While you can write for your own blog in your free time and get fame, traffic, ad revenue, etc., you can also write for a company and get paid 💸. So, we created a list of programs that allows you to write and ger paid as a developer. (ORDER BY per_article_rate DESC) PRO TIP: We frequently update this article when we find new writing opportunities for developers. So, feel free to bookmark this page. (Please Read more…
Whatever people do, they all expect success in their work. According to Growthbadger, There are over 600 million blogs in the world today, out of over 1.7 billion websites. Owners of blogs mainly consider success in their own blogs. Success is not a miracle, it is all about hard work. While working hard, staying productive is important. This post will outline some tips how to stay productive while writing a major part of a blog: a POST. Read more…
The Google Search Console provides many insights about your website. It is a great tool to find out how your website is performing and how you can improve your SEO. In this article, we will see how to analyze specific pages. By default, the performance report shows the performances of the whole website. We can narrow down the results to analyze performances or a specific page or a set of pages. Narrowing down the performance Read more…
This is a concise On-page SEO Checklist for New Websites. Bookmark it and use it when you create your next blog or updating your current one
So, you just created your new WordPress site. Next, you need to track your visitors with Google Analytics. You are at the right place. This article explains how to add Google Analytics to WordPress using the “Header and Footer Scripts” plugin. (No Google Analytics Plugin needed. Just copy and pasting code.) Step 1: Get the Tracking Code Log in to your Google Analytics account and choose your website. If you haven’t registered an account already, Read more…
Most bloggers highlight code snippets to make their blog more readable, professional, and beautiful. There are many ways to do this. One most famous and easy way is by using the highlight.js library. Some advantages are: highlight.js automatically detects the language. All famous languages are supported. Adding highlight.js to your blog to highlight code First, you have to choose a theme. Go to this demo page and choose a style you like. Then, visit Highlight Read more…
Using Cloudflare as the DNS of your WordPress blog can result in a redirect loop that will make the admin panel unreachable. In this article, we’ll discuss how to fix that issue. First, make sure your site URL in WordPress is in the HTTPs version. You can change this in the admin panel. However, in this case, we aren’t able to access it. So, you can carefully change the wp-options table through PHPMyAdmin. Go to Read more…
I am Supun Kavinda, the founder of Hyvor. It has been just 1 month since we launched our commenting platform, Hyvor Talk, officially. The great news is that more than 30 websites actively use it. Yay! Today, I was discussing with my team about our progress. One significant idea raised helped us understand the responsibility we have. We asked ourselves “who are we”? We are a service that helps bloggers to increase user engagements through Read more…