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Clear CSS cache and prevent browser from caching CSS files from WordPress

Tired of using the sentence “Please clear your browser cache…” with your clients over and over again? It’s time to learn how to clear CSS cache in visitor’s browsers after modifying your style sheets. Furthermore, prevent browser from caching CSS files and load the latest version. Why browsers cache CSS files? When loading a web […]

Back to top button WordPress plugin – Best WP scroll to top plugins review

If you decided to add a scroll to top button to your website this article is here to help you choosing the right plugin among many available. We tested and reviewed the most popular Back to top button WordPress plugins from the WP repository to make your choice easier. Read our review carefully and pick […]

Scroll To Top Button JavaScript Tutorial for WordPress

The Scroll To Top Button nowadays became a standard on all websites with a lot of content on posts or pages. It keeps visitors on the website and lowers bounce rate by allowing them to quickly jump back to the header navigation and continue browsing your site. If you decided to add this feature to […]

CSS crop image code – Create pure CSS photo cropper in WordPress

There are many situations when you need to perfectly fit images with various aspect ratios into a container with predefined dimensions and aspect ratio. The best practice in those cases is to create a image cropper that will optimally fit the image inside the predefined container and crop the sides that overflow. To create the […]

Examples of text gradient CSS code – Color gradient on text

A good practice of enhancing the website visual appearance is the implementation of color gradients to various text elements. Titles, links, buttons and CTAs will stand out even more if we replace the boring solid color with a colorful gradient. In this article we’ll show you some cool examples of text gradient CSS code that […]

CSS text color gradient tutorial – Create gradient text with CSS

Thinking about how to visually enhance your WordPress website? How about emphasizing some text elements with color gradients? Now you can change your boring one color text elements to colorful, visually attractive titles, CTAs and even paragraphs. Learn how to do it with our CSS text color gradient tutorial. CSS text color gradient browser compatibility […]

WordPress Sticky Sidebar Plugins – 2020 Review

Whether you own or develop a blog, web magazine or any other kind of website that uses a sidebar, it might be a good idea to make it stick. A sticky sidebar won’t disappear from the screen once a visitor scrolls down a large content. That way, potentially important sidebar information will always be visible […]

Video header WordPress Tutorial

Video headers can be distinctive and attractive visual enhancements for websites. If used wisely, a short video right on page load can tell quite a story about your website topic. Our Video header WordPress tutorial will show you how to create a custom header with video background for your website. This tutorial is intended for […]

WordPress Contact form 7 spam protection using Honeypot plugin

Few days after releasing a new website on the web, administrators usually start noticing spam messages in their e-mail inbox coming trough the website’s contact form. In the beginning it’s one message month, some time later two or three per week. Before it becomes dozens of spam messages per day, we suggest to install Contact […]

Change address bar color in Chrome tutorial

Chrome users must have noticed their browser address bar color change when visiting certain websites. Usually, the color changes according to the website color palette. This tutorial will show you how to change address bar color in Chrome and give a nice visual enhancement to your website. Why change address bar color if it works […]

How to make WordPress allow SVG upload into Media Library

Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG is as it’s name say, a file format used for vector graphics. SVG files are gaining popularity in web design because they are very lightweight and resizable without loosing quality. WordPress by default doesn’t allow upload of SVG files due to security reasons. In this tutorial we’ll introduce you to […]

Responsive breakpoints in 2020 – WordPress responsive design tutorial

Even though all modern WordPress themes use responsive design by default, in some cases additional responsive adjustments are necessary. Either if you are building a website from scratch or modifying the structure of a WordPress theme, more or less responsive fixes will be needed. To maintain the perfect visual appearance on all devices we suggest […]

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